The Romance Of The Rails. Two Volumes

AGNES C LAUT

Publication: Robert M McBride & Company, 1929, New York

First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. Volume I: Red cloth, xv [1], 307 pp., titles stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine, pictorial decorated front and rear endpapers, foreword, frontispiece, illustrated from photographs and drawings, plates. Volume II: Red cloth, ix, 308-590 pp., titles stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine, pictorial decorated front and rear endpapers, frontispiece, illustrated from photographs, plates, map, index. An excellent history of railroad development in the United States along with some of the interesting facts and incidents relating to the birth and the growth of our railroads, and the part they have had in the expansion of the nation. Gilt on spine of both copies has faded else a fine, tight set in dust jackets.

Inventory Number: 47373