Search Results: Transportation from Trench Books

New York: Doubleday Doran, 1941. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Light wear at corners, endpapers yellowed, remainder mark to bottom edge. Jacket shows edgewear, soiling, not price clipped. Inscribed by the author on a bookplate afixed to the flyleaf. Mr. Sloan writes about his rise to power with General Motors. In collaboration with Boyden Sparkes.

Chicago: American Technical Society, 1952. Green Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Light wear to edges, slight dent to edge of back cover, unmarked. Appears to be a textbook, probably intended for use in a trade school. "Elementary principles, construction, care, and repair of automobile ignition systems, motors, generators, batteries, radios, and lighting systems; includes a glossary of automobile terms". Heavily illustrated with B&W photos and diagrams.

New York: Time Life, 1968. Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Tre Tryckare Artists. Light wear to edges, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows edgewear, small tears, fading. Small volume about trains, 52 detailed color drawing of various models, with a description of each. A "Classics of Transportation" book.

New York: Macmillan, 1993. First Edition . Pictorial Cover. Very Good+/Fair. Inscription on back of flyleaf, otherwise a real nice clean copy. Jacket worn and torn at corners. The story behind more than one hundred bridges around the world, from ancient time thru the 20th century. 160+ pages of info and color photos. Oversized, extra postage outside the US.

London: Winchester Press, 1948. First Edition . Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Bumps, minor wear to spine ends and corners; overall shelfwear, nice sound copy. "The Story of the London Midland and Scottish, London and North Eastern, Great Western, and Southern Railways" of Great Britain. Many photo and drawings with some in color. Map endpapers.

Los Angeles: Floyd Clymer, 1954. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Covers show light wear/soiling, sound unmarked copy. Oversized paperback containing hundreds of photos of Hollywood's greatest, depicted in and around theirs autos, trucks, planes, tractors, etc. 152 pgs.

Boston: LIttle Brown, 1988. First American Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Minimal shelfwear, faint erasure in corner of half-title (old price), otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket shows moderate shelfwear, fading, "Elegant Meals with Cunard"; the author being the Executive Chef of the QE2. Oversized volume, 200 pages of recipes and wonderful color photos. Inscribed and dated by the author on the half-title page (N.Y., March, 1989). Extra postage required outside the US.

New York: Norton. Cloth. New/New. Large, heavy volume. New, unopened and still in publisher's plastic wrap and box. The definitive text on the subject. Extra postage required outside the US.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. First Edition . Red Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Light foxing to foredges, otherwise unmarked. Jacket shows light soiling, minimal wear. "Autoworkers and the American Dream - An Oral History". Illus with B&W photos.

New York: David McKay, 1977. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Brown Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Clean and unmarked, minor bumps to corners. Jacket shows wear to edges. "How & Where to Catch the Train in 101 Countries" (1977 style).

New York: Arco, 1967. Third Printing . Blue Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Clean and unmarked, illus with many photos, charts and diagrams. Jacket shows only minimal shelfwear. Covers maintenance and repair of the Ford Mark I. Mark III Consul, Zephyr, Zodiac, and V8 models produced at Dagenham since 1930. If you have one of those, you need this!

New York: D. Van Nostrand. Brown Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Three volumes set, all show shelfwear at edges, and have a somewhat loose binding. Each is stamped on the front flyleaf with the original owner's name, "Oscar P. Liebreich, Chief Engineer", otherwise all three are unmarked. Mr. Leibreich worked for GM. Included are: Vol. 1, 'The Gasoline Motor', 6th edit., 1920; Vol. 2, 'Transmission, Running Gear and Control', 3rd edit. 1918; Vol. 3, 'Electrical Equipment', 1st edit. 1918. All are heavily illus. with charts, diagrams, drawings, and a few B&W photos. Indexed.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1962. Illustrated Cloth. Very Good. Herb Mott. Minimal wear, light soiling, text clean and unmarked. Oversized volume for young people. Stories of trains around the world.

New York: Bell Publishing. Reprint . Brown Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. For the Information of the Public Who are Interested in their Manufacture and Use - 1908". A faithful reproduction of the original volume, which was published by the "Organization of the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers". Details of each make of car available in the early 1900s, including an excellent drawing of each. Nice copy, clean and unmarked.

New York: Dodd Mead, 1968. Fifth Printing . Red Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Wear to top edge, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows only minor shelfwear. Illus with many B&W photos, charts, and diagrams. All the basic info to fix up your old car.

Chicago: Wilcox & Follett, 1949. Illustrated Cloth. Poor/No Jacket. Ex-library copy, with usual markings. Complete and in sound condition. Covers worn and soiled; greasy fingerprints throughout. A great reference on older bicycle repairs. Many detailed photos and diagrams. 34 pgs.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Edward Shenton. Fading to spine and edges, slight wear to corners and spine ends. Portion of orig owner's bookplate still on inside front cover. Inscribed by author on first title page. Part of the Rivers of America Series.

New York: Bonanza, 1991. Reprint . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Excellent copy, clean and unmarked. "The terrifying story of the British ocean liner torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on May 7, 1915". B&W photos.

1905: John Wiley & Sons. Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Overall shelfwear, stain to lower left front, good sound copy. Twenty-first edition. This was the engineer's 'bible' at the turn of the last century. This copy is inscribed and signed "Angus Sinclair" on the back of the flyleaf, but we have been unable to verify the signature and the inscription is dated 'Dec 25, 1886', while the book was published in 1905.

New York: Cupples & Leon, 1906. Illustrated Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Wear to cover edges, light soiling, unmarked. Third title in the series. I wonder how long they would last down there today?