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[TEXANA]. The Texas and Oklahoma Official Railway & Hotel Guide Map, WITH THE RARE BOOKLET

[TEXANA]. The Texas and Oklahoma Official Railway & Hotel Guide Map, WITH THE RARE BOOKLET

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[TEXANA]. The Texas and Oklahoma Official Railway & Hotel Guide Map, WITH THE RARE BOOKLET

by Texas Railway Guide Company of St. Louis, Missouri

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St. Louis, MO: The Texas Railway Guide Company, 1919. Softcover. Good. Published by The Texas Railway Guide Company of St. Louis, Missouri, the map measures 23" x 23" (570 x 570 mm). Staining and tears along the folds, else near very good. Professionally matted and framed. WITH THE RARE BOOKLET: 8vo. 136 pp. Original self-wrappers (chipped, lower cover chipped with significant loss; textblock browned and brittle, but SUITABLE FOR EXHIBITION AND STUDY. ¶ Very scarce railroad map of Texas, which also includes parts of Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico, and Mexico. Delineated are counties, major cities, and also small cities that held a prominent place along certain railroads. The scale of the map is approximately 10 miles to 1/4 in. * OUR COPY CONTAINS THE RARE BOOKLET, the full title of which is: "Texas and Oklahoma railway and hotel official guide: containing the official time tables of all railway lines operating in Texas and Oklahoma, also useful and valuable information for the traveling public, for shippers and for railway men generally." This excellent guide is of further interest in the abundance of woodcut illustrations of actual hotels, many (most?) of which have been destroyed.

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Michael Laird Rare Books LLC US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
816
Title
[TEXANA]. The Texas and Oklahoma Official Railway & Hotel Guide Map, WITH THE RARE BOOKLET
Author
Texas Railway Guide Company of St. Louis, Missouri
Format/Binding
Softcover
Book Condition
Used - Good
Quantity Available
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Publisher
The Texas Railway Guide Company
Place of Publication
St. Louis, MO
Date Published
1919

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