Annotated John White (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Publisher's black cloth. DJ Not Price Clipped (15.00). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1970. 6.75" wide by 9.25" tall. Previous owner's name (in 4 places) else Fine condition in Near Very Good Dust Jacket (lightly rubbed, 1 short closed tear). No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, and tight. Originally published in 1907, this new edition adds some 650 notes by John H. White, Jr. as well as a new concluding chapter: "The Final Years of the Steam Locomotive in America" also by White. This is the First MIT Press edition, with all the original illustrations, including over 200 historic locomotives, plus additional photos and drawings. Among the additions are photos of locomotives from the 1940s and a fold-out diagram from the 1920s of a Baldwin Passenger Locomotive (4-8-2, Mountain type) with key to the locations of 385 separate components. First MIT Press edition (with additions). Hard Cover. Publisher's black cloth/DJ Not Price Clipped (15.00). ix, 708pp. . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. First MIT Press edition (with additions).…

Ex-library, quarto, cream cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus/maps at eps, unpaginated prelims + 292pp, illus, VG (usual library markings, moderate soiling/staining & scuffing to board edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, moderate tape staining to front & rear eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown) in d/w, VG- (heavy adhesive staining & minor creasing & chipping to edges, heavy fading to spine & front cover edges, moderate loss to top edge of rear cover, moderate soiling, moderate tape staining to flaps, fore-edges of both flaps clipped- text unaffected).…