Palo Alto CA: American West Publishing, 1969. Hardcover. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. Building the Central Pacific (now Southern Pacific) across the High Sierra. Marron cloth, gilt decoration, 317 pages. Previous owner's name on front endpage, top page edge lightly foxed. DJ edges chipped, folds rubbed, spine sunned (in mylar sleeve).; 6 3/4 x 9 3/4

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Bookseller: Chequamegon Book Company (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 90699
Title: High Road to Promontory
Author: Kraus, George
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+ in Fair dust jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: American West Publishing
Place of Publication: Palo Alto CA
Date Published: 1969
Keywords: Railroad, Central Pacific, Sierra Nevadas, NOISBN
Bookseller catalogs: Transportation;

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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....
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...