Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corp: Indianapolis, IN, 1938. Photos, ads, 11 x 8.5, pict stapled wraps, unpag, covers a bit worn and darkened, spine fraying, a few pp detached but present (with fraying edges). Ex-lib with inkstamp on front cover (from the Campbell-Ewald advertising agency library -- they held the GM..... More
Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corp: Indianapolis, IN, 1940. Photos, ads, 11 x 8.5, pict stapled wraps, unpag, covers lightly worn, inkstamp on front cover from advertising firm (Campbell Ewald -- they handled GM for years), contents lightly toned but still nice. With "Lap Score Sheet" that is unfortunately worn at edges..... More
Automotive Daily News/Automotive News: Detroit, 1938-1942. 17 individual issues are 14.5 x 10, with stiff pebbled black wraps, 2 six month each issues are 15.5 x 11, black pebbled cloth, pagination varies on all. Ex-corporate library, wrap edge are lightly fraying, first volume of 1942 have cello tape marks, contents..... More
General Motors: Milford, 1954. Paperback. Illus., 2 maps, 11 x 8.5", spiral bound printed stiff wraps, 44pp. Covers have light wear, couple of spots on front/back cover, one map detached (but present), contents very good to fine. Shows the Proving Grounds being built, garage, clubhouse, vehicles being tested, Thousand-Mile-Endurance Test..... More
Automotive Daily News/Automotive News: Detroit, 1938 and 1941. Illustr, 14.5 x 10, stiff pebbled wraps, pagination varies. Ex-corporate library, light fraying to edges, toning, tears/edge tears else good. Also articles on the Indianapolis 500, the New York Auto Show, 1942 automobiles. Ads for Chevrolet, Chris Craft, Hudson, Studebaker, Willys. Sold..... More
np (Indianapolis, IN), 1955. Photos, ads, 11 x 8.5, pict stapled wraps, 104 pp, covers lightly rubbed and soiled with ex-lib inkstamp on front cover, contents used and toned but still a good copy, with blank lap score sheet included. More
np: Indianapolis, IN, 1956. Photos, ads, 11 x 8.5, pict stapled wraps, 104pp, covers a bit rubbed and soiled with ex-lib inkstamp on front cover, contents used and toned but still good (but a bit loose) copy, with blank lap score sheet and printed letter (poor condition) from Pat Flaherty..... More
np: Indianapolis, IN, 1957. Photos, ads, 11 x 8.5, pict stapled wraps, 100pp, covers a bit rubbed, stained and soiled with ex-lib inkstamp on front cover, contents used and toned but still good (but a bit loose) copy, with blank lap score sheet included. More
np: Indianapolis, IN, 1959. Photos, ads, 11 x 8.5, pict stapled wraps, 100pp, covers lightly rubbed and soiled with ex-lib inkstamp on front cover, contents used and toned but still good (but a bit loose) copy, with blank lap score sheet included. More
Government Printing Office: Washington DC, 1896. Illustr, 11 x 7.5, 2164 pp + pp, later buckram. Covers worn and soiled, spine sunned, reinforced hinges loose, contents toned and edge worn with some finger soiling, a heavy, awkward book but fascinating nonetheless. Selden's patent (p. 848) describes a "road-locomotive,""liquid hydro-carbon gas..... More
Chevrolet: General Motors: Detroit, 1966. Illus., oblong 5.25 x 8", color pict stapled wraps, 55pp, covers rubbed with large abrasion over bottom inch of front cover, contents good; with 1966 Chevrolet Owner Protection Plan Booklet (with ink number at top, dealer info on last page, ink numbers on rear cover..... More
(1955). Illus, 11 x 8", pict. Stapled wraps, 48pp, minor wear. List of entrants present. More
Editions de L'Automobiliste: (Paris), (1978). Hardcover. Color illus. of automobile ads by A. Kow, 13 x 9.5", cloth, 176pp, bottom corners badly bumped, spine a little cocked, foredge of textblock a bit soiled, in an edge-worn and rubbed/soiled dustjacket; text in French. LIMITED TO 2000 COPIES. Legendary Russian-born illustrator of..... More
New England Railway Publishing Co.: Boston, 1906. Maps, 9.5 x 6.5", pict stapled wraps, 200pp. Covers sunned, chipped, missing part of spine, rear cover detached and has a tape repair, library stamp on one page, contents have light toning and creasing, couple of pages near the front have tears at..... More
NY 1837. 7 x 4 1/2", later plain wraps, 35pp. Ends foxed, els v.g. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Account of first long distance aeronautical journey on the "Vauxhall Balloon". SCARCE. More
Honda Motors: np, 1990. Photos, 12.25 x 12.25, two-tone boards, unpag, covers a bit rubbed, hinges loose else a nice, clean copy with three color slides of the NSX prototype. Scarce. More
Field Information Center: Michigan Ordnance Missile Plant: Detroit, MI, 1959. 11.5 x 9", duo-tang folder, 16 leaves with mimeographed printing on rectos only + figures etc. Covers rubbed, edge-toned and lightly soiled, some ink scribbles and annotations to text else a decent copy of this SCARCE item. More
London 1930-1933, 1937, 1938-1940, 1941-1949, 1952-1953, 1955-1958. 42 total volumes, 9x12, all uniformly bound in olive bindrs library cloth, EX-COMPANY LIBRARY, minimal markings, v.g. More
np, Feb. 12, 1894. 8 x 5.5, printed on one side, top clipped affecting headline, soiling, creasing, tears. The form lists port charges, earnings, billls for provisions, pay for officers and crew. Also lists repairs, dividend to be shared among the owners. Cargo listed includes 244 Tons of Ice, Lumber..... More
191923. Nicely engraved with vignettes of two beavers, cancellation holes and hand stamps, folds, some wear, else vg. More
1917. Nicely engraved with vignettes of two beavers, cancellation holes and hand stamps, folds, some wear, else vg. More
US Govt. Printing Office: Washington, 1954. Paperback. Folding star map, 10 x 7", plastic comb bound cloth backed boards, pp487-732 + 60pp, covers a bit worn and darkened, contents nice. Navigation by the stars and planets- gives locations of celestial objects by date and time. Interesting. More
[Associated Service Stations] [Ford-Chevrolet Plymouth], March 1936. Illus., 11 x 8.5", colorful pict wraps, 4pp + color chart. Front cover detached, rear cover loose, lacks 2 of 3 staples, pencil name on front cover "Associated", covers chipped with soiling, contents good. Issued to the Associated Service Stations members, this brochure..... More