Verlag: Metro Books, New York, 2001
ISBN 10: 1586631462 ISBN 13: 9781586631468
Anbieter: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, USA
hardcover. Zustand: very good(+). Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good(+). Profusely illustrated in color. 144 pages. Square 4to, black boards, dust wrapper. New York: Metro Books, (2001). A very good(+) copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. Written and researched by a team of veteran transportation historians and illustrated with more than 175 photographs of streamlined locomotives, dazzling passenger cars, legendary train designs and gorgeous promotional brochures and posters, The Art of the Streamliner is a stunning account of some of the most beautiful machines ever wrought by human hands.
Verlag: Metro Books, 2001
ISBN 10: 1586631462 ISBN 13: 9781586631468
Anbieter: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. Oversized hardcover. Fine, fresh example in equally fine, price clipped dust jacket. 144 p. with index. Illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs and reproductions of vintage items such as advertising. A tribute to one of the most elegant land-based form of transportation, the streamlined steam amd diesel trains. Complemenmting the streamlined locomotives---which looked fast and were fast--came increasingly luxurious sleeper cars, dining cars, observation cars, and club cars.