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The World on Wheels and Other Sketches
by Taylor, Benjamin F
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good (wear to boards especially to edges where cloth is worn through. age toning to pages, previous owner name on ffep, light st
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co, 1874. Hardcover. Good (wear to boards especially to edges where cloth is worn through. age toning to pages, previous owner name on ffep, light stains to title page and small tear. Pages are otherwise clear.). Brown cloth boards with black design, gilt illustration of a train and lettering, bw frontispiece, 2 preliminary leaves, [9]-258 pages, illustrated title page and several bw illustrations throughout. Contents include: The world on wheels: The "wheel" instinct -- The Concord coach -- The raging canal -- The iron age -- The iron horse -- Plunging into the wilderness -- Vicious animals -- Habits of engines and train-men -- In the saddle -- Racing and plowing -- Snow bound -- Scalded to death -- All aboard! -- Early and late -- Dead heads -- Working "by the day" -- A slanderer and a weather maker -- Dreaming on the cars -- "Meet me by moonlight" -- The maker of cities -- A caboose ride -- Hatching out a woman -- A flank movement -- Light and shade -- Precious cargoes -- Baggage: My starry days -- "No. 104,163" -- Our old grandmother -- Out-door preaching -- The story of the bell -- "My eye!" -- The old road -- A bird heaven. Illustrated title page from the New York Examiner and Chronicle, 1873.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 178999
- Title
- The World on Wheels and Other Sketches
- Author
- Taylor, Benjamin F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good (wear to boards especially to edges where cloth is worn through. age toning to pages, previous owner name on ffep, light st
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- S.C. Griggs & Co
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1874
- Keywords
- Transportation ; Travel, Transportation ; ;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Transportation;
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
Biblio member since 2004
Columbia, Pennsylvania
About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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