Recent Arrivals from The Bookpress, Ltd.

(WARWICK PRESS) FITZENMEYER, Frieda. ONCE UPON A TIME, BOOK SIX. Easthampton: 1992. Large 8vo. Boards. (21) pages. One of 125 copies. This is the latest in Carol Blinn's series of ``Duck Books''. It is an autobiographical account of the fears and exhileration of flying, and is illustrated with hand-colored drawings and a tipped-in plate. Fine, at publication price. … Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE - GAME) J.W. SPEAR & SONS. ALL THE FUN OF THE MOTOR RIDE; A JOL GAME. $325.00 London: J.W. Spear & Sons, 1910. Chromolithograph covered box (15 x 10 1/2 x 3/4 inches). which includes folding game board (14 1/2 x 22 inches, unfolded) colored cast metal game pieces automobiles, two dice and loosely laid-in prin shett of… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE BROADSIDE) AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. AUTOMOBILE C OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RUN TO SAN DIEGO, NOVEMBER 25, 26, AND 27. $65.00 (Los Angeles: 1915). Printed broadside (15 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches, unfolded). Rare ephemeral item with only one copy recorded on OCLC - Southern Methodist University. A single printed sheet promoting a run to San Diego in… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL - MOTOR COURT DECAL) (MOTOR COURT DECAL). H. & H. SERVIC MOTOR COURT. $65.00 Kadoka, South Dakota: (circe 1930). Oblong 12mo. (3 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches). Rare auto novelty item. The colorful motor court decal for visitors to the motel. Illustrated with scene of H and H, Texaco service station which featu "cabins, cafe, Firestone." (40201).… Read more about this item

(London?: n.p. circa 1910?). Folding game board (14 1/2 x 24 1/4 inches, unfolded). Rare item not found or identified on OCLC. An early twentieth-century automobile game board printed in red and black. Game is played on a blue and red printed map of England with the goal to travel from London to Edinburgh b one of three routes.… Read more about this item

BLAND COUNTY CENTENNIAL CORPORATION. HISTORY OF BLAND COUNTY (VIRGINIA.) (Radford, Virginia): Bland County Centennial Commission, (1961.) 8vo. Cloth. First edition. History of the western Virginia county. With biographical and genealogical information (especially Civil War Confederate rosters) and early photographs people and buildings. Owner's signature marked out, else very good.

(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL MAP - WORCESTER) BACON & CO., G.W. BACON'S NEW HALF-INCH MAPS, CYCLING AND MOTORING; WORCESTER DISTRICT. London: G.W. Bacon & Co., 1901. Small 8vo. Colored decorated stiff wrappers, 10, (2) pages, with fold out map (26 x 35 1/2 inches, unfolded). Scarce early 20th century automobile travel map for Worcester County in Engla A detailed map outlined… Read more about this item

MOTOR TALLY-HO COMPANY. Promotional Travel Pamphlet for Automobiles. (New York: circa 1910). 16mo. Oblong printed wrappers. 48 pages. Scarce travel promotion pamphlet printed for the Motor Tally-Ho Company in Ne York - a company that specializes in planning and conducting private auto tou from New York, to Havana, Cuba. Illustrated with photographs of many of the sites they tour… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL - PICTURES) OUR FIRST MOTOR TRIP TO NASHVILLE, 1916 FORD. Nashville: 1916. 4to. Sheet (9 1/4 x 8 inches) with nine black-and-white pictures mounted on black construction paper. Ink inscription with above caption which also includes "dramatis Personae" Un Mark, Aunt Lou, Ruth, Jessie, and Julius. Last picture has caption "Partheno the replica done in Nashville of… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE TRADE CATALOGUE) WESTERN AUTO SUPPLY COMPANY. AUTO SUPPLIES, 19 $95.00 Los Angeles: 1926. 8vo. Colored pictorial wrappers. 128 pages. Third edition Scarce automobile supply catalogue. OCLC records several editions (usually o in single or double copies), but none for 1926. A richly illustrated trade catalogue of the range of stock items on everything to do with cars each… Read more about this item

(GUPPY, Henry.) THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY MANCHESTER: CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBIT OF MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED COPIES OF THE SCRIPTURES.... Manchester: University Press, 1911. 8vo. Wrappers. Frontispiece, xiv, 128 pages, 11 plates. First edition. Scarce item with only two copies recorded on OCLC. Catalogue published to commemorate the tercentenary of the 1611 Authorized Version of the Bible. Ed chipped. Bookplate… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL) BLACK, David Pollock. LITTLE JOURNEYS OF KATHARINE; BEI THE HISTORY OF VARIOUS TRIPS TAKEN BY KATHARINE JANE BLACK AT THE AGES OF FOU NINE AND FOURTEEN. (Pittsburgh): Privately printed, 1914. 8vo. Black and green cloth. (ii), 119 pages, 18 plates. Rare privately printed journal with only four copies on OCLC. The book was written by her father… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL TOURS - EUROPE) RAYMOND-WHITCOMB COMPANY. THE RAYMOND-WHITCOMB AUTOMOBILE TOURS THROUGH EUROPE. Boston/New York/Philadelphia/Chicago/San Francisco/Los Angeles/London/Paris: 1914. 8vo. Printed decorated wrappers. 47, (1) pages. Scarce travel booklet not found on OCLC. A travel booklet promoting seven automobile tour options in Europe. Each tour itinery is listed with price an photographs of some of the sites to be visited… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL GUIDES) MONTAGUE, Lord. THE BEST WAYS OUT OF LONDON; THE B WAYS TO AVOID LONDON; THE WORST HILLS IN ENGLAND. London: "The Car Illustrated," Ltd. n.d. (circa 1908). 8vo. Printed green cloth. viii, 79, (6) pages, folding map, Third edition. Scarce work. OCLC records three editions: the first one in 1904, second in 1 and the undated… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE RELATED PHONOGRAPH RECORD) GOTTLER, Archie, and Edgar Leslie. O THE ROAD TO OLD KILARNEY. New York: Little Wonder Records, 1915. 5 1/2 inch circular shellac record. Early 20th century example of a phonograph recorded song about auto travel in Old Kilarney, Ireland - a popular song in 1915. It was recorded by Little Wonder Records in New York… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL - ITALY) MILTOUN, Francis, and Blanche McManus. ITALIAN HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS FROM A MOTOR CAR. Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1909. 8vo. Decorated cloth. ix, 380 pages, 42 plates. First edition. An auto travel journal kept by Francis Miltoun of his trip in 1909 - one of a series of auto travel journals he published of his… Read more about this item

SNODIN, Michael, and others. Michael, and others. HORACE WALPOLE'S STRAWBERR HILL. $45.00 New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2009. 4to. Cloth, dust jacket, xv. 3 pages. First edition. "This timely (2009) and groundbreaking study of the history and reception of Walpole's collection as it was formed and arranged at Strawberry HIll coincid with the restoration of this endangered… Read more about this item

FORD MOTOR COMPANY. FORD TIMES, OCTOBER 1916. $75.00 Detroit: October 1916. 8vo. Colored decorated wrappers. 97-144 pages. Volume 10, number 3 of a monthly periodical published by Ford Motor Company. features articles that promote cars and the car industry with numerous photographic illustrations, including a double-page color photograph of automobiles at "the Casino on Belle Isle, Detroit's beautiful island… Read more about this item