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Hand-Book of The Locomotive, including the Construction, Running, and Management of Locomotive Engines And Boilers
by Stephen Roper
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1874. First edition. Leather_bound. Very Good. Scarce. 18mo. (4" x 6") in self folding leather wraps with front flap, flap decorated in gilt with an image of a19th century Baldwin passenger locomotive, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Frontispiece portrait engraving of M.W. Baldwin with tissue guard. 324 pp. with index, glossary of technical terms, table of time differences from New York, table of milages. Illustrated with full page engravings of various locomotives and with diagrams. Interior tight and clean, leather had some rubbing about the edges and shallow loss at head and foot of spine. Withal, the best copy of this scarce railroad piece we have encountered.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E25126
- Title
- Hand-Book of The Locomotive, including the Construction, Running, and Management of Locomotive Engines And Boilers
- Author
- Stephen Roper
- Format/Binding
- Leather_bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1874
- Keywords
- railroad, locomotives, trains, engines, boilers, transportation, baldwin,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Railroad;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
TRACKING AND INSURANCE AT OPTION OF BUYER. ON UNINSURED ITEMS, OUR RESPONSIBILITY ENDS WITH PROOF OF SHIPPING---NO EXCEPTIONS! Books are returnable if misdescribed; we must be notified within 48 hours of receipt if making a return. We conform to accepted ABAA grading. "First edition" means "first printing" unless noted; if it doesn't say it has a jacket then it doesn't; faults such as ownership signatures, price clipping, etc. will be noted in the listing. Member ABAA, ILAB, ABNJ.
About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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