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Crabb, Richard.
Birth of a Giant: The Men and Incidents That Gave America The
Motorcar.
New York: Chilton Book Company, 1969. 1st edition. x, 467 pages. Index.
Photographs. Illustrations. Pictorial endpapers.
Very good cloth-covered hardcover in Very good dust jacket. #18266. $22.50
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Dalton Watson Team.
Porsche - The Road, Sports and Racing Cars.
Loughborough, Leicestershire: Dalton Watson Fine Books, 1993. 1st printing.
Square small 4to (medium-large book). 260 pages Color and black-and-white
photographs. Includes and Appendix of Porsche Models and their Chassis Numbers.
A history of the many Porsche models: The First Porsche Cars, 911, 959, 914,
924, 944, 928, 968, the Racing Line, 904 to the 910, 936 to 962. Very good
hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 1854431048. #25121. $35
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Ford Motor Company.
Ford 1989 Ford Crown Victoria, Mercury Grand Marquis,
Thunderbird, Cougar Do-It-Yourself Manual.
Dearborn, Michigan?: Ford Parts and Service Division, 1989. February 1989.
Oblong small 4to. 212 pages. Index. Illustrations. FPS-10289-89.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #25737. $25
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Ford Motor Company.
Forty Years, 1903-1943.
Detroit?: Ford Motor Company, 1943? 42, [1] pages. Photographs. Illustrations.
Endpaper illustrations.
Separately printed note laid in: 'Mr. Edsel Ford gave considerable personal
attention to the preparation of this fortieth anniversary volume. The idea was
his and the work was done under his direction. The statement bearing his
signature [on the last page of the book] was prepared by him shortly before his
last illness'. Very good hardcover. In very good slipcase, with a worn spot on
one side. #22253. $60
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Grainger, Rod, and Pete Shoemark.
Mazda Miata MX5 Enthusiast's Shop Manual [MX-5].
Godmanstone, Dorset, UK: Veloce Publishing, 1994. 2d printing. 15 separately
paginated sections. Photographs. Illustrations. UK ISBN 1874105065.
Very good laminated pictorial hardcover. ISBN 1874105162. #25609. $90
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Hub Publishing Co., New York.
Draft-Book of Centennial Carriages, Displayed in Philadelphia
at the International Exhibition of 1876.
Introduction by Jane des Grange. Stony Brook, New York: Suffolk Museum &
Carriage House, 1964. Facsimile reprint. Folio (very-large book). 123 pages.
Index. Illustrations. First published New York, Hub Publishing Co, 1876.
Displays included two and four-wheel vehicles, pleasure carriages,
stage-coaches, hearses, wagons, sleighs, fire engines, horse carriages,
velocipedes, and baby carriages. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover) with
paper title label on front cover. #23601. $35
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International Automobile Parade.
International Automobile Parade. Internationale
Automobil-Parade. Parade Internationale d'Automobiles. Volume II.
Zurich, Switzerland: Arthur Logoz, 1958? 2d edition. 4to (large book). 290
pages. Color photographs. Errata slip laid in.
Good hardcover with taped spine in worn, torn, and repaired dust jacket. Tape
marks on edges of dust jacket flaps and inside front and rear covers. Dampstain
marks along top edge of most pages. #21932. $22.50
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Langworth, Richard M., Produced by
the Editors of Automobile Quarterly.
Kaiser-Frazer: The Last Onslaught on Detroit. An Intimate
Behind the Scenes Study of the Postwar American Car Industry.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton Publications, 1975. 1st edition. Oblong small
4to (medium-large book). 287 pages. Index. Color and black-and-white
photographs and illustrations. An Automobile Quarterly Library Series Book.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn and frayed dust jacket.
ISBN 0915038048. #21926. $85
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Levy, B. S. (Burt S.).
Montezuma's Ferrari and Other Adventures.
Oak Park, Illinois: Think Fast Ink, 1999. 1st printing. 395 pages.
Illustrations. Inscribed and signed by the author. Full title: The Last Open
Road continues...Montezuma's Ferrari..and other adventures.
About sports car racing in the 1950's and automobile mechanics. Very good
hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0964210711. #25319. $25
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Page, Victor W.
Hints and Tips for Automobilists: A Handy Manual Containing
Many Notes to Help the Busy Man Care for His Automobile Intelligently; To Drive
It Properly; Oil It Regularly and Locate Ordinary Road Troubles Easily.
New York: Norman W. Henley Publishing Company, 1920. 101 pages + 40 pages
'Good, Useful Books' advertising. Illustrations. Everyday Engineering Series,
2.
Good stiff original pictorial wrappers (soft cover), front cover worn and upper
right-hand corner missing; upper corners of early pages have creases; some
foxing on rear pages. #25070. $32.50
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Schorr, Martyn L.
Corvette: From Six to Stingray.
Baldwin, New York: Marque Books, 1976. Revised. Small 4to (medium large book).
96 pages. Photographs. Illustrations.
A history of the Corvette from 1953 to 1976. Good stiff pictorial wrappers
(soft cover), covers and spine slightly worn, front cover slightly soiled.
#24637. $25
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Setright, L. J. K.
Motorcycles.
Preface by Barry Sheene. Great Britain: Arthur Barker Limited, 1976. 4to (large
book). 158 pages. Index. Color and black-and-white photographs. Illustrations.
Photographic endpapers.
Very good hardcover in worn dust jacket. #24935. $25
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Staudner, Florian.
Wheels, Carriages and Coaches: Comments on a Remarkable Old
Craft.
Darmstadt: Carl Schenck, 1989. Edition limited to 1350 copies. Oblong 8vo. 59
pages. Color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Master Craftsmanship. First published
in German as Rad und Wagen.
Very good pictorial hardcover. #24952. $30
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Tranter, Deborah.
Cobb & Co.: Coaching in Queensland.
South Brisbane, Queensland: Queensland Museum, 1990. 1st printing. Square 8vo.
viii, 159 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps.
'For more than 70 years Cobb & Co. coaches and horses travelled over millions
of kilometres of unmade outback roads to provide vital communication links for
many isolated communities. Nowhere was its influence so widespread as in
Queensland, where the company operated horse-drawn coaches from 1866 until
succumbing to the motor vehicle in 1924.' - Front jacket panel. Very good stiff
pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 072424140X. #24617. $30
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