About this title: In this sequel to his best-selling "American Railroad Passenger Car", John White changes the freight car's lowly image. This book explores the history of American railroads and American technology. Illustrated and the result of more than a decade of research, it brings to light important new information about the rail industry of 19th-century America, the ingenuity of American invention, and the development of highly specialized rail cars to move products and resources around the nation. Including hundreds of historical photographs and detailed blueprints, "The American Railroad Freight Car" ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13:9780801844041ISBN:0801844045
Description: Good. Purchasing this book supports the King County Library System Foundation. Thriftbooks and KCLSF have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U. S. A.
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780801844041ISBN:0801844045
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0801844045. Hardcovers are clean, no wear. Small partial tear on front endpaper where address label was removed, else interior fine, clean and tight. Dustjacket clean, small tear and crease to lower rear panel, in new mylar cover.; B&W Illustrations; 4to 11"-13" tall. read more
Edition: Text is Free of Markings
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780801844041ISBN:0801844045
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. 644 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press 1993
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780801844041ISBN:0801844045
Description: ISBN 0801844045. Hardback. Second printing. Very Good to Near Fine condition book, with slight rubs and dustsoiling to cover edges, in a Very Good to Near Fine condition dustjacket. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. Oversized. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published: 1995-11-01
ISBN-13:9780801852367ISBN:0801852366
Description: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780801844041ISBN:0801844045
Description: Folioo, hardcover. Vg condition in vg+ dj. Front hinge (inside cover) mended; contents bright & clean, binding tight. dj glossy, very slightly edge-creased, few faint scratches at edge of rear. xi, 644 p. illus. w/ copious b/w photos. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published: 1993
Description: Good in Very Good jacket. A massive hardcover in tan cloth boards. With photographs and blueprints through White's history of the development of freight cars through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Jacket is in nice shape but with a bit of wear that comes from handling a book this size. A few small chips at the crown and foot of spine, and some rubbing. The front board is slightly curled. A sound binding. Clean pages, bright illustrations, unmarked text. Photos and diagrams in black ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Baltimore John Hopkins Univ. Press 1993.
Description: VG-boards clean & bright. In a VG, brodarted dust jacket. Cream boards and spine with copper stamp. Illustrated by Illustr. 1st edition. Binding is HB. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published: 1995-11-01
ISBN-13:9780801852367ISBN:0801852366
Description: Excellent text, nice and clean in Paperback w/ minor edge wear jacket. Excellent in like new condition. Excellent text unmarked nice and clean! BUY IT NOW! . Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Edition: First edition, first printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780801844041ISBN:0801844045
Description: Following the same format as White's book on the passenger car, this is a 644 page early history of the American freight car with numerous pictures, photos and schematic drawings. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: The John Hopkins University Oress, Baltimore and London
Date Published: 1993
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Private Press. 10 1/2" By 13" By 1" Deep. II this sequel to his best-selling American Railroad Passenger Car, White forever changes the freight car's lowly image. Including hundreds of historical photographs and detailed blueprint, it highlights the sophistication and expertise that marked the developm, ent of freight cars in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book is 644 pages. Vergood+ condition. the only negative is a 1/2" tear on the top of DJ ... read more
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