Aboard Freedom: First Edition (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Graphics & Printing, Inc., 1989. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new. Covers have shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Stated First Edition of Marie McSwigan's 1954 historical juvenile novel. Book is exceptionally well preserved with pristine internal pages and only very slight discoloration near the lower binding edge. Original dust jacket is present and intact but shows overall wear and several small edge tears, stains on the binding edge and is graded Average. Previous owner's information neatly written on the first page/front flyleaf. E. Harper Johnson (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No signatures. Spine faded. Some fading to boards. Small bumps to corners of boards. Some foxing.; First UK edition (previously published in the USA in 1954). 249 pages + colour frontispiece + in-text b&w illustrations. Blue boards. Historical novel for children. With illustrations by E. Harper Johnson. A "story built on facts of an escape of liberty-loving Czechoslovaks in to the United States Zone of Germany in September 1951" - page 11. [Seller Ref: TaylorCol]. …

Hardcover. Presumed first edition/first printing. 128 p. Includes: illustrations, maps. Contributors of Record. Inscription (on rear end paper from Ross E. Rowland, Jr, Chairman Steam Locomotive Corporation of America. Associated letter laid in. This was one of the items produced in commemoration of the American Bicentennial. Ross E. Rowland Jr. was one of the moving forces behind making the dream of The American Freedom Train a reality. From Wikipedia: "The United States has seen two national 'Freedom Trains'. The 1947 1949 Freedom Train was a special exhibit train that toured the United States in the later half of the 1940s. A similar train called the American Freedom Train toured the country for the United States Bicentennial celebration in 1975 1976. Both trains were painted in special red, white and blue paint schemes, and both toured the 48 contiguous states with displays of Americana and related historical artifacts. The two trains took different routes around the 48 states, but they both stopped for public displays in each of them.A second freedom train, the American Freedom Train, toured the country in 1975 1976 to commemorate the United States Bicentennial. This 26-car train was powered by three newly restored steam locomotives. The first to pull the train was former Reading Company 4-8-4 #2101. The second was former Southern Pacific 4449, a large 4-8-4 steam locomotive that is still operating in special excursion service today. The third was former Texas & Pacific 2-10-4 #610, which pulled the train in Texas. Due to light rail loadings and track conditions on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, diesels hauled the train from New Orleans to Mobile, Alabama. Within the train's 10 display cars, converted from New York Central and Penn Central baggage cars, were over 500 precious treasures of Americana. Included in these diverse artifacts were George Washington's copy of the Constitution, the original Louisiana Purchase, Judy Garland's dress from The Wizard of Oz, Joe Frazier's boxing trunks, Martin Luther King's pulpit and robes, and even a rock from the moon. Over a 21-month period from April 1, 1975 to December 31, 1976 more than 7 million Americans visited the train during its tour of all 48 contiguous states. Millions more stood trackside to see it go by. The train's tour began April 1, 1975, in Wilmington, Delaware. The train then traveled northeast to New England, west through Pennsylvania, Ohio to Michigan, then around Lake Michigan to Illinois and Wisconsin. From the Midwest, the tour continued westward, zigzagging across the plains to Utah and then up to the Pacific Northwest. From Seattle, Washington, the tour then traveled south along the Pacific coast to southern California. The train and crew spent Christmas 1975 in Pomona, California, decorating the locomotive with a large profile of Santa Claus on the front of the smokebox above the front coupler. For 1976, the tour continued from southern California eastward through Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, then turned north to visit Kansas and Missouri before traveling through the Gulf Coast states and then north again to Pennsylvania. The tour continued southeast to New Jersey then south along the Atlantic coast before finally ending December 26, 1976 in Miami, Florida. The last visitor went through the train December 31, 1976. Very good in good dust jacket. DJ has some wear, soiling, and small edge tears. Pailet, Joshua M. (Photographer) (illustrator).…