Bruxelles: Imp. J. Remy. Softcover. Near fine. Undated, but 1920s.7 x 5 in., 30 pp, b/w illustrations from photographs. Cover art signed "C.D." Slight edgewear; near fine. Claiming to be "the largest and most up-to-date motor hire company in Europe." Servauto offers cars with "specially built bodies for continental touring..... Item #20896
Twenty-seven (27) 8” x 10” photographs showcasing high-end vehicles for rent from the Iowa Garage in Pasadana, California, owned by former race car mechanic Eugene Lajunie (b. 1885). Each photo is accompanied by a typed caption giving the model number, color, some specifications, and the price per day to rent..... Item #20563
St. Louis: Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. Softcover. Very good. Undated, but ca. 1932. 3 x 6 inches, [6] pp, stapled booklet. Mith minor handling wear, small stain on back cover. Promotes "new lands at low prices" in a region with "a temperate climate wityh long growing seasons, unusually fertile soils..... Item #22030
`: [Joint New England Railroad Committee], 1923. Softcover. Very good. 10.5" x 7.5", cloth-backed wrappers. Contains 23 folded maps, along with a list of their titles. Issued to accompany a text volume not present here. Wrappers have some chips and creasing, maps fine. Includes: 1) General map of New England..... Item #23189
Los Angeles: Touring Bureau of the Automobile Club of Southern California, 1931. Softcover. Very good. 4.5" x 8", 31 pp, in original stapled wrappers. Light soiling to front cover, otherwise clean and sound. Very good. The Automobile Club of Southern California, founded in 1900, was one of the nation's first..... Item #22090
Detroit, MI: Nash Motors. Soft cover. Very Good. Undated, but c. 1952. 70 pp, consisting of 158 historic photographs, with brief descriptions of each car pictured. Comb binding. Comb is damaged at the foot of the spine, covers have light edgewear. Contents clean. Item #12164
New York: Great American Tea Company, 1886. Near fine. Original chromolithograph advertising poster, 22 x 32 inches. A stunning print with exceptionally rich color, archivally backed. Professional restoration to edges and a few small spots on the printed area. Near fine. "Ten minutes for refreshments!" was the well-known cry of..... Item #22219
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1908. Hardcover. Good. 286 pp + 4 (folding detailed financial statements) + 1 (folding map), with index, in library binding, red pebbled cloth. Ex-library with bookplate from Dayton Museum of Natural History, front hinge cracked. This volume covers issues pertaining to Armament, Transporation, and Supply..... Item #1652
Syracuse, NY: Franklin Automobile Company, 1914. Approximately 6 x 9 inches, 16 pp, with half-tone illustrations in the text. Stapled wrappers. But for a previous owner's ink stamp in purple ink on both the upper wrap and title page, the pamphlet is fine, clean, and bright. Not found in OCLC..... Item #19800
1919. Softcover. Very Good. 22 pp, in original wrappers. Light handling wear to wrappers, old horizontal crease; contents clean and sound. Text of the resolution of a lawsuit grought by the United States Govenment over oil-bearing lands in California granted to Southern Pacific Railroad. The Government argued that Southern Pacific..... Item #1495
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1922. Hardcover. Very good. Second printing. 222 pp, in original brick-colored cloth. Boards lightly soiled; mild spine slant. Binding sound, contents clean. No dust jacket. Despite the expose-like title, this biography paints a favorable portrait of Ford. Item #14352
Louisville: The Standard Press, 1935. Hardcover. Near fine. Second printing. 286 pp, with index and illustrations, in original blue cloth with gilt titles. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, light rubbing to corners and spine ends, else a fine copy. No dust jacket. A detailed account of Kentucky's stage..... Item #23184
Lausanne: The Association Pro Sempione. Softcover. Very Good-. Undated, c. 1907. 120 pp, with many sepia-toned illustrations from photographs, two color plates, and a one-page map. Large chip missing from corner of front cover; back cover with a tape repair; contents clean and sound. Intented "to introduce the traveller to..... Item #1746
Union Pacific Railroad, 1938. Very good. Pictorial map, 18" x 31", folding to a 9" x 4" brochure (titled "Boulder Dam"), with text, illustrations, and colorful pictorial cover on the verso. A few pinholes at the intersections and tiny tears at margins, but overall a very nice example of this..... Item #22058
Louisville, KY: John P. Morton, 1910. Softcover. Very Good. 144 pp, with maps, illustrations, in original wrappers Front wrap starting to separate at spine ends (but still firmly attached); contents clean. Revised, with material not contained in earlier editions. A prefatory section titled "Announcement" noted that the original purpose of..... Item #1510
Mossley, UK: Manchester Transport Museum Society, 1980. Softcover. Near fine. 120 pp, with b/w and color illustrations, tables, maps tipped in at rear. Minor handling wear to wrappers; contents clean and sound. A history of transport in Ashton-Under-Lyne extensively illustrated. Includes chapters on turnpikes, canals and railways, horse trams, trolleybus..... Item #436
Kansas City, MO: Kansas City Southern Railway Company, 1911. Softcover. Good. 10" x 6.5", pp. 153-190 + ads. Stapled binding. Chips, staining to cover edges, internally very good. Issue 35 of this scarce and interesting publication from the Kansas City Southern Railway Company. Includes advertising for agricultural and industrial real..... Item #23117
ournal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, [1894]. Softcover. Very Good. Offprint. 1 pp + 2 (folding tables), in original wrappers. Handling wear with a few short chips and tears to edges; text clean. Reprinted from Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, Volume VI, No. 3. Tables..... Item #2876
New York: Little, Brown, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. 308 pp, with illustrations from photographs. Some uneven toning to cloth, light dust soiling to top edge, pale stain at margin of title page. Otherwise claan and sound. In the scarce original dust jacket..... Item #22268
American Society of Naval Engineers, [1894]. Softcover. Near fine. Offprint. Reprinted from Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, Volume VI, No. 1. Pages 445-463 + 4 plates (3 charts, photographic frontispiece) in original wrappers. Discusses testing on the steamer's boilers, engines, and electrical plant. Item #2871
Fallbrook, CA: Aero Publishers, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. 240 pp, illustrated and indexed. Lower corners lightly bumped, otherwise as new, in original dust jacket. "The eight decades history of a major American industrial firm which has long been a leader in developing..... Item #22462
Chicago: The White City Art Company, 1895. Hardcover. Very good. 152 pp + index, ads, with many illustrations from photographs by W.H. Jackson, C.R. Savage, and others. Pictorial blue cloth boards, lightly toned at spine, rubbed at extremities, some soiling to back cover. Previous owner's name crossed out on front..... Item #22027
