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72 pages. Features: Audi 80 On the Road, plus a preview ride in the Wolseley 2200 and a run in a Bristol 403; History of the Post War Touring Car - Part 6; Coachwork? - Peter Stengel who has built bodies on both sides of the Atlantic makes some personal observations - article with photos including some in colour; Tudor Rees is an expert at fixing elderly car radios; Tony Rolt - a brilliant newcomer to motor racing before the war; New Oil in Older Cars - speaking with Castrol chemists about the way modern lubricants help us maintain our thoroughbred cars; R.G.S. Atalanta - Jonathan Wood concludes his account of the Specials Dick Shattock produced between 1952 and 1956 at a small garage at Winkfield, Berks; The Cars Called Carrera - tracing a story of Porsche development and testing the last word in production 911s; Continental Circus, 1974; Speed Merchants Classic Car Championship - Round 1; Mille Miglia 1940 - Michael Bowler looks back at a great race; De Tomaso Vallelunga - article with colour photos; Classic of the Month - Michelotti 'Jaguar Le Mans" and more. Moisture exposure to top edge. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
68 pages. Features: Testing a 1933 MG K3; The South African Fiva Rally; Whitney Straight - two legends in his lifetime; G.H. Nolan; On the Road - testing the new Jaguar XJ-S; The History of the Excalibur - great article and illustrations, one in colour; Great colour centerfold of a 1933 MG K3; Shelsley Walsh is celebrating its 70th year - looking back at the days of dust and gravel; Speed Merchants Classic Car Championship - Round 6; Mini Manual for the Triumph TR4A; and more. Moisture exposure to top edge. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
68 pages. Features: The Classic Maserati 250F; Bead Blasting at PAO Metal Finishers; Freddie Dixon - feature article with photos; Classic Concours and Hill-Climb; On the road with the Volkswagen Scirocco TS and Polo; Prince Albert's Own - PAO Preparations; Wolseley Hornet Special; Speed Merchants Classic Car Championship Round 4/5; Jaguar D-Type Replica - the first post-war car to be reproduced in series - with magnificent colour photos; The Lakeland Trial 1974; Classi Choice - Part 2 - a further batch of the more interesting cars from the Autocar series of used car tests; Sons of 328 - the final instalment on the post-war influence of the BMW 328; and more. Moisture exposure to top edge. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: The Power of Amtrak - with table of locomotives and details; Penn Central route map; A Royal Blue Line Recall - sentimental story of a B & O passenger showcase; South Shore's Steel Standards - the speedsters were interurbans in name only; Centerfold black and white photo of hardy miners of Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper, Co. and 5 of their locomotives; Story, table of locomotives and article re: Calumet and Hecla; Is Amtrak Legal? - the courts say yes; Only EMD and GE left? No - the diesels of the past live on, and require spare parts - long article and photos; and more. Moderate wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Quality copy. Book
Features: Snow photos - storm of 1977; The AB&C Railroad; A case of railway mania - the railroad system of the United States was greatly overbuilt; 7,000 miles from here... - Narrow Gauge, Wooden Coaches, and a Steam Engine - the Kingston Flyer; Color Centerfold of 'The City of Denver behind a Milwaukee Road FP45/FP7 duo; Queen of the Red River Valley - Passenger Trains 31 and 32 of the Texas & Pacific; Piggyback and the Portager Dream - 2 - In a sea of Clejans, TTX's, NITX's, Flexis, and Railvans... Portager Drowned; Selected Railroad Verse; and more. Average wear. Date stamp to front cover. Sound copy. Magazine
44 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Belfast & Moosehead Lake - a short line; The Man in the Tower; The Caboose - the traveling office of the freight train is teh most individualistic of railroad vehicles - many super photos with article; Caboose Anatomy; South American Electric Locos - the Estradade Ferro Sorocabana of Brazil; Canadian-Built Locomotives for India - 145 Mikados; Swiss Tourist Railway - 60-mile-long Furka-Oberalp route electrified as war diminishes coal supply; The Signal in the cab; Southland Carrier - the 8,000-mile Southern Railway. Average wear and soiling. Small date stamp atop front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
58 pages. Features: Railroad News Photos; Reading Rambles - Why and how should a railroad de-dieselize?; Amazing trestle-disaster photos from making of movie "Ring of Fire' at Shelton, WA; KCKV - The dying remnant of a Kansas Interurban; The Road to Paradise - The Strasburg Railroad makes money on passengers, but oh that freight deficit!; For Heavy Slogging Service on Steep Grades - the Union of South Africa's topography turned thhe land into a locomotive paradise - great article with many photos; Amazine two-page reprint of a 1960 night photo of the Canadian Pacific Mikado 5135 enroute to Toronto from London; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear A nice copy. Magazine
48 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: NYC West Side Freight Line - a photo story on the only all-rail freight route into Manhattan; Haunted Roundhouse - Hudson River roundhouse is a memory of the past; Recent 4-8-4's - specifications; Water Holes for Iron Horses - from L&N Magazine; The Man in the Tower; D&RGW in Eagle River Canyon - super centerfold photo; Uruapan Express; Two Early Trains - old-time photos; Great Britain's Garratt Locomotives; Women Railroaders. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
46 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: NYC replaces Busy Switches - new slip switches at Harmon, N.Y.; The Rio Grande - General Palmer's little narrow gauge road of the Colorado mountains grew into one of America's most important 'bridge' systems; Driving Gear for Turbine Locomotives - Pennsylvania Railroad's experimental unit has uniform torque, fully balanced drive wheels, high efficiency at speed; new locomotive; Built in Roanoke - Norfolk & Western has been building most of its locomotives at its Roanoke Shops; Railroad Ticket Man - What does the passenger look like to the man on the other side of the ticket window?; Tall Stacked Old Timers - Three gems from a leading locomotive photo collection; Chicago Station Gets New Shed - Illinois Central Rebuilds - Illinois Central tears down old high arch and builds slotted roof. Average wear. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Magazine
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: The Man in the Tower; What's in a Name?; Engines by Herbert Wallis; They were not Scrapped - New Haven saves $4,000,000 by rebuilding 58 engines and saving them for wartime traffic; Wartime Rail Ramble - New York to Milwaukee via Washington, Atlanta, and New Orleans - the 11-day trip of six Eastern railfans; The John Wilkes - Lehigh Valley's No. 28 - Great centerfold photo; Down in Maine - Two-foot gauge scenics; Thomas Leiper's Railroads; Old El Cars Find a New Home - Shipyard Railway is newest electric line; The Old Mullet Road - owned by the State of North Carolina, the A&EC was a political football till leased to private interests. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railroad; A Railroad Plans for Tomorrow - operating after the war; Do You Know These Railroads?; New York Central 4-8-2; Main Line of the Narrow Gauge - Rio Grande three-foot rails over Cumbres Pass, with super photo centerfold of a Denver & Rio Grande Western train beginning its run from Alamosa to Durango; Beyond Ellicott's Mills - oldest main line sees few passenger trains but its two tracks shorten B&O freight route 15 miles; Yugoslav Railroads - Pathway to the Orient; Great full-page ad for Rock Island Lines; Case History with which Attorney Louis F. Meyer Jr. illustrates an important railroad legal point. Small date stamp atop front cover. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
520 pages. Index. Discography. Colour and black and white photos. "A frank but sympathetic portrait of a superstar who, despite his vast fame and wealth, has always seemed unfulfilled, lonely and utterly vulnerable." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A quality copy. Book
15 pages. A transcript from research conducted for the CBC radio series entitled "People in Landscape." "The Cariboo Road in modern times and in the nineteenth century. Stories of travel by car and stagecoach from the Fraser Canyon to the Cariboo. Interviewees - Mrs. Nellie Baker, Mrs. R.T. Crosby, Miss Leah Shaw, Vince Gresty, Gus Milliken, Roddy Moffat, Bryson Patenaude." - from title page. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Black and white illustrations. Nice copy. Book
78 pages. Features: Randy Norwood's '80 Dodge Van "Blue Moon"; Van Metal Magic; Doug Massey's "Mad Dog" 1978 Ford E-150 Van; So. Cal. Council Mix-Off; Make Your F-100's Bed; Sal Marchese's '78 Toyotal Pickup; Centerfold photo of Tom J. Yancoskie's '77 Dodge Van "Alien"; Carl Caspers' Kentucky Auto Show; Clone Vanduras in Hollywood; Australian supertruck; Put the Aspen/Volare transverse torsion bar suspension under your F-100 for an unbelievable ride; Install Jiffy Top; Mallory RPM Limiting Tach; Bob Schuller's 1970 El Camino "Sundowner"; Ruby Red - Donnie Senner's 1974 Dodge Van. Average wear. Small piece missing from fore-edge of back cover. A sound copy. Magazine
44 pages. Features: Captain Inskip, R.N., and British Columbia; The Bell-Irving Land Surveyors in British Columbia; Alfred Pendrell Waddington and "Bute Island Route"; Old Trails and Routes in British Columbia; - The HBC 1849 Brigade Trail - Fort Hope to Kamloops; Reginald C.R. Tweed; Book Reviews; and more. Address label on back cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
68 pages. Black and white illustrations. Features: Lasalle's Arrival in Burlington Bay in 1669 and Lasalle's Probable Route to Tinawatawa; The Hamilton Jewish Committee; The Honourable and Gallant Knight; The Early History of the Hamilton Fire Department, 1816-1905; The Ledger of an Early Doctor of Barton and Ancaster, 1798-1801; The Historical Significance of the Niagara Escarpment; The Story of Rockwood Academy; One Hundred and Twenty-Six Years of Arrangments by Blachford and Wray; Crown Patentees of Glanford Township. Unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Fine Portuguese Original imitation brown leather bdg. Gilded titles in Turkish, Spanish and Portuguese on the front board. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, and modern and old (Ottoman) Turkish (with Arabic letters). 238, 192, [2] p. pp. 192 facsimile in Ottoman script, and Arabic translation; pp. 1-238 translations into Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish with Latin alphabet. The first Ottoman travel account and ocean voyage into Brazil. This book has Spanish and Portuguese translations of this voyage as well as modern Turkish with facsimile of original text printed in 1871 [AH 1288] in Ottoman script. Ottoman qadi (judge) Abdurrahman Effendy's voyage to Brazil. First Edition, thus in this edition including multiple translations.
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with just light edge wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Portuguese. Probably the finest collection of Brasilian furniture and decorative arts. Most of the works illustrated are furniture, over 160 pieces, the earliest from the 17th century and continuing through the 20th century. Also a section on decorative arts and a much smaller section on paintings. Essays by several writers including Delia Beru, Gloria Bayeux, Jose Wilton Guerra, Maria Helena Brancante, Maria Helena Estrada, Maria Ruth Amaral Sampaio, and Marlene Milan Acayaba. 11" high X 8" wide, 319 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
156 p. Bookseller's blind stamp of Amer & Gerber, Lancaster PA on first fly leaf. Early manuscript ownership of A.J. Eberly, April 11, 1866 on page 23. Adam John Eberly (1840-1901) was a prominent attorney in Lancaster, PA. 12mo. 200 mm. Original full leather binding. Front board detached. Spine perished. Hardbound. Text good. Binding poor. The Appendix includes: 'Acts of Assembly relating to the Cumberland Road'. Also known as the The National Road, the Cumberland Road was the first major improved highway in the U.S. built by the federal government. Constructed between 1811 and 1837, the 620-mile road connected the Potomac and Ohio Rivers and was a main transport path to the West for thousands of settlers. First edition. PAIMP 10
8vo., Uncorrected Proof Copy, with title-vignette; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Effectively a sequel to his splendid 'Bugles and a Tiger' (1956). Masters served as a middle-ranking officer in Burma throughout the war. This striking personal record of service with Gurkhas and Chindits (including his participation in Operation BLACKPOOL) therefore stands between the more usually recorded views of generals and private soldiers. Includes illuminating portraits of Slim, Wingate and Stilwell among others. PROOF COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE. Enser, p.90; not recorded by Graham & Cole, which lists only the US (Harper) edition as M55.
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 211pp. Book three of the mini company histories of thirty-one American trucking companies, celebrating 100 years of existence since the first firms were set up in 1890 - the small companies who led the way with trade and transport across North America. Each mini history is accompanied by at least one full-page image of one of their trucks. Extremely scarce.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and facsimiles throughout, and pictorial endpapers in green; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
in-4°, 101 pages entièrement illustrees en N/B et images en couleurs contrecollees, relie cartonnage ed. (plats illustres plastifies, dos skai). ETAT EXCEPTIONNEL ! Tres bel exemplaire, très frais, bien complet de ses chromos. [VU-7]
MIR PUBLISHERS MOSCOW 1986 232 PP. FONDO DI MAGAZZINO: SEGNI DEL TEMPO E QUALCHE STRAPPO ALLA SOVRACCOPERTA, COME FORSE SI PUò VEDERE IN FOTO, INTERNI IN OTTIME ED ECCELLENTISSIME CONDIZIONI. VOLUME INTONSO, MAI SFOGLIATO.
xv + 199pp. + 7 plates out-of-text in colour, 24cm., in the series "Studies in oriental religions" vol.16, softcover, VG, X69073
