Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
Date Published: 01/2001
ISBN-13:9781418160425ISBN:1418160423
Description: Fine Like New, Unread, not previously owned. May show signs of wear including remainder marks or stickers on book or cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 664 p. read more
Binding: Decorative Cloth
Publisher: Railroad Gazette?, New York
Description: Fair in N/A jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Brown cloth, decorated on front cover in black, illus. on front cover with head-on view of steam locomotive and lettered in gilt. Well worn copy, with considerable shelf/handling wear, exposed corners, frayed spine extremities. Lacks front flyleaf, prelims, title, opens onto first page of Preface (p. iii); we are thus unable to provide publisher or edition for this copy, though it is likely a Railroad Gazette imprint pre-dating 1885. iii-xvi, 609 pp., ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Frederick Keppy / Scientific Book Publishers 1891
Date Published: 1891
Description: ISBN. Hardback. Revised Second edition. No dustjacket, bound in dark brick red pictorial beveled covers with gold gilt design of a locomotive on the front cover. A tight sound copy but pretty much a nice tight sound reading copy only due to front hinge tight and sound but reinforced with black cloth library tape. one of the folding diagrams detached from the back but still present and laid in loose with heavy weAdvanced Reader's Copy. to its outer edges, heavy cover wear and spine fade with ... read more
Edition: Early Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Railroad Gazette, New York
Date Published: 1875
Description: Fair. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall Illustrated guide to nineteenth century locomotive engines and operations, with numerous diagrams and folding plates. Red cloth, 609 pages plus advertisements. Very rough condition, with much edgewear, joint splitting, heavy soil. Hinges good with the rear one just showing the beginnings of cracking, endpapers heavily soiled, one plate missing, another split along one seam with both pieces present, pages mainly clean with some occasional soil. Reading or research ... read more
Edition: Reprint, Twenty-fourth Thousand
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Railroad Gazette, New York
Date Published: 1882
Description: Fair. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall Illustrated guide to nineteenth century locomotive engines and operations, with numerous diagrams and folding plates, including but not limited to Properties of Saturated Steam and Table of Hyperbolic Logarithms. Rust cloth in Victorian design with gilt locomotive cover decoration, beveled edge, 609 pages plus advertisements. Somewhat rough condition, with much edgewear, lightly faded spine, frayed spine ends, internally cracked hinges, sound text block, good hinges ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Railroad Gazette, New York
Date Published: 1883
Description: Hbk 609pp Illustrations no dj as issued decorated front board (a particularly fine gilt front view of a locomotive) prev owner's name on inside front board spine strip worn at top and bottom gilt lettering still good now in acetate jacket very good clean tight text a fine collector's item. read more
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Railroad Gazette;, N. Y. :
Date Published: 1903
Description: Good+ with no jacket. 709 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Red cloth over beveled boards, gilt lettering on spine, gilt locomotive and black decor on front, footnotes, several tables, extensive index, 2 appendixes, 488 b/w illustrations in text including 2 fold-outs, 6 additional fold-out plates at rear, one in color.; Authored by inventor of Forney Locomotive. Reprint of 1890 edition, revised from 1873 original. Everything an engineer, mechanic, fireman or other railroad employee needs to know, written ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Railroad Gazette, NY
Date Published: 1875
Description: 12mo xvi and 609 pages plus 30 pages of merchant ads featuring locomotives and railroad equipment. 3 b/w folding plates (on two sheets), 16 single page b/w plates, 230 b/w illustrations in the text, original brown blind-stamped cloth binding with gilt spine titles. The binding is faded with edgewear at the corners and head and tail of spine. 1/2 spot of wear on rear joint. solid binding, clean interior. A comprehensive treatment of the railroad locomotive. read more
Binding: Brown/gold
Publisher: Frederick Keppy, Bridgeport, Conn.
Date Published: 1890
Description: 19 B/W plates. Hardcover. No dust cover. Owner stamp fep. Very good+ Octavo, 609 pp., All about the American locomotives, 3 large fold-out plates, and 16 engravings of steam engines. A complete revision of the original German treatise on locomotives when it became obvious to the publisher that he did not really understand his subject. The Material was completely rewritten in English and published under another author's name, Matthias Forney. This might well be the first American Edition of this ... read more
Edition: 1879 printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Railroad Gazette, New York
Date Published: 1874
Description: Very Good. Hardback. 12 mo, 609 Reddish brown cloth, decorated in gilt and black, gilt title on spine dulled but readable, beveled boards. Covers are modestly worn and soiled with extremities worn to the boards. Spine ends which had been frayed have been professionally restored as has the shaken front hinge behind the title page. The latter is invisible. Front endpaper is stained by glue residue, likely from a large bookplate. 609 pages and 22 pages of ads at back. Binding is sound. All three ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Railroad Gazette, New York
Date Published: 1897
Description: Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 6 1/4 By 8 1/4" VG hard cover Binding strong, pages clean, gilded title on spine and train picture on front cover. Patterned endpapers. 6 fold-out diagrams attached to back endpaper. 3 fold-out diagrams in text. Numerous diagrams within text. 709 pp. read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Pictorial Cloth
Publisher: Railroad Gazette, New York
Date Published: 1883
Description: Plates, Tables, and Other Illustrations. Good+/Very Good. No Jacket. Worn but still appealing copy of this classic manual for railroad engineers first issued in 1874. This copy is a stated "thirteenth thousand" printed in 1883. Bound in original maroon cloth with spine lettered in gold and with gold decorative rules [taking the form of train-tracks] at head and base of spine, front cover has black decorative borders surrounding gold depiction of a railroad locomotive seen head-on. Wear/fraying ... read more
Edition: Not Stated
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Railroad Gazette, New York
Date Published: 1880
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2" Book is in good condition in brown cloth boards with black styalized embossment and gilt embossed head-on view of locomotive on front board and gilt lettered and decorated spine...notable shelfwear to all surfaces with corners and top and bottom of spine considerably worn...bottom of spine has one inch covering tear at back hinge--hinge is damaged as well at this bottom one inch. Text is clean and secure to binding throughout...moderate age darkening to ... read more
Edition: First edition, twenty-fourth thousand
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Railroad Gazette, New York
Date Published: 1882
Description: The operation and repair of steam locomotives. 609 pages with diagrams, illustrations, and index, plus foldout diagrams in the front and ads in the rear. Bound in original maroon cloth with design on covers stamped in black and in blind, and lettering and locomotive illustration stamped in gilt. Spine ends professionally repaired, hinges repaired, and rear page repair. New headbands. A handsome, very good copy. read more
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