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Automobile Starting, Lighting and Ignition: Elementary Principles, Practical Application, Wiring Diagrams and Repair Hints...
by PAGE, Victor F
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Norman W. Henley Publishing Co, 1918. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. 51900, 40pp ads. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, line drawings, figures (one foldout). Very good. Mildly edgeworn, though tight and internally quite nice; preliminary leaves rather age toned and foxed. Attractive revised fourth edition of this how-to (first published 1916). For a hands-on manual that generally received heavy use this is a quite nice copy. Subtitle continues: "A Complete Exposition Explaining All Forms of Electrical Ignition Systems Used With Internal Combustion Engines of All Types, Also Includes a Comprehensive Series of Instructions Pertaining to Starting and Lighting Systems of Automobiles -- Describes Storage Battery Construction and Maintenance, Magneto Timing -- Care of Motors and Generators and Systematic Location of All Electrical Faults Invaluable to Motorists, Students, Mechanics and Repair Men Every Phase of the Subject Is Treated in an Easily Understood, Non-Technical Manner.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45615
- Title
- Automobile Starting, Lighting and Ignition: Elementary Principles, Practical Application, Wiring Diagrams and Repair Hints...
- Author
- PAGE, Victor F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Norman W. Henley Publishing Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1918
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Automotive;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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