Official Automobile Blue Book (1921)-- Vol. One: New York State and Adjacent Canada by - - 1921

1122 pages, unpaginated inserts for NY (24pp) & Boston (20pp), 10pp color 'National Touring Objectives'. Many maps, advertisements for hotels, garages. 9.25x5.25", limp cloth. Lacks folding map, 1 leaf pasted backwards, bit chipped, rubbed, G.

Automobile Blue Book Publishing Co., NY, 1921, 8vo., flexible cloth wraps, 1122pp., many ads, folding map, radiator cement advertising bookmark ribboned in, G $

Includes: New England, Eastern Canada, and Maritime Provinces. Book is in Good- condition, with front cover coming away from spine at the top to 2/3rds from the bottom. Rear cover hinge becoming weak, but intact. Pages intact.

Chicago: Automobile Blue Book Publishing, 1919 & 1921. Vol. 8; Tall octavo. 776 pp. including numerous inserts, maps, photographic illustrations. Complete. Publisher's flexible blue cloth with gilt cover lettering. Expertly rebacked retaining the original spine. Ver good.Vol. 9; Tall octavo. 848 pp. including numerous inserts, maps, photographic illustrations. Complete but for the folding map at the rear (often missing as they were used). The map is reproduced in smaller segments on pp. 2-21. Publisher's flexible blue cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. Some creases and general rubbing but a good, complete copy.Between these two books the entire West Coast is covered. Between them they detail 1,783 driving routes across the arid west. These are exhaustive and comprehensive guides to early car touring in California and the West. With such instructions as 'turn left after the wooden bridge" we can infer that car travel in 1920 was a difficult proposition at best. There is an illustrated… Read More