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Inscription on front end papers. No other marks, book is otherwise 'as new'. A lovely very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket in 'as new' condition. 141pp. The fascinating story of road transport from the days of the stage and the long-distance mailcoach to the crowded age of the monorail, the expressway and buses that go by themselves.
Book and jacket in mint condition. 141pp. The fascinating story of road transport from the days of the stage and the long-distance mailcoach to the crowded age of the monorail, the expressway and buses that go by themselves.
Three registration letters underlined. No other marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to covers. A clean copy with dusty/tanned covers and page edges. 72pp. Photographs and technical specifications for all the British marques in 1959. Lists of international and British registration letters. Scarce edition.
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
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked maroon cloth boards, nick/crease to two adjacent lower page corners, foxing to some page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight foxing and a little rubbing to edges. Jacket now protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve. 165pp. A unique alphabetical reference list of the name, place and date of manufacture of almost 4,000 automobiles, with occasional notes of their characteristics or circumstances of manufacture.
192 pages. A very informative vintage driving travel guide to the entire province of British Columbia and parts beyond, complete with black and white photos and dozens of sensational ads for tourist-related service businesses. Unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. Take a wonderful step back in time! Book
Approximately 50 pages. Many fold-outs. This large 15" x 12" work presents the master plan for Erin Mills. "A fortunate combination of circumstances should make Erin Mills New Town a singular community. First, the company had the foresight and resources to acquire a tract of land in excess of ten square miles in one of the most favourable growth regions on the continent. Secondly, there exists a strong demand in this region of Southern Ontario for all types of residential, commercial and industrial land and buildings... Erin Mills New Town presents our company an opportunity to create, in cooperation with the public authorities, one of the most imaginative planned communities on the continent. It offers us an unparalleled opportunity to direct our resources to a sound business venture that will provide an urban environment in which a prime consideration is quality living for those who live and work there." - from Foreword by A.E. Diamond, President, Don Mills Developments Limited. Sections include: Erin Mills in the region; West Credit Development Area; Land Ownership; Natural Features; Existing Land Use; Development Concept; Employment; Commercial Facilities; Education and Institutions; Open Space and Recreation; Housing and Residential Environment; Special Housing Studies; Landscaping; Road System; Public Transportation; Transportation Corridor; Services; Staging and Growth; General Plan; Erin Mills Centre; Erin Mills South; West Credit Development Plan; Development Policies; Fiscal Consideration. Gift Greetings inside front board, otherwise clean and unmarked with very light wear. Binding intact. An excellent copy. Book
78 pages. Articles: What Every New Draftee Should Know; Ryder of the Comic Age - Fred Harman created Red Ryder and Little beaver; Road to the 19th Hole - an afternoon on the golf course with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 12) - Italy down for the count; Designs for Touring (part 11) - travel to Jasper Park. Fiction: Gentleman George; Stars in his Hair; A Lady for Ballarol; The Half-Naked Truth; An Affair of State; Where There's Smoke. Ads include: Studebaker trucks; Bell Telephone; Chevrolet trucks - Dubl-Duti Chassis; Zenith radios; Diamond T Trucks - super color-photo one-page ad; Monarch canned food; RCA Victor; Sal Hepatica; Pabst beer - featuring color photo of Miss Joan Fontaine; Good Year; Pontiac; Plymouth; "Key Largo" movie with Humphrey Bogard; Sheppard Diesels; 2-4 Dow weed killer; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features ace Steeple-Jack George Joyce. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 253-296. Black and white photos. Features: The month in New Hampshire; Senator William E. Borah - an interview; The highest path in New England - a tramping trip along the Range Walk - article with great photos; Three opinions on the legislature of 1923 - the Democratic viewpoint, the Republican viewpoint, an Independent viewpoint; Along came Mary Ann - how home demonstration work helps a community - article with nice photos; The Northeastern Forest Experiment Station; An Anthology of One Poem Poets; The Bunga Road - an exciting controversy at Landaff; Guernseys that Pay - some champions at the Rockingham Farm; Ships (poem); How the House was Adjourned; Books of New Hampshire Interest; The Editor Stops to Talk; Current Opinion in New Hampshire; New Hampshire Necrology. Above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
8vo., First UK Edition, with tables and charts in the text; original printed wrappers, covers a little dusty, stitches rusting slightly else a very good, clean copy. First published in the US by the Government Printing Office.
226 p. 12mo. Original full faux leather binding lettered in gilt gold. A Facsimile reprint of the 1866 edition. Hardbound. Near fine. W8 LF Front STK
297 pages. "Takes an inside look at the Blue Jays' road to the World Series title. And at the men who made it happen. Told through the eyes of the 1992 players and coaches, author Rosie Dimanno provides a personal view of this championship team that has not yet been told." - from just jacket. Black and white illustrations. Book clean, bright and unmarked with zero wear... Beautiful! Ever-so-slight signs of handling to bright glossy dust jacket. Excellent gift-quality copy. Book
188 pages. Provides very practical and easy-to-read advice for Canadians. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
Pages 213-252. Features: Two Victors in use with the Enfield School of Motoring pass the 100,000 mile mark; Poffle to the Peaks - photos and article of a continental trip; First appearance of teh Hadrian Bedouin motor caravan; Ten Simple Things to Know; Photos and write-up of a demanding trip in Asia; Tale of a Sale - W.L. Vollum describes his sale of a car; "Okay", a 1923 Vauxhall has been serving a Devon farmers for four generations - photo and article; Autocar road tests the overdrive Cresta - detailed article with photos and specifications; Photo instructions how to fit your engine with the new heavy-duty big end bearings that are being fitted to the 1961 Victor models; How to avoid parking tickets; Letters from readers; Many pages of great vintage ads. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with signs of storage. Unpaginated. 120pp. Over 150 well-captioned photographs of cycles and cars from their earliest days. Fairly scarce.
pp. iv, 21 + a map and numerous photographs. 8vo. Original printed wraps. Inked ownership of Ethel Kastner, Dept. Far Eastern. Very Good copy. ORIENT BOX 2
No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 36pp. Part One (South Eastern Area) of The Development of Lancashire's Trams & Buses, covering Accrington, Haslingden, Rawtenstall and Bacup.
218 pages. An interesting look at the history of the northern shore of Lake Superior. Chapters include such topics as: Many Billion Years Ago; The Wisconsin Glacier; How Rocks Write Their Own History; The First Inhabitants; Early Explorers and Notable Events; A World Famous Canal System; The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR); Early Industries; Shipwrecks on Superior; Prisoner of War and Internment Camps; Communities Lake Superior's Circle Route. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this informative work. Noteworthy for its 20 illustrated pages on the region's World War Two POW camps. Book
Pages 90-178 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: The pitfalls of a man who purchased three submarine-chasing 'M.L.'s' and set out to bring them from Rosyth to the Thames - with only one boat reaching her destination - with illustrations and a photo of the boat which survived; Some Adventures with Jaguars; Photo and brief write-up of a nine-foot boa constrictor housepet in Ecuador which showed remarkable affection for its master; Unkown Peru - an Englishman who has lived in Peru for many years describes his experience in unknown regions - illustrated with his photos (part 1); Mangahau the 'Magician' - a Maori tale of a prodigal son and Tapu ; In Search of Sea Monsters - F.A. Mitchell-Hedges sets out on a two-year expedition to find and catch the world's largest fish - with photos (part 1); The Poker Bandits; a 'hold-up' at the Red Deer Lumber Company's camp in Manitoba leads to an exciting and tragic man-hunt; A Miracle of Marine Salvage - the strange case of the 'St. Paul' - with photos; The Road to Timbuctoo - another humourous adventure of Leo Walmsley of the "Three Asses in the Pyrenees" articles; A Motorcycle in High Albania - Kenneth Robertson was the first motorcyclist to cross the Albanian Alps; Winter Wild-Fowling in Friesland (Northern Holland) - with great photos of their decoys and more; Our Adventure in Normandy - a cycle-camping trip leads to an odd experience; Frank Miller's Last Fight - a gas bomb is used to overcome a cop-killing desperado in Jersey City, New Jersey - with photos; Above-average wear. Covers loose but present. Pencil writing atop front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Address to upper edge of front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A clean tight copy with lightly rubbed, slightly dusty boards and no bumping to corners. 135pp. With features on the Mexico, Avenger GT, FirenzaMGB's examined, Vauxhall VX 4/90, Skoda 110R Coupe, a tweaked Toledo, a V6 Cortina, cooling matters, power from production models and more.
Book in unread mint condition. 199pp. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. The fascinating story, dilligently researched and grippingly told of the founder and owner of the transport firm seen everywhere on our roads today.
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. 112pp. The author explains the mystiques of motor car electrics aided by photographs, drawings and cartoons.
170 pp. Bibliography of books [in English] about Bethune. Eighty-five black and white reproductions of documents. Opens with an informative fifteen page footnoted introduction by David Lethbridge. Dr. Norman Bethune [1890-1939] is revered to this day in China for his front-line medical service to the Communist Army in the late 1930s. "But from the moment he joined the Communist Party of Canada, the RCMP secret intelligence division kept extensive and detailed files on his every move. Only recently declassified, and fully reproduced for the first time in this volume, are the actual secret police files on Bethune. Never before have Bethune's own words spoken so clearly about the political convictions and personal courage that have led him to be remembered as a revolutionary militant of 'absolute selflessness.'" - back cover. Former library copy with usual markings and above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
Hardcover in-4 reliure illustree editeur sous jaquette illustree de 168 pages. Iconographie abondante en noir et blanc, sepia et couleurs. Tres bel exemplaire, tres frais. [P-7] On a tous dans le coeur une 4 CV oubliee, une mob, un scooter, sa petite route preferee. ..
