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Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar. Jennings, Mr. Kirk (illustrator).

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Lovely collection of scarce and very scarce illustrated motoring works. A collection of scarce works, Good Motoring Maintenance Handbook being very scarce, on driving and car maintenance.Collection comprised of:(1920) The Complete Guide to Tyre Repairing by Henry P. Stevens;(1935) Traffic Driving Technique by Oliver Stewart;[1935] Service Station Manual;(1955) Good Motoring Maintenance Handbook;(1956) The Skilful Driver by James S. Blair - first edition.In publisher's original red cloth bindings, The Complete Guide to Tyre Repairing being quarter cloth with paper boards and a cloth title piece.The Complete Guide to Tyre Repairing, Traffic Driving Technique and Service Station Manual all contain frontispieces, the frontispiece to The Complete Guide to Tyre Repairingbeing in colour. Good Motoring Maintenance Handbook contains a graph on road distances between British towns and cities to both endpapers. Each volume also features numerous in-text illustrations, some of which are full page.The Complete Guide to Tyre Repairing and Service Station Manual each include over twenty pages of advertisements to the rear. Traffic Driving Technique contains a publisher's catalogue.Service Station Manual undated, dated from a copy held by the University of Oxford Libraries. In publisher's original red cloth bindings, The Complete Guide to Tyre Repairing being quarter cloth with paper boards and a cloth title piece. Externally, very smart with slight bumping and rubbing and the odd mark. Internally, firmly bound. Front free endpapers and half-title page of Service Station Manual clipped. Also featuring a date stamp, 29 Sep. 1936, to front free endpaper. Bright and clean with only the odd spot and discolouration throughout, heavier to the first and last few pages of each work. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 28 pages. Features: 1 out of 8 Canadians has been injured in a car accident; Einstein's 100th Birthday - article with photo; A day in the life of downhill ski racer (Crazy Canuck) Ken Read - article with photo; Job description of a model - article and photo of Jane Fellowes; A Jew in Germany - article by Mordecai Richler; Bright Lights of Broadway - Ulf Nilsson and Anders Hedberg of the New York Rangers - article with photos; The Mystery of Pain; Sonic Bust - the British and French governments are scrapping the Concorde after 10 years, 16 planes and $2.5 billion; The evolving designs of food processors; Neil Simon - the good humour man - article with colour photo; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Drawson, Blair; Chwast, Seymour (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. 44 pages. Features:;Six by Two - article on the ship's bunk; British Signals for a Pilot; The Bermuda Race; Shipwrights of Buckler's Hard - this tiny hamlet was once an important shipyard; Intuition of Sea-going rats; Looking at Lisbon - City of Ulysses - article with nice photos; The Gannet - the largest and most impressive of British sea birds; Cleared Foreign; Sailors' Warning; Danish Captain Christiansen , Pilot - A photo-illustrated admiring article of this highest order seaman and navigator by Commander J. Radford, R.D., R.N.R., Retired; Oil Tankers To-day - photo-illustrated article; H.M. Queer Craft - strange vessels which did and did not see operation in WWII, including several two-million ton artificial icebergs envisioned as floating aircraft carriers by Churchill; and more. Numerous excellent illustrated ads. Unmarked with above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy.…

Leather-bound. Zustand: Good. Sammelband with two titles in one contemporary binding. Small octavo, 6.5 in. x 4.2 in., pp. liv, 149, [3] (advertising), 44. "The Poetical Works." is embellished with dozens of engravings on wood, by Austin. "The Grave" by Blair has its own title page and is illustrated with an engraved frontis and one additional plate. This publication is unlisted in WorldCat. ( Dark half calf over marbled boards. Gilt title and double bandlines to spine. Marbled edges. Rubbing to edges and light scuffing to boards. Half inch chip to spine. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown; old signature to top of title page. Spine and hinges tight. Spotting to title and contents pages, with light spotting throughout. The bookplate is that of Rosamond Wigram (1872 - 1958), the domestic partner of renowned British surgeon Louisa Aldrich-Blake. Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774): "A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, and touched nothing that he did not adorn. Of all the passions, whether smiles were to move or tears, a powerful yet gentle master. In genius, vivid, versatile, sublime. In style, clear, elevated, elegant." (from an Epitaph written by Samuel Johnson) Rev. Robert Blair (1699 - 1746) was a Scottish poet who published only three poems. One was a commemoration of his father-in-law and another was a translation. His reputation rests entirely on his third work, The Grave (1743), which is a poem written in blank verse on the subject of death and the graveyard. It is much less conventional than its gloomy title might lead one to expect. Its religious subject no doubt contributed to its great popularity, especially in Scotland, where it gave rise to the so-called "graveyard school" of poetry. (from Wikipedia) In 1808, an edition of "The Grave" with twelve engravings by William Blake was published.…