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Ford Motor Company. Dearborn, Michigan. 1959. First Printing., 1959 Orangish wraps with front cover black and white lettering. 116 pages. Book size about 4 by 7 inches. 'This booklet contains service specifications for the 1960 Ford Car, Thunderbird, Falcon and Truck'. Covers moderately soiled; fingering to page edges and a few pages; light general wear. GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. 1st Edition.. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket.

Cadillac Motor Cars Division, General Motors. Detroit., 1978 Book size about 5 by 8 inches with some 109 pages. Bound in brown wraps with gilt lettering. Illustrated with photos and drawings. Typical automobile owner Manual. Front cover scuff at bottom right else light overall wear. GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. 1st Edition.. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket.

The White Company. Cleveland, Ohio. (1923)., 1923 Book size about 8 1/2 by 11 1/2 inches with some 32 pages. Bound in color illustrated wraps. Published by The White Company this quarterly publication is all about White trucks and buses. This appears to be the October-December, 1923 issue. Loaded with photos of White trucks and buses. Very scarce company publication. Light overall wear; some scuffing to covers; tear at spine bottom. GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. 1st Edition.. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Bentley Pub, 1995 Book size about 8 1/2 by 11 inches with some 319 pages including an extensive Index. Bound in slick glossy illustrated wraps. Illustrated throughout with myriad photos and drawings. Ratings of the BMW vehicle by owners--it doesn't get any better than this for ratings. Book with light overall wear. Clean and unmarked book. VERY GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. 1st Edition.. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Bus Transportation/McGraw Hill Publishing. NY. No date (Circa 1930)., 1930 Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover only. 160 pages. Large 8vo. Illustrated throughout with numerous photos. A book of bus repair and maintenance with info taken from the magazine 'Bus Transportation'. Book chapters are: Maintenance Methods and Maintenance Control; Brakes-Tires-Lubrication; Operating Methods-Passenger Convenience; Electrical Ideas-Batteries-Wiring Diagrams; Shop Methods; Bus Questions and Answers. A fun and accurate look at the bus business in the late 1920's with photos of buses. Light to moderate general wear; piece missing at top of spine area; top of spine heavily worn; covers dusty. GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

Chicago & Alton Railroad Company. Chicago. 1909., 1909 Book size about 4 1/4 by 6 1/2 inches with some 125 pages. Bound in reddish/brown thick wraps with similarly colored cloth spine. Front cover railroad logo and lettering in black. Several illustrations including a three page fold out showing the 'Longitudinal Sectional View Of A Locomotive Boiler'. All about running a locomotive with the highest efficiency and the lowest cost. At the front is a page numbered 344 with an employee name and job title of Fireman. Interesting and very scarce look at a portion of running a railroad. Light overall wear. VERY GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

National Carbon Company. No place. 1940., 1940 Color illustrated wraps with a hole punched through near the top spine edge for a string hanger (Here). 36 pages. 8vo. Illustrated throughout with photos and drawings. Aimed at the dealer or service station this manual explains all the cooling system problems that may be encountered in the cars of the era (1930's). Front cover blurb states: 'Attention Mr. Dealer: It is important that you be familiar with instructions contained in this Manual, so that you can render the necessary service to cooling systems for which you sell 'Prestone' Anti-freeze.' Fascinating look at the problems inherent in the cooling systems of the 1930's. Very slight wear. An almost pristine copy. NEAR FINE Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. 1st Edition.. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket.

American Automobile Digest. Cincinnati. 1919. Revised Second Edition., 1919 Book size about 4 1/4 by 6 1/2 inches with some 174 pages. Bound in tan paper covered boards with gilt lettering and front cover illustration of a dynamo. Illustrated with numerous photos, drawings and schematics including a 12 page fold-out chart at the rear. Looks to be state-of-the art for 1919. Book with covers soil; small chips to spine near the bottom. Tight, clean and internally unmarked. GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. 2nd Edition.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

Santa Fe Railroad. Chicago., 1902 Book size about 8 by 10 inches with some 12 pages. Illustrated and decorated string tied pale green wraps in an Art Nouveau style. Book consists of a publisher 'Announcement' inside the front cover extolling the virtues of Santa Fe sleeper service to the West Coast followed by 12 full page photos of sleeper cars (Printed on one side of each page) -- mostly interior pictures. Flap of rear cover lists Elmer Willis and E J Hall as the photographers and notes that this is the Thirty-Seventh Thousand. Another note at the bottom of the flap shows the printers as The Henry O Shepard Co. of Chicago--they printed ten thousand copies of this booklet on August 8, 1902. Very scarce book today showing in detail what it was like to travel by rail at the turn-of-the-century in a Pullman Sleeper Car. Covers with heavy spine wear; bit of insect nibbling at the first couple of page edges; string has cut through the paper at the bottom tie. Interior photos are all impeccable.… Read More

Locomotive Stoker Company. Pittsburgh. 1925., 1925 Book size about 5 by 7 inches with some 22 pages. Bound in flexible card stock with black lettering. Illustrated with a photo, several drawings and five fold out drawings at the rear (Four in color). Page ten has been overprinted with a new page by the publisher. Manual for an automatic stoker which delivers fuel to the locomotive fire box. Light wear overall; covers rubbed. Very scarce. VERY GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. 1st Edition.. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Safetrans Systems Corporation. Lousiville, Kentucky. 1975., 1975 Book size about 6 by 9 inches with some 80 pages and 40 plates--many of them fold-out. Bound in white cloth with gilt lettering. Considered by many to be the definitive book on the subject it has long been out of print and is exceedingly scarce. This high quality limited edition reprint was made from the personal copy of the author's wife. Laid-in is a typed signed letter from the President of the publisher. At the book front is also a presentation note from the President of the publisher. Tiny nick at bottom edge; covers lightly soiled. VERY GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. Limited Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Staples Press. London. 1952. First Edition., 1952 Book size about 7 1/2 by 10 inches with some 152 pages including an extensive Index. Bound in blue cloth. Numerous full page illustrations, a few in color. Accent on the men who commanded or made their mark while sailing wooden ships over a period of a thousand years. Very nice overview of the subject with some surprises in the names chosen by the author. Book with moderate top/bottom edge wear; small previous owner name at front. Dust wrapper with light top/bottom spine area chipping; light edge wear. GOOD/VERY GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Good/Very Good.

Southern Pacific Lines. San Francisco, 1938 Book size about 8 by 9 inches folded to 4 by 9 inches with some 24 pages. Bound in illustrated wraps. Railroad time tables featuring travel by The Streamliner 'City of San Francisco' primarily from San Francisco to Chicago. Map of the Southern Pacific railroad routes for California and Nevada inside rear cover. Travel prices included. Inexpensive high acid content paper has age toned to tan else light wear. VERY GOOD. 1st Edition.. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Picturama Publications. Arroyo Grande, Ca. 1977., 1977 Oblong book about 11 by 9 inches with unnumbered pages (About 200 in all). Bound in blue leatherette material with extensive silver decoration. Front cover shows this to be the 'Estate Edition'. SIGNED WITH LIMITATION BY THE AUTHOR IN 1989--#47/100. Illustrated throughout with superb photos in black/white and color. Very slight wear. NEAR FINE Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket.