THE MODERN GASOLINE AUTOMOBILE. ITS DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE. A PRACTICAL COMPREHENSIVE TREATISE EXPLAINING ALL PRINCIPLES PERTAINING TO GASOLINE AUTOMOBILES AND THEIR COMPONENT PARTS. 1918 EDITION.
by Page, Victor
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Kinzers, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
The Norman W. Henley Publishing Company, New York: 1918., 1918 pp. 1032, (34)[Publisher's catalog including Aviation books] + Plus numerous folding plans and designs of automobiles. Numerous text drawings. Front inner hinge cracked. Endpapers foxed. Stamped ownership of Harold O. Thorne, McGill Building, Washington, DC. Large 8vo. Original full cloth binding, lettered in white. Front cover ruled in black with drawing of an automobile. Binding faded and worn at extremities. Hardbound. With all the folding plates. A useful reference. AUTO/1 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good.
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- THE FAMILY ALBUM (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 040AUTO
- Title
- THE MODERN GASOLINE AUTOMOBILE. ITS DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE. A PRACTICAL COMPREHENSIVE TREATISE EXPLAINING ALL PRINCIPLES PERTAINING TO GASOLINE AUTOMOBILES AND THEIR COMPONENT PARTS. 1918 EDITION.
- Author
- Page, Victor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Norman W. Henley Publishing Company, New York: 1918.
- Date Published
- 1918
- Keywords
- AUTO; AUTOMOBILE; CAR; EPHEMERA; TRANSPORTATION; MOTOR VEHICLES; GASOLINE 1 918; DESIGN; CONSTRUCTION; OPERATION; MAINTENANCE; FOLDING PLANS; ILLUSTRAT IONS
- Bookseller catalogs
- ECONOMICS / BUSINESS; SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY;
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About the Seller
THE FAMILY ALBUM
Biblio member since 2007
Kinzers, Pennsylvania
About THE FAMILY ALBUM
Ron Lieberman, has been an antiquarian bookseller, rare book appraiser, and library consultant for Fifty years. His firm, The Family Album, has issued a series of exceptional catalogs and bibliographic references in a variety of fields, including: Incunabula; Pennsylvania-Americana; German-Americana; Fine Book Bindings; Early Photographica; Printing History & Typography; Classics from the Great Scholar / Printers; Etc. He was the instructor for a series of valuable workshops and courses in the history, taste, and technique of book collecting. He frequently lectures before professional groups of librarians and archivists on: the book trade; collection and building security; disaster preparedness; appraisals; and preservation, conservation, and binding. He has also often appeared on radio and television popularizing the pleasant hobby of antique book collecting. His expert opinion on the book collecting market; values of archives and manuscripts; collection preservation & security; historic photographs; and the value of rare books has been sought by sources as diverse as: the Historical & Museum Commission of PA; the PA State Library; the Library of Congress; the Smithsonian Institution; the FBI; American Bible Society; Money Magazine; Kipplinger Magazine; Conservation Centers; Warmans Antique Price Guides; U.S.A. Today; as well as Universities, Colleges, and Historical Societies throughout the United States. As one of the organizers of the World Library Fund, Mr. Lieberman provides professional analyses of library collections, and helps plan library development for public and private institutions in the United States and abroad. He was a Member of the Board of Governors of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (A.B.A.A.), and Chairman of the A.B.A.A. Security Committee. He was a long-time regular member of the Security Committee of the Rare Book and Manuscript Section (RBMS) of the American Library Association (ALA); and was the Past President of the Middle Atlantic Chapter, A.B.A.A. Mr. Lieberman was also, for many years, a consulting editor and contributor to the Haworth Press journal: "College & Undergraduate Libraries" American Library Association (ALA); + ACRL/RBMS [For 35 Continuous Years] // PA Library Association (PLA) // Bibliographical Society of America // Middle Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) // Society for the History of Authorship, Readership, and Publishing (SHARP) // Philobiblon Club // Etc. Etc.
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- Cracked
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- Hinge
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- New
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- Foxed
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- Cloth
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