ABDILL, George B.

Civil War Railroads: A Pictorial Story of the War Between the States, 1861-1865

Indiana University Press, 1999. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket Reprint. 1999 edition in landscape format with numerous B&W illustrations; page edges very faintly yellowed; spine of dust jacket faded; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Photo:http://cibimages.blob.core.windows.net/img-1/stand_99440_jpg.jpg. ISBN: 0253335361

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Book number: BOOKS321434I

Abdill, George B.

A Locomotive Engineer's Album: The Saga of Steam Engines in America

New York, Bonanza Books, c1965. Hardcover. 190p. illus. Fifth in the author's Old Railroad series . Very good condition/good.

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Book number: 578

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: Railroads

ABDILL, GEORGE B.

A Locomotive Engineer's Album: The Saga of Steam Engines in America, Fifth in the Old Railroad Series

New York: Bonanza Books, [c.1960s-70s]. Hardcover. The glory days of American steam locomotives are displayed in this gallery of historic black & white photos, collected by former Southern Pacific locomotive engineer George B. Abdill. These several dozen photos portray power units, railroad people, and the sights to be seen along the trackage. This work was originally published by Superior Publishing Company of Seattle. --- In full orange cloth-covered boards with titling in black to spine. Dust jacket with engine images to front panel. --- With prior owner's signature and bookplate affixed to front free endpaper, Christmas-time sticker to verso of ffep, otherwise a clean, unmarked, tightly-bound copy. Intact jacket with slight yellowing and a streak of soiling to back panel; else bright and otherwise undamaged.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; 190 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 83206

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Abdill, George B.,

Locomotive Engineer's Album: The Saga of Steam Engines in America - Fifth in the Old Railroad Series.

New York, Bonanza Books, 1965. Reprint. Hardcover., Vg/G Faint Edgewear. Dj Edgeworn with Small Chips & Tears. Pages: 190. Pages Clean, Binding Tight.

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Book number: MASTER324859I

Catalogue: Trains

Abdill, George B., Locomotive Engineer,

A Locomotive Engineer's Album: the saga of steam engines in America: fifth in the Old Railroad series.

NY, Bonanza, (1965). G in G DJ ex-library. Abdill was a working engineer on the Southern Pacific, Portland Division. Many photos. Library markings.

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Book number: BOOKS051247I

Catalogue: Railroads

ABDILL, George B.

A Locomotive Engineer's Album: The Saga of Steam Engines in America

New York, Bonanza Books, 1965. Hardcover. Small 4to. Orange cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 190pp. Extensive illustrations. Near fine/near fine. A wonderfully bright 'n' tight reprint edition of this superbly and extensively illustrated volume first published by Superior -- fifth in the "Old Railroad" series. .

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Book number: 41244

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Keywords: Railroad

ABDILL, GEORGE B.

A Locomotive Engineer's Album. The Saga of Steam Engines in America. (Fifth in the Old Railroad Series).

Demy 4to; pp. 190; text illustrated with numerous b/w. photographs, bound in original orange cloth, title lettered in black on spine, dustjacket chipped on edges, good copy. New York; Bonanza Books; n.d. (1960s).

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Book number: 117148

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Abdill, George B.

Rails West

New York, Bonanza Books, c1960. Hardcover. 191p. illus. Third in the author's Pageant of Railroad History series . Very good condition/good.

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Book number: 011407

Keywords: Railroads West, the

ABDILL, GEORGE B.

Rails West.

4to; pp. 191; frontispiece, numerous b/w illustrations; original cloth, dustjacket, flecking to page edges, priceclipped, otherwise a fine copy. New York, Bonanza Books, (1960).

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Book number: 62854

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ABDILL, George B.

Rails West.

New York: Bonanza Books, 1960. 4to. 191pp, pictorial title-page, text illustrations (some full-page). Original green cloth lettered in black, partially faded slightly chipped and soiled d/w.

John TurtonProfessional seller

Book number: 21724

Keywords: ABDILL Rails West American Railway History

ABDILL, George B.

Rails West

New York, Bonanza Books, 1960. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 191pp. Extensive illustrations. Near fine/near fine. An absolutely superb, tight and bright first reprint edition of this outstandingly-illustrated (to cite front jacket panel) "collectors album of a vanishing era in railroadiana," first published by Superior -- concluding volume in the "Pageant of Railroad History" trilogy. .

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Book number: 41243

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Western Americana Railroad

Abdill, George B.,

Rails West: A Collectors Album of a Vanishing Era in Railroadiana.

New York, Bonanza Books, 1960. Reprint. Hardcover., G+ (See Description), Vg/G+ Dj Lightly Edgeworn, Small Chip at Front. Pages Clean, Binding Tight. Dj in Mylar Wrap. Pages: 191.

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Book number: MASTER355781I

Catalogue: Trains

Abdill, George B.

Rauch auf Schienen von 1854 bis 1900

Raab Verlag, 1997. - gutes Exemplar - Einband: unbekannter Einband. 572

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Book number: 2J8218

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ABDILL, GEORGE B.

This Was Railroading [in the Pacific Northwest]

New York: Bonanza Books, 1958. Hardcover. A portfolio of historic black & white photos of railroading in the Pacific Northwest, almost all during the era of steam power. Includes information on railroads, power units, rail cars and infrastructure of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, British Columbia and a little bit of Northern California. Many of these lines were organized by logging interests. The author, George B. Abdill, spent much of his life working as a fireman and engineer for railroads. --- In black paper-covered boards backed in yellow cloth, with spine titling in black. Dust jacket features a steam locomotive and tender in a logging yard. --- A clean, bright, tightly-bound copy. Dust jacket also in excellent condition; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; 192 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 86130

Keywords: >>Railroads, Aviation & Transportation

ABDILL, GEORGE B.

This Was Railroading.

4to; pp. 192; frontispiece, numerous b/w illustrations; original cloth, dustjacket, priceclipped, otherwsie a fine copy. New York, Bonanza Books, (1958).

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Book number: 62855

Keywords: railways railway railroad railroads rail transport steam train locomotives trains American America U.S.A.