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My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands: Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year
by Train, George Francis
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Clarence Park, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
(London: Heinemann: 1902) [Published November, 1902. First British Edition. Copyright, 1902 by D. Apppleton and Company, USA]. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xxii, 348 and 2 and 38 publisher's advertisements. Illustrated. Index. Autobiography of remarkable American; in Australia 1853-1855, his experiences including 'The Gold-Fever in New South Wales and Tasmania'; China; The Crimea 1856; travels in Europe including Russia; Building the First Street-Railways in England; Building the Union Pacific Railway; Etc. Etc. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Head and foot of spine and corners of boards a little rubbed; external hinges rubbed; some stains to the cloth, mainly to the front board; otherwise a very good copy.
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- Bookseller
- exPB
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 167142
- Title
- My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands: Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year
- Author
- Train, George Francis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- biography autobiography travel and description railways politics gold
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About the Seller
exPB
Biblio member since 2017
Clarence Park, South Australia
About exPB
I am the daughter of Pioneer Books, our business has closed down after 43 years and I am listing some of it on my own account now that I'm the proud owner of the residual stock! I am selling them at half the price at which they were listed when Pioneer Books existed.
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