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George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1964. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1964. Reprinted. 256 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Very slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with chips and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Sticker and pen mark to front flap.

E-163. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, PA. 1965. 256 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is chipped and worn with pieces missing from the edge of the DJ). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Peking to Paris motor race was an automobile race, originally held in 1907, between Peking (now Beijing) , then Qing China and Paris, France, a distance of 9,317 miles or 14,994 km. The idea for the race came from a challenge published in the Paris newspaper Le Matin on 31 January 1907, reading: "What needs to be proved today is that as long as a man has a car, he can do anything and go anywhere. Is there anyone who will undertake to travel this summer from Peking to Paris by… Read More

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: J.B. Lippincott Company , 1965. Very Good/Very Good, 1965 Hardback/Dust Jacket previous owner's signature. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Harrap, 1980. new edition. New book. octavo. hardback with dust jacket 256pp., frontis., b/w pls., ep maps, index, Very nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket

Lippincott, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1965. No edition remarks. 256 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown paper covered boards with cloth spine. Black and white photographs. Maps across endpapers. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.