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1952 Racing Handbook

128 pps, packed with results and statistics, including Reg Harris 3rd World Professional Sprint Championship. Photographs. Some events in the racing calendar have been marked in biro, but a good copy with owners name printed at top of front cover.

Bookseller reference : 001461

A Glass of Pale Ale and a Visit to Burton

London, Wyman and Sons. 1977, Reprint. Original Wraps, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Facsimile of a short history of the Bass brewery in Burton on Trent, first published in 1880. Has many illustrations and three pull-outs. Some browning to front wrap, but a nice copy. Very Good +/No Jacket.

Bookseller reference : 002572

Edinburgh Corporation Transport Department. Time Table of Electric Tramways and Motor Buses June 1930

Chetwode, Buckingham, Adam Gordon. 1994, Reprint. (ISBN: 1874422052) Original Wraps, 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Adam Gordon reprint no 6, Lovely copy. As New/No Jacket.

Bookseller reference : 014465 ISBN : 1874422052

Electric Underground City Lights Reader

The world first edition of this collection of poetry and prose from contributors to City Lights, which under Lawrence Ferlinghetti gave birth to the Beat generation. Contributors include, Jean Genet, Picasso, Gregory Corso, Ferlinghetti, Yevtushenko, Kerouac, Mailer, william burroughs and Alan Ginsberg. The pages are browning, but otherwise this is a very nice copy.

Bookseller reference : 000336 ISBN : 450016021

Greyfriars Holiday Annual 1941

London, Howard Baker. 1979, Reprint. (ISBN: 0703001500) Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. One of Howard Baker reprints of the Greyfriars annual. Facsimile except that this has a dustjacket, and the original had pctorial boards. Book is sunned along edges, dustjacket is price-clipped and the acetate is tightened at spine, creating a ridge. a nice copy though. Very Good +/Very Good +.

Bookseller reference : 001033 ISBN : 0703001500

Guide Michelin

Paris, Michelin. Decorative Cloth, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Ill.: Edition 1900. Undated facsimile of the first Guide Michelin in french. Lovely clean copy. Fine/No Jacket.

Bookseller reference : 001973

Harewood Hill Climb Stockton Farm, Harewood Avenue Nr. Leeds Official Programme 28 April 1968

Very good copy of this Official Programme for the 1968 Harewood Hill Climb. Complete with loose Additional Supllementary Regulations, and time sheet of the triallists filled in in ink and pencil. Light wear, collectible memento

Bookseller reference : 014411

History on the Road, a Vintage Car Miscellany from the 'manchester guardian'

London, Hamish Hamilton. 1958, First Edition. Cloth, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Very good copy of this collection of articles from the Manchester Guardian on 31 vintage cars. Well illustrated with photographs. Ownership inscription, but not price-clipped, jacket has two lsmall losses at corners and the covers have slight fades at lower corners. Clean copy.os. Very Good +/Very Good +.

Bookseller reference : 006099

More Adventures of Rupert the Daily Express Annual (1947)

London, Daily Express. 1947, First Edition. Original Wraps, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ill.: Alfred Bestall. Very nice copy for the year of this Rupert annual for 194. Covers show Rupert running after a small dragon .Not price-clipped or inscribed, light wear to head and base of spine . Collectable copy of scarce year. Very Good +/No Jacket.

Bookseller reference : 013586

Railway Accident. Report on the Collision 1/8/1963, at Norton Bridge in the LM Region

Cover is split at spine. Covers faded at top, some creasing. Very large foldout plan of the accident. Interesting item.

Bookseller reference : 000776

Rupert the Daily Express Annual

London, Daily Express. 1955, First Edition. Pictorial Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ill.: Alfred Bestall. Lovely copy for the year of this Rupert annual for 1955. Covers show Rupert and his pals hiking across a meadow.Not inscribed or price-clipped, the painting competitiion has not been attempted. Covers clean and bright. Exceptional copy. Fine/No Jacket.

Bookseller reference : 013582

The Beverley Hillbillies Annual

Copyright for 1963 and 1964, a comic strip account of this long-running sitcom. The subtitle is 'The wacky world of the mixed up Clampetts', but of course they weren't mixed up at all, it was the Beverley Hills lot who were crazy. The first few series are among my favourite TV moments. Minor wear to glazed boards only, a very good copy.

Bookseller reference : 001912

The Golden Picture Book of Railways

Four colour plates and sixty photogravurre plates covering thr locomotives and other elements of the railways including signaling and the London underground. Educational, accurate, pure nostalgia. Edges rubbed otherwise a very good copy.

Bookseller reference : 000787