High Iron: A Book of Trains
by Beebe, Lucius Morris
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in fair dust jacket. DJ has wear, soiling, edge tears and chips.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1938. Published within the regulations of the War Production Board. Hardcover. Good in fair dust jacket. DJ has wear, soiling, edge tears and chips.. Reprint. xiii, 225, [1] p. 29 cm. Illustrations. Car Heralds, Devices and Insignia. Glossary of Railroad Terms, Slang, and Usage. Bibliography. volume is a record in prose and pictures of some of the more arresting aspects of the most heroic of American sagas, the legend of railroading. Train photographed on the front of the dust jacket. 226 pages of many black and white photographs and text on the wonderful railroads and a variety of trains in America. Contains an extensive glossary of railroad terms and a useful guide for the identification of railroad car heralds and insignia.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65560
- Title
- High Iron: A Book of Trains
- Author
- Beebe, Lucius Morris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in fair dust jacket. DJ has wear, soiling, edge tears and chips.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Published within the regulations of the War Production Board
- Publisher
- D. Appleton-Century Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- Locomotives, Heralds, Devices, Insignia, Glossary, Pictorial, Cajon Pass, Cisco Yards, Central Pacific, Huntington Hopkins, Roundhouse, Southern Pacific, Kennebec, Royal Gorge, Highballing, Vaudreuil, Plover's Eggs
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....