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SELF-PROPELLED VEHICLES, A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE THEORY, CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION, CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF ALL FORMS OF AUTOMOBILES
by HOMANS, JAMES E
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Minor Edge Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Theo. Audel and Company, 1917. Spine lettered in gilt, remaining bright. All edges stained red. Replete with text diagrams. Three folded pull-out diagrams; one of a cross-section of an American touring car, one of an American gasoline motor bicycle, and one of cranks and cycles of multiple-cylinder engines. A great piece of automotive history. 667pp. + adverts at end.. Reprint. Limp Black Cloth. Minor Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013455
- Title
- SELF-PROPELLED VEHICLES, A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE THEORY, CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION, CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF ALL FORMS OF AUTOMOBILES
- Author
- HOMANS, JAMES E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Minor Edge Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Theo. Audel and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1917
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Automobiles, Cars, Automotive History
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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