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Zustand: Fair. 1904. No Edition Remarks. 444 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with decorations. Black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Severe cracking to hinges causing boards to be loose. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper and half-title page. Some uncut pages and small tears to page edges throughout, text remains unaffected. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

hardback. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, green cloth with silver roundel to upper board containing illustration, cloth slightly lifting in part, a tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, b&w frontis and illustrations, appendices, xvi + 407 + 100pp, Index & advertisements.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Harold Percival (illustrator). 1st Edition. Good. Slightly foxed to first and last leaves. With original drawings by Harold Percival and nearly 200 illustrations.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: Fair. 1903. No Edition Remarks. 516 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Missing front free endpaper. Minor foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges and title pages, lighter to pastedowns and rear free endpaper. Moderate cracking to gutters and hinges, exposing netting and causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild sunning and scuffing overall. Spine has light staining and sunning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: Fair. Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1750grams, ISBN:

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

1st Ed. [viii] + 516pp. Frontis. Sl. shaken, a couple of gutter margins repaired with selotape, dec. e.ps. lightly browned, some very light marginal browning, black marker pen mark to upper leading corner of front f.e.p., gilt lettered blue/green mottled cloth with 2 illus. in white to upper board, extremities rubbed, some minor soiling, spine very lightly browned. US$37.

Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 516pp. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles and black designs on front, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Fading spine cover. Bumped spine ends and corners. Top edge discoloured. Front gutter stretched, some signatures also stretching; still structurally sound. Decorated endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. No dust jacket, likely as issued. The pioneering motorist this time takes a cycling holiday over a century ago. Some looseness to binding and bumping to corners.

Zustand: New. 584.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Ex-library. Library labels, stamps and markings. Hinges broken. ; Volume Two only of two volumes. xi, [1], (559)-1404 pages + 12, [2 (blank)] pages advertisements + plates. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, black lettering and border on front board. Page dimensions: 214 x 141mm.

Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Both volumes have loose and shaken bindings and volume 1 exterior is heavily stained. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,2900grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Zustand: Gut. 1. Auflage. Buchformat: Bemrose and Sons Ltd, 1905; 1st Edition; Vol.I & II; green cloth covers, no jacket; the fronts and spines lettered in gilt; the spine of Vol.I shows evidence of removal of a library sticker; 8° - Oktavformat (21 cm x 15cm); Vol.I: XIV, pp. 557, Vol.II: XI, pp. 558-1404 plus pp. 12 advertising; many (ca. 350) photos, fold out diagrams etc.; language: English; weight: 2768 g; Buchzustand: each front endpapers with library stamp; marks of a bookseller at bottom; a bit signs of wear; corners are a little rubbed; middle of lower edge of Vol. I small nick; mild browning to the first pages; no underlinings, no comments; Buchinhalt: Contents of Vol I: Introductory, On the Laying Out of Garden Cities, Proposal for Plan of First Garden City, Garden City Dwellings and other Buildings, Life in a Garden City, Index of Vol.I; Vol. II covers: The Sociological Aspect, Garden City Industries, Locomotion, Urban and Interurban, Garden Cities in their Relation to Agriculture, The Potentialities of Applied Science in a Garden City, Conclusion, and Index of Vol.II plus Advertising; Gesamtzustand: good.

Paperback. Zustand: Good Only. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A sought after first edition copy, in the original wraps, of this fascinating record of early "horseless road locomotion", complete with illustrations. One of the earliest books on the automobile, and particularly sought after for its wonderful illustrations of early "horseless carriages".First edition.In the scarce original surviving wraps.Frontispiece and forty figures illustrated across thirty wood-engraved and half-tone plates. Collated, complete.In 1896 three books were published that are now considered "automotive incunabula" (incunabula commonly used to refer to books published during the first fifty years of printing). They are Farman's technical and historical treatise, Knight's guide for owners and operators, and Sennett's'Carriages without horses shall go'(Norman Library of Science and Medicine 766).To the original paper is added remarks on the future of horseless road locomotion, notes on the new enactment, the Horseless Carriage Act, 1896, evolution in modes of travel, the "engineer" competition 1897 and local government board regulations. With an interesting chapter titled "Horseless Bread delivery", in which Sennett argues that automobiles would become major transportation methods for hauling heavy goods from rural areas into cities.Alfred Richard Sennett was a Member of the Advisory Committee on Road Improvements and of the Research Committee on Road Traction. Also well known for his urban planning work, Garden Cities in Theory and Practice. In the original wraps, with the front cover detached but present. Edge wear and dusting to the wraps. Rusting visible to the front staples. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with the odd spot or handling mark. Ownership inscription to title page. Good Only. book.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Rusty Staples. Tape mark on right hand side of front cover. One inch loss to bottom spine. Book.

Ex-library. Zustand: Hardcover. First edition. xvi,131,(1)pp. 8vo. Frontispiece and 40 illustrations on 30 plates of horseless carriages. Recent quarter leather, gilt spine titles, cloth sides, marbled endpapers. Ex-library copy with stamp and number on the title page; general soil throughout, esp. the title, and a few closed marginal tears (no loss). Scarce. The first books on the automobile appeared in English in 1896; this is one of them.