Ten thousand miles on a bicycle /
"This a book of American roads, for men who travel on the bicycle. Its ideal is that of a gazetteer, a dictionary, a cyclopædia, a statistical guide, a thesaurus of facts. The elaborateness of its indexing shows that it is designed less for reading than for reference ..."
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Karl Kron,
[1887]
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| Edition: | Subscribers' autograph ed. |
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| Summary: | "This a book of American roads, for men who travel on the bicycle. Its ideal is that of a gazetteer, a dictionary, a cyclopædia, a statistical guide, a thesaurus of facts. The elaborateness of its indexing shows that it is designed less for reading than for reference ..." |
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| Item Description: | Includes general index, index of places and index of persons. "Mailed by the publisher on receipt of money-order for two dollars payable at Station D." "This may certify that pledge no. 2712 to pay one dollar in support of the publication of "Ten thousand miles ..." was made to my by 'Mr. T.L. Grover'; 'Karl Kron' author and publisher"--Tipped in Includes a list of 3000 subscribers, a directory of wheelmen, and a trade directory. Includes a biography of Curl, bull-dog. |
| Physical Description: | cvii, 799 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography: | "Literature of the wheel": pages 653-700 |