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No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked glazed laminated boards surface storage rubbing and no bumping to corners. 96pp. The story of British buses specifically built for wartime service, many of which were unexpectedly still in use in the 1960s. Very well illustrated.. 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.
58 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: The Caribou Crisis - informative article in the state of the caribou; The Narwhal - Canada's Horn of the Uniforn; The Living Stone - photos of stone carvings of the Eskimos of the Eastern Arctic; Pierre Falcon - Bard of the Prairies; Governor George Simpson - "The Strangest Man I Ever Knew"; Samuel Black on the Finlay; Winston Churchill accepts appointment of Grand Seigneur of the Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay; Ninety Years Later - a tale of hard northern travel in the old style, exploring the wild Upper Finlay, 90 years after Samuel Black - great photo-illustrated article; Retreat of the Sea - photos taken in the neighbourhood of Fort Severn; The Minnesota Route - in the late 1850s the Hudson's Bay Company began to abandon the historic York Factory route to Lake Winnipeg in favour of that via St. Paul and the Red River; Sir George Simpson as Banker; Nice colour ad for Hudson's bay shirts for men on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
56 pages. Features: In the spirit of the Voyageurs - Two moderns paddle an old fur-trade route; The great gopher war - building a prairie tradition on pest control; The architect and the lady - The Rattenbury affair; Portraits of a first family of New France; Volunteers on guard for thee in the 18th century; Steamboat follies - the pleasures and perils of crossing Lake Simcoe. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Annals of the fur trade - the making of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives; The story of the HBC Museum Collection; On the Cariboo Gold Rush Road; 1919 - the Winnipeg General Strike reconsidered; George Back's sketchbooks come to Canada. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, title-vignette, and numerous plates and illustrations in the text, frontispiece guard spotting lightly offset to title; original pictorial buff cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, uncut, a very good, bright, fresh copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Unpaginated. Lovely colour photographs from the Sullivan Films television series based on the novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery. Clean, bright and unmarked. Light wear. Attractive copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Reports on Wasthington, North Africa, and Israel - David Ben-Gurion becomes Minister of Defense; Owen Wister's Journals - the unpublished journals; Russia's Calamity, by Edward Crankshaw; The Grand Trunk Road to Agra, by Vice Admiral Leslie C. Stevens; Streams (poem), by W.H. Auden; A Patron of the Arts, story by Donald Heiney; Have we Conquered the Business Cycle?, by Sumner H. Slichter; The Diamond Cutters (poem), by Adrienne Cecile Rich; The Oedipus Myth, by Robert Graves; The Under-Educated, by Robert C. Wilson; What Happened to the Girl Scouts?, by Ben H. Bagdikian; Twenty Years of Writing, by William Saroyan; Teaching Creative Writing, by Roy Cowden; Styrian Festivities, by Merloyd Lawrence. Color ad for the Tennessee Gas Transmission Company inside front cover. Color ad for Old Charter Straight Bourbon Whisky on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Features: New York to Paris - around the world in one hundred and seventy days - from the files of George Schuster; 1957 Glidden Tour; World's Largest Antique Auto Meet - the national fall meet at Hershey; The "One Car" Club - Road Testing a 1913 Merz Cyclecar; The Eastbourne Battle of Flowers in May, 1896; Basket Case on a Budget - or - Who Needs Money When He Has a Friend? - a three-year restoration of a Ford Town Car - article with photos; Self-Propelled Vehicles from 1400 to 1900 - today's automobile got its start in the dark ages - article with photos; 7th annual "Old Car Festival" at Ford's Greenfield Village; America's Fastest Antique Car - Thomas J. Lester's 1913 LozierIn Duster and Veil; Opel and Vauxhall celebrate anniversaries with introduction to American Market - article with photos; Memories of a DuPont Special; Sixtieth Anniversary for Olds; Ford Facts - Black Radiator Restorations; Index for November, 1945, Volume 9, No. 3-4 to Fall, 1957, Volume 21, No. 3 *39 Pages*; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Full-page photo memoriam for Merle (Jerry) J. Duryea, 1895-1957; Restoring the Easy Way; Transcontinental Records - interesting article and photos; History of the Automobiles Turcat, Mery et Cie of Marseilles, France - major article with photos and specs/details for their cars from 1899 through 1933; Horn's Cars of Yesterday; Automobiles and Road Building in the Alabama Black Belt after 1900; James Melton Autorama - photos with captions; Emblem collection (with photos); 100 Miles per day for mThree Months (in 1902) - Henry Hewetson; Touring the Junk Shops; Model T Topics - related to commutator; How the Rambler Got its Name; In Duster and Veil; The Story Behind the Picture - The EMF Pathfinder stuck in mud in 1909; Steam Corner - Development of the Piston Valve Cylinder to Replace the Cylinder on a Regular Stanley 20-hp. 4 x 5 Engine Frame; The 1957 Detrick Steamer; Questions and Answers on Stanley Steamers 1920; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor foxing, sunning to slightly bumped spine foot and no bumping to corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped with pieces missing from sunned spine, nicks to edges, repairs and soiling to rear. 128pp. A study of southern England's bridges and photographic illustrations of seventy eight of them.
358 pages. In 1912, a 23-year-old mechanic with the Reo Motor Car Company of St. Catherines, Ontario set out in a 1912 Reo Special touring car with the English writer Thomas Wilby. There aim was to be the first to drive a car from the Atlantic to the Pacific entirely within Canada. A retired mechanic from Vancouver and the author recreated that historic trip 85 years later. Provides an account of both trips. An examination of the automobile and its effects on our cities and lives. A delightful travel and history guide to Canada as it is and was. Lovely giftable copy. Book
30 pages. Many black and white photos. Features: Main Trails and Bypaths; Alaska's Copper Currency - the value of the 'tinneh' or chief's copper, was determined by its history; Through Alaska's Back Door - life takes on new interest for those who travel the arduous route to Alaska via its little-used 'back door'; Soapy Smith - the fourth of a series of eight chapters on "The Klondikers"; We Nearly Conquered Saint Elias - this party encountered crevasses, almost impossible ledges and a blizzard atop an 18,000-foot mountain; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
8 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: Zemstvos Gathering in Russia; Elections in the Interior; West Hastings Ballot Box Case; Fighting the White Plague - Enthusiastic Gathering and Sale of Work at Balmoral Hotel; Canadian Northern Track Layers Making Good Progress; Atlin Flourishing; and much more. Dozens of advertisements including: "Half-Acre Lots: Just off Gorge Road, For Sale at $200, $225 and $250. (A Good Speculation)" Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Fatigue crack to central portion of all pages. Book
12 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: Port Arthur's Days Numbered (lead story); Governor for Yukon; Guessing Schemes barred from mails; Germans warned against trusts - US evidence held up as fearful example; Fruit Growing at Kamloops; Northwest Mounted Police prepare for the most extensive system of patrols for the Yukon Territory the coming winter that have ever been maintained in the north; Many towns for men only; Road opens from Dawson to Tanana; Wooden piping now being used in Vancouver, Spokane and other cities; Marine News; Yorkshire Post writer compares Victoria and Vancouver - Victoria Polite and easy going while her mainland rival full of business; and much more. Dozens of advertisements including: an attractive piece from Weiler Bros. which features Brass Kerbs and Coal Scoops. Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Fatigue cracks to central portion of all pages. Book
108 pages. Many absolutely classic songs from the mid 1980s including: Air; And She Was; The Big Country; The Book I Read; Burning Down the House; Don't Worry About the Government; Give Me Back My Name; Heaven; Houses in Motion; Life During Wartime; The Listening Wind; Love Goes Building on Fire; Making Flippy Floppy; Once in a Lifetime; Psycho Killer; Pulled Up; Road to Nowhere; Slippery People; Stop Making Sense (AKA Girlfriend is Better); Take Me To the River; This Must Be The Place. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Nice copy. Be moved again by these unforgettable songs from the 80's. Book
in-8, XlVIII-181 + XIX-182 pp., broché, couverture imprimée. Bel exemplaire. [DV-9]
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. 128pp. A very well illustrated study of Sheffield City transport from the days of the horse trams up to the buses at the end of the 20th century.
Un reporter allo sbaraglio in Latinoamerica. Dieci articoli con un elemento in comune: sono tutti invariabilmente faziosi ed appassionati.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Some creasing to corners of covers, none to spine. Very clean very tight pages with slightly marked and scratched, very well rubbed boards, very dusty/soiled page edges and no bumping to corners. 24 page appendix plus 63pp. This manual presents the dismantling, overhaul, reassembly and tuning of the SU carburettor in a logical sequence describing the component parts in the minutest detail. Appendix 1 lists each car model and the SU sepecification therein and Appendix 2 lists the needle charts. An errata slip enclosed explains the correct page order of the two appendices.
No marks or inscriptions. Very faint crease to lower rear edge, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, faint traces of handling and no bumping to corners. 128pp. A pictorial study of the American hot-rods featuring the massively souped-up and elaborately re-painted 1930s and 1940s cars which the Americans have so avidly customised - for fun and excitement
Very Good German Original yellow cloth bdg. Large demy 8vo. (22 x 16 cm). In German. 104, [2] p. Strassenbau und Verkehrspolitik in der Türkei. Eine Studie über den Strassenbau der alten und neuen Türkei mit einem neuen Strassennetz. Road construction and transport policy in Turkey. A study on the road construction of old and new Turkey with a new road network. Signed and inscribed by Gökdogan.
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 or creased. 96pp. The illustrated story of self-propelled vehicles through two centuries - steam engines, steam cars, traction engines.
In-8° (cm. 25,1x16,6), pp. 26 (da p. 320 a p. 345). Bross. ed. Timbro Gabotto. Fior. in cop. Dedica a stampa a Sesto Fassini. Contiene l'intero testo degli Statuti di CAMINO del primo ucleo, di crattere prevalentemente agricolo.
Contains Acts relating to: Act Interpretation, Regulation of Coal Mines, Prospecting for Coal Mines, Coroners, County Courts, Assize and Nisi Prius, Superior Courts, Creditor's Relief, Attachment of Debts, Sumas Dyking, Evidence, Ferries in Municipalities, Game, Island Railway - Graving Dock and Railway Lands, Jurors and Juries, Justices of the Peace, Crown Lands, Married Woman's Property, Minerals, Prospecting for Minerals, Municipalities, Salt Spring Island, Provincial Officers, Quesnelle Lake Dam, Columbia and Kootenay Railway, Fraser River Railway, New Westminster Railway, South Wellington Railway, Sleighs (on Cariboo Trunk Road), Stipendiary Magistrates, Supply, Victoria City Official Map, Victoria Transfer Company, Voters, Eagle Pass Wagon Road, Yale Fire Brigade, Extention of Yates Street in Victoria. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Ex-Library
Contains public acts relating to: Interpretation of Acts, Chinese Regulation (Immigration), Coroners, Constitution, Courts (Appellate Jurisdiction), Courts of Assize and Nisi Prius, County Courts, Debt, Sumas Dyking, Fences and Water Courses, Ferries, Game, Chinese Immigration (to prevent), Innkeepers, Jurors, Crown Lands, Land Registry, Licences, Liens, Married Women's Property, Municipalities, Penalties, Revenue, Supply, Public Schools, Spinks, J.M.M. (to authorize Commission of Enquiry respecting an alleged transfer of land from certain Indians), Stipendiary Magistrates, Cariboo Road Tolls. Private Acts relating to: Reserves, Esquimalt Water-Works, Nanaimo Water-Works. Heavy external wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Book
