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8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text; pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Rolle-Royce Heritage Trust. Historical Series No. 4.
Milano, 1965, stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 862/872 con numerose fotografie. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo di rivista, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perchè ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “estratto” or “stralcio” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with nick to top of spine, light indenting to rear an some creasing. 157pp. A celebration of 75 years of the finest engineering synonymous with Rolls Royce. This lavishly illustrated book tells the story of the founders and of the company.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured photographs throughout; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wrappers lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. Scarce in this condition.
Features: McCahill tests the 'hot' new Rolls-Royce V8 and the Mercury; Build a 23-foot cabin cruiser for only $800 (Hotei); World's toughest military training - Navy Frogmen; home movie-taking made easy; our army needs new weapons - now!; Grow muscles in your backyard; 1924 Hispano-Suiza Racer; Six-ton rubber boat - Amphitrite; America's first hydrofoil ferry - the Flying Fish connects Bellingham, WA with Victoria BC; Eugene Durrance and his Florida Sea Brine Laboratory sell sea water!; Sailing on sand; Fire Buff's unique collection - James Dodge; An early Black and Decker cordless drill; clockwork marvels; Infra-red Burglar Alarm; Aluminum Pistol; "Space Camera" Eyeglasses; Transtainer; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. (colour ad on back cover shows glamourous tennis players smoking Winston cigarettes) Book
Sm. folio, First Edition, with very numerous colour and monochrome photographs in the text, a few items underlined in red on Contents; original black cloth, gilt back, joints lightly rubbed else a very good, clean copy. This original edition of the standard reference is already extremely scarce.
Pages 257 - 352. Abundantly illustrated with black and white photos and diagrams. Features: World's Highest Frequency Oscillator Tube; Remote Control in Custom-Built Radio; Fingerprinting 'Noise'; Audio System Design Charts; A Set Tester Deluxe; What Goes On in Your Vacuum Tubes; Radio News Prize 'Ham' Transmitter; Our Future Broadcast Fare; Explorers of the Ether; The Latest All-Wave Receiver Design; Mathematics in Radio; Plug-In Coils Banned; Tuning in Television Programs; S.W. Reception with Broadcast Superhets; A Universal Receiver; Ten Meters for Ten Dollars; Selenium Awakes!; A "Rolls-Royce of Converters; The Crystal Detector Again; An All-Purpose Oscillator. Heavy external wear. Bit of writing atop front cover which is loose but present. A rough copy but worth preserving due to its wonderful vintage content. Magazine
8vo., Second Impression, with plates; plum cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, dustwrapper panels mounted on endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published a month after the first edition.
256 pages including index. Fantastic black and white illustrations throughout. Seven decades of descriptions, reports and road tests in facsimile. Compiled from the archives of Autocar. An outstanding record, of compelling interest for motoring historians and enthusiasts. Light to moderate wear to unmarked book. Tears to and some chips from illustrated dust jacket. Book
This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for a Sotheby's auction held at Castle Ashby, Northhamptonshire, England on June 13, 1992. Sale code: "GRIFFON". Lots of handbooks, and automobilia: headlamps, badges, tool kits,etc. The heart of the sale was the last 33 lots: very fine collector's examples of Rolls-Royce and Bentley motor cars. 433 lots in the complete sale. No prices realized sheets, just price estimates for each lot. Almost all lots illustrated, most of the cars in color. 11" high X 8" wide, 65 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; original photographic wrappers, upper joint cracked else a good working copy. Published in Sutton's 'Best of British' series.
4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, very numerous monochrome photographs and facsimiles throughout, and pictorial endpapers; original red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. The standard reference on all models and variants produced for or in the USA. Includes detailed tables of bodywork, coachbuilders, chassis numbers, and several indexes. Scarce.
Sm. 4to., with title-vignette, and coloured and monochrome photographs in the text, underlining in red on title and Contents; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Published in the series Osprey AutoHistory ; first issued in 1980. Scarce in this condition.
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous monochrome photographs and drawings in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, yellow endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Standard reference. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and facsimiles in the text, text in cream and green; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. Uncommon.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous monochrome photographs and facsimiles throughout, and pictorial endpapers; handsomely bound in full red crushed morocco, gilt back, original endpapers preserved, ribbon marker, a splendid copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The standard reference. Includes detailed chassis tables.
4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and facsimiles throughout, and pictorial endpapers, page-edges browning slightly as often; original black cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly pulled at headband, upper hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound) else a good, clean copy. Includes detailed chassis tables.
264 pages. "Illustrates the coachbuilding craft as applied to Rolls-Royce from 1946 to 1971. "Nearly every different body design mounted on post war chassis is shown, including coachbuilders drawings and photographs of interiors. Extracts from order books are reproduced containing body design number, chassis number, and other data." - from dust jacket. Sumptously and abundantly illustrated in colour and black and white. Decorated endpapers. Printed on high quality glossy stock. Dust jacket price-clipped. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A very nice copy of this handsome work. Book
8vo., First Edition, with plates, fore-edge lightly spotted; pale blue cloth, upper board blocked in red, backstrip lettered in red, a very good, bright, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With striking dustwrapper artwork by Frank Wootton. Men of the Modern Age: 2.
Rivista settimanale, britannica, di automobilismo, in lingua inglese. Ricca di illustrazioni fotografiche in bianco e nero nel testo. Numerose le inserzioni pubblicitarie (alcune a colori). La numerazione delle pagine non è dei singoli numeri ma pate dal numero 1 del gennaio 1960 all'ultimo numero dell'anno (questo volume del 14 ottobre 1960 parte con pagina 576 e termina con pagina 632). Le pagine di pubblicità hanno una numerazione diversa (a se stante) rispetto a quelle della rivista (in questo numero sono, in totale, 180). Dimensioni: 21 x 29,5 cm circa. Stato di conservazione: Ordinari segni del tempo e dell'utilizzo (qualche pieghetta, minuscoli strappetti e mancanze sul dorso). DA SEGNALARE una pagina della rivista (inserita tra due pagine pubblicitarie) strappata via (non più presente) che, credo, riportasse una piantina del Salone dell'automobile di Parigi. Il foglio mancante è quello che conteneva le due pagine numero 605 e 606. Copertina illustrata a colori. Numerose fotografie in nero delle diverse automobili. Qualche esempio delle foto riportate: Citroen Bijou, Ford Perfect III, Lancia Flaminia Coupé, Volga M-21 K, Jaguar 3.8 Mk. II, Gordon G.T., Citroen Safari, Rover 100, Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II, Aston Martin DB4, Peugeot 404, Bristol 406, Renault Floride, Simca Etoile, Ford Falcon two-door, Corvair Monza coupé, Fiat 500 based Bianchina Panoramica, Fiat 500 based model, ...
Pages 81-120. Features: Nice colour ad for Humber Hawk car inside front cover; One-page Recruting ad for the R.A.F.; Nice ad for the Armstrong Siddley Sapphire car; Beautiful and classy one-page photo ad for Rolls-Royce, "The Best Car in the World"; Cover photo of indo-China military negotiators and their hut; Photos of terrible flooding in central Europe; Large American navy ships practice spraying themselves off to decontaminate in the event of radiation; Various Royal photos; Lovely photo portrait of the Duchess of Kent and her debutante daughter, Princess Alexandra, in her garden at Coppins; Photos from the battle of Phu-Ly - a French withdrawal in the Hanoi 'Box"; Great aerial photo of fortified French position at Nhai Tuu, six miles northwest of Phu Ly; Photos of refugees in the Red River Delta - the evacuation of Vietnamese civilians; Excellent photos of 'Operation Auvergne' - the regrouping of French Union forces in the Red River Delta; Excellent one-page colour photo portrait of Field Marshal Sir William Slim, Governor-General of Australia since 1953; Nice colour photos of the H.A.C. Company of Pikemen and Musketeers; Photos of the Queen at the Royal Show in Windsor; Nice one-page aerial view of the crowded Royal Show at Windsor; Brighton Aquarium today and 80 years ago; London's re-built Dutch Church opened by Princess Irene of the Netherlands; Photos of personalities of the week, including F. Green and C.J. Chataway, Winston Churchill with Mrs. Pandit, President of the U.N. General Assembly, The Queen as Godmother to the younger daughter of the Earl and Countess of Euston; Mr. Gabriel Pascal, and golf champion Peter Thomson; Photos of historic horse-drawn carriages at the Show; The new "Lapwing" sailing rig; Sabena helicopter flight from Brussels touches down in London; Three photos about the Guatemalan revolution; New York Park Avenue skyscraper is walled in only 10 hours; Nice half-page Burbery's fahion ad; Color ad for Reed paper sacks on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features/Photos: Syria's break with Egypt/Colonel Nasser; 200 km/hr bicycle!; A primitive jungle race of Thailand exists mainly on bamboo; Commercial flying among the Swiss mountain peaks; Great London Livery Companies - The Vintner's Hall; Aden Colony through an ultra-wide angle camera; using pumps to save fish in frozen over lakes; The state funeral of Dag Hammarskjoeld in Uppsala; Car of the Month - the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Book
Features: Two-pages of Soviet cities now facing the gigantic Nazi battering-ram; Illustrations of two missing aces - Flight Lieut. J.C. Mungo-Park and Wing-Commander J.R. Kayll; Clearn photo of the Soviet emergency "Council of Defense", including Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Malenkov and Berya; Wonderful photo of three large drums built for Haile Selassie and his new Abyssinian state; How the Nazis took Crete - five enemy views of paratroop operations; Thirteen photos of personalities of the day, including good photo of the funeral cortege of German ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II; Nine great photos of the besieged garrison of Tobruk; Article - Hitler's assault on Russia, by Cyril Falls; Air photos of French Aerodromes at Boulogne and St. Omer smashed by the R.A.F.; Super before and during photos of R.A.F. attack on the rail marshalling yard at Hazebrouck; Centerfold illustration of large-scale English mimic night attempt to land barge-borne troops and tanks (early D-Day training); Photos of Home Guard excercises - street fighting on London; Four photos of camouflaged snipers; Iraqi armistice - six photos, including one of Imir Abdul Illah, the Regent; After the Battle of Amba Alagi - The Italians Surrender - Two good photos; Photo of Nazi glider in Crete; Amazing photos of the "Imperial Transport", cut in half by a U-boat but still salvaged!; Article - the nutritive value of plankton; Syria's historic invasion route - inscriptions at the Dog River - seven photos; Nice half-page ad for Rolls-Royce cars. Average wear. Faint Ink stamp to front cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine, and externally along spine. A sound copy. Book
52 pages. Features: Great full-page photo of the King, Queen and two Princesses in coronation dress; Larger Royal Family photo in Coronation Dress; The Surprise Royal Drive in North London - Great Popular Enthusiasm; Three incredible photos of the Hindenburg disaster in progress; Monte Carlo Casino - photo-illustrated article by General Pierre Polovtsoff; The Royal Visit to the City - Their Majesties Passing Temple Bar - full-page photo; Huge almost two-page photo of the King and Queen at Luncheon with the Lord Mayor in Guildhall; Mr. Baldwin's CAll to Youth in a Farewell Speech as Premier; Coronation Naval Review - photos of the "Revenge" and the "Hood"; Photos of numerous foreign warships at Spithead to pay respects - including the swastika flying over the Graf Spee; Incredible huge 4-panel centerfold measuring 38"x14" presents a cutaway drawing of the recently commissioned "Southampton" - a vessel of novel features including 6-in guns in tripple turrets, athwartship catapult and multiple A.A. guns; Large photos of Coronation Lights O' London - Panoramas taken from the summit of the Duke of York's Column; The King of Denmark's Silver Jubilee - photos; Nice full-page ad for the Austin Eighteen car; Wonderful half-page black and white photo ad for Rolls-Royce Automobiles; Unmarked with average wear. Centerfold and next page loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Lovely full-page ad for Benger's Food; Front page photo of the King - Chief Mourner of the Unknown British Warrior; Article by G.K. Chesterton; Photos of notable world events in the news; Sport and Earnest - photos of notable events at home and abroad; Photos of personalities of the week; Illustrations and photos of the famous pall-bearers for the unknown warrior; Full-page photo of the H.M.S. Verdun; Gassing the Gassed - photos of Paris Doctor Arnold's apparatus for curing victims of Germany's poison gas weapons; Colour centerfold (loose but present) illustrates the burial place of the unknown warrior in Westminster Abbey; Excellent colour full-page ad for Treloar Carpets; Rare photo of doubl-column of fume and incandescent gas 40,000 feet high rising from the Hawaiian volcano, Mauna Loa; The Greatest Poison Trial of Modern Times - The Greenwood Case at Carmarthen - with illustrations of the dramatis personae and a view of the court in session; Full page ads for Johnny Walker Scotch Whisky, Cadillac automobiles, Rolls-Royce, Ltd., and smaller ads for other auto manufacturers. Full-page Michelin ad inside back cover missing chips, as is two-colour ad for McClinton's Colleen Toilet Cream on back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Faint ink stamps on front cover. External advertorial coverfold mostly open. A worthy copy. Book