Adventures in Restoring Antique Cars
by Burt Mills
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0396075851
- ISBN 13
- 9780396075851
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1978 Dodd, Mead, & Company, New York. 1978. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a gift inscription on the front pastedown. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight bottom board edge shelfwear. DJ: Very Good; Price Clipped; light chipping at head and tail; small closed tears on edges. Orange cloth boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine. 265 pp 8vo. The author has been restoring collectable antique cars for over 25 years. Here he provides and account of his experiences that is as delightful as it is informative. Full of advice, solutions, and restoration tips. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007499
- Title
- Adventures in Restoring Antique Cars
- Author
- Burt Mills
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0396075851
- ISBN 13
- 9780396075851
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead, & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1978
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- automobiles, auto restoration, auto body work, collectible cars, Jay Leno, antique cars, auto parts, touring, classic cars, Rolls Royce, Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, Packard,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Transportation; Autobiography; Automobiles;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...