The Locomotive Catechism: Containing nearly 1,300 Questions and Answers concerning Designing and Constructing, Repairing and Running various Kinds of Locomotive Engines
Published by Norman W. Henley and Co./E. and F. N. Spon, New York and London, 1893
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.Saucony Book Shop
AbeBooks seller since June 21, 2006
Condition: Used - Good
US$ 50.00
Quantity: 1 available
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Dark olive green cloth, spine panel lettered in gold foil. 362,[3] pp., illus. Back cover spotted and with dye lightening due to moisture contact, front cover shows a line of dampstaining with slight swelling to underboard, thin line of dampstaining along top margin through text block. Modest rubbing to corners and spine extremities. Former owner's signature in pencil on front flyleaf. Text block edges soiled from use, but interior is generally clean and intact, including multiple folding plates, excepting pp. 95-96, which shows approx. 40% loss. Scarce first edition of an oft-reprinted railroadiana classic. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Seller Inventory # 063314
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Locomotive Catechism: Containing nearly 1,300 Questions and Answers concerning Designing and Constructing, Repairing and Running various Kinds of Locomotive Engines
- Author
- Grimshaw, Robert
- Publisher
- Norman W. Henley and Co./E. and F. N. Spon, New York and London
- Publication year
- 1893
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- N/A
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Railroads & Trolleys
Saucony Book Shop
Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since June 21, 2006
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The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. Hours by appointment or chance April through October, closed winters. Do drop by and browse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. If traveling from a distance, please call ahead to be sure that we're not off at another auction! Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel.…
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