New York 1940. Watercolors on paper affixed to later illustration board 14 x 26 inches each. Very Good. An attractive set of images from the Robert Moses era in an unknown hand. The images show proposed intersections including two that were never built. The images include "Proposed Parkway Passing over Entrance to Fort Totten" which shows an overpass on the Cross-Island Parkway in Northeast Queens dated October 1937; "Linden Boulevard Overpass at Southern Parkway" showing an unbuilt intersection at North Conduit Avenue and Dumont Avenue perhaps in the Ozone Park neighborhood undated; "Woodbine Street Passing over Long Island RR to Metropolitan Ave & 67th St." which shows a non-existent intersection near the Middle Village stop on the M line dated August 1940. <br /> <br /> Interesting relics from the Robert Moses era which shaped the infrastructure landscape of New York City. A very good group overall though the Woodbine Street illustrations shows marginal dampstaining and all three show evidence of label removals and wear. unknown books
Los Angeles: Touring Bureau Route and Map Service Automobile Club of Southern California 1920. First Edition. Very good. Two maps n. d. 1920; 10 1/2 x 3 3/4; beige card stock printed in black; small creases to corners; a minor spot to lower margin of one of the maps; very good condition. Early 20th century road maps they detailed the routes from Truckee by Lake Tahoe north to Clio Plumas County. It also showed rivers terrain elevations hotels and gas stations and so on. Not in OCLC; not in the trade as of December 2018. Touring Bureau Route and Map Service, Automobile Club of Southern California unknown books
Los Angeles:: Prepared by the Route Department of the Automobile Club of Southern California 1919. Second Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Folded Map. 9 5/8 x 3 5/8 inches. Open to 14 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches 4 panels each side. Scale is approximately 1:150000. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights distances in miles along routes between different cities noted in circles and squares Map Number 322 dated 8-2-16 E. J. B. but copyrighted 1919 on front panel; text clean unmarked light toning. Very Good. This is an early Automobile Club of Southern California map showing automobile roads from Santa Cruz to San Jose via California Redwood Park. Prepared by the Route Department of the Automobile Club of Southern California, paperback books
Pompton Lakes NJ: Chivers Motor Company 1934. Original flyer for a remote radio-controlled Ford Motors automobile event sponsored in Pompton Lakes New Jersey on August 16 1934.<br/><br/>The event was sponsored by the Chivers Motor Company featuring three Ford cars operated from a distance on the grounds of a local high school. "Magic car" or "phantom auto" shows became popular in the 1930s and 1940s and were often used to promote car companies or demonstrate road safety. Radio engineers would follow behind the car in a second vehicle or in some cases in a low-flying airplane and control the brakes steering wheel and horn using a morse key and spherical antennae attached to the car. <br/><br/>9 x 12 inches. Mimeograph duplication. Very Good plus with short closed tears to the left and right edges. Chivers Motor Company unknown books
Berlin: Eine Ausstellung des Berliner Kunstlerprogramms des DAAD 1978. First edition. Loose Sheets. Very Good . Large multi-folded sheet of paper. A poster announcing the exhibition of automotive drawings and sculptures by artist Don Potts in Berlin in 1978. When opened this poster measures 23" wide x 32" tall. With text and images on the verso of the poster as well. In very good or better condition. A scarce piece of art ephemera. Eine Ausstellung des Berliner Kunstlerprogramms des DAAD unknown books
Cleveland: Automobile Institute 1906. First edition. Blue cloth. A very good copy. Unpaged. 128 pp. 9 pp. adv. Illus. with 102 in-text b/w drawings. 12mo. Purporting to be an informational how it works book on automobiles for the novice it was actually a soft-sell piece which praised the features of the Winton Model K and Type XIV produced by the Winton Motor Carriage Company Cleveland though without ever naming the company or its specific cars. The advertisements for the book appeared widely and stated: "So simple and logical that any 14-year old school boy can read it intelligibily and thereby know the difference between a good car and the other kind." Issued in three formats leather cloth and paper wrappers. Automobile Institute hardcover books
Paris. : Thomas Jolly. 1665. 7th edition. . Contemporary mottled leather raised bands gilt spine decorations red speckled edges. Very good gilt spine decorations faded text clean and tight. 12mo. 15.8x9.5 cm. . French text. weight: 1.0 lb. Woodcut portrait frontis woodcut half-title page. Thomas Jolly. hardcover books
Long Island City New York: Interboro Hoist & Body Corporation Borden Avenue and Van Dam Street 1926. 1st printing thus i.e. for this year. Bound in a brown 3-hole binder. Now with a custom-cut protective mylar wrapper. Edge wear to covers with a tideline to front cover upper right corner. Withal a solid VG copy. Each section A - Y with a separate pagination. ~ 200 pp. Illustated throughout with b/w photographic images. 11-1/8" x 8-3/4" <br/><br/> Interboro Hoist & Body Corporation, Borden Avenue and Van Dam Street unknown books
Pennsylvania California and Japan 1968. Unbound. Very good. <br /><br /> This collection of 20 b/w and color photographs ranges in size from 4.25" x 3" to 9" x 7.5". <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">11 snapshots picture the dealer and his wife interacting with their hosts in Japan. <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">One large b/w image shows all of the U.S. dealers who were attending the event posing before a Japanese Air Lines airplane at Los Angeles and holding a large sign that reads "JAL Welcomes Toyota Jet Away to Japan Oct. 23 1968". <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">One mid-size b/w image shows all of the U.S. dealers posing in a reception room in Japan. It is captioned "Compliments of Japan Travel Bureau in Kyoto 1968". <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">One large color image dated "1968. 10. 29" shows the group posing in front of Toyota's headquarters building. <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">Five of the large images show Toyota facilities in Japan Four have separate caption slips; one caption slip is missing: "Cylinder blocks machining line in Kamigo Engine Plant" "Assembly line of Corona Mark II at Motomachi Plant" "High Speed Test Track on the outskirts of Mt. Fuji" A parking lot of new Coronas waiting to be loaded onto a cargo ship and "Shaking hands in front of the 5000000 car are Mr. Ishida Chairman of the Board of Directors of Toyota Motor and Mr. Kamiya President of Toyota Motor Sales." <p>All are in nice shape. <br /><br />At the time Toyota was a relatively small company and although it first began selling automobiles the Toyopet and Land Cruiser in the U.S. in 1958 neither sold well. The first six-passenger "Americanized" Toyota the Tiara later renamed Corona was introduced in 1964 and sold for under $2000. Although reputed to be quite comfortable for a small car able to reach 90 mph when going downhill and offering optional automatic transmission and air conditioning the Coronas' paint jobs were thin and the cars were notorious rust buckets. By 1968 when Toyota sold its five millionth car only 71000 of them had been sold in the United States. <br /><br />These photographs are said to have been collected by Byrl S. Kline a Lebanon Pennsylvania automobile dealer and his wife when they traveled with this group of U.S. Toyota dealers. A newspaper search shows that Kline was indeed a car dealer but all of his advertising was for a Plymouth dealership in Lebanon and a foreign car dealership in West Lawn that sold Mercedes Benz and BMWs. At the same time Lebanon newspaper advertisements and advertising ephemera show a repair shop Lehman's Garage as the only place in the city selling Toyotas and that a company named Performance Motors was selling Toyotas in West Lawn by around 1970. Interestingly Kline's dealership advertisements stop in 1968 before the trip to Japan. Perhaps Kline also owned or was associated with Lehman's Garage and/or Performance Motors and he sold his Plymouth Mercedes and BMW franchises before making the trip. <br /><br />Regardless this collection of photographs provides a fine visual record of the Toyota's earliest efforts to enter the U.S. automobile market. <br /><br /> books
New York: Jaguar Cars Inc n. d. 1st printing ca 1961. Printed glossy white paper wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Very minor wear & soiling. A VG copy of an uncommon item. Unpaginated though 12 pp. 12 color images of 3 models of Jaguar. Oblong format: 3-7/8" x 8" <br/><br/>The brochure features 3 from the Jaguar line: the Jaguar Mark X Sedan the 3.8 Sedan and their newly introduced sports car the Jaguar XK-E Roadster & Jaguar XK-E Coupe. Jaguar Cars Inc unknown books
Indianapolis Indiana: Indianapolis Motor Speedway 1964. Roger Ward 1921 - 2004 American racecar driver placed second in this race; name date title in the plate at lower edge; no photographer or studio noted; light wear to photo margins corner crinkle not in image; in very good condition. Photograph. Not Bound. Very Good. Indianapolis Motor Speedway Paperback books
Germany: BMW Design 2001. First Edition. From the collection of motor sport photographer Jesse Alexander with a certificate of authenticity laid in. A large format 56 page promotional book with many design drawings and production photographs tracing the creation of BMW X Coupe automobile. Text in English. Photography by Irmin Eitel Dario Secen TillJenniger Florian Schmid Darren Yasukkochi Anders Warming. Paperbound. 11 by 11 inches in size. Fine. Scarce. BMW Design unknown books
New York: The World Publishing Company 1971. Hardcover. Octavo; First printing; G/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine black with white print; DJ has slight edgewear crease to rear flap light shelfwear; Boards in black cloth with white print light wear to spine caps and corners else clean and strong; Text block has inscription in ink inside front flyleaf slight spotting to front flyleaf else clean and tight; 139 pages illustrated b&w. 1340859. FP New Rockville Stock. The World Publishing Company hardcover books
Philadelphia: Antique Automobile Club 1970. First. paperback. Illustrated throughout with photos. Slim oblong 4tos color pictorial wrappers. Philadelphia: Antique Automobile Club of America 1970-1979. Very good.<br/><br/> A continuous run 60 issues of the bi-monthly periodical.<br/><br/> Antique Automobile Club unknown books
Philadelphia: Antique Automobile Club 1990. First. paperback. very good. Illustrated throughout with photos. Slim oblong 4tos color pictorial wrappers. Philadelphia: Antique Automobile Club of America 1990-1999. Very good.<br/><br/> A continuous run 60 issues of the bi-monthly periodical.<br/><br/> Antique Automobile Club unknown books
Philadelphia: Antique Automobile Club 1948. First. paperback. fine. Illustrated throughout with photos. Slim oblong 4tos color pictorial wrappers. Philadelphia: Antique Automobile Club of America 1948-1960. Fine.<br/><br/> 1948- First Quarter Sept. 1950 March 1951 June 1953 Fall 1955 Spring 1956 Summer 1956 2 copies Fall 1957 August 1958 October 1958 June 1959 February 1960 June-July 1960 August-September 1960.<br/><br/> Antique Automobile Club unknown books
Hersey PA: Antique Automobile Club 1980. First. paperback. very good. Illustrated throughout with photos. Slim oblong 4tos color pictorial wrappers. Hersey: Antique Automobile Club of America 1980-1989. Very good.<br/><br/> A continuous run 60 issues of the bi-monthly periodical.<br/><br/> Antique Automobile Club unknown books
Hersey: Antique Automobile Clun 1960. First. paperback. very good. Illustrated throughout with photos. Slim oblong 4tos color pictorial wrappers. Hersey: Antique Automobile Club of America 1960-1969 Very good.<br/><br/> A continuous run almost complete with 57 of 60 issues of the bi-monthly periodical. Lacking only 3 issues: January February and March of 1960.<br/><br/> Antique Automobile Clun unknown books
Lincolnwood: Publications International 2002. First. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Over 3500 photo Illus. some in color. 975pp. 4to pictorial boards d.w. Lincolnwood: Publications International 2002. Near Fine<br/><br/> Publications International unknown books
Bookseller reference : 282669 ISBN : 0785362754 9780785362753
Classic Car Tours Inc 1982. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Very faintly toned. 1982 Soft Cover. Unpaginated. Includes color illustrations. "Harrah's collection the world's largest and most complete features more than 1000 vehicles each in fine original condition or precisely restored. Classic Car Tours Inc paperback books
Detroit: UAW -CIO Education Department 1954. 44p. stapled wraps 8.5x11 inches very good. UAW-CIO publication 321. Back cover design by Jack Maschoff designer of the UAW seal depicts a circle of realistic multiracial faces around the slogan "Guaranteed annual wage" with caption "Wages the year round because families live the year round.". UAW -CIO Education Department unknown books
Lincolnwood IL: Publications International Ltd 2007. First Printing. Softcover. Oblong Octavo; pp 168; VG-/paperback; red spine with white text; head edge of book car shaped; covers show slight rubbing wear to exterior; minor wear to edges; text block has only mild wear to exterior edges; pictorial endpapers; interior clean; profusely Illustrated;. 1327897. FP New Rockville Stock. Publications International, Ltd unknown books
Bookseller reference : 1327897 ISBN : 1412714214 9781412714211
Detroit: UAW-CIO 1998. Paperback. 152p. wraps 4x8 inches four page "Amendments to Article 16 initiation fees and dues" laid in very good condition. UAW-CIO paperback books
Detroit MI: International Union UAW-CIO 1953. 48p. stapled wraps 8.5x11 inches illus. with photos and charts rear wrap lightly soiled else very good condition. International Union UAW-CIO unknown books
Syracuse NY: Franklin Automobile Company 1914. Approximately 6 x 9 inches 16 pp with half-tone illustrations in the text. Stapled wrappers. But for a previous owner's ink stamp in purple ink on both the upper wrap and title page the pamphlet is fine clean and bright. Not found in OCLC. An early study of fuel economy using "certified tests all runs on the same day different cars different drivers different weather and road conditions." On May 1 1914 the Franklin Automobile Company dispatched 94 Franklin Six-Thirties from dealerships across the U.S. and Canada--each with exactly one gallon of gas in its tank--to be driven until the tank was empty with the aim of going as far as possible coasting was allowed. The distance traveled was then measured telegraphed back to headquarters and tallied. Captured herein are extracts from local news reports technical details of both the vehicles and the testing regimen and verbatim excerpts from a number of the rather breathless reports. Also included are the result of each run including the city dealer name distance traveled and the weather "warm and fair in Southern California" "twelve inches of snow in the upper peninsula of Michigan". The Milwaukee dealership brought home the win with a startling 51.2 mpg but even the average of 31.2 mpg was considered a rousing success setting "a new high mark in efficiency and economy" and offering "proof positive of the.real worth of the Franklin Car. Franklin Automobile Company unknown books
Salt Lake City: Vince Walton Promoter 1947. 12pp. Octavo 23.5 cm Gray printed wrappers. Very good. Program for a night of midget car races at the Hippodrome Stadium and Speedway in Salt Lake City at 21st south and 8th west. Includes identified pictures of drivers; an entry list car/driver/owner; double-page blank score card at the center; two captioned shots of a racing wreck; a list of officials sponsors concessioners etc.; lots of great sponsors advertising.<br/><br/>"A full program of midget auto racing is scheduled for the Hippodrome Stadium Sunday at 8pm. The Hippodrome is located at 21st South and 8th West. Seven big events are on the card which is the second big midget program since completion of remodeling of the stadium." - Salt Lake Telegram 8/23/1947. [Vince Walton, Promoter] unknown books
Chicopee Falls Mass: Stevens-Duryea Company 1907. 1st printing. Gold & green embossed paper wrappers. Wrappers soiled. A VG copy. 32 pages of text extolling the virtues & advantages of the Stevens-Duryea C-Six. Fold-out accordian-style advert sheet picturing the divers C-Six models offered by the firm with the reverse displaying cut-away veiws of the chasis. 9-3/4" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/>OCLC records no institutional holdings. A rare promotional brochure from this short-lived early 20th C. automobile manufacturer. Stevens-Duryea Company unknown books
Detroit: Auto Workers United to Fight 1976. 4p 11 x 15.5 inches folded tabloid closed tear at right edge of the fold. Part of 1976 UAW contract effort that took a harder line than the union's leadership; affiliated with the Revolutionary Communist Party. Auto Workers United to Fight unknown books
Buenos Aires: Taller de Estudios Laborales 2003. 96p. wraps 6 x 9 inches wraps worn else very good second edition. Text in Spanish. Cuadernos del TEL Septiembre de 2002. Taller de Estudios Laborales unknown books
Bookseller reference : 254551 ISBN : 9872042209 9789872042202
Detroit: UAW-CIO 1953. Pamphlet. 120p. staplebound booklet very good. Page 21 has the new anti-Commmunist regulations for officers. UAW-CIO unknown books
Detroit: The UAW Education Department 1978. Pamphlet. 16p. wraps very good condition illus. 7.5x3.5 inches. The UAW Education Department unknown books
Detroit: UAW Education Department 1977. 17p. staplebound pamphlet. Introduction to parliamentary procedure for union meetings. UAW Education Department unknown books
Detroit: International Union United Automobile Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America UAW-CIO 1941. 14p. staplebound pamphlet very good. Education Department publication no. 1. International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW-CIO) unknown books
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