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Bowen, Frank C.
Sailing Ships of the London River
Jones, Pelham
Sampson Low London, England 1940 Hardcover Very Good
Undated (c 1940). Black boards with gilt lettering. Light bumping and rubbing to corner. Unmarked but for Previous owner's inscription on FEP. Diagrams and histories of approx 30 ships. Ships include: Alfred; Archibald Russell; Beltana; Berean; Brilliant; Cimba; Cutty Sark; Darling Downs; Calcutta; Dover Castle; Garthpool; Gravesend; Harbinger; Hougomont; Invercauld; Kaisow; Lake Superior; Loch Torridon; McQuarie; Mermerus; Monkbarns; Myrtle Holme; Norman Court; North Star; Pass of Brander; Bengairn; Aberdeen Patriarch; Piako; Samuel Plimsoll; Shakespeare; Tweed; Torrens; East Indiaman True Briton; Yallaroi
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10.00 USD
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Buick
Buick Shop Manual, 1948-1949; covering 1948 Series 40-50-70 and 1949 Series 50-70
Buick Motor Division Flint Michigan 1949 Paperback Good
Original Buick shop manual. Approx 700-900 pages (unpaginated) with diagrams and photos throughout. / Moderate/heavy garage-wear. Some oil stains and tape residue to cover. Some finger smudges to pages. Binding solid. Layed-in are two mimeo'd "BPS Bulletins" containing "information which was not available when the 1948-1949 Shop Manual was printed". Great reference for the vintage car restorer or collector.
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75.00 USD
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Buick
Buick Shop Manual, 1954
Buick Motor Division Flint Michigan 1954 Paperback Good
Original Buick shop manual. Approx 700-900 pages (unpaginated) with diagrams and photos throughout. / Closed 2" split to top edge of hinge. Some chipping to spine and bumping to edges. Interior hinges reinforced with cloth tape (either a vintage repair or how the book was bound). Light soiling to cover. Binding solid text unmarked. Great reference for the vintage car restorer or collector.
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45.00 USD
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Chambers, Bradford
Complete Space Rocketeer, The
Chambers, Eve
Stravon Publishers New York, NY 1955 Paperback Very Good
62-page chapbook on the state of rocket powered space travel and speculations about the future. Considerable discussion of the theories of Werner Von Braun and his contemporaries. Charmingly liiustrated with pen and ink drawings. Sections on: "Breaking Through the "A"(tmosphere) Barrier"; "Stations in Space"; "Design in Space"; "The Space Suit"; "Trip to Mars"; and more. Light/moderate age-wear. Some superficial chipping to spine. Clean, square and unmarked.
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45.00 USD
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Charles Lindbergh; Sir Alan Cobham; Ronald S. Lyons (contributions from)
Collins' Aircraft Annual
Collins' London and Glasgow 1930 Hardcover Very Good
Early aviation text aimed at young people with attractive painted illustrations and b+w spot illustrations throughout. 192 pages with paper-over-board pictorial image portraying a Bi-plane and and airship (blimp, dirigible). Chapter titles include When Aeroplanes Are as Common as Cars; Aeroplanes of the Future; The Thrills of Gliding; Joining a Light Aeroplane Club; The Rocket Aeroplane; and more. 5 Full color painted plates; one by "Swales"; a beautiful glider image ("S. Drigin"); Two boys surveiling from a Bi-Plane; A Dreadnought of the Air (airship); and more. 10 Photogravures including: Daily Express Engineless Glider; A Squadron of Bombers; Interior of Handley Page 40-Seater; Argosy Taxi-ing; Puss Moth; De Havilland Gipsy Moth; Handley Page Torpedo-Carrier; Short Calcutta Flying Boat; and more / Bumping and rubbing to board edges with some exposed board material. Some wrinkling and creasing to spine. Binding shaken but solid. Rear hinge starting. A few miscellaneous smudges and stains to interior pages.
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35.00 USD
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Editors
Red Book, The: Interstate Automobile Guide 1908, New England
F. S. Blanchard & Company Worcester, Mass 1980 Second edition Hardcover Fair
Vintage automobile, motoring tour guide. "Containing detailed descriptions of the best routes between all the leading centers and coast and mountain resorts; gazetteer of cities, towns, villages, street maps of principal cities and towns and a diagrammatic map of popular tours in new England". Oblong/tall 9" x 5". Bible-style cloth over flexible board binding. 576 pages. Pink paper (slightly edge-toned) with bound in ribbon marker. Board cloth is heavily frayed and peeling at corners. Repaired (where possible) with archival bookbinder's adhesive. Fascinating and elaborate directions/routes between popular destinations in New England using landmarks and street names that likely aren't there anymore. Also recommends overnight accomodations and car garages. Filled with vintage period ads. A valuable reference for the New England historian or early motoring enthusiast.
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95.00 USD
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Farr, A D
The Royal Deeside Line [SIGNED]
David & Charles United Kingdon 1968 First edition Hardcover 0715342738 / 9780715342732 Very Good very good Jacket Signed
History of the train line that "ran along Deeside from Aberdeen (Scotland) to Ballater.... Through six reigns the Royal family regularly travelled to and from Balmoral on the railway.". 152 pages. Color Frontis. Numerous B+W photo plates plus diagrams and reproductions of timetable and ephemera. SIGNED by author. . Book shows very light bumping to corrners. Clean, square and unmarked. Jacket shows some faint rubbing and nicking to edges and small spotting to back cover. Jacket in new Brodart protector.
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25.00 USD
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Hartz, Rutherford S.; Elizor E. Hall
Airplane Mechanics Rigging Handbook
Ronald Press Company New York, NY 1930 Hard Cover Very Good good Jacket
267-pages with diagrams and photos throughout. "2" on CR page possibly indicating printing. Section titles include: "The Rigging of Modern Airplanes"; Rigging the Wooden Airplane"; "Controls and Corrections for Instability"; "Fabric, Its Care, Preservation and Repair"; "Metal Airplane Parts": "Dopes and Doping"; "Parachutes: Their Care and Packing" (Parachute section extensively illustrated with photos); and more. Book Clean, square and unmarked. Light dusting to top edge of text block. Jacket intact. Age-tones with some chips and short tears to edges (closed where possible. Some spotting/staingint to spine. Jacket in new Brodart protector.
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55.00 USD
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Lucius Beebe; Charles Clegg
Narrow Guage in the Rockies
Howell North Berkeley, CA 1958 Hardcover Good good Jacket
"An elegant presentation of slim line rail roading".1970. Sixth Printing. 224 pages. Photos and diagrams throughout. Foldout. Some ink underlining and marginalia. Jacket shows some nicking and vintage tape repairs. Jacket in new Brodart protector.
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20.00 USD
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Middlemiss, Norman L
World Tankers
Shield Publications Ltd. 1996 Hardcover 1871128145 / 9781871128147 Fine very good Jacket
Oversize Hard Cover. 12" x 8.5". 144-pages. "This is the most comprehensive title on world tanker fleets ever published. All world tanker fleet owned by the oil majors, oil internationals, state-controlled fleets and leading independent owners are fully described from their early history. This survey of the present tanker scene includes chapters on tanker basics and tanker pollution, and is fully illustrated. The rear dust jacket shows the funnnel colors of 30 current leading tanker owners." / Fine condition. Light bumping/rubbing to edges of dust jacket
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37.95 USD
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T. O'Brien Hubbard; Charles C. Turner; E.W. Twining
The Boys' Book of Aeroplanes
Grant Richards Ltd. London, England 1912 Hardcover Very Good
Early aviation text aimed at young people--featuring material on the use of aviation in War--by Pilot Aviator, Late Secretary of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain (Hubbard) and Pilot Aviator and author of Aerial Navigation of To-day (Turner) with a chapter on model Aeroplanes by E.W. Twining (Holder of the Gamage Cup, 1910, the Model Engineer Cup, 1911, the Wakefield Gold Cup, 1911, for Model Airplanes. Attractive pictorial boards and spine. 227 text pages plus 59 (of an original 60) pages of "Diagrams and Reproductions from Photographs" tipped-in. 1 plate, originally facing page 18 and titled ("How To Bank") is missing. Photo subjects include; a Scott Bomb-Dropper on a Wright Biplane (plus additional close-up); naval air-scout; Hanriot Monoplanes; Voisin Biplane; Antoinette and Bleriot Monoplanes racing; H. Farman's Hydro Aero-plane; Deperdussin Monoplane; Latham's Famous Flight; Passenger on a Farman Monoplane; Graham Gilmour at Henley Regatta; Marcel Hanriot; Stringfellow's Monoplane; Pilcher's Hawk; First Aerial Derby; Original Wright Biplane; Latham's Antionette salvaged from the sea; and more / Binding shaken but holding. Several of the plates have come loose but are present (with the exception of 18). Could be re tipped-in if the buyer desires. Interesting aviation related stamps and names inked or stamped in the front matter, including: Capt. A.W. Scott (27 July 1979), 888 (KOMOX) Wing Royal Canadian Air Force Association (ink stamp); Gerald E. Elkington (Jan 6 1914, E.M.E., G.M.E.); Property of COMOX Air Force Museum. Spine slightly tanned, darkened.
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185.00 USD
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Talbot-Booth, Lt-Cmdr E C
Talbot-Booth's Merchant Ships, Volume 1
Nichols Publishing Kent, England 1978 Hardcover 0893970301 / 9780893970307 Very Good good Jacket
Oversize Hard Cover. 12" x 8.5". 380 pages. "In this first volume, vessels with engines and bridge amidships and three-quarters aft are dealt with, strictly following Talbot-Booth tradition. This first work includes nearly 4,000 individual ships or classes on a worldwide basis, naming around 10,000 ships, and is cross indexed. Each of the 4,000 drawings is to a scale of 200' to 1" and technical detail includes the following facts: name and flag, year and country of building, gross registered tonnage, dimensions (metric and imperial), such as length and draught, machinery, speed, former names with year of changes and sister or similar ships, with ex names and year of change." / VOLUME 1 ONLY. Jacket spine sunned showing some nicking to edges. Previous owner's inscription on Fly. Jacket in new Brodart protector.
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25.75 USD
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