Early Automobiles – Golden Library of Knowledge by Eugene Rachlis - 1961: The Story of Horseless Carriages from the Clock-Spring Car of 1619 to Henry Ford’s Model T

Decorative hardbound boards are illustrated with an antique car in front of past times garage on the front board and a sampling of Gold Library of Knowledge books on the back cover. The boards and spine are in excellent condition with no edge wear and laminate fully intact. All four corners are sharp and with no wear. The spine is straight with hinges firmly attached, and no cracking to the decorative endpapers. Text is block is firmly attached with all pages intact to stitched binding. Very slight age tanning throughout. Interior pages are in very good condition with no tears, chips, cracks, or previous owner marks.

Books in the Golden Library of Knowledge were "Factual Books for Young readers priced at 69 Informative lively, easy-to-read texts are completely authoritative with each book checked for accuracy by an expert in the field. Handsomely illustrated with full-color photographs, paintings, diagrams, and charts.

Eugene Rachlis (1920 – 1986) was a book publisher, author, and magazine editor. During the 1970's he was editor in chief at Bobbs-Merrill and at Prentice-Hall's trade-book division. He was the author of many articles in national magazines and of several books. He was a journalist during World War II and served as press attaché for the Marshall Plan.

Jack Coggins (1911 – 2006) born in the London, England barracks of the First Regiment of Life Guards – the part of the Household Cavalry responsible for guarding the British Monarch – but the Coggins family immigrated to the United States in 1923. Over the course of his long career in America he served in the Army as a correspondent in Europe from 1943 until the end of the war, between 1941 and 1983 he wrote and/or illustrated 44 books on a wide range of marine, military, historical and educational themes. He also created over 1000 paintings, painted several science-fiction magazine covers and specialized in paintings of spaceships and astronomical art. In 1966 he wrote and illustrated "The Horseman's Bible" in which he acknowledges his father, "whose twenty-five years in the cavalry and lifelong interest in horses made his advice invaluable."