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Unsafe at any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile 1st Edition by Ralph Nader Notes New York: Grossman Publishers, 1965. Octavo, 20.5 x 13.5 cm. xi 365 pp. First edition, first printing stated. Signed "For safer technology/Ralph Nader" on the half-title. Original red cloth-covered boards. Spine stamped in silver and black, front board... (read more) Your price: $500.00 Rare Books - Hardcover 
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Car Builder's Cyclopedia of American Practice, 15th Edition by Roy V. Wright Notes New York: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation 1940. Quarto 22 x 30 cm. 1352pp. Fifteenth edition. Original black cloth paneled in blind spine stamped in gilt. All edges red. Black & white illustrations throughout. Cloth rubbed. Corners and spine ends... (read more) Your price: $300.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Radio Control Scale Aircraft: Models for Everyday Flying by Gordon Whitehead Notes Guildford: RM Books 1980. Octavo 14.5 x 20.5 cm. 308pp. First edition. Original pictorial wrappers Numerous diagrams and illustrations in black & white. Wrappers rubbed light edgewear. Very good condition... (read more) Your price: $100.00 Rare Books - Trade Paper
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Locomotive Cyclopedia of American Practice, Seventh Edition, 1925 by Roy V. Wright Notes New York: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company, 1925. Full black cloth stamped in blind. 1131pp. Illustrated throughout with schematics, photographs, & engravings. Boards rubbed, rear joint split 4", front joint split 1" from top. Spine frayed at head... (read more) Your price: $350.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Airborne Signed Edition by William F. Buckley Notes Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, (2002). Octavo, 15.5 x 23.5 cm, 252pp. Original full dark blue leather decorated in gilt, with moire endpapers and ribbon marker; all edges gilt. Signed by the author on an inserted page at the front; certificate of... (read more) Your price: $150.00 Rare Books - Leather
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18th Century Shipbuilding Remarks on the Navies of the English & the Dutch by Blaise Ollivier (1737) by Blaise Ollivier and David H. Roberts Notes Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot Publications, 1992. Quarto, 30.5 x 23.5. 416 pp. Original dark green cloth-covered boards with pictorial dustjacket. Boards and spine stamped in white. Illustrated throughout in black & white with two folding diagrams... (read more) Your price: $300.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Cab-Forward: The Story of Southern Pacific Articulateds 1st Edition by Robert J. Church Notes (Omaha: Kratville Publications, 1968) First edition. Pictorial paper over boards, matching dustjacket, photo endpapers. With 6 folding schematics sewn in at rear. Black & white photos throughout. Light soiling to boards, dustjacket with light soiling... (read more) Your price: $200.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Men Against the Rule: A Century of Progress in Yacht Design Signed Edition by Charles Lane Poor Notes NY: Derrydale Press, (1937). Number 11 of 950 copies. This copy was given as a gift to printer Eugene Connett's father in law (Andrew Underhill) & is inscribed & signed by Connett. Underhill's book plate & chops on first free endpaper along with... (read more) Your price: $300.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Annual Automobile Review No. 1, 1953-1954 by Annual Automobile Review Notes Lausanne: Edita S. A., 1953. Softcover, 24 x 32 cm, 195pp. Pictorial paper wrapper is rubbed and lightly edgeworn, rear panel creased; pages lightly toned; some light wear to the corners. Good condition. djm... (read more) Your price: $250.00 Rare Books - Trade Paper
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Freestylin': Generation F; 1984-1989 by Mark Lewman Notes [No place]: (Endo Publishing, LLC, 2008.) Quarto, 23.5 x 31 cm, unpaginated. Gray cloth stamped in blind, with black-and-white pictorial label affixed to the front board; nike pamphlet affixed to the rear paste-down. Boards lightly rubbed; a light smudge... (read more) Your price: $200.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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The Story of Erie: Between the Ocean and the Lakes by Edward Harold Mott Notes New York: John S. Collins, 1901. Quarto, 24 x 30 cm. xii, 524pp. Original black cloth. All edges gilt. Patterned endpapers. Illustrations throughout. Binding lightly rubbed. Hinges split: shaken, but still sound. Good condition. BG/beh... (read more) Your price: $150.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Pete Culler's Boats: The Complete Design Catalog by John Burke Notes Yellow-green cloth-covered boards w/black title on spine. Good/Good(Abrasions to front & rear pasted down endpapers where tape has been removed from DJ flaps w/some remnant tape fragments;Previous owner's name written stamped & blindstamped on FFEP;Spine... (read more) Your price: $175.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Modeles Historiques au Musee de la Marine by Jean Boudriot and Hubert Berti Notes Paris: A.N.C.R.E., 1997. Quarto, 30.5 x 23 cm. 254 pp. Original blue cloth-covered boards with pictorial dustjacket. Front board and spine stamped in gilt. Illustrated throughout with color photography. Dustjacket faintly rubbed. Near fine/Near fine. CVW/... (read more) Your price: $200.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Offenhauser: The Legendary Racing Engine and the Men Who Built It by Gordon Eliot White Publisher Comments The first history Offenhauser, the most successful engine from the mid-'30s to the 1950 Indy 500, the first 30 cars Offenhauser engines and by 1954 finished was powered by an "Offy".... (read more) Your price: $150.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Bourne's Great Western Railway by John C. Bourne Notes New York: Augustus M. Kelley 1969. Elephant folio 54 x 39 cm. 58pp maps & plates. First edition thus a reprint of the 1843 first edition. Original quarter black cloth grey cloth over boards spine gilt. In the original paper dust jacket protected with an... (read more) Your price: $175.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Stand on It 1st Edition by Bill Neely and Bob Ottum as Stroker Ace Notes Boston: Little Brown and Company (1973). Octavo 14.5 x 21 cm. 294pp. First edition and the basis for the 1983 film Stroker Ace starring Burt Reynolds. Original quarter yellow cloth black cloth over boards spine stamped in red. In an unclipped dust jacket.... (read more) Your price: $85.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Marmon Handbook by Nordyke & Marmon Company Notes Indianapolis: Nordyke & Marmon Co., [circa 1920s]. Eighteenmo, 15.5 x 11.5 cm. 288 pp. + index Text block bound with brass clasps. Illustrated throughout with drawings, photographs and diagrams. Front and rear pages soiled, creased and torn, loosening... (read more) Your price: $125.00 Rare Books - Miscellaneous
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The Boomer: A Story of the Rails by Harry Bedwell Notes Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, (1942). Original gray cloth printed in red, full color dustjacket. Light wear, fading to extremities. Imperfectly opened at pp. 163 - 170, with tears at the bottom, affecting the text on pp. 165 - 166. Dustjacket complete with... (read more) Your price: $300.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Nidi d'Aquila by Piero Negro Notes Torino: Tip. Cesare Valention & C. 1927. Quarto 23 x 29 cm. 179pp. Rebound in 20th Century dark green buckram spine stamped in gilt with the original wrappers bound. Text in Italian. Black & white illustrations throughout. No dust jacket. This is an ex... (read more) Your price: $70.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Notes et Documents Relatifs a la Politique des Chemins de Fer en Afrique Tropicale, 2 Volumes by Ministere des Colonies Royaume de Belgique Notes Brussells: Establissements Generaux d'Imprimerie 1914. 2 volumes. Quarto 21.5 x 27.5 cm. Full purple cloth with the original printed wrappers bound in. Text in French. Containing 2 large color folding maps 1 black & white folding map 1 single-page map 6... (read more) Your price: $150.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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