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1912102132Tall 8vo soft blue leather covers with gilt title patch and advertisement on rear covers illustrated 547 pp. Covers worn and rubbed some chips and tears to covers top part of front joint split at top part of front cover large folding map with small split at fold normal aging; otherwise about very good. This edition focuses on the New York metropolitan area including New York City Long Island and some of Connecticut. About 40 maps are included along with many advertisements one in color. This volume offers a trip down automobile "memory lane" featuring places and restaurants and points of interest in the early days of motoring that no longer exist. The Automobile Blue Book Publishing Co., books
190880032Chicago 1908. Paperback. Very Good. 4 tipped illustrations one of which is doubled with two slightly different illustrations of the Model H-15 19p. Softcover in original tan wrapper. 16 cm. Small chip and some spots on wrapper. <br/><br/> paperback books
195099307Detroit: United Automobile Workers CIO 1950. 15p. wraps 4.25x6 inches illus. paper slightly browned minor creasing. United Automobile Workers, CIO unknown books
195873624Detroit: UAW Education Department 1958. 44p. wraps front wrap slightly soiled with neat pen notes on it. UAW Education Department unknown books
189740478Boston: The Barta Press 1897. 1st printing. Presumed to be the first printed brochure issued by Whitney for his recently formed "Motor Wagon Company.". Printed card-stock folded once vertically. Light signs of use. A bit of age-toning. VG. Unpaginated though 4 pages. Pages 1 & 4 with specs & performance date. Pages 2 & 3 each with a b/w photographic image depicting the Whitney 'motor wagon'. Oblong format: 3-1/4" x 5-3/8" <br/><br/>"George Eli Whitney an early pioneer in automotive history 'was tinkering with steam cars before the turn of the 20th century. While others turned their attention to the new-fangled gasoline engine he stayed with steam founding the Whitney Motor Wagon Company. He designed and built a succession of steam-driven carriages starting with he believed the first steam-driven car ever built. Many of the ideas that found their way into the steam automobile are attributable to him. The Stanley Brothers famous founders of the Stanley Steamer sought advice from him and used some of his ideas in their first cars.'" Whitney Research Group. According to Britain's Society of Automotive Historians Whitney "completed his first automobile in 1896 and founded the Whitney Motor Wagon Company the following year. Five cars had been built by the end of 1897 and although all his steamers had the common feature of a vertical two-cylinder engine attached to the boiler because Whitney was an 'inveterate tinkerer' no two were exactly the same. He devoted more of his energy to patenting his inventions and pursuing others over alleged infringement of his ideas than he did to actually making automobiles and he left the industry soon after the turn of the century." No "Whitney Motor Wagon" listings found on OCLC. No George Whitney literature found in Romaine. A rare item documenting early American automotive history. The Barta Press unknown books
1940LIST0210New York 1940. Watercolors on paper affixed to later illustration board 14 x 26 inches each. Very Good. An attractive set of images from the Robert Moses era in an unknown hand. The images show proposed intersections including two that were never built. The images include "Proposed Parkway Passing over Entrance to Fort Totten" which shows an overpass on the Cross-Island Parkway in Northeast Queens dated October 1937; "Linden Boulevard Overpass at Southern Parkway" showing an unbuilt intersection at North Conduit Avenue and Dumont Avenue perhaps in the Ozone Park neighborhood undated; "Woodbine Street Passing over Long Island RR to Metropolitan Ave & 67th St." which shows a non-existent intersection near the Middle Village stop on the M line dated August 1940. <br /> <br /> Interesting relics from the Robert Moses era which shaped the infrastructure landscape of New York City. A very good group overall though the Woodbine Street illustrations shows marginal dampstaining and all three show evidence of label removals and wear. unknown books
200143177Lincolnwood:: Publications International. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0785355634 . Color photographs throughout. First printing. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket. . Publications International, hardcover books
191157940New York: Automobile Club of America 54th and 55th Streets West of Broadway 1911. 8vo pp. 876; photo-engraved frontispiece of the ACA building in New York; 48 leaves of maps 1 folding; original limp brown morocco stamped in gilt on the upper cover; the leather somewhat degraded with tears and some loss but the post binding is sound and internally clean. A national guidebook covering routes from New England to California Minnesota to Texas. Also includes ferry and steamship connections hotels etc. <br/><br/> Automobile Club of America, 54th and 55th Streets West of Broadway hardcover books
1954229337n.p.: UAW 1954. Two handbills one 8.5x11 the other somewhat larger both edgeworn and toned. UAW 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 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
195714447np ca. 1957-1958. Hardcover. Very good. 4to. Black three-ring binder with illustrated title label to front containing 17 loosely plastic covered paper leaves profusely filled both recto and verso with black and white photographs and materials on the English Ford line of automobiles. More than 35 various scrap and ephemera elements in all. Front cover moderately worn discolored. Some wrinkling and warping internally. Overall very good. <br/><br/>Fascinating salesman's catalogue produced by British Ford marketing their cars to American dealerships. Struggling financially Post-WWII Britain enacted an "Export or Die" mandate for its domestic carmakers in hopes of injecting more stable currencies into its economy. This act mandated aggressive sales in foreign markets and especially in The United States. Ford of Britain had operated as a subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company since 1909 producing an entirely different line from its American division. Since it was indeed a British car manufacturer Ford was forced compete with itself. These materials date from a 1957-1958 push aimed at getting existing U.S. Ford dealerships to sell and service the cars of their English counterpart. Included are specification sheets and sample advertisements for the various models: 10 approximately 8" x 10" black and white promotional photographs a body color chart with paint samples dealer pricing and cost sheets with option breakdowns and import costs analysis charts comparing the Anglia and Prefect that's right the Ford Prefect with comparable and competing European imports blank sales forms a service policy paint mixing formulas and a list of the financial spatial and service requirements of potential dealers. The modest sales of English Ford passenger cars in the U.S. peaked in 1958-1959 at approximately 75000 compared with an estimated 1.5 million units sold by Ford USA in 1957 alone. Numbers limped along through the 1960's with the last model The Cortina discontinued in 1971. A rare surviving source from an unusual chapter in American and British automotive history as well as a uncommon example of marketing and trade automobiliana. hardcover books
1973210406Detroit: UAW 1973. Pamphlet. 6p. wraps 8.5x11 inches very good. UAW unknown books
1941140328Detroit MI: UAW-CIO International Education Dept 1941. 11p. wraps B&W photos. This tenth installment in the series focuses on "the various forces which impede the orderly and peaceful progress of collective bargaining" particularly press manipulation the police and company unionism. UAW-CIO International Education Dept unknown books
1961203059Detroit: UAW-CIO Ford Department Solidarity House 1961. Paperback. 87p. wraps rear wrap unevenly browned pen note "File copy do not remove" on front wrap else very good condition 6x9 inches illus. UAW-CIO Ford Department, Solidarity House paperback books
1955210644Detroit: UAW-CIO Ford Department Solidarity House 1955. Pamphlet. 71p. wraps 5.875 x 9 inches illus. staples rusted else very good condition. UAW-CIO Ford Department, Solidarity House unknown books
1955177130Detroit: UAW-CIO Ford Department Solidarity House 1955. 71p. wraps slightly edge worn 5.875 x 9 inches illus. one page creased & stained in the right margin. UAW-CIO Ford Department, Solidarity House unknown books
195548781Detroit: UAW-CIO Ford Department Solidarity House 1955. 71p. wraps 5.875 x 9 inches illus. very good condition. UAW-CIO Ford Department, Solidarity House unknown books
190638003Cleveland: Automobile Institute 1906. First edition. Blue cloth. A very good copy. Unpaged. 128 pp. 9 pp. adv. Illus. with 102 in-text b/w drawings. 12mo. Purporting to be an informational how it works book on automobiles for the novice it was actually a soft-sell piece which praised the features of the Winton Model K and Type XIV produced by the Winton Motor Carriage Company Cleveland though without ever naming the company or its specific cars. The advertisements for the book appeared widely and stated: "So simple and logical that any 14-year old school boy can read it intelligibily and thereby know the difference between a good car and the other kind." Issued in three formats leather cloth and paper wrappers. Automobile Institute hardcover books
1978241970Detroit: The UAW Education Department 1978. Pamphlet. 16p. wraps very good condition illus. 7.5x3.5 inches. The UAW Education Department unknown books
