Search Results: Transportation from Kate Mitas, Bookseller

(n. p.): All-Woman Transcontinental Air Race, Inc., 1956. Very Good. 11-1/4" x 8-5/8". Unpaginated, but 32 pp + typescript acknowledgements slip. Blue stapled wrappers printed in white and gold, b/w illustrations from photographs throughout. Light extremity wear. Program from the 1956 AWTAR, which began at the San Mateo County Airport, in San Mateo, California, and ended at Bishop Airport, in Flint, Michigan. The race included 50 pilots, many but not all of whom flew with co-pilots; short bios and pictures of each pilot and her co-pilot (where applicable) are included here, along with brief articles on the airports and locations at each end of the race, handicapping, the challenge of the race itself, etc.Scarce. OCLC locates only five institutions that hold any of the series of programs, and none appear to have this one.

8-1/4" x 13-1/4" (23.5 x 33.5 cm). Broadside printed with an illustration of three boldly colored racing cars on a black background. Faint crease to right edge, slight smudge to illustration.
Small promotional poster for the 1964 European Touring Car Championship, designed in the distinct Eastern European style of the period. The event is notable among racing enthusiasts for being the place where Ken Tyrrell discovered the legendary Belgian driver Jacky Ickx, who went on to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans six times and Formula One championships eight times.

Oklahoma City; Canton, Ohio: Dual Parking Meter Company, (n. d.), circa late 1940s. Very Good+. 28 x 21 or 22 cm. Three 4pp bifolia + one 8pp folded brochure. B&w illustrations. Minor wear to edges, else fine. Four promotional brochures advertising Dual parking meters, "The Best Answer to the Traffic Control Problem." Included are: "Dual Automatic"; "Dual Gearshift Automatic"; "Metered Parking"; and "Off-Street Metered Parking". The Dual Parking Meter Company, supposedly named because the meters could both measure parking time and collect fees, was founded in 1935 in Oklahoma City by Carl Magee, who invented the automatic parking meter. Like many other cities, Oklahoma City was struggle to deal with the rising number of automobiles on urban streets: "City officials believed that parking meters were necessary to cope with the influx of automobiles into downtown areas and give more motorists access to stores and other businesses. But motorists and merchants challenged the legality of meters,… Read More

San Francisco: Larkins & Co., (n. d.). Very Good+. Circa 1920. 6-1/4" x 3-1/2". White brochure printed in black, folded twice vertically to form six panels; illustration and text to three panels on verso spans the full sheet. Light creasing to corners, else a near fine, bright and clean example. Promotional brochure advertising Larkins & Co's touring car tops with sliding windows, which, according to the brochure, provide "your touring car with the comforts of the Sedan. It is within reach of the ordinary car owner at one-half the cost of the stationary top, and it is installed in one-half the time."Scarce. Not found in OCLC.

San Francisco: Christofferson Aircraft Mfg. Co., (n. d.), circa 1912. Very Good. 16 x 10.5 cm. Handbill, printed recto only. White stock printed in black. Long pencil notation to verso, presumably detailing a streetcar trip in San Francisco ("Up Market, down Van Ness -- [Outer?] zone -- down Zone. avenue to aviation field -- around field -- many pictures. Art stood all way"). Slight crease near one corner, else remarkably well-preserved. A rare promotional piece for Silas Christofferson and the Christofferson Aircraft Manufacturing Co., advertising aviation as "a safe and sane sport". Free exhibitions were offered daily "at the beach," presumably near the Christofferson hangar on Ocean Drive at Sloat Boulevard. Silas Christofferson was, with his brother Harry, one of the "early birds of aviation," and became known for such feats as flying in 1912 from the top of the Multnomah Building in Portland, Oregon, to the Vancouver barracks eight miles away. That year, both he and the Christofferson Aircraft… Read More