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RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEERING. A CENTURY OF PROGRESS. Car and Locomotive Design
by Various
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/good +
- Seller
-
Deerfield, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Rail Transportation Division. (c. 1979), 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good +. Pages xiv + 445, quarto, hardcover, first edition. Includes many black and white photo repros. and illustrations. Maroon cloth cover with gilt titles. A couple of cover corners bumped, former owner name on front free endpaper, else Very Good. Dust jacket has some chipping and closed tears at edges, Fair. Twenty-two chapters by various authors. "A compilation of many of the landmark advances in cars, locomotives, trucks, wheels, car bodies, heating, brake friction materials, couplers, draft gear, cushioning, etc." This oversize book may incur additional charges for international or expedited shipping. 102416A
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12686
- Title
- RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEERING. A CENTURY OF PROGRESS. Car and Locomotive Design
- Author
- Various
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- New York, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Rail Transportation Division. (c. 1979),
- Date Published
- 1979
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- RAILROADS, RAILWAYS
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About the Seller
Alkahest Books
Biblio member since 2012
Deerfield, Illinois
About Alkahest Books
Alkahest Books was established in1984. We started as an open shop on Central St. in Evanston, IL, and sold books there until 2002 and later were part of Chicago Rare Book Center which closed in 2017. We are members of the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and IOBA and sell both online and at book fairs. International customers should ask for a shipping quote before ordering as the rates given are only for smaller books.
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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