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Snowplow, Clearing Mountain Rails
by Best, Gerald M
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley: Howell-North Books, 1966. First Edition. Quarto. 119 pages, illustrated with 150 black and white photographs, diagrams and designs of snowplows and snowsheds. Where is a chapter devoted to snowshed which is vastly interesting for not only are the pictures spectacular, but various types of construction, the problems of fire and snowslides are also delineated. A very good copy bound red cloth lettered in black, spine lettering black, in pictorial dust jacket with chip to bottom edge foo front panel and spine ends.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001651
- Title
- Snowplow, Clearing Mountain Rails
- Author
- Best, Gerald M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Howell-North Books
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Railroad Trains Snowplows Railway Mountain Rails
- Bookseller catalogs
- Railroad;
Terms of Sale
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Alcuin Books located in Old Town Scottsdale is a store with 15,000 serious books for the collector or scholar. We have ample parking in front of the store for those who wish to browse our holdings.
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- 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...
- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- 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....