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1884Best.-Nr. 7449Boston: The Wheelman Company 1884. 25.3cm x 18cm. viii 480 pages. Many b/w text illustrations and full-page steel engravings. Includes feature articles on cycling tricycling and the League of American Wheelmen as well as on fishing canoeing archery yachting etc. Original blind-stamped green cloth lightly worn and marked with decorated gilt titling on the upper board and spine. Rare. Hard Cover. Very Good. The Wheelman Company Hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 6952London: Methuen 1899. xii 312 pages. B/w frontispiece and 50 other b/w photos. Half leather with gilt titling and decorations on the spine; raised bands. Endpapers and all edges marbled. Some pale foxing but not on the b/w plates. Previous owner's signature on flyleaf. Rare. A beautifully bound book. The photos are exceptionally clear detailed and interesting. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good. Methuen Hardcover
1977Best.-Nr. 7749Sydney: Haldane Publishing 1977. 511 pages. Many b/w photos. Not signed by the author this title is almost always signed and inscribed by Opperman!. Very slight pale foxing on endpapers and on dustwrapper. Scarce. "Oppy" was Australia's most famous professional cyclist in the 1920s and 1930s when cycling was a major sport. Among his achievements were his records in marathons such as Freemantle-Sydney Kalgoorlie-Perth Adelaide-Sydney Sydney-Brisbane and in Europe his wins in the Paris-Brest-Paris road race the classic 24-hour Bol dÓr and setting a new Land's End-John O'Groats record. He broke and/or established 101 State Australian and world records in an incredible 24 hours of non-stop cycling at the old Sydney Velodrome. Oppy went on to become a long-time Cabinet Minister in the Australian Parliament and its overseas' representative in Malta. This book is his account of his amazing cycling and political careers. In 1996 at the age of 91 he died of a heart attack on his exercise bike at his Melbourne home. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Haldane Publishing Hardcover
1942Best.-Nr. 355490718356London 1942. London: The Bicycle Publishing Co. Limited 1942. Issued every Wednesday. A Complete Year January 7 through December 30 1942. Volumes 13/14 numbers 307 - 358. Each newspaper issue packed full of illustrations pictorial adverts articles news of the cycling world letters from readers recommended bike rides etc. in wartime Britain cartoons letters to the Editor etc. Given the number of complete newspapers there is likely to be additional postage than that quoted particularly for orders outside of the UK. World War Two made the bicycle the vehicle for personal transport in Britain. unknown
1977Best.-Nr. 7816Sydney: Haldane Publishing 1977. 511 pages. Many b/w photos. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Tape marks on front and rear endpapers. The dustwrapper is lightly worn. Scarce. "Oppy" was Australia's most famous professional cyclist in the 1920s and 1930s when cycling was a major sport. Among his achievements were his records in marathons such as Freemantle-Sydney Kalgoorlie-Perth Adelaide-Sydney Sydney-Brisbane and in Europe his wins in the Paris-Brest-Paris road race the classic 24-hour Bol dÓr and setting a new Land's End-John O'Groats record. He broke and/or established 101 State Australian and world records in an incredible 24 hours of non-stop cycling at the old Sydney Velodrome. Oppy went on to become a long-time Cabinet Minister in the Australian Parliament and its overseas' representative in Malta. This book is his account of his amazing cycling and political careers. In 1996 at the age of 91 he died of a heart attack on his exercise bike at his Melbourne home. Signed and Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Haldane Publishing Hardcover
1923Best.-Nr. 120271AB1923. 14 volumes - 8 books 4 Leporellos and 2 large fold-out maps. London East Ardsley Wakefield Yorkshire Cheltenham George Newnes / Educational Productions Limited / Temple Press Limited / Daily News Ltd 1923 - 1952. 10.5 cm x 15.2 cm - 12.7 cm x 18.5 cm - 20 cm x 13.7 cm - 10.3 cm x 19.5 cm. Circa. 1100 pages. Numerous colour fold-out maps and in-text maps and tables. Hardcover and softcover. All items in very good condition with a mixture of minor and some stronger signs of wear. Includes for example the following: Bartholomew's "Half-Inch to Mile" Survey Maps folded: 10.3 cm x 19.5 cm - unfolded: 74.5 cm x 62.7 cm on 32 fold-out panels coloured and illustrated with topographical information from the Ordinance Survey. scale 1:126720. Philip's County Map folded: 10 cm x 15.4 cm - unfolded: 46 cm x 37.5 cm on 15 fold-out panels coloured and illustrated with parliamentary electoral boundary information. 'Cycling Map of the Midlands' folded: 58.8 cm x 44.6 cm - unfolded: 18 fold-out panels coloured and illustrated. Scale 1 inch to 5 miles. Map divided into 10 miles square. Linen-backed. 16 sections of Wincarnis Motor & Cyclist Map of England folded:12 cm x 17.8 cm - unfolded: 24 cm x 17.8 cm on 2 fold-out maps coloured and illustrated. Scale to 10 miles to an Inch. Each individual section represents a geographic regions London Surrey Sussex & Kent / Hampshire Mid Southern Counties / Devonshire West Somerset & c / Cornwall & West Devonshire / London Herts. Essex S. Suffolk & c / London & East Midland Counties / Gloucester & West Mid. Counties / South Wales / Norfolk N. Suffolk Cambridge & c / Manchester & N.W. Midland Counties / Mid Wales Shropshire & c / Lincolnshire E. Notts. S.E. Yorkshire / North Wales Cheshire & c / Lancashire & West Yorkshire / N.E. Yorkshire & Northumberland / Cumberland Westmoreland & c etc. Briercliffe's Cycling Touring Guides - Northern England includes for example: The Lake District / The Yorkshire Dales / The North-East Coast / Shorter Tours and Connecting Routes / Day and Weekedn Tours / Appendix etc. Also included 8 plates and 12 line illustrations taken from drawings by Frank Patterson. Briercliffe's Cycling Touring Guides - Southern England includes for example: The Thames Valley and the Cotswolds / The Isle of Wight / The New Forest / Between London and the South Coast / The South Coast / Appendix etc. Also included 8 plates and 12 line illustrations taken from drawings by Frank Patterson. Premier Road Book of Great Britain contains route descriptions with gradiated diagrams. Routes include for example the following routes: LOndon to Croydon and Brighton / Chelmsford to Great Dunmow and Saffron Walden / Wolverhampton to Kidderminster / Machester to Southport / Carnarvon to Barmouth / Oban to Ardrishaig / Index to Routes etc. Also included is map at rear pastedown of "Great Britain by Alexander Gross". 4 discreet St Dunstan's label stamps on reverse. Know the Game Series Cycling volume has for example information on the following: cycling efficiency / frame design / gear table / general maintenance / road safety etc. Kuklos Annual contains for example the following: The Reformed Bicycle / The Woman Cycylist / Tadems / Luggage / Medical Matters / Potted Tours in Great Britain Ireland France Holland / Resthouse Directory with 4000 addresses in Britain Ireland and Northern France etc. The Handy Touring Atlas of the British Isles volume contains for example the following: Diagram of Road Altitudes / General Maps / Contoured District Maps - Scale 10 Miles to an Inch / Index to Principal Cycling Centres etc. Cyclists' Touring Club Handbook & Guide 1923 contains for example the following: List of Officers / Honorary Life Members / Touring in the British Isles / Moon's Phases / Legal Defence for Members / Railway and Cloak Room Charges for Cycles / Hotel and Farmhouse List Arrangements / Index to Places / Camp Sites / Continental Section etc. Cycling Book of Maintenance includes for example the following: frame and steering / the bottom bracket / transmission / hubs / wheels /general maintenace and care of equipment / gera calculation etc. Also fold-out "blueprint showing the componets of a modern bicycle" at front. paperback
1891Best.-Nr. List3031Lynn Massachusetts: Arthur W. Robinson 1891. Nine of a ten-map series mostly measuring 14 ½ x 19 inches. Folded with slight marginal folding and wrinkling; Near Fine. Nine of a set of ten maps of the entire state of Massachusetts produced in 1891 for the League of American Wheelmen. The League was founded in Rhode Island in 1880 as a membership organization for cyclists. Besides presiding over racing and producing cycling guidebooks it advocated for increased government spending on road improvements especially for rural roads; these maps indicate roads of superior and inferior quality. In the 1890s there was a boom in cycling’s popularity mainly because of several inventions that allowed a safer and more pleasant ride compared to that of a penny-farthing. This group is near complete; we find two complete editions on OCLC. Arthur W. Robinson unknown
1960Best.-Nr. 7475London: Stanley Paul and Co 1960. 235 pages. B/w frontispiece and many b/w photo plates. Original red boards with rules titling and publisher's device on the spine. The book itself is bright crisp and flawless. The price-clipped dustwrapper which is lightly worn and chipped at extremities is without the usual sunning of the red spine. Rare. NOTE: The entire lower panel rear cover of the dustwrapper is an advertisement for Percy Cerutty's book Athletics: How To Become a Champion. The words "2nd impression" which appear at the bottom of that advertisement refer to Cerutty's book not to My World on Wheels!. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Stanley Paul and Co Hardcover
