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The Pennsylvania Railroad Volume I: Building an Empire, 1846-1917
by Churella, Albert J
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG+/VG+, very minor shelf wear to edges, otherwise very clean and tight
- ISBN 10
- 081224348X
- ISBN 13
- 9780812243482
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Hardcover. VG+/VG+, very minor shelf wear to edges, otherwise very clean and tight. Red buckram binding with gilt lettering. Glossy color illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated in B&W. 945 pp. Includes maps and index. First and only published volume of what is to become a set. "Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation" - from dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 178312
- Title
- The Pennsylvania Railroad Volume I: Building an Empire, 1846-1917
- Author
- Churella, Albert J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG+, very minor shelf wear to edges, otherwise very clean and tight
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 081224348X
- ISBN 13
- 9780812243482
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- Transportation, trains, Pennsylvania Railroad ; Trains ; ;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Transportation;
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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- VG+/VG+
- A book in slightly better than Very Good Condition with a dust jacket that is in slightly better than Very Good Condition. Very...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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