High Iron: A Book of Trains
by Lucius Beebe
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Independence, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
From front DJ flap: "High Iron is a record in prose and pictures of some of the more arresting aspects of the most heroic of American sagas, the legend of railroading. It is not a history of railroads nor is it a handbook of the evolution of trains and locomotives. It concerns itself with the magnificence, the romance and the grandeur of steam and steel..."
Book - Good condition. Red cloth over boards with black text on spine. Some corner wear. Clean and tight.
Dust Jacket - Fair condition. Some rubbing/bumping, at least one stain. Some edgewear, including a 1" chip on front corner.
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225 pages including Glossary, plus Bibliography
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blue & Grey Book Shoppe (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2068
- Title
- High Iron: A Book of Trains
- Author
- Lucius Beebe
- Format/Binding
- Cloth over boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Assumed First Bonanza Books Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bonanza Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Pages
- 225
- Weight
- 2.00 lbs
- Keywords
- American, trains, locomotives, cars, railroads, North America, railroad terms, railroad slang
- Bookseller catalogs
- Trains; Reference;
Terms of Sale
Blue & Grey Book Shoppe
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.