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THE CAR BUILDERS' DICTIONARY [CYCLOPEDIA] 1903 EDITION. AN ILLUSTRATED VOCABULARY OF TERMS WHICH DESIGNATE AMERICAN RAILROAD CARS, THEIR PARTS, ATTACHMENTS, AND DETAILS OF CONSTRUCTION
by Hitt, Rodney
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Talent, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Railway Gazetter, 1903. First edition thus . Hardcover. Compiled for the Master Car Builders' Associastion." This series later became titled THE CAR BUILDERS' CYCLOPEDIA. 149 pages A Dictionary of terms Used In Car-Building. 374 pages of photographs, illustrations and diagrams and data of railroad cars, equipment and their parts. 66 pages of railroad car ads bound in. Bound in original brown leather with lettering in gilt and border in blind. Leather covers worn and rubbed. Professionally rebacked with majority of the orginal spine pressed on. Remains a very good copy.
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- Bookseller
- Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47244
- Title
- THE CAR BUILDERS' DICTIONARY [CYCLOPEDIA] 1903 EDITION. AN ILLUSTRATED VOCABULARY OF TERMS WHICH DESIGNATE AMERICAN RAILROAD CARS, THEIR PARTS, ATTACHMENTS, AND DETAILS OF CONSTRUCTION
- Author
- Hitt, Rodney
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus
- Publisher
- Railway Gazetter
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1903
- Keywords
- railroad, railroading, trains, freight cars
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Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books
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Talent, Oregon
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