FILL 'ER UP! THE STORY OF FIFTY YEARS OF MOTORING
by Partridge, Bellamy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ to Very Good-/Fair
- Seller
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Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1952. "Written from the point of view of the man behind the wheel, Fill 'Er Up chronicles with gusto, color, and humor all the excitement of the years when American motoring was growing from gawky adolescence to streamlined maturity." 235 pages with index. B/W photographs throughout book. DJ in Fair condition with major tears and rips, chipping to edges and corners, missing sections of spine, scotch tape repairs. Blue cloth covers have bumped/rubbed corners. Spine tips are bent and starting to fray, white spots along spine. Foxing on top page edge and lightly throughout book. Previous owner's name written on front inside cover. Interior is tight. Book in Good+ to VG- condition.. Cloth. Good+ to Very Good-/Fair. Illus. by Photographs. Size: Approx. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4". Automobiles.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bee Creek Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005981
- Title
- FILL 'ER UP! THE STORY OF FIFTY YEARS OF MOTORING
- Author
- Partridge, Bellamy
- Illustrator
- Photographs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ to Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- Early Travel, Cars, Motoring
- Bookseller catalogs
- Early Travel; Automobiles;
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About the Seller
Bee Creek Books
Biblio member since 2010
Princeton, New Jersey
About Bee Creek Books
Welcome to Bee Creek Books! We specialize in rare and out of print books in a variety of subjects (fiction to fishing, the arts to agriculture), old government documents, rare periodicals, vintage journals, no longer printed reports and quarterlies, classic maps and charts, photos, and much more!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...