Search Results: Automobiles and Trucks from Andrew Langer, Bookseller

General Motors Corporation. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1992. Softcover. Full-color brochure describes the 40th Anniversary Edition and gives tribute to earlier models. Reddish metallic color cover with Corvette logo to front, two fold-outs, lavish production. Issued July 1992. In original silver envelope labelled CORVETTE to front. ; 9-1/4" x 13-1/4"; Dealer card stapled to front cover, coated cover surface shows fingerprints easily, fine within. Light wear to envelope with business card stapled to it as well. .

London: Haymarket Press. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. [1970]. Hardcover. Title from front panel of jacket; the editor probably wishes the title page had been corrected, for it reads: AUTOCOURSE: International Motor Racing and Rallying 1968-69. Foreword by Jackie Stewart. No publication date; likely issued at very end of 1969 or early in 1970. Blue cloth, gilt spine lettering, well-illustrated with many photos (some color). White dust jacket with color photo on front cover, lettering in green and b&w. Heavy, international extra.; 9-1/2" x 12-3/4"; 215 pp; Covers ittle worn apart from a slight spine lean. Sold binding, no inscriptions, pages are clean and unmarked. Jacket edgeworn with a 1-1/2" closed tear reinforced with tape from behind and another closed tear/small loss at top of the rear panel, neither clipped nor priced, in clear protective cover. .

London: George Newnes Limited. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown pebbled cloth, gilt lettering front and spine, rounded page corners, well-illustrated, some ads interspersed, Avon Tire advertising bookmark. Brown and yellow dust jacket. Separately paginated chapters; many pages--thin paper and the book is almost 3" thick.; 5" x 7-1/4"; Covers rubbed and slightly edgeworn, pages clean and without tears or writing. Jacket worn along top and bottom edges with small losses at spine, price clipped, enclosed in mylar cover. .

Geneva, Switzerland: Bonhams. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2002. Softcover. While this catalog presents and pictures watches and jewellery, it presents a tribute to the Ferrari. Automobilia at the front, and more than half is color photography and discussion of these cars. 34 models are presented. Stiff wraps, perfect bound, color covers.; 8-1/4" x 10-1/4"; 165 pp; Slight wear at upper right corner of front cover, faint scratches to covers, else fine .

Detroit, MIchigan: Chrysler Corporation. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1951?. No edition noted. Softcover. Title from cover. Stiff wraps, stapled, illustrated. Chrysler publication D-13537. Manual is not dated. Laid in are two additional items completed for a specific vehicle delivered in August, 1951, a DODGE Owner Service Certificate and a DODGE Owner Service Policy (with attached Owner Identification Card). ; 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"; 57 pp; A well-preserved copy.. Light wear to corners, clean pages apart from one line annotation identifying purchased truck in light pencil. Protected by well-soiled Chrysler factory envelope. .

Detroit, MIchigan: Chrysler Corporation. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1941. Stated First Edition. Softcover. Title from cover. Series WC. This book points the way to the greatest possible performance from your new truck. Chrysler publication D10093. Stiff wraps, stapled, illustrated. ; 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"; 46 pp; A well-preserv ed copy.. Light wear to corners, clean pages apart from one line annotation identifying purchased truck in light pencil. Protected by well-soiled Chrysler factory envelope. .

Kenosha, Wis.: Nash Motors. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1941. Second Edition. Softcover. Blue wraps, stapled, illustrated. Pocket insidet front cover includes 1941 Official Lamp Adjustment Certificate from the California Highway Patrol. Also includes related materials -- Owners Manual-Radio, Nash Delivery Inspection on New Car, Jack Operating Instruction tag and fold-out Lubrication and Temperature Chart for Nash 1941 Series. ; 6" x 9"; 51 pp; Mild edgewear to manual including small closed tears to covers, clear and free of annotations. Delivery inspecton form has been completed, all else VG+. .

C. W. Gray. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1948). Softcover. Loose cover sheet (8-1/4" x 11") and plan set, stapled at left, numbered instructions and detailed figures. ; Oblong, 8-1/4" x 13-3/4"; [17] pp; Wear to edges of cover sheet, mild wear to edges of plans, folded to be 8-1/4" x 11", clean and unmarked. .

Los Angeles, California: Floyd Clymer. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. (1951). Softcover. Stiff white wraps, cover illustration/lettering in black and blue. Description, b&w photographs and specifications for each cycle, a few manufacturers ads.; Oblong, 7-1/2" x 5-1/4"; 155 pp; Wraps lightly worn, lightly soiled, no inscriptions, pages clean and unmarked. .

Los Angeles, California: Peterson Publishing Company / Robert E. Peterson. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1962-1963. Hardcover. Titles include: (First seven by George Barris) Twenty Top Customs, Custom Car Wheels and Lowering, Custom Dashboards and Detailing, Custom Scoops and Sculpturing, Custom Car Engines, Customizing with Fiberglass, Custom Pickups, Custom Hot Rods (by the Editors of Rod and Custom), Custom Headlights (multiple authors), Hot Rodding the FORD V8 by Bob Russo, Customizing the MODEL A (multiple authors) and Hot Rodding the BUICK by Bob Russo. Individual issues were released during 1962 and 1963 with a cover price of 35 cents. Bound with the original wrappers preserved, in publishers custom blue cloth binding, with gilt listing of titles on front, gilt spine lettering with publisher logo. Each issue with 64 pages, well-illustrated in b&w. Uncommon, especially in this format.; 5-1/2" x 8"; Covers rubbed along edges, small spot of damage on front cover, prior… Read More

San Diego, California: Quazell Technical. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. Green buckram, white lettering on front, well-illustrated. ; 8-1/2" x 11"; 96 pp; Ex-library (withdrawn) with the usual markings, binding shows light wear and soiling, bookseller sticker on title page, solid binding, pages clean and free of tears or writing. .

Muncie, Indiana: Warner Gear Division, Borg-Warner Corporation. Good with no dust jacket. Softcover. Post-war instruction manual for [transmission] Overdrive types Warner R-10 and R-11, as used on cars from Ford, Frazer, Hudson, Kaiser, Lincolc, Mercury, Nash, Packard, Studebaker and Willys. Stapled white wraps, 7-hole punched, cover illustration of product, illustrated within. Laid in is a magazine ad for this product with the tag line "BIGGER GAS MILEAGE Sold Me on B-W Overdrive!". An ad on the reverse of this sheet offers a 1949 copyright. ; 8-1/2" x 11"; 15 pp; A few spots of foxing mostly around the edges. Toning to first two pages (as where an ad laid); the ad is now encased in plastic. The manual is free of tears or writing. The ad has been folded, slight damage to left edge where it was torn roughly, it has one phrase underlined and some additional inked notations in the bottom margin. .

Detroit, MIch.: Lincoln-Mercury Division, of Ford Motor Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1948. Softcover. ... compiled to provide Lincoln and Mercury dealers and their service personnel with sufficient advance information to acquaint them with the new and improved features of the "All New" 1949 Lincoln and Mercury automobiles. Stapled self-wraps, 3-hole punched, green border and publication masthead to front page.; 8-1/2" x 10-3/4"; 56 pp; The last four printed lines of the first page have been marked through, slight wear/soiling to rear page/cover, pages otherwise clean and unmarked. .

Cincinnati, O.: The Ebbert & Richardson Co.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Publishers red cloth, black decorations to front cover and lettering to front cover and spine, letterpress printed. ; 4-3/4" x 7-1/2"; 88 pp; An uncommon title in the original. No other copies currently seen in the trade; OCLC reports six holdings in two entries. ; Covers with minor faults: a few faint spots, faint dampstaining at right margin limited to the inside of the rear cover and the last five leaves with no impact to text, small spots to front endpaper, no inscriptions, text block free of tears or writing. .

San Francisco. Very Good with no dust jacket. Softcover. Includes pastedown sheets of notes, photocopies of notes with markup pages, a few pages with inked annotations. One photoopy of letter to Norm from author Backhus notes that he was the West Coast Rep for the Hudson Essex Terraplane (HET) Club. There are 7 stapled groups of pages and numerous additional pages of pastedown sections of text. The last stapled group contains extensive inked annotations and bears the signature of author Backhus. ; 8-1/2" x 11"; Paste has toned paper, some pastedowns are loose (paste has failed), minor wear to pages. The precise order of these materials is hard to determine [I have left them is the sequence in which they were found.] .

Detroit, MIchigan: Nash Motors, Division of Nash-Kelvinator Corp.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1948. Softcover. Nash Technical Manual for the following models: 41-42-46-47-48 of the 40 Series, 41-42-46-47-48 of the 60 Series, 41-42 of the 80 Series. Gray and white stiff wraps, metal spiral binding, front cover lettered in red and black, illustrated. Each section with separate page numbering.; 9" x 11-1/4"; Covers toned and worn along edges, pages are clean and unmarked. .

Dorchester, England: Veloce Publishing Limited. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 1-904788-04-1 . Black cloth with silver spine lettering, well-illustrated (mostly color). White dust jacket with color photos on covers. This copy signed in black marker on FFEP by Yutaka Katayama, also with inscription by author Long inked on title page 'with all best wishes', 'keep on Z-ing...!' and dated during 2004, also signed by secretary of Yutaka Katayama inside rear cover and by Len Welch 'Enjoy your book' at the Introduction.; 8-1/4" x 10"; 208 pp; Signed by Author; Book has very little wear. Jacket with light creasing along edges, in clear protective cover. .

Van Nuys, California: Performance Products, division of Tricom, Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket. [1979?]. Softcover. Extensive catalog,"Serving Porsche Owners Since 1969". Products pictured in b/w wirh descriptions and prices. Blue wraps, stapled, index at rear. With bound in ennelope at front and order form at rear. Title from cover, date estimated from inclusion of products up to 1978 model year and note of 15 years in business since 1964.. ; 8-1/2" x 11"; 72 pp; Bumped at lower left, mild cover wear, address label on rear cover, clearn and unmarked within. .

Fort Valley, Georgia: Blue Bird Body Co.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1978. Softcover. Original parts catalog for school buses manufactured by Blue Bird. Covers parts peculiar to the Conventional Bus Body and the Forward Control Bus Body and those parts common to both. Factory Service Number 111043. Yellow card covers, cloth spine, black cover lettering, three-hole punched, well-illustrated, included one fold-out. ; 8-1/4" x 10-3/4"; 223 pp; Slight cover wear, a few pages with corner creases and one with a tiny marginal closed tear, pages clean and unmarked. .

Fallbrook, CA: Aero Publishers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1978. Softcover. Follow on publication after Prepare to Win, by the same author. Stiff red wraps with b&w cover photo, perfect bound, illustrated. Published November 1978. This is the earliest edition of this title, prepared with simpler b&w cover and no ISBN yet assigned. ; 8-1/2" x 11"; 173 pp; Binding very slightly cocked, covers lightly rubbed, lightly worn at corners, prior owner name inked inside front cover, text clean and unmarked. .