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Not dated, circa 1930. Includes Index. Gutters cracked. Slight wear to cover extremities. Browning to margins of text pages. Frontispiece foldout picture has some creases where they should not be. 222 pages. Advertising pages paginated to xxxiii.
Hints on the better care of the car with the emphasis on lubrication. Circa 1930? 39 pages. Staple bound, staples rusty and middle pages loose. Wear to cover edges.
Pages 353-440 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: What Happened to Mary Clark near Indianapolis - her car was hit by a train and she ended up on the front of the train which thundered on through the night!; The Haunted Bungalow - extraordinary story from South Africa; A Thousand Miles From Anywhere - Reverend Martyn Rogers and his family spent three years on the island of Tristan da Cunha - where mail came only once per year!; The Living Death - an eccentric chemist marries an Aztec girl in the hope of discovering the secrets of ancient Aztec dyes; Sands of Destruction - the fierce Atlantic is destroying the coast of Donegal in the north-west of Ireland - article with graphic photos; How I Lost My Job - the author worked as a teamster in British Columbia, until he lost a wagonload of explosives near Burns Lake; Two Years in Borneo - part 3 - the exciting outbreak at the Lubuk Estate; Trial by Ordeal in Africa; A Woman in Unknown Morocco - Fay Sutton's photo-illustrated narrative; Where Cannibals Roam - part 4 of 4 of this photo-illustrated article on a trip to the interior of Papua; The Stolen Telluride - A West Australian gold-miner's story; A Double Event - members of the South African Constabulary gets involved with horse racing; The Montreal Hold-Up - Canada's most daring armoured car robbery in broad daylight; The Downfall of "The Colonel" - a very clever American crook; Anderson's Pole-Cat - an exhausted British Columbia prospector stumbles upon a fortune in a trackless wilderness. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
124p. Damp stained. 4to. Original full red printed wraps, soiled and worn. Some of the autos mentioned are: LOCOMOBILE; KENWORTH; INDIAN MOTORCYCLE; HAWKEYE TRUCK; YELLOW COACH; WILLYS-KNIGHT; PIERCE-ARROW; PACKARD. FIRST EDITION. AUTO/1
168 pages. Features: Cover photo of Maurice Lawson of Warren County, Indiana; You can earn more of the food dollar; The case for Eisenhower; The case for Stevenson; Do broilers fet your farm?; Farming for Insoak keeps water where it belongs - Jess Dewees of Clinton, Oklahoma; They shorten dairy chores; The wild and free mustangs; Urea helps stalks and cobs make low-cost beef; A laborsaving crib; Moving corn with power; Winter Oats move northward; Improved rambouillet best for U.S.; Better nests - cleaner eggs; Tractors with superpower - great photo of Elmer Horn of Kirby, Ohio,and his articulating four-wheel-drive tractor; Safe farrowing at low cost; Nice photo of huge crowd of troops in Korea enjoying USO headliner Betty Hutton; Ads include: 1952 Buick; 1952 "Rocket" Oldsmobile Super 88; Lee work clothes; Texaco ad features W.E. (Bill) Stephens (inventor of a tree pulller), co-inventor A.A. (Cotton) Zogg, and Texaco driver T.I. Trahan; Very nice Ford truck color photo ad features cranberry grower Russell Makepeace of Cape Cod; The Massey-Harris "55" tractor; Robert Schaller of Onalaska, WI is shown in a USS Steel ad; Nice color-photo B.F. Goodrich ad features John O. Pickens and son Dick of Hoytville, Ohio; International Trucks (color photo at Brook Farm); John Deere Model 50 and 60 tractors (color); Chevrolet; Plymoth; Homelite chainsaws; Photo of Groucho Marx in Auto-Lite battery ad; Ferguson tractor; Champion spark plug ad features Gene Wakeland of Huntertown, Indiana; Sheppard Diesel tractor; Wolverine work shoes; Dodge truck ad features Bowater Pearson of Attica, Indiana; Tide detergent; '52 Ford car; Jell-O pudding; Brer Rabbit molasses; Blue Bell work clothes; Peters ammo ad features shooter Don Westwater of San Francisco; Great color back cover ad for Camel cigarettes features stage and screen star Richard Carlson. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
140 pages. Features: The farmer's side of it; Roughage self-feeders cut chores; Poultry dogs; Milk pails for sharecroppers; The plow outbids the sword in Asia; Better ways to handle grain; He hitched his tractor to a star - Forrest Davis of Florida; Legumes that won't 'run out'; Two ounces per acre stops the 'Hoppers' cold; Cane pole or fly rod?; The Conestoga Bells (fiction); The Raiders (part 3 of 4). Ads: Texaco ad with photo of Joe Acosta of Mission, TX and Merle Noble and James Howschultz who farm near Blencoe, IA; Oldsmobile super '88'; Hudson car (beautiful one page in color); Nice one-page color Greyhound ad; Minneapolis-Moline's Uni-Harvestor; USS Steel ad with Rayford Hill of Dodge City, KS; Firestone ad with photos of Richard Pappe of Union City, OK and Earl Thompson of Richland, MI; GM (showing parts making); Bolens (nice half-page in color); International Harvester McCormick Farmall Super C; Kaiser-Frazer's Henry J. car (one page with 4 photos); Buick; Lee work clothing; 1951 Dodge car; Pontiac; Blue Bell work clothing - with photo of George Claunch; Harley-Davidson Hydra-Glide (illustration of rider at farm); Nice one-page color U.S. Army recruiting ad shows artillery crew in action; Nostalgic Motorola portable radio ad with large photo of bathing beauty Jeanne Crain; Titan Bluestreak Chain Saws; AC Fuel Pump ad with illustration of Babe Ruth; GMC truck; Tide detergent; Gadget-minded Grandma Grace E. Miller; Toni ad with lovely photos of Eloise Sahlen, Susie Parker and Ann and Roxie Shumaker; Back cover color Camel cigarette ad features Broadway singing star Lisa Kirk. Unmarked with average wear. Closed four-inch opening to bottom edge of back cover. Coverfold ends mended with archival tape. Some soiling to back cover. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
148 pages. Features: Does butter have a future?; Bulls to make more beef with less feed; A house to keep pace with your life; Soil tillers - weed killers; Calves are getting better care; Little farm, bountiful life; Record weights at weaning time; Helping others helps us; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
68 pages. Features: Fantastic cover illustration of three large pink flamingoes; Cute illustration of boy and girl inside front cover with caption "Eat Fish!" in ad sponsored by the Government of Canada; Major editorial about CBC Radio; Brief news coverage of - Australia's 150th birthday, League or Anti-League, A Mediator's Difficulties (re: the League of Nations); Vintage one-page photo ad for the 1938 Dodge Custom Six, Four-Door Touring Sedan; The 3 Daughters of De Monaye (part 1); Listen to Your Heart (short story); Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - The 'Lone Wolf' who put modern Turkey on the Map (Part 2 of this photo-illustrated article); A Hook for Murder (short story); Cherry Amber (short story); The Tale of the Angus Bull (short story); The Murder on the Links (conclusion of this short story by Agatha Christie); Photo-illustrated article on Lieutenant W. Marshall Cleland, of the Governor General's Horse Guards; Nice one-page ad for the 1939 Oldsmobile - showing the Six Sedan with trunk and Six Coach with trunk; Woodbury Soap ad features photo of June Lang; Parker Vacumatic pen ad features photo of Dale Carnegie; Lux soap ad features photos of beautiful Merle Oberon; Movie news with photos of Shirley Temple, Chares Butterworth, Jane Withers and Errol Flynn; Pond's ad features photo of Mrs. Eugene Du Pont, III; Scott's Emulsion ad features Old Scottie comic; Sweet Caporal ad features photo of dog Pal of Kezer, owned by 'Dickie' McMaster of Montreal; One-page ad for the 1938 Plymouth De Luxe Four-Door Sedan; Article on child-rearing; World Sayings; Nice colour Rinso and Lifebuoy ads inside back cover; Lovely 1938 Ford car ad on back cover features brown and silver cars - the V-8 Tudor and the De Luxe V-8 Fordor; and more. Moderate wear. Few faint pencil markings to front cover, otherwise unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
66 pages. Features: Article on Brakes; Our Studebaker Story - by Steve Ault; 1947 M15A - A Dually Pickup Truck; My Dream Car - 1951 Studebaker Convertible, by Ernie Loga; Two Avanti Landmarks; The Crow; 1957 Golden Hawk; Studebakers at the 2013 Palos Verdes Concours; Why is it so expensive to rebuild a Studebaker engine?; Nice color photos; and much more. Oblong 11"x 8.5". Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
100 pages. Features: Attractive one-page color ad for Dodge Trucks features bright yellow moving van; Seattle's worst earthquake in history; Mrs. Helen Douglas Mankin wins Atlanta's Negro vote; Color ad for General Tire features well-dressed lady with lots of luggage being helped by black porter; Classy color ad for the Farnsworth Television and radio Corporation; Two-page poem commemorates the first anniversary of the Iwo Jima battle; Canadian exposure of spy ring turns doubting eyes on Russia - major article with photo; Nice one-page ad for the Banff Springs Hotel; Attractive color ad for Ford cars features ski scene; Young UNO closes first session with hope, suspicion, and a veto; Photos of Francisco Franco; Field Marshal von Paulus; Sir Sholto Douglas; Photo of Mohammed Ali Jinnah; The bravest padre - Maj. John Weir Foote, Presbyterian chaplain of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry is awarded the VC; Brief obituaries for Dr. William Allan Neilson, Cornelius Johnson and Adolph Lorenz; Army posters to help soldiers adapt to civilian life; Tuberculosis germ killer; Photo and article of artist Alberto Vargas; Nice color-photo ad for the Boeing Stratocruiser; American Cyanamid color ad shows smiling coal delivery man iun bomber jacket; Dr. Henry A. Jones experiments with onions; Uneasy Swedes wonder what future holds; Photos of the lightweight Bobbi car; Aerial photo of downtown Chicago promotes the area for industrial development; Hotel New Yorker ad features photo of John H. Sienold, Banquet Manager; Photos of American Cardinals; The Secret of "Huff-Duff" (radio direction finder) can be told - as part of ITT ad; Picasso of the Camera - Edward Weston; ad for Dr. Grabow pipes; and more. Covers holding by one staple. Average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Models covered include: Dodge Dart: Seneca - (6-8 cy.) PD3L-4-L; Pioneer - (6-8 cyl.) PD3M-4-M; Phoenix - (8 cyl.) PD-3-H and PD-4-H. Also includes Dodge: Matador - (8 cyl.) PD1-L; Polara - (8 cyl.) PD2-H. Topics covered: Accessories; Front Suspension; Axle - Rear; Brake - Parking; Brakes - Service; Clutch; Cooling System; Electrical - Instruments; Engine; Engine Oiling; Exhaust; Frame - Grille; Fuel System; Propeller Shaft - Universal Joints; Springs - Shock Absorbers; Steering Gears; Transmissions; Wheels - Bearings - Tires; Body - Sheet Metal; Air Conditioning. Binding sound. Average wear and soiling. A quality copy. Book
76 pages. Features: Record Breaking Locomotive in the Argentine Republic - The "Big Bus"; A New Baldwin Dynamometer Car for the Central Railway of Brazil - very detailed article with many excellent photos; J. Snowden Bell - Obituary with photo; The St. Louis-San Francisco Railway and its motive power - long article with many great photos; The Modern Clasp Brake - detailed bilingual (English/Spanish) article supported by excellent graphics; The Great Northern Railway's New Cascade Tunnel - informative article and photos of this great engineering achievement; Erecting the New Terminal Section of the Sorocabana Railway at Sao Paulo, Brazil; Recent Locomotives; A Novel Pumping Plant in the Grand Canyon - article with great photos; The McCollum-Peters Electric Telemeter - great technical article with photos; The Thunder Lake Lumber Company of Rhinelander, Wisconsin - great article with archival photos; Development of Locomotive Boiler Stays; Ten pages of excellent photo ads. Average external soiling and wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's small namestamp atop table of contents and page 5. A sound vintage copy. Book
76 pages. Features: George H. Houston - new President of Baldwin Locomotive Works; Single Expansion Articulated Locomotives - major article with many excellent locomotive photos;;Solving a Maintenance Problem in India - photos of large-scale human labour at work; Recent Locomotives; A New Dynamometer Car for the Northern Pacific Railway - photos and article; The Texas and Pacific Railway - detailed company profile with many photos; Robert W. Weidenbacker - obituary; The Modern Drop Pit Table (bilingual English/Spanish) - superb detailed article with excellent photos; The Commercial Minerals of the Union of South Africa - interesting article with photos of rolling stock in use; The Rehabilitation of the Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad - informative article with great archival photos; Keeping a Locomotive Clean - the D&M cleaning process of applying a stream of oil, water and air - has largely replaced hand washing; Ten pages of excellent photo ads. Average external soiling and wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's small namestamp atop table of contents. A sound vintage copy. Book
80 pages. Undated. Circa early 1900s? Colour illustration upon front board shows two young girls and a boy making daisy chains. Colour plate frontis (by D.C.S.?) shows girl on park bench reading to three youngsters and a dog seated around her, with the caption "There sits fair-haired Effie." Stories include: Playing Horses; The Concert at the Zoo; The Holiday Coach; The Bravest Deed; Going to See the Queen; A Visit to the Country; Elsie's Team; Eric's Holiday; Mrs. Lion's Infant School; A visit to the West Indies; Five Peas in a Pod; Proud Mr. Drake; The Whistling Pig; The Stray Lamb; The Boy and the Monkey; A Merry Game; How do you Do?; Mrs. Otter and Her Young Ones; Morning Song; The Wonderful Doll's House; Tired of Waiting; Poor Mrs. Duck!; The Grand Duchess; The Clever Cat; Eddy's Accident; My Portrait; Father's Birthday Present; Will's Wondrous Story; Katie's Present; and Topsy and the Gypsies. Contemporary pencil gift greetings atop front free endpaper. Erased pencil writing inside front board nearly invisible. Hinges intact. Binding sound. Original maroon cloth backstrip intact. Average wear and soiling to boards. Moderate yellowing to contents. A sound copy of this charming work. Book
A wonderfully rare and quirky issue of this presumably short-lived publication which billed itself as "The Nanaimo Fortnight Newsmagazine". 22 pages. Features: Front cover illustration of the Woodward's store in Port Alberni, "The most modern and complete store on Vancouver Island"; Two-page ad for Standard Agencies Ltd. which sold Kaiser cars at the corner of Crace and Haliburton Streets; Article on the first ever woman to serve as a Nanaimo Alderman, Elsie Hall; Business card-sized ad for Herbalist Isobel Bradwell, located at 204 Commercial St.; Three pages of info on movies of the day and the local theatres where they were playing; List of Best Selling Books of the Day; Article on H.R. MacMillan experimenting to get more pulpwood from forests; Brief article on plans for a $150k rest home for Fords Cove on Hornby Island; Ad for Endrizzi's Grocery and Confectionery at the corner of Selby and Franklin opposite John Shaw High School; Ad for Central Dairy - operated by J. Dunbar & Sons; Two-page centerfold ad for Acme Motors Ltd., a Plymouth dealer located at 5 Commercial St.; Article about rising passenger fares on B.C. coast vessels (ferries); Ad for Wilton Motors - an Austin dealer at 175 Fraser St.; Photo of Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Batey of 3435 Carter Dr., Victoria, in the log home they built themselves; One-page ad for Johnson Bros., a Javelin car dealer at the corner of Comox and Howard; Travel schedules for local ferries, trains, buses, and flights; Large ad for Crescent Motors, a Studebaker dealer at 16 Nicol St.; Ad for Weeks Motors, a Morris car dealer at 322 Selby St.; Ad for Thompson Lumber Company, located at 1 Prideaux St.; Two-page ad for Newcastle Motors Ltd., a Pontiac dealer at 26 Front St.; Back cover ad for Woodward's, 'Your Family Shopping Centre", in Port Alberni. 25.5 x 18cm. Printed on newsprint. Unmarked with average wear and soiling. A great local vintage conversation piece! Book
Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.5". Circa 1902. Centerfold. Light wear. Please see our photo for details. Book
13 pages. "The date in this folder is from original Doble literature and from Floyd Clymer's Historical Motor Scrapbook" - from page 1. Contents include: full-page black and white illustrations of the Limousine, De Luxe Phaeton, Phaeton and De Luxe Runabout. Also includes photos of the chassis - rear and overhead views, and the Chassis - front and side views. Illustrated descriptions of the the engine, steam generator and Auxilliary Unit. Additional documentation on the condenser, chassis details, specifications, body designs and equipment. Undated reprint - appears circa 1960s. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy Book
1st edition. VG large format pbk. 82 pages. 23384. eng
30p. Charts to be filled in to know the cost of operating one's automobile. Automobile sayings top and bottom of each page. For example "Dobbin is passing. But "horse sense" is still useful in driving". 16mo. Original full printed wraps with touring car pictorial on front cover. Original paper jacket, tiny tear at top. Generally a fine and crisp copy. Very scarce. AUTO/1
292p. 16mo. Original full printed wraps. Price list for used cars and trucks from about 1924 to 1930. Includes: Nash; Durant; Chrysler; Haweye; Graham; Fisher; Dodge; Ford; and many other automobiles, trucks, hearses, ambulances, etc. A fine crisp copy of one of the earliest automotive "Blue Book" price guides. Scarce. AUTO/1
19p. Numerous illustrations. Original order blank. Very small tear on rear cover. Tall thin 8vo. Original full printed wraps. In addition to the expected tires, lamps, volt meters, spark plugs, and other car parts - this catalog contains wearing apparel for Fall & Winter driving in 1908 (including: a wide range of Winter clothes and jackets; rubber automobile shirts; detachable fur collars; fur hats; fur robes; fur gloves; and a variety of foul weather gear). Excellent copy. Very scace. AUTO/1
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright very faintly marked boards, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. 260pp.. Genuine vintage edition of the official workshop manual of the Frog-eyed Sprite. Undated ca 1961. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
Pages 63-124. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: From Naples to Genoa; The Harmony of Silence; The Benefaction of Melancthon Downs (concluded); Midsummer; A sketch of Dublin, N.H. - with many great photos of local mansions; The old stage coach; The Cogswell Homestead, Gilmanton; Halcyon Days; Mrs. Alice A. Dow; New Hampshire; The Anti-Vivisection Movement; The Elms of Concord; The legend of John Levin and Mary Glasse (continued); Educational department; New Hampshire Necrology. Some peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy copy. Magazine
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original vintage product catalogue, black cloth bdg. Oblong: (14.5 x 23 cm). [14] b/w vintage photographs of 1930s' Turkish buggies. Each photo's size: 12 x 16 cm. The name of the models: Kadillak, Lüks, Lüks pusetli, Kabartma pusetli, Yüksek kabartma, Yüksek, Pusetli, Içten açilir pusetli, Alimiyon tekerlekli, Kapitone körüklü puset, Kapitone puset, Puset, Portetif puset, Portetif puset. Extremely rare catalogue of "Bahar" brand of Turkish buggies including 14 vintage photos. Not located in OCLC.
Good reprint in plastic covers. ISBN 0851471951. (Autobook series of workshop manuals). 15718. eng