SCHMIED, F.-L. (Ernest Renan)Livre Rare Book
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19253928Paris 1925. F.-L. Schmied, Peintre-Graveur-Imprimeur. Un volume petit in-folio (250 x 165 mm) en feuilles (25 cahiers non paginés) sous couverture illustrée à rabats. Étui et chemise à dos de maroquin bleu orné d'un décor polychrome mosaïqué (René Assourd). - L'illustration comprend : 80 COMPOSITIONS, FIGURES ET LETTRINES GRAVÉES SUR BOIS EN COULEURS : un frontispice, une composition à chaque page comprenant des bandeaux et des lettrines, une illustration à pleine page et 6 à trois quarts de page, dessinées et gravées sur bois en couleurs, rehaussées d'or et d'argent, par F.-L. Schmied avec la collaboration de Pierre Bouchet. Tirage à 110 exemplaires justifiés et signés sur vergé d'Arches. Celui-ci est enrichi D'UNE SUITE EN NOIR DES BOIS. - Note : Un des livre majeurs de la période art-déco dans sa condition d'origine, bien complet du médaillon introductif et des deux papillons (relatifs au médaillon et aux relieurs). Quelques très faibles décharges, Schmied ayant eu soin, pour cet exemplaire, de placer des serpentes entre les feuillets. (réf : Ritchie, 16).
1964151477San Diego: San Diego Timing Association 1964. Archive of vintage programs bulletins flyers and newspaper clippings published by and relating to the San Diego Timing Association a foundational sanctioning organization in US drag racing.<br/><br/>In postwar America the return of risk-loving unmarried ex-GIs with advanced mechanical skills and extra money to spend led to the rise in popularity of illegal street racing. Southern California racers took advantage of the growing number of abandoned military strips in the state colloquially known as "drags" such as the Santa Ana Drags and Sweetwater Dam Navy Outlying Field. Local car clubs pressured law enforcement to allow racing on the strips efforts which would precipitate the formation of the San Diego Timing Association.<br/><br/>The SDTA held their first sanctioned meet at the Sweetwater Dam drag which the members renamed Paradise Mesa on March 11 1951. The events drew spectators and racers from across southern California catching the attention of the newly formed National Hot Rod Association which became a co-sanctioning body for the Paradise Mesa meets in 1953. Importantly the Paradise Mesa races were the first to present drag races in their now standard modern form two cars competing on a quarter-mile closed strip.<br/><br/>Paradise Mesa faced local backlash after a gory racing accident in June 1956 which injured 12 spectators leading to the prompt closure of the facility for racing purposes. Tensions between police and racers heightened in the ensuing years culminating in a two-day clash in August of 1960 after racers shut down three blocks off El Cajon Boulevard in San Diego to stage their own unauthorized drags. The El Cajon Boulevard Riot is now considered one of the first of the youth riots which would come to characterize the 1960s. <br/><br/>The materials contained in the archive provide an extensive register of the early years of the Paradise Mesa races compiled by foundational SDTA member Andrew Smith including 16 original programs for events at the strip and 9 mimeographed broadsheet flyers advertising races. The archive also includes several documents authored by members of the SDTA such as a constitution document signed by the members of a car club called The Kingpins and a typescript press release statement created in response to the El Cajon Boulevard riots.<br/><br/>Of particular note is a nine-page circa-1952 mimeographically duplicated issue of the SDTA News subtitled "Competition Rules" which contains the first known use in print of the word "dragster" defining the word as a class of race car formerly known as a "lakester."<br/><br/>A vibrant fascinating collection allowing a rare glimpse into a seminal period in the histories of both auto racing and youth culture sparsely documented up to this point as a result of the scarcity of available information and surviving material. <br/><br/>Housed in a three-ring binder. Binder and contents generally Near Fine. San Diego Timing Association unknown books
193734949Bradford PA: Kendall Refining Company 1937. 1 of 8 cc total. Bound in a manilla folder. A VG item. 7 ll typewritten text recto only carbon copy. Illustrated with 1 folded leaf a facsimile log-sheet for Jenkins' 48 hour run Sept 21 - 23 1936 showing 7 parameters MPH Oil Pressure H2O out engine oil temp axle oil temp transmission oil temp & atmospheric temp as recorded over a 52 hour period. 16 captioned b/w snapshots ~ 2-3/4" x 4-1/2" 15 of the car et al & 1 of Jenkins tipped-in to 4 leaves following the log-sheet. 11-1/8" x 8-1/4" <br/><br/>1 of 7 carbon copies of Robinson's typewritten report to H. C. Bougey Chief Chemist General Motors wherein Robinson details the results of sponsored speed runs in 1936 "to establish Worlds' speed records with a view to utilizing results for advertising and sales promotion." The car built was anchored by Duesenberg chassis and powered with a Curtiss Conqueror Model V-1570 engine producing 445 HP. Tires were Firestone. All lubricants from engine to chassis were Robinson. The driver was David Abbott "Ab" Jenkins who just the year prior had established a 24 hour land speed record of 135 mph. For these sponsored attempts as sanctioned by the American Automobile Association there were 4 testing periods: Sept. 7th 21st - 23rd & the 28th. And resulting were the establishment of 19 speed records from 169.57 mph for 100 mile distance to the 48 hour endurance at 148.62 mph. And oh yeah Jenkins upped his 24-hour record to 153.76 mph. Since the letter notes 7 other copies of this report were prepared we can't in good conscious term it "unique" but certainly a rare item documenting the constant quest for more speed in this case a successful one at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats a place made famous by Jenkins and others in these feats of automotive 'chest-thumping'. Kendall Refining Company unknown books
192960666Park Ridge NJ & Pearl River NY: Dexter Press ca. 1929-1939. 4to. 27 leaves unnumbered. 2-pocket mylar sleeves holding 55 silver gelatin photo postcard proofs many w/ collaged text and elements mounted on stiff board some w/ extensive notes indicating addresses photographers and/or suppliers on versos sized from 2.25 x 4 in. up to 4 x 6.5 in. w/ 1 pair of images showing the proof copy alongside the finished printed standard sized photo postcard sized 3.5 x 5.5 in. w/ photographer’s info & publisher on verso many w/ some colour-tinting as well as ink editorial overpainting and airbrushes of clouds or other elements to enhance the original photographs. Recent beige-coloured cloth 3-ring binder excellent group of images. This small archive of photo postcard proofs impressively evoke the period of the vast expansion and development of the American highway system following World War I. With the number of miles doubling from 1920-1930 and then again from 1930 to 1940 Americans gook to the road to migrate and vacation while others located their roadside attraction tourist traps filling stations restaurants & diners motor courts and more within easy view of passing motorists. These original photographs encompass iconic locations across the United States from the Camp Moultrie famed Steakhouse in Blytheville AR to “Fun in the Sun Home-Made Candies†in Palm Springs CA; or 101 Motel Auto Court featugin DeLuxe Hotel Apartments along Sepulveda Blvd. in El Segundo CA on Highway 101 to Anderson Acres on the shore of Lake Erie in Huron OH. Many of the images show the proliferation of petroleum filling stations restaurants and rest stops for weary travelers including the “Trailer City†in Hot Springs AR which sold Gulf Oil; “Shady Grove Cabins†selling Benzoline Gas and Coca-Cola on Route 6 near Farmington CT; or even Shield’s Service Station at Main & Grand in McAlester OK. Roadside attractions intended to entertain and draw in the highway expeditioners included the “World’s Smallest†violin made by Otto Ridlisbacher at “The Friendly Buckhorn†in Rice Lake WI; fine textiles weaving pottery baskets and wood novelties in the Roaring Fork Shop at Gatlinburg TN; the Waverly TN home of notorious badman Jesse James; the giant “Big Red Apple†in Cornelia GA; the “Possum Kingdom†furrier & zoo attraction at Lake Graford TX; or even the Indian Spring in Upper Sandusky OH where author Charles Dickens drank in 1843.Interiors and exteriors of cafeterias hotels fishing camps theatre’s creameries log cabins and even the service staff such as at the Capitol Restaurant in Williamsburg VA are depicted. Dexter 1899-1993 launched his Dexter Press in Park Ridge NJ in 1920 following World War I where he also founded several newspapers simultaneously but by 1938 had sold off the newspapers and would focus on postcards and colour souvenir postcards. Often referred to as “The Postcard King of America†Dexter Press grew rapidly secured the exclusive contract for the 1964 New York World’s Fair and others. Dexter Press, hardcover
1910WRCAM55051Chicago 1910. 116 photographs plus advertising leaf removed from HARPER'S MAGAZINE issue. Includes album of modern reproductions of the photographs. Oblong pebbled morocco album gilt title on front board. Boards rubbed and worn corners bumped spine perished. Photographs mounted on original linen which is slightly curled. A few small chips to edges no loss to images occasional toning and spots to images. The photographs overall in near fine condition. A handsome trade album of vehicles available from the White Motor Company Cleveland Ohio which grew out of the White Sewing Machine Company into one of the largest truck military and heavy equipment manufacturers of the 20th century. <br> <br> This album was created especially for W.J. Urquhart the general manager of the Western sales department headquartered in Chicago as reported in "The Horseless Age: The Automobile Trade Magazine" vol. 24 1909 p.420. The album opens with a photograph of a Pabst beer truck and continues with a wide variety of passenger and commercial vehicles most with the names of the companies painted on the sides. Among the commercial vehicles depicted are trucks operated by Marshall Field Red Rock beverages the Birmingham Coca-Cola Bottling Company Pocahontas Coal and B.F. Goodrich and there are also images of an ambulance and a police car. A few of the images are detailed views of engines transmissions or other mechanical parts of the vehicles. Most of the photographs have a label on the reverse describing the vehicle or part its price and in some cases also including information on the purchaser. Several of the owners are local but most are scattered across the country Canada and even Russia. A few photos depict the full fleet of a company's trucks lined up proudly in front of factories warehouses and storefronts. Despite the company's reputation decades of mismanagement at higher levels forced the company to declare bankruptcy in 1980; White was bought by Volvo the following year. <br> <br> Such early automobile trade albums are rare. "White Motor Corp." in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CLEVELAND HISTORY online Case Western Reserve University. hardcover books
191259779Horsham West Sussex & Haymarket London UK: H.W.C. James A. Sinclair & Co. Ltd. 1912. Two vols. Oblong 8vo. 8.5 x 5 in. 64; 69 leaves unnumbered. including 2 calligraphic titles 63 & 68 platinum print matte finish photographs w/ images sized from 2 x 3 in. up to 3.25 x 3.75 in. on 4.75 x 7 in. prints all expertly hinged at gutter margin a few w/ pencil annotations on versos occasional light toning from the platinum salt emulsions coating the papers. Uniformly bound in striking full green morocco bindings by Zaehnsdorf gilt ruling on covers gilt inner dentelles 5 raised bands on spines title lettering ownership & dating in gilt a.e.g. marbled endpapers very slight shelfwear incremental rubbing at corners still a NF set. An exceptional pair of automobile travel albums composed of platinum print photographs by Dr. E. Stevens apparently presented to fellow Royal Photographic Society member and platinum photograph enthusiast H.W. Child. The motor car was a grey 1912 35 CWT Delaunay-Belleville depicted in 15 of the images bore the GB License Plate of BP1945 registered in 1912 to Charles Stevens c/o Dr. Stevens of Sarcelles Horsham West Sussex July 4 1912. The Delaunay-Belleville in the Brass Era was one of the most expensive and prestigious touring cars for travelers and enthusiasts whose owners at the time included Evalyn Walsh McLean original owner of the Hope Diamond as well as Mann who traveled “Round the World†in 1912 in a similar model. The intrepid travelers clearly intended to photograph and put their new motor through its paces traveling about 3000 miles. The album opens with photos of the auto loaded at Portsmouth and by ferry to Le Havre and then driving down through Normandy Alencon Le Mans Tours Bordeaux and onto Biarritz. The tour extended across the Pyrenees into Spain visiting San Sebastian followed by drives to Pau Lourdes Toulouse Narbonne and then along the South of France into Italy. The drive was not without pitfalls as they suffered punctured tires with two different images showing repairs one with a crowd as well as the photo waiting for a massive rock slide of giant boulders fallen onto the roadway and being removed by wooden wheelbarrows. They continued their tour across the Alps into Switzerland with views of the travelers at a Swiss border station and then capturing scenic vistas and driving onto Salzburg & Linz. One of the images captures advertising and awning of a “Buchdruckerei†specializing in photographic books supplies and photo albums. At that point the motorists had reached the most Eastern point and drove along the Danube route crossing overland to the river Necker Heidelberg and finally into the Netherlands with visits of Amsterdam Haarlem often with picturesque images capturing the Dutch in their iconic wooden shoes windmills canals and even electric railways. One particular image documents the “Art Store†selling Volendam silver & brass and antiques. The final image shows the car being loaded back on the steamship to England from Rotterdam. The platinum photographs were processed by James A. Sinclair & Co. Ltd. at 34 Haymarket in London specializing in photographic prints & equipment and at the time the Platinum prints were Alfred Stieglitz’s process of choice celebrating the images for their aesthetic qualities and permanence. As the Platinum prints were printed direction on coated paper with platinum salts the image was absorbed directly into the paper creating a softer and less-detailed image which was quite durable. Dr. Stevens fl. 1910-1918 who during World War I served as surgeon with the Royal Army Medical Corps joined the Royal Photographic Society in 1915 and exhibited three of his photographs presumably from this excursion including “In the Paese†“Making Port Concarneu†and “Santa Maria della Pace Lago di Como.†Child b. 1859 was a very successful merchant who by 1897 was also an active member of the Royal Photographic Society Platinum print enthusiast and automobile traveler as well. He exhibited several times with the RPS often appearing in their exhibitions from 1898-1915 the last being “Citadel and Church Dinant†shot in 1914 and displayed as an Autochrome. See: Ordinary Members The Photographic Journal Vol. 41 January 1917 pp. 32 41; Exhibition Catalogue of 1898 43rd Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society 1898; 44th 1899; 45th 1900; 47th 1902; 60th 1915. H.W.C., James A. Sinclair & Co., Ltd., hardcover
1963151483Tooele County UT: N.p. 1963. Archive of 163 vernacular photographs including 145 in color and 18 in black-and-white capturing the 1960-1963 National Speed Trials commonly known as Speed Week at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Housed in 17 yellow envelopes with dates and names of racers written in holograph ink annotation to the rectos. <br/><br/>Offered with the archive is a brand new set of the two-volume Bonneville National Speed Trials references covering 1949-1958 and 1959-1968 respectively. The set is new and still in shrinkwrap.<br/><br/>In the early 1960s wealthy California car owners began to experiment with surplus jet engines to boost the horsepower of their cars creating distinctive bootlegged hotrods referred to as jet cars or jets designed specifically for the compacted salt surface of the flats. <br/><br/>The photographs in the archive document many early iterations of these unusual and profoundly dangerous vehicles with a particular focus on racers from southern California including Art Arfons' 8000-horsepower Cyclops which set a record for an open-cockpit vehicle 342 mph which still stands today and Mickey Thompson's Challenger I the first car to record a top speed of 400 mph. Also notable are several photographs of the streamliner entries of the Summers brothers in 1961 1962 and 1963 whose streamliner Goldenrod would go on to hold the land speed record from 1965 to 1991. <br/><br/>As a whole the photographs are bright and well-executed clearly shot with a racing insider's eye for detail. Photographs from the perspective of Speed Week attendees are scarce owing to the relatively remote locale and complete absence of accommodations for spectators making the images in the archive an uncommon intimate record of several pivotal years in the history of hotrod racing.<br/><br/>Photographs 5.75 x 3.5 inches envelopes 7.5 x 4. Some photographs with faint adhesive residue to the versos else envelopes and photographs generally Near Fine.<br/><br/>Full provenance available. N.p. unknown books
1956151379Indianapolis: O'Dell and Shields Studios 1956. Two vintage photo albums documenting Dean Van Lines Indy car team before during and after the Indianapolis 500 in 1955 and 1956 with legendary driver Jimmy Bryan at the helm. Several photographs stamped on the verso by the O'Dell and Shields Studios of Indianapolis longtime contract photographers for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. <br /> <br /> Dean a California moving company magnate and noted championship car owner began his association with Bryan in 1954 when the driver would score his first significant win the AAA National Championship. The pair would win an astonishing 17 national championship races over the course of the next four years.<br /> <br /> The 1955 album contains 12 photographs capturing the moments before the 500 with several views of the team performing last-minute modifications to the Kuzma-Offenhauser better known as the Dean Van Lines #2 Special custom-built by Eddie Kuzma for the 1955 race. Also included in the album are several action shots of the race itself along with a single photograph of Bryan posing behind the wheel of Dean's #7 Champ car. <br /> <br /> The second album containing 20 photographs documents the Dean Van Lines team at the 500 the following year with Bryan again behind the wheel. A blown tire around lap 100 would spin the Special into the south infield effectively ending the team's shot at winning the race a moment evocatively captured in the album. Dean and Bryan would take the roadster pictured in both albums to the short-lived Race of Two Worlds in Italy in 1957 an event featuring Indy drivers racing against European Formula One drivers. <br /> <br /> Bryan would go on to win the 500 in 1958 for George Salih only a few years before Bryan's death at 34 in a crash on the Langhorne Speedway in 1960. <br /> <br /> A fascinating collection of photographs providing an unusually intimate look behind the scenes at two pivotal figures in US motorsport history. <br /> <br /> Albums 11.25 x 8.5 inches photographs 8 x 11 inches. Albums and contents generally Very Good plus. O'Dell and Shields Studios unknown
1938155078N.p.: N.p. 1938. Archive of 63 vintage vernacular and professional photographs along with a number of newspaper and program clippings all relating to midget auto racing in Southern California circa 1937-1938. All materials housed in a string-bound scrapbook with captions in manuscript ink adjacent to most photographs. <br /> <br /> Of particular note in the archive are five photographs of African American "outlaw" racer Rajo Jack the first driver to integrate into the all-white sport-nearly two decades before Jackie Robinson broke the "color barrier" in Major League baseball in 1947. <br /> <br /> Born Dewey Gatson in 1905 Jack would never have been able to compete on a national level in the American Automobile Association AAA due to his race so he instead competed in the American Racing Association ARA the largest racing body to allow him to compete-making him an "outlaw" racer in the eyes of the AAA and largely restricting him to West Coast racing. A continual target of discrimination Jack would frequently claim to be of Native American or Portuguese heritage in order to race although he was largely welcomed by his fellow drivers out of respect for his talent. These supporters would frequently band together to insist on Jack receiving equal service at segregated restaurants and motels. Jack won races up and down the West Coast in stock cars midgets big cars and motorcycles and in 2003 was inducted into the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame and the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 2007.<br /> <br /> Archive also includes content relating to drivers Fred Frame and the Robson brothers as well as the Oakland Speedway and the Southern Ascot Speedway. Other noted drivers in the collection include Travis 'Spider' Webb Tex Petersen including one photograph signed by Petersen Einer 'Swede' Lindskog Harry Lester Morris 'Slim' Mathis Hal Robson and Harry Secrest.<br /> <br /> An impressive and extensive archive of photographs of the South California midget auto racing scene of the 1930s with a rare substantial grouping of photographs of Rajo Jack at the height of his career.<br /> <br /> Scrapbook measuring 12.25 x 13.5 inches. Very Good with most leaves brittle and separated from binding. Photographs generally 5 x 3.25 inches with one as small as 1.25 x 1.5 inches and several as large as 5 x 3.25 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1956151379Indianapolis: O'Dell and Shields Studios 1956. Two vintage photo albums documenting Dean Van Lines Indy car team before during and after the Indianapolis 500 in 1955 and 1956 with legendary driver Jimmy Bryan at the helm. Several photographs stamped on the verso by the O'Dell and Shields Studios of Indianapolis longtime contract photographers for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. <br/><br/>Dean a California moving company magnate and noted championship car owner began his association with Bryan in 1954 when the driver would score his first significant win the AAA National Championship. The pair would win an astonishing 17 national championship races over the course of the next four years.<br/><br/>The 1955 album contains 12 photographs capturing the moments before the 500 with several views of the team performing last-minute modifications to the Kuzma-Offenhauser better known as the Dean Van Lines #2 Special custom-built by Eddie Kuzma for the 1955 race. Also included in the album are several action shots of the race itself along with a single photograph of Bryan posing behind the wheel of Dean's #7 Champ car. <br/><br/>The second album containing 20 photographs documents the Dean Van Lines team at the 500 the following year with Bryan again behind the wheel. A blown tire around lap 100 would spin the Special into the south infield effectively ending the team's shot at winning the race a moment evocatively captured in the album. Dean and Bryan would take the roadster pictured in both albums to the short-lived Race of Two Worlds in Italy in 1957 an event which featured Indy drivers racing against European Formula One drivers. <br/><br/>Bryan would go on to win the 500 in 1958 for George Salih only a few years before his death at 34 in a crash on the Langhorne Speedway in 1960. <br/><br/>A fascinating collection of photographs providing an unusually intimate look behind the scenes at two pivotal figures in US motorsport history. <br/><br/>Albums 11.25 x 8.5 inches photographs 8 x 11 inches. Albums and contents generally Very Good plus. O'Dell and Shields Studios unknown books
191153910n.p.: Kate Harris 1911. Oblong 4to. 12.75 x 10 in. 204 pp unpaginated. on gray paper stock w/ 416 original silver gelatin black & white photos tipped-in sized 2.75 x 3.5 up to 3.75 x 6 in. including as well over 100 panoramic photos sized mostly 2.8 x 7.5 in. all w/ extensive manuscript notes in neat printed hand following manuscript presentation preface preliminary and end leaves with chipping & fraying to fore-edges some creasing soiling minor tears affecting a few notes 9 photos removed at some point. Recent gray cloth gilt lettering to spine gray paper endpapers presented by Mrs. Harris to Joseph F. Pickett b. 1887 a professional New York driver and chauffeur who drove the group through Europe on Dec. 25 1911. This exceptional photo travelogue details the motoring adventures by Kate Harris her husband Arthur their friend Mrs. Wadsworth and chauffeur Joseph Pickett through Europe just three short years before the devastation of World War I. This album not only demonstrates the level of interest in the burgeoning automobile tourism fad of the Edwardian era but also offers an excellent snapshot of scenic areas throughout Europe. The Harris’s not only brought their luggage and chauffeur via ocean liner in July 1911 but also their 1910 Pierce-Arrow 48-SS Seven-Passenger Touring Sedan fitted with special luggage racks on the rear to haul the many trunks bags picnic & camping equipment as well as a special spare tire bracket on the side which held three spares at any one time often needed. Mrs. Harris appears to have been an enthusiastic amateur photographer and writes that when they drove through an Austro-Hungarian military road she had to lock up their Kodaks. Carefully documenting punctured tires pubs & hotels for lunches and stays and even the mileage covered the group begins their travels in England view the Roman Walls stop in Durham Cathedral Raby Castle onto York Cathedral stop over in Oakham and then down to Cambridge. They stop over in Lofts Hall travel the 51 miles to the London Ritz Hotel and the next day drive the 72.3 miles to Folkestone where the auto was loaded on the 5 PM Boat. They begin their drive in Boulogne with views of the docks the hotel and street scenes included sheep herders moving their flocks out of the way in Hucqueliers young girls hauling bundles of straw and then onto Sedan to visit Franco-Prussian battlefields including the Chateau of Bellevue where Napoleon III surrendered to William I during the Franco-Prussian War. They motor onto Luxembourg Trier view the Porta Nigra Roman gate drive along the Moselle River to the Rhine with stops in Mainz Wurzberg Rothenberg often taking photos of peasants harvesting in the fields children playing under the fountain or in the village streets and even giving locals the remains of their lunch which were gratefully accepted. The drive through the Austro-Hungarian Empire includes stopovers in Prague Iglau Moravia Jihlava including a wonderful image of a young couple with wall of contemporary exhibition and advertising posters plastered behind them; followed by a hair-raising drive up the Styrian Seeberg Pass pilgrims traveling down to Mariazell Leoben Eisnerz Mauterndorf and photos of Tyrolean hunters in local dress. They experience a number of punctured tires as they ascend the Tyrolean and Italian Alps include splendid panoramic photos of the Pasterze Glacier withing the Glockner Group in Carinthia the perilous switchback highway down to Cortina Italy numerous views of the treacherous roads tunnels and scenery along the roads and Alpine villages of the Dolomites including two excellent photos of hemp workers bundling the plants in Storo Italy. The tour continues to Lake Como then the Gondo Gorge and finally along the Simplon Road into La Brique in the southern French Alps and then St. Claude France. The last part of the album concludes with the troupe leaving Bolougne Sept. 14 1911 loading the automobile onto the steamship waiting for Sarah Bernhardt at Folkestone; and then a winding drive through Cornwall including the Dartmoor National Park forest The Lizard St. Michael’s Mount Penzance Lands End St. Ives Tintagel a traffic jam in Stratton viewing Glastonbury and finally panoramic views to roads leading to Chester. The couple and their chauffeur departed from Liverpool on Sept. 23 1911 sailing on the RMS Mauretania later arriving in New York. Kate Harris, hardcover
19601497Éditions de la Passerelle, Paris 1960. 1 volume grand in-folio (440 X 350 cm), en feuilles sous couverture illustrée rempliée, chemise et étui peints décorés de l'éditeur. Édition originale illustrée de 3 EAUX-FORTES dorées pour la couverture et 16 GRAVURES ET AQUATINTES ORIGINALES EN COULEURS EN HORS-TEXTE D'ANDRÉ MASSON. Tirage : 160 exemplaires numérotés et nominatifs. Celui-ci tiré sur grand vélin d'Arches. Tous les exemplaires sont signés au colophon par l'auteur, l'artiste et l'éditeur. Les gravures ont été tirées chez Lacourière.
1952155462N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage string bound photograph album belonging to William Arthur Slaughter an ambulance driver in Southern California circa 1951 and 1952. Included with the album are a pay stub dated June 1948 and noting Slaughter's previous employment by Southern Pacific Company as a railway lineman two driver's identification cards dated 1951 and 1952 a promotional matchbook bearing the name and number of Schaefer Ambulance Service in California and approximately 24 newspaper clippings covering accidents in Los Angeles several showing photographs of Slaughter. Stamp of photographer Lew Nichols on the versos of nearly all of the photographs. <br /> <br /> The album contains 36 black-and-white photographs with six additional loose photographs also included with the collection. Manuscript ink annotations by Slaughter provide captions for many of the photographs identifying subjects and locations and noting details about the various incidents captured in the album. One particularly striking caption for a photograph of a woman being carried out on a stretcher reads: "Honeymoon Cottage / Her Husband Died during the night / she was found next morning unconsius / Suficated Gas Heater / in coma for 30 days then Died / Maried only Two weeks" sic. <br /> <br /> As the above caption implies the incidents captured in the album span from asphyxiation to heart attacks although the majority of photographs document automobile accidents-almost certainly one of the main causes of death in California in the 1950s. The album also includes several photographs of Slaughter and the other ambulance drivers "off duty" as well as one photograph of a new Cadillac apparently used as an ambulance. A grisly and fascinating collection of accident photography capturing the dark side of the golden age of the automobile in postwar America. <br /> <br /> Album 12 x 9 inches. Photographs range from 10 x 8 inches to 5 x 4 inches. Photographs Very Good plus album Very Good with front board detached from the binding. N.p. unknown
1949191021949 Gouache, et encre de Chine, signée en bas à droite, (1949), 36 x 24 cm., encadrée.
198532079Jarrold and Sons Ltd. New. 1985. Paperback. 0861453263 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - 160 pages. 1st English edition so stated. -- with a bonus offer-- . Jarrold and Sons Ltd. paperback
198132081Jarrold and Sons Ltd. As New. 1981. Paperback. 0130560022 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - 296 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . Jarrold and Sons Ltd. paperback
1962103090Automobile Quarterly Inc. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. Hardcover. Full set of Automobile Quarterly from Volume 1 No. 1 Spring 1962 thru the Fourth Quarter 2009. 4 volumes per year. 196 IssuesVolume 44 No. 1 has damaged corner to spine. Rest of set is in varying degrees of condition from Very Good to FINE condition. Due to size and weight of set extra postage required. Please inquire as to actual shipping costs. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall . Automobile Quarterly, Inc. hardcover
1967154897Peru Indiana: N.p. 1967. Vintage stringbound vernacular photograph album documenting the vehicular obsessions of one Greg Wildrick of Peru Indiana who would ultimately kill four people in a motor vehicle accident and later die himself in the same manner while speeding. Approximately 150 black-and-white photographs and 50 color photographs with manuscript ink annotations captioning most of the images. <br /> <br /> Manuscript ink annotations on the front board provide the album's title: "#1 / Our new cars etc. / Family Too." Additional annotations on the inside rear board note: "The bullshit contained in this so called albumn sic belongs to Greg E. Wildrick / 4 Holiday Drive / Peru Indiana is where I live if you don't know me. Call 472-2550 / If you don't call me forget it!!! / Book Finished March 5 1967 at 4:45 A.M."<br /> <br /> The photographs in the album span roughly 1955 to 1966 compiled by Greg at the age of 19. In addition to many images of the family's muscle cars and trucks the album also contains quite a few shots of bicycles go-karts quarter midgets and speedboats often with family members posing happily nearby. Several images also capture vehicles in use.<br /> <br /> Patently obsessed with cars and speed from a young age Wildrick would go on to work as a used car salesman in nearby Kokomo Indiana throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Wildrick's fanaticism also evidently extended to his leisure hours as the Kokomo Tribune notes Wildrick's involvement in multiple speeding violations during the same period. <br /> <br /> One of the album's more striking photographs taken on December 19 1965 is a blurry color Polaroid of the speedometer of a 1966 Oldsmobile 442 going 110 miles per hour down US Highway 31. This same stretch of 31 would see Wildrick gravely injured and four others dead in a grisly two-car accident five years later in January of 1971. Sadly this would not be Wildrick's last serious accident as a similar collision on US Highway 35 would precipitate his own demise in 1986 at the age of 39.<br /> <br /> A fascinating and thorough album capturing a young man's coming-of-age in a car-centric family and more broadly allowing a personal glimpse into the golden age of the automobile in postwar America. <br /> <br /> 12.75 x 12.25 inches. Photographs ranging from Near Fine to Very Good plus with approximately 18 photographs lightly scuffed cracked toned and edgeworn. Album Very Good plus with light edgewear and scuffing on the boards. N.p. unknown
1908P79Paris, A. Eyméoud Imprimeur, 1908. In-4 carré (30x30 cm.), 24 pages, dont 12 illustrées de pleine page, cartonnage illustré. ENVOI.
198458040BBMilano, Automobilia, 1984-1996. 29x25,5 cm. Originalleinwandbànde mit Schutzumschlägen. Band 7, 8, 11-13, 16-19, 21-25 mit Bauchbinde.
198458040BBMilano, Automobilia, 1984-1996. 29x25,5 cm. Originalleinwandbànde mit Schutzumschlägen. Band 7, 8, 11-13, 16-19, 21-25 mit Bauchbinde.
194554550Seattle & Tacoma WA: Leo Dobry; Del Fanning ca. 1945-1955. 4to. 29 leaves unnumbered. composed of mylar sleeves. With 122 original photos printed on glossy photo paper 5 Kodachrome colour photos sized from 2.5 x 3.5 in. up to 3.5 x 5 in. some w/ annotations in lower fore-edge of image or on verso a few dated some soiling to one image & edgewear to a few. Recent cloth 3-ring binder lettering stamped on front cover excellent exemplar. This sensational group of original photographs records open wheel midget car racing just after World War II in and around Seattle Tacoma & Puyallup WA Victoria BC Portland OR California and Nevada including photos of many of the midget racers and their drivers at the Portland Raceway Aurora Speedway in Seattle the San Mateo Fairgrounds Reno Fairgrounds and the historic Langford Speedway in Victoria British Columbia. The hunger for speed the presence of large numbers of skilled mechanics & machinists a booming midget car racing scene nurtured by Ballard’s Gasoline Alley nurtured incredibly popular midget car racing circuits on the West Coast during the 1940s and 1950s. These photos open with shots of Geer McRae Motors Mercury # 75 the AA Plating Works No. 2 Leo Dobry’s No. 64 Kurtis Kraft midget racer driven by Del Fanning a jalopy racer No. 26 sponsored by Nix Auto Wrecker owned by Edward Prestek and the center of Ballard’s old Gasoline Alley in Seattle Swede Lindskog’s No. 3 midget racer and more. There are many photos of races wrecked midget racers midget open wheel racers on trailers and many action shots of them hurtling down the tracks. A number of the photos depict iconic Seattle driver Del Fanning in front of and sitting in his midget race cars including the “Seattle Special†No. 7 for Dick’s Auto Repair on 3817 Gilman Ave. in Seattle as well as No. 63 owned by Leo Dobry which was a Kurtis Midget with Offenhauser Engine and ran a number of races in the Northwest set track records at Langford and also raced the San Jose 100. There are photos annotated for the Portland Auto Show in 1954 when No. 44 wins 1st place as well as a series of images showing a pristine Midget Racer under construction in a garage. Leo Dobry was a racing car owner out of Tacoma who was a moderately successful car owner on the AAA and ASPAR circuits in the 1940s and 1950s as well as operated a successful speed shop which built and ran Kurtis Kraft racers on the Indy circuit and the Pike’s Peak Hill Climb. See: Don Radbruch Dirt Track Auto Racing 1919-1941: A Pictorial History pp. 302-303 100-124; Golden Wheels Fraternity Auto Racing Pathfinders Del Fanning History; Racin’ Thru the Raindrops: A Virtual Motorsport Scrapbook Lanford Speedway Victoria BC 2017; Brian Pratt Big Car Racing at Lanford Speedway Canadian Racer 2018; A Look Bat at Nix Auto Wrecking & Ballard’s Gasoline Alley Vintage West Woodland August 29 2016. Leo Dobry; Del Fanning, hardcover
191252555New York: Privately Printed University Press 1912. Tall 8vo. xiii 1 333 1 pp. Numerous photo plates photo text illustrations maps. Red ribbed embossed pictorial cloth cover art illustration of Vanderbilt in his Mercedes which set the 1904 land speed record of 92.3 mph at Daytona Beach FL gilt lettering & gilt ruling t.e.g. minor rubbing bumping to corners head & foot of spine couple very small holes at upper front hinge in cloth slightly shaken still G copy w/ faint ownership and gift inscription of the book being given to Peter C. Taylor from Peter Breymeier in 1941. Breymeier 1911-1991 was the son of Fred Breymeier b. 1876 noted Montclair NJ banker and auto racing enthusiast who had received the book originally from Vanderbilt. First edition of the second of these privately printed logs documenting the travels through Europe by the famed automobile racing enthusiast -- founder of the Vanderbilt Cup the first major trophy in American auto racing and avid supporter of the America’s Cup yacht races. This motoring memoir begins with the Vanderbilt’s travels in his one of his famed 1907 35-45 HP Renaults which Willie K had talked the company into producing after their 1906 French Grand Prix race win with the 13-liter racing car driven by Ferenc Szisz. One of these won the Morris Park 24-Hour race in October 1907 and subsequently one was used by Vanderbilt to trek over Europe from Liverpool to London then onto Paris over to Germany through the Austrian Tyrols then into Switzerland over to Monte Carlo and returned to Lyons. These are followed by accounts of his travels through Spain in a 1909 55-HP Mercedes witnessing the bull fights in Madrid through the Spanish Countryside and down to Seville followed by a trip through Northern Europe which lasted until 1910. The final trip from southern France around the entire countries of Spain & Portugal in 1911 were driven in a 1911 60-HP Mercedes fitted with a tonneau body and Michelin tires and hood and extra trunk rack in the back. Willie K. Vanderbilt 1878-1944 was a Vanderbilt scion served in World War I on the USS Tarantula on patrol off New York and New Jersey and was a skilled automobile and yacht racer. About 200 copies were printed of these “Log of my Motor†for friends and fellow motoring enthusiasts during the Brass Era carefully documenting mileage road conditions places visited as well as the performance of the various cars. See: The Owls Head Transportation Museum 1907 35-45 HP Renault The Old Motor 2015; Messer-Kruse Speed Demons American History Gear July 31 2013; Art Evans History of Sports Cars -- Speed Records at Daytona Beach Sports Car Digest 2011. Privately Printed, [University Press], hardcover
1947List2905United States and Canada 1947. Eleven double-sided scrapbook pages measuring 7 x 11 inches containing forty-five 2 ½ x 3 ½ inch photographs six postcards four maps four guides and nine typed pages. Scrapbook pages fragile with significant marginal damage; scrapbook contents generally excellent. A scrapbook documenting an African-American family’s road trip during July and August of 1947 which took them from Dutchess County New York through Quebec and New Brunswick and then Maine and Cape Cod. The scrapbook contains photographs of the family and scenery on the trip starting at Norrie State Park in Dutchess County then Quebec Gaspé Moncton’s Magnetic Hill in New Brunswick down the coast of Maine and finally a friend’s house in Marstons Mills on Cape Cod. It also includes postcards from various locations; maps of New York Quebec Canada’s Maritimes and Eastern Quebec and New England; tourist guides to Quebec Gaspé Moncton and the Cape; several retyped articles from the Toronto Globe and Mail; and a list of hotels in the Gaspé.<br /> <br /> For an African-American family traveling during the Jim Crow era this trip would have taken significant planning. Canada was not exempt from anti-Black discrimination at both legal and social levels; the car had solved the problem of segregated inferior public transportation but not the problem of finding a restaurant or hotel along one’s route that would actually serve Black patrons or even a safe place to stop and use the restroom. Victor Hugo Green’s Negro Motorist Green Book—a guidebook for food lodging and services that were friendly to African-Americans—did not include Canada until its 1949 edition. The family likely used it for the US leg of their trip but would have had to rely on other tactics for the Canadian leg. unknown
195053076Oakland CA & Hollywood CA: Lee’s Speed Shop; Hot Rod Magazine; Louis Hochman 3303 Cahuenga Blvd. Photographer 1950-1955. Oblong 4to. 24 leaves w/ 24 silver gelatin photos sized 7 x 10 in. up to 8 x 10 in. 4 w/ photographer’s stamps on versos 6 w/ red grease pencil markings & a couple with whiteout preparing camera-ready copy a few w/ annotations on versos still VG photos preserved in archival mylar sleeves. Recent limp black cloth post-binder gilt lettering stamped on front cover an excellent exemplar. This historic photo album records the construction and racing of Lee Chapel’s “Tornado Special†in 1952 at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Lee’s Speed Shop was one of the original members of the Dry Lakes Racers Bonneville 200 MPH Club who held their first meeting in September 1953 at the Bonneville Nationals. The “Tornado Special†was a Class C Streamliner which driven by John “Sonny†Rogers achieved a two-way average speed of 224.144 mph at Bonneville in 1952 featuring an unsprung front end torsion bars at the rear with a novel trunnion arrangement for pivoting the engine fitted with a 295 cubic in. Mercury engine equipped with a Lee’s Speed Shop “Tornado†overhead valve conversion. The front end was built from a 36 Ford and had split radius rods mounted to a tubular frame and the rear end was a reworked 1932 Ford Model A. The Tornado Special crashed in 1953 and the body was left at Bonneville while many of the parts were salvaged. Chapel 1905-1966 opened his first speed shop while sharing space with a junkyard in 1928 at 3263 San Fernando Road in LA which he later moved to 4557 Alhambra Ave. from 1933 to 1937. In 1937 he closed the shop to tour the country racing open wheel midget cars until he reopened his Lee’s Speed Shop at 1143 East 14th St. in Oakland CA. He served during World War II as a TEC4 until discharge in 1945 whereupon he resumed his Speed Shop in Oakland. Lee’s Speed Shop was a pioneer in the southern California Hot Rod scene who along with George Wight blazed the used hot rod parts trail. See: Hot Rod of the Month Man Made Tornado Hot Rod Magazine Sept. 1953 pp. 34-38; Daniel Strohl Lost Speed Shops: Bell Chapel Orr Hemmings Daily Nov. 23 2009; David Lucsko Junkyards Gearheads and Rust: Salvaging the Automotive Past p. 37; Lee Chapel Origin of a Speed Shop In: Hot Rod Magazine June 1928 p. 13; Kinne & Warner Bonneville 200 MPH Club History -- Links in a Chain 2010. Lee’s Speed Shop; Hot Rod Magazine; Louis Hochman, 3303 Cahuenga Blvd. (Photographer), hardcover
