Railways and Other Ways: Being Reminiscences of Canal and Railway Life During a Period of Sixty-Seven Years; with Characteristic Sketches of Canal and Railway Men - Early Tram Roads and Railways - Steamboats and Ocean Steamships - the Electric Telegraph and Atlantic Cable - Canada and Its Railways, Trade and Commerce with Numerous Incidents and Anecdotes. Humorous and Otherwise, of Canal, Coach and Rail
by Pennington, Myles
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About This Item
Toronto: Williamson & Co., 1894. Undetermined. 1st Edition. xix,[21]-407pp. Octavo in original gilt bevelled edge red cloth, gilt top edge with beige patterned endpapers and plates from photos (many portraits), Wear to extremities, including fraying to top edge and some minor soiling from handling on covers. Presentation on half title from James Stephenson to his wife. Stephenson being General Superintendent of the Grand Trunk Railway at the time. 1894
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 104116
- Title
- Railways and Other Ways: Being Reminiscences of Canal and Railway Life During a Period of Sixty-Seven Years; with Characteristic Sketches of Canal and Railway Men - Early Tram Roads and Railways - Steamboats and Ocean Steamships - the Electric Telegraph and Atlantic Cable - Canada and Its Railways, Trade and Commerce with Numerous Incidents and Anecdotes. Humorous and Otherwise, of Canal, Coach and Rail
- Author
- Pennington, Myles
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Williamson & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1894
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