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 ].

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Title

JIM SKEEVER'S OBJECT LESSONS ON RAILROADING FOR RAILROADERS

Publisher

J.S. Coffin [ 1925 ], New York

Publication Date

1925

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

Second edition.

Condition

Good

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Joyce And Company, established 1975, works out of an office near Chicago's Loop. There are usually 15-20,000 books on-site and available for browsing. Mr. Joyce was a founding partner of the former Chicago Rare Book Center, of Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. Proprietor Tom Joyce appeared regularly as the book appraiser on "The Appraisal Fair", seen on Home And Garden Television, HGTV. We still do appraisals on a wide variety of subjects, from literature to history, fine books, children's, presses, theology, law, medicine, maps, autographs. These topics are reflected in our inventory, and much more, including Sherlockiana. In addition to regional institutions nearby Chicago and Illinois, we have been able to place rare materials with the American Antiquarian Society, The Library of Congress, The Bodleian Library, Harvard and Yale Universities, the Presidential Libraries of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, et cetera.

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