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Voorhies, Stephen J. Fine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 298 p. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall A lovely, tight, crisp, unmarked hardcover in very good condition; light age toning to textblock and light shelf wear to extremities. Missing DJ.
A fun book, helped by the ?as told to? party (a woman, I believe), who wrote many books about horses and animals and edited 'The Boudoir Companion: Frivolous, Sometimes Venemous Thoughts on Men, Morals and Other Women' (1943, the same year as 'Clear the Tracks!'). Cooper knew how to turn a tale, and she turns each of Bromley?s chapters into short stories. This technique works best in the first 150 pages, when the author is working his way up from a boy who helps out around the roundhouse to a locomotive engineer. Once Bromley achieves the highest status, the steam leaves the narrative the way it leaves an unfired engine. Then 'Clear the Tracks!' becomes a series of events, some far afield from railroading (including cockfights ? particularly distasteful now ? and a trip to England to visit his family). The final chapter, in which Bromley becomes a safety inspector and travels the country in what must?ve been the oughts through the Depression, could?ve been a book all on its own.
