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The Tank: Its Birth and Development.
Lincoln William Foster & Co. Ltd.: n.d. [1920?].
Presumed first and only edition. 90pp, full of photographs and a fascinating account of the genesis and rapid evolution of the first world war tank, written while its glory days were still fresh. A firm but worn and soiled copy: the guarded colour frontis is creased and soiled, and two other pages are creased; there is occasional minor soiling throughout; the pictorial endpapers are foxed; and edge tears to several pages have been repaired with archival tissue. Landscape quarto, in the original quarter morocco binding: morocco bright and firm, the blue pictorial boards very soiled. Good.
Price: £125.00
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The Automobile Club of Ceylon Handbook.
Colombo: The Automobile Club of Ceylon, and printed by The Colombo Apothecaries Co Ltd, n.d. [1931].
Presumed first and only edition thus. 564pp, with photographs, some text illustrations, 74pp of maps in colour, a 50 page gazeteer, 100pp of itineraries, many advertisements, and much other information, some in tables, about sporting districts, roads, motoring in other countries, membership, and 100pp of laws and rules pertaining to driving. Contents clean and unmarked: tiny corner crease to a few of the first pages. Advert bookmark on string. c.6 x 4 ins, in the original binding of blue plasticated cloth titled in black, with rounded corners. Neat ownership name in black to upper board. Firm and bright, with scuffs to surface of lower board, and a few small marks, scuffs and indentations elsewhere. Very nice copy, very uncommon. VG+.
Price: £85.00
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The Gypsies: Waggon-time and After.
London: Batsford, 1979.
First edition. 144pp, with many illustrations. Contents clean and unmarked, but with faint tobacco smell. Quarto, in the original green cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean, bright and firm, with slight puckering to base of spine. In the protected clipped pictorial dust jacket, clean and bright, with small knocks to spine ends. Very nice copy. Near Fine in very good+ dust-jacket.
Price: £60.00
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A brief guide to the Motor Manufacturers of Coventry.
Coventry: Museum of British Road Transport n.d. [c.1990?]
Edition not known. 46pp, illustrated in monochrome. Quarto (11.5 x 8.4 ins) booklet with glossy pictorial paper covers. [The 1983 first edition is listed on Copac as having 21pp, so this is presumably a later, enlarged edition.] Contents clean and unmarked. Very faint and minor creasing to covers, and a mark where small price label removed. Clean and bright, nice copy. Very Good.
Price: £20.00
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Bugatti 57: The Last French Bugatti.
Dorchester: Veloce Publishing, n.d. [2000].
Enlarged and Revised Edition. 240pp, packed with photos. Contents mint, appears unread. In the turquoise cloth-textured boards, spine titled in silver, sharp and sparkling bright: in the unpriced colour pictorial jacket, very slightly knocked to the top edge, as new. Really one to drool over. Fine in fine dust-jacket.
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Price: £75.00
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The Traction Engine Archive.
The Road Locomotive Society, Stonehouse, 2004.
First Edition. 160pp, with 160 splendid photographs. Landscape quarto in laminated pictorial boards, in 'as new' condition. Fine.
Price: £36.00
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