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Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925
by CLYMER, Floyd
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1950. Hardcover. From the dust jacket, this work is an ". . .album of photos, advertisements, songs, cartoons, text, and memories, affectionately dedicated to the automobile pioneers of the horseless carriage days." With 500 illustrations and related text, indexed. --- In blue paper-covered boards backed in dark red cloth with gilt-stamped spine titling. Yellow and red dust jacket with collage of images to cover. --- With mild sunning to cover edges and a little age-toning to leaves, otherwise lacking damages. Fair-only jacket with open tears at spine ends, as well as other small tears and chips, but remaining mostly intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; (10), 213 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85921
- Title
- Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925
- Author
- CLYMER, Floyd
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>American Society, Life in the US;
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Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- Jacket
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- Leaves
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- Quarto
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