jim skeevers object lessons railroading von hill john (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Scarce. Some shelf/reading wear. Pages/boards clean.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Republished through courtesy of Railway and Locomotive Engineering. Three quarter red leather, marble papercovered boards. Boards detached but present, lacking the spine, a fair only copy. Signed by the publisher on the preliminary page on June 15th, 1916.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Second edition. 12mo, 276 pages, 3/4 red morocco, raised bands, edgeworn and lacking the top panel of the spine; ex Robert A. Beck "Nothing John wrote helped the motive power officer so much as this. Nothing in railroad literature, written twenty-six years ago, is as good to-day as this --J.S. Coffin, the publisher, who autographed the Forward. These sketches originally appeared in the columns of "Locomotive Engineering." as by John Alexander. Having been a locomotive engineer, under his full name, he began his own publishing firm, and eventually became the Hill of McGraw-Hill - publishers who knew and know more than a little about publishing technical books. Knowing that object lessons may be better learned in a story form, he created these tales to both please and instruct [ Wright Fiction III: 2676 ].

276 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Zustand: Half morocco, very good. Reprint. Reprint. 276 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed.