New York: Press of the Erie Railway Company. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1862. Hardcover. Ex-library with usual marks. Quarter black leather and brown cloth over boards. Moderate rubbing and bumped spine ends and corners. Spine leather split about halfway up starting at lower end. Binding shaken and cracked in a few places, but stitching still solid. Text clean. Interior lightly toned and foxed. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 106 pages .

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Seller: Old Editions Inc. (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 10084
Title: Instructions for the Running of Trains, Etc. , on the Erie Railway. to Go Into Effect on Wednesday, January 1, 1862
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good with No dust jacket as issued
Publisher: Press of the Erie Railway Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1862
Bookseller catalogs: Transportation / Railroad;

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
Shaken: A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...