Trolley Car Treasury: A Century of American Streetcars--Horsecars, Cable Cars, Interurbans, and Trolleys
by ROWSOME, Frank
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1956. Hardcover. The history of early American mass transit is told here, along with over 300 photos of bygone means of urban transport. The author was assisted by technical editor Stephen D. Maguire. This work was later reprinted by Bonanza Books. --- In black, red and yellow cloth-covered boards with spine titling in yellow. Jacket with pink- and yellow-toned photos of old trolleys. --- A well-preserved copy, though with binder's glue bleed-through to endpapers. Dust jacket with original $5.95 flap price, minor chafing to extremities, else intact and bright; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; (8), 200 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85922
- Title
- Trolley Car Treasury: A Century of American Streetcars--Horsecars, Cable Cars, Interurbans, and Trolleys
- Author
- ROWSOME, Frank
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>American History & Politics;
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Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
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- Quarto
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