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82 pages. Features: Lots of coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver; Moderate wear. Prior owner's address on front cover otherwise clean and unmarked wiht moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
68 pages. Features: LA fire boat - recent delivery; Skagen yard delivers multi-rig trawler; Alferas; Lung-Teh Shipbuilding of Taiwan builds the country's first self-righting SAR boat; Antipodean designers continue to lead in lightweight high speed technology; Diversification keeps fast ferry builders afloat; A visit to Derecktor Shipyard; Recently refurbished amphibious vehicles; Water jet propulsion for new Greek fireboats; Technology shift by Point Hope Shipyard of Victoria, B.C. - their shift to pilot boats; At Sea with Cara. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
136 pages. Features: Homebuilding History - The life and times of Henri Mignet and the Flying Flea; The Flying Flea returns to Oshkosh; Protection - Cover your kit with a Roof and Insurance; Alan Hicks and his 125 PH Tri-Pacer; Setting Speed Records; Transition Training Investment;Air Cam. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
160 pages. A valuable and informative guide for everyone who plays the game - and those who want to! Examines every aspect of play. Clearly explains: fundamentals of the game; basic use of the crosse; various offensive and defensive techniques - complete with detailed illustrations; the importance of face-off technique; skillful goal tending; how to improve your speed. Field lacrosse for women. Average wear. Single hole punched in top corner of each cover. Sticker residue on front cover. Unmarked. Book
2 vols., oblong 4to., First Edition thus, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; original green cloth, upper boards blocked with Goodwood crest in silver and black, backstrips lettered in silver, green endpapers, a near fine set in publisher's green card slip-case.
Features: Did America enter WWII in 1938? The real story of Pre Lend-Lease French Hawk 75 Fighters; The search for speed - Part II of Howell Miller Designs; Miles & Atwood racer plans and drawings - the DH-4 "Flaming Coffins". Art: Curtiss P-36 Hawk at Wright Field; Miles & Atwood Racer 5-view; Miles & Atwood "Miss Tulsa" Special Profile and Cutaway Book
Book shows light shelf wear only, a bit of edge wear. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Staple bound pamphlet with 55 pages, lots of b&w photos. Contents include: Speed twin, Postwar and 3T, Thunderbird and sprung frame, Unit construction, Specs.
Features: Fastest President on Wheels - Richard and Mrs. Nixon take the Metroliner (photos and article); Railroad News Photos - 6 pages; The Trains of Turkey - great article with photos and map; Is GTM/TH Valid? - tonnage x speed = deception; So you want to run a railroad? - management training programs offered by the railroad industry; and more. Moderate wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Quality copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 8 3/4"w x 10 1/8"h. 364 pages. Small tears on lightly worn dust jacket. Full gray cloth boards. Many b&w photos and illustrations.
134 pages. Features: If War Comes Tomorrow?; We Fly the Piper Special; Speed Plus; New York's Winged Police; Roun-The-World Horsepower; State Supervised Flying; Alfalfa Airport; Supercruising the World; It's Fun on Floats; "Thimble Drome" Special; Plymouth's First International Model Meet; 1947 Nationals; Sky Bait; Make Your Exposures Count; The Air-O Mighty MIdget; Radio Control Stinson 150 - Part 2; Model Aero Club Directory; Many pages of great ads; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Some age-toning to pages. Front cover beginning to loosen, otherwise a sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
95 pages. Features: Speed Racer; La Cage Noire; Bax; The Jester; Put it on the Barbie; New Frontiers; Stay Seated; Human(e) Moves; Friendly Terms; New Threads; Building Blocks; In Your Pocket; Mainly Moooi; Vacuum Packed; Like Clockwork. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this beautiful issue. Magazine
Two volumes. 8vo. Original publisher's cloth binding. XLib. Includes important papers, by the most noted authors, on: Astronomy; Radium (by Curie); Radiation; Atomic theory; Air-Ships (by Lord Baden-P owell); High Speed Electric Inter-urban Railways; Exploration of Mt. McKinley; Antarctic; Arctic Expeditions; Polar; Beginnings of Photography; Evolution; Ancient history; Excavations in Egypt; Lhasa and Central Tibet; Sudan; Reclamation of the West; Japan; Africa; South America; Etc. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
Contents include: Manavilins - III; The Great Ship Swallower; Private Trading; Those Puzzling Star Names; Collections Lost at Sea; In Memoriam - the British Square Sailer; Speed Sound Signals - stoppage - Collision; Dramatised Versions - V. Hotkins' Code; Wanted - an Esprit de Corps of the Sea; The Good Old Days; The Marine Services of Nigeria - III; Ships of South Kensington; Swediish East India company; Watermen of the Thames - a company centenary; Leaves from a Longshore log; and more. Above-average wear. Spine leaning. Bit of writing atop front cover else unmarked. Worthy copy of this fascinating periodical. Book
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Railroad News - Shades of Jay Gould!; Short article and photo of the world's fastest train - the S.N.C.F. CC-7121; Tales of the Century - The 20th Century Limited - article with photos; Cover Story - The Story of Speed - America's fastest trains of 1954; Photo Section - includes great centerfold photo of a Texas & New Orleans (Southern Pacific) 4-4-0; When Steam Ruled Cajon Pass - great photos; In 1953; Nobody wanted a steam locomotive for the first time in 125 years; In Search of Steam - 2 - along an obscure branch in New Brunswick is the oldest living locomotive in Canada; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: 1957 Locomotive Showroom - great photos and write-ups for offerings from Electro-Motive, Alco Products, Fairbanks-Morse, and General Electric; Confessions of a Train-Watcher - great article by David P. Morgan; 05 - Pictorial Diagnosis of a Great Locomotive (4-8-4); Twenty Years of Speed - the only complete and authoritative annual analysis of North American train speed - detailed report - a Trains exclusive; Dieselization hits the 90% mark - what comes next?; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Openings at each end of cover fold, otherwise a sound copy. Magazine
Features: The man in the White House cares; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Our managing editor (Rosemary Entringer) pulls the throttle on a T-1; Badges of Distinction - or, the diamond wasn't exclusive to Lima; How Truckers, Firemen, and Lawyers are Designing Diesels - some not so subtle influences upon the builders; Railroad art by our readers; Central Keeps the Cake - the only complete and authoritative analysis of world-wide train speed; A very special 2-10-0 Bozkurt; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
100 pages. Features: An eye on the market; Feeders for 18 cents a pound; Should you wash eggs?; Here's low-cost dairying; Corn combines speed the harvest; Quick-change wagon; Save labor in the home; A Christmas Call (fiction); The King's Pear Tree (fiction). Ads: Allis-Chalmers (color inside front cover); Rexall (with Amos 'n' Andy); Champion spark plugs ad features Kenneth Cooke of Malabar Farm near Mansfield, OH; Natural Rubber Burea ad shows armed Malayan guard at rubber plantation; 1952 Pontiac; Case Tractors - showing the 'VAC' model; Nice two-page color-photo ad for New Holland forage equipment; De Laval milkers; International Harvester McCormick Farmall Super C tractor (nice color photos); Massey-Harris combines; New Idea manure spreaders and attachments (color photo); Prince Albert Tobacco ad features Alfred Cronk and George Williams; Nice color 7up ad shows formal party scene in living room; Homelite chainsaws; Ford tractors (2 pages); McCulloch chainsaws; Wisconsin motors; Bolens garden tractors; Studebaker Commander V-8 (color inside back cover); Stark Bros. Nurseries (back cover). Small ad clipped from page 43. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Princess Margaret and her own regiment - in Glasgow and Ayr; Water Speed Record; British Arms for Iraq; Polo in Japan; Amazing 2-page photo of a large pile of Thunderjet aircraft shells in the Arizona desert; Framlingham College; Two newly-found masterworks of 2500 years ago - Ibexes in stone; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
283 pages. Index. Dozens of wonderful black and white photos. "The UNITED STATES represents the fulfillment of a lifetime dream. Her design, her financing, her construction, her trials, her capturing the world's speed supremacy - all these were the crowning achievements of an amazingly successful life - the life of William Francis Gibbs... Tells the story of The Big Ship, as she was known at 21 West Street, the offices of Gibbs & Cox, where she was designed... She was drydocked in 1980 and passed with flying colours... So here's to the safest liner ever built, the fastest big ship ever and one of the world's masterpieces!" - from dust jacket. Prior owner's ink stamp inside front board else book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear and some spine sunning to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
140 pages. Contributors include: Henry Ford (The Fear of Overproduction), Ben Hecht, Leonard H. Nason, Margaret Culkin Banning, Captain Charles B. Scully, Katherine M. Schmitt, Joseph Hergesheimer. Nice contemporary advertisements from Del Monte, Coke, Camay, Campbell's Soup, Sunbrite Cleanser, Cord Auto, Graham Auto, Dodge Six, Essex Auto, Edison Mazda Lamps, Fordor Sedan (by Ford), Cellophane, Buick, Reo Speed Wagon, Valspar, Northern Pacific Rail Line, White Trucks, McCormick-Deering Industrial Power (*wonderful black and white photographs*), The Knapp-Felt Hat, A&P. Articles include: Why Drown? by Charles Scully, The Story of an Early Switchboard Operator, Tears to periphery of cover otherwise a solid copy with average wear. Book
28 pages. Features: War's Aftermath in the Orient (article with photos); Pictorial feature of rice farming in the Philippines; Photo of hurdles race at Antwerp featuring Earl Thompson of Canada - "The Greatest Hurdler of All Time"; Photos and news story of Poland's Paderewski; 'False Alarms' - a story; Photos from Japan - when her largest export was silk!; *Interesting and prophetic article by Darwin P. Kingsley entitled 'Watch your steps, American and Japan!' - Beyond the Pacific a vicious yellow press is yelping at us and the militarists are in control - over here Washington is sleeping peacefully - trouble may come; Mayor Henry Kiel of St. Louis; Woman President of a baseball league, Mr.s Lilly Nicholas; Whaling photos; Photos of a traffic cop running a speed trap... by peaking around a corner and holding a stop watch!; a centrifugal gun. Interesting advertisements by Clark Axles, Selden Motor Trucks, Kelly-Springfield, Columbia Grafonola, U.S. Pneumatic Truck Tires. Book
Please note: colour plate not included. Chapter CCLXXXIX - The Secret of Jutland - with photos and illustrations. Super centerfold action photos of British ships at full speed and firing their 13.5" and 12" guns. Many photos of the British warships that won glory in the Battle of Jutland. Battle diagrams. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
Rare memento of this early high-speed endeavour to connect passengers travelling between Vancouver and Vancouver Island by sea. Claimed to connect downtown Nanaimo with downtown Vancouver in just over 45 minutes; downtown Vancouver to downtown Victoria in under one and a half hours. Light wear. Few pencil notes. Undated. Circa 1972. Book
237 pages. List of Mickey Thompson's speed records. Reproductions of black and white photos. "The thrilling life story of America's Number 1 hot rodder who built - and drove - the fastest automobile in all history!" - from front cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound copy. Book
128 pages. Many dozens of detailed diagrams and clear black and white photos. Topics include: details of design and construction; explantion of rating tables; explanation of service factors; method of rating reducers; Selection of reducers; Typical examples; Horsepower ratings and permissible overhung loads; Dimensions and weights; Outboard bearings; Assembly diagrams; Information necessary for selecting reducers; Flexible couplings; Speed increasers; Herringbone reducers combined with V-Belt drives; Standard Industrial installation views; Special units and installation views. Above-average wear and soiling. The first 28 pages each bear varying degrees of paper remnants affixed to them - most text and images are unaffected. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this very detailed and informative catalog. Book
