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HISTORY OF THE CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILROAD 1835-1919
by Westhaeffer, Paul J
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 093395400X
- ISBN 13
- 9780933954007
- Seller
-
Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Washington, D. C.: Washington D. C. Chapter, National Railroad Historical. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 093395400X . Clean red cloth with gilt title on spine. Text's interior is tight, clean & intact. 200 Illustrations, 10 maps and many locomotive photographs. The story of one of the most colorful short lines during the greatest years of American Railroading. Price clipped dust jacket in VG condition. Spine and bottom front edge is slightly color faded Prior owners book-plate. Railroad, Locomotives, Trains, ; B/W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 350 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16128
- Title
- HISTORY OF THE CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILROAD 1835-1919
- Author
- Westhaeffer, Paul J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 093395400X
- ISBN 13
- 9780933954007
- Publisher
- Washington D. C. Chapter, National Railroad Historical
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D. C.
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- 093395400X, Railroad
- Bookseller catalogs
- Railroads & Trains Transportation;
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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