Mansions on Rails The Folklore of the Private Railway Car

Red texture woven cloth boards w/ gilt titling on spine and cover. Bright, mylar protected, unclipped pictorial DJ w/ light soiling/rubbing and chipping/small tears/creasing along edges. Square, tight binding w/ square corners. Text clean and unmarked throughout on lightly read pages. Presumed 1st ed, Pp382, photo eps, color frontis, publ date on Title Pg matches verso, appends. Beebe, known for his unabashed affection for railroading, was the noted publisher of "Territorial Enterprises" made famous by Mark Twain, and worked as a journalist and columnist. The book is a comprehensive study of a previously undocumented matter. In particular, the looped, fringed, frizzled and ferned private rail car. The type used by some of history's most colorful characters from the Vanderbilts, to Lillie Langtree, to Judge Roy Bean, among others.