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Mansions on Rails: The Folklore of the Private Railway Carby Lucius Beebe
Hardcover Cloth 382 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1959. Attractive red boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Edges have the usual yellowing. A few dog-eared pages. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with the usual shelf wear - a few tears, scrapes, scratches, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
The luxury train cars of the day and the personages who rode them. Beebe owned two so he was the perfect author for this. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos and schematic diagrams of the cars. Tipped in full color frontispiece of The Virginia City, one of Beebe's cars, done up in a style described as "Venetian Renaissance baroque." With Appendix of Pullman business & private cars built… Read More