Chicago: Griffin & Winters. Good with no dust jacket. 1903. Seventy-Ninth Thousand. Hardcover. Black cloth hardback has red lettering to spine that is faded and barely readable. Contains numerous black and white illustrations as well as Index and 15pp ads to back. FO bookplate to decorated FFEP but no other marks. Hinges are weak but together with back end paper beginning to split at gutter. Binding has blindstamping with several spots and rubbed areas. Wear to top and bottom edges of binding with boards visible in a few places and upper corners rounded. Digital photos available. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 711 pages .

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Bookseller: The Book Lady (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2534
Title: The Locomotive Up to Date
Author: McShane, Chas
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good with no dust jacket
Edition: Seventy-Ninth Thousand
Publisher: Griffin & Winters
Place of Publication: Chicago
Date Published: 1903
Keywords: Railroads, Locomotives
Bookseller catalogs: Railroads;

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Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...