The Pacific Tourist. Adams & Bishop's Illustrated Trans-Continental Guide of Travel, from The Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
by Shearer, Frederick E. Editor
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Northport, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Bounty Books/Crown Publishers, Inc., (1970). Small 4to; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine; hardcover; 372 pages plus index; black and white illustrations; Facsimile edition; Foreword by James D. Horan; a very good clean tight copy in a lightly sunned and edgeworn pictorial dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- WellRead Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35329
- Title
- The Pacific Tourist. Adams & Bishop's Illustrated Trans-Continental Guide of Travel, from The Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
- Author
- Shearer, Frederick E. Editor
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- NY: Bounty Books/Crown Publishers, Inc., (1970)
- Keywords
- Travel and Transportation, Railroad Travel, Union Pacific Railroad Co., Central Pacific Railroad Co., United States, Guidebooks
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Transportation;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
WellRead Books
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Northport, New York
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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