Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California, Volume One: The Northern Roads
by Myrick, David F
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About This Item
Berkeley: Howell-North, 1963. Second printing. Cloth. Good/Poor. 4to, 443 pp., illus., map. Spine cocked, head and heel of spine and corners of boards bumped with minor loss and fraying at heel and lower corners, previous owner name on front free endpaper, light soiling to page edges, fore-edge stain affecting endpapers and margins of first and last several leaves. Jacket sunned, edgeworn, with 3" closed tear at rear and several smaller chips and tears, staining and small piece missing at rear fold, tape-repair to front flap.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California, Volume One: The Northern Roads
- Author
- Myrick, David F
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Howell-North
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Western Americana , , , ,
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- Railroads;
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