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Los Angeles, 1936. Near fine. Folio, pp. 56, illustrations, advertisements, full page Coca-Cola ad in color on the inside back cover. Nice art deco front cover. Separate sheet "Today's Racing Entries, Friday, September Fourth, laid in loose. -- No notable defects. -- Overall Condition. "The National Air Races (also known as Pulitzer Trophy Races) are a series of pylon and cross-country races that have taken place in the United States since 1920. The science of aviation, and the speed and reliability of aircraft and engines grew rapidly during this period; the National Air Races were both a proving ground and showcase for this. -- In 1920, publisher Ralph Pulitzer sponsored the Pulitzer Trophy Race and the Pulitzer Speed Trophy for military airplanes at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, in an effort to publicize aviation and his newspaper. The races eventually moved to Cleveland, in 1929, where they were known as the Cleveland National Air Races.[2] They drew the best flyers of the time,… Read More

Softcover. As new. Size: tall quarto. Still in shrinkwrap.

Goldendale, Washington: Goldendale Sentinel, 1968. [First Edition]. Stiff wraps. Near fine. 8vo., 79 pp., historical photographs, drawings, index.

New Haven, Conecticut: Readers Press, Incorporated, 1969. First Edition (So Stated). Hardcover. Very good. 8vo., 251 pages, illustrated with black & white photographs. -- Spine lightly cocked. No other notable defects.

Osceola: Motorbooks International, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Motorbooks International , Osceola, 1995. First Edition. Near Fine Condition. -- appendix 1 - Specifications, appendix 2 - Clubs, index. -- Near fine condition - no notable defects. -- Carefully researched text includes interviews with many of the major players in the Austin-Healey story.... along with comments from Austin-Healey race drivers... Eighty new color photos and more than thirty black and white historical shots illustrate the story. A fascinating look at a classic British sports car. -- Size: Quarto. 128 pages. (b-e). MBK. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Automobiles & Vehicles; TRANSPORTATION::Automotive::Antique & Classic; England; AUTOMOTIVE; ISBN: 0760300607. ISBN/EAN: 9780760300602. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8240. . 9780760300602.

Ft. Lauderdale: Creative Images, 1989. Revised Edition. [First Published in 1984]. Paperback. Near fine. 8"x5" (oblong), 160pp., illustrations, diagrams, glossary, index. -- Signed by the author on the title-page. -- A tiny bit of wear to the extremities.

Ithaca: Great Seal Books. A Division of Cornell University, 1963. Third Printing. Short 8vo, 193pp, paper covers Minor rubbing to the outer extremities A couple pages have a few lines in the text (I counted 4) highlighted in yelllow, a few marginal markings in ink (not many) Overall very good condition (XO-175) Quantity Available: 1 Category: Transportation; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request Inventory No: 003151.

Crydon England: MRP - Motor Racing Publications Ltd, 1986. [First Edition] States "First Published 1986. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. 4to., yellow cloth covers, 144pp., illustrated. Small closed tear (about 1/8 inch to dust jacket at top of spine). --. The 20 engines selected for this volume and listed on the back cover span half a century and five nationalities: The last Rudge Ulster - DKW three-cylinder racer - Mark 8 KTT Velocette - Postwar Vincent Rapide - 500cc Speedway JAP - Works BMW flat-twin - NSU Rennmax twin - Moto guzzi flat-single - MZ disc-valve single - Pushrod Jawa Eso - 125cc desmodromic Ducati - Outside-flywheel Norton - Honda CB450 twin - 250cc Royal Enfield GPS - Twin-camshaft Bandit/Fury - Six-cylinder Honda CBX - Prototype NSU Wankel - Moto Morini 3-1/2 - Kawasaki Z1300 six - Suzuki RG500 square-four.

Brighton, England: Autopress Ltd, 1972. Second Edition, Fully Revised. Hardcover. Very good +. 9 3/4"x7 1/4, plastic over boards, 160 pp., diagram illustrations, glossary of terms, index. -- A few light stained spots to the front cover.

Klamath County Museum, Research Paper No. 6. [1974]. 4to, 100pp, stiff paper covers with an illustration of the boat 'Winema', photographs, map -- Very good+ condition X879 Quantity Available: 1 Category: Transportation; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request Inventory No: 002703.

Boston: Printed by C.C.F. Moody, 1854. Original wraps. Good. 8vo., pp. 23, sewed spine. Folding map, colored in outline, and folding table of distances. -- Wrapper has chips around the edges & one piece gone top left at the spine. Name in ink on front cover. -- Folding map & table of distances in fine condition. Overall Condtion.

No Place: Firestone Tire & Rubber Co, 1920. Edition Unstated. Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Good Condition. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co, No Place, 1920s circa. Edition Unstated. Good Condition. Moderate handling soil to the covers. Some light edge-wear. Overall, Good Condition. "By the early 1920s, tires had become the chokepoint of the auto industry. Most cars rode on tires not that far evolved from bicycle rubber, which needed changing every few hundred miles and weren't capable of sustaining higher speeds. The thin rubber required high pressure to stay on the wheel (55-60 psi was a common inflation target for Ford Model T tires) and made them easy to puncture. Worse, they couldn't hold much weight, and trucks of that era rode on solid rubber wheels.That all changed on this date in 1922, when Firestone began production of its Balloon Tire. The Firestone engineers had discovered that if they dipped the individual cotton tire cords in rubber, they could create a… Read More

Akron: Firestone Tire & Rubber Co, 1927. Edition Unstated. Softcover (Stiff Boards). Very Good Condition. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co, Akron, 1927. Edition Unstated. Very Good Condition. How To Book A few small stains to the covers, corners a little bumped. Internally clean and sound. Overall, Very Good Condition. Glossy illustrations throughout the text. Size: quarto (oversize). 56 pages. Item Type: How To Book. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Automobiles & Vehicles; Automotive Manuals; United States; 1920s; Transportation - Vintage; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8635.

Paxton: Illinois Central Railroad Historical Society, August, 2001. 4to, 48 pages Stapled paper covers with railroad related wraparound illustration, historical photographs, etc -- Contents: Recipe for a Tragedy Illinois Central's EMD GP7 Diesel Locomotives Death of an Iron Horse Gallery -- Fine condition (gb 1) Quantity Available: 1 Category: Transportation; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request Inventory No: 006970.

Enola, Pennsylvania: Gas Engine Magazine. hardcover. fine. 4to., approx. 40-50 pages per issue, Lots of illustrations of vintage gas engines, trucks, tractors & machinery of all kinds.

Torrance: American Honda Motor Co., Inc., (1994). [First Edition]. Folio (12" - 15" tall), 117 numbered pages, black paper over boards (hardbound) with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine -- "This special hard-cover book commemorates the distinguished 20-year history of Honda's remarkable Gold Wing Beautifully illustrated with more than 275 color photographs and illustrations Tells the Gold Wing story, and the story of the company behind this legendary machine, through highly informative text and many rare photographs" -- Fine condition in a near fine dust jacket (kb) Quantity Available: 1 Category: Transportation; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request Inventory No: 006720.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Self Published, 1982. Hardcover. Near fine/good +. 4to., 199 pp., many historical photographs. -- frontispiece: A Heisler heads a log train in a steep sided ravine on the operation of the Milwaukee Lumber Company near St. Maries, Idaho. Front end sheet: Salmon Creek Lumber Company No. 4 loading logs along Salmon Creek near Kelletville, Pennsylvania. Rear end sheet: Dents Run Railroad No. 2, crosses the Bennetts Branch of the Susquehanna River after leaving Dents Run Junction with the Pennsylvania Railroad. Dust jacket illustration: Smith Mcgowen Mill Company No. 6. The erecting shop of the Heisler Locomotive Works forms the background. -- 4 page addenda errata sheet laid in loose, dated 1983. Table of Contents: Charles L. Heisler, Stearns Manufacturing Company, Heisler Locomotive Works, Whitney Engineering Company, Heisler Geared Locomotive Origin, Development, Refinement...Purpose Distribution, Performance. Erection of a Heisler Geared Locomotive. Heisler's Last Years… Read More

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, MCMXXVII [1928], First Edition. Very Good+ Condition in a Very Good Dust Jacket (dust jacket is a little dusty, and has a small soiled spot and a couple of closed tears)The dust jacket is not price clipped -- Hard cover (brown cloth with a paper inlay portrait of J J Hill - gilt lettering on the front cover and spine), 356 pages, decorated endpapers, frontis photograph of Hill with tissue overlay -- (ab 00) Quantity Available: 1 Category: Transportation; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request Inventory No: 007619.

Los Angeles: Floyd Clymer, 1951. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Very good +. 8vo., 159pp., illustrated with photographs & diagrams, charts. -- Minor / light wear to the extremities. No other notable defects. "This book is the most complete theoretical treatment of the subject ever published to date [1951} and will become a standard text in the field of speed and power"-floydclymer.

New York and London: McGraw-Hill, 1946, First Edition. Signed and Inscribed by the author: "To the Library of Foreign Relations with the compliments of Ross A McFarland" -- 8vo, 670pp, grey cloth, photographs, charts, index -- Small libray stamp of the Council of Foreign Relations on the front pastedown, foredges a moderately dusty/dirty, light shelfwear -- Overall good+ condition XB367 Quantity Available: 1 Category: Transportation; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request Inventory No: 003022.