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Allentown, PA: Bonney Forge and Tool Works, 1940. Collection of nine vintage photographs of Bonney Tools sales vans, bound with a plastic comb binding, circa late 1940s. Pencil annotation on the front wrapper of "Master Set / Bonney Forge and Tool Photos / M-9 - M-11." The nine photographs in the collection feature four views of the full… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1978. Complete set of eight color studio still photographs for the 1978 film. Stamp of Consolidated Theatre Services of Canada on the versos. Director Walter Hill's existential neo-noir, heavily influenced by Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Samourai" (1967), with some of the finest car-chase sequences ever committed to celluloid. The film follows a skilled getaway… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Crown International Pictures, 1975. Four vintage lobby cards from the Canadian release of the 1975 American film. Quebec censorship labels on the bottom right corners of the rectos. Two young hitchhikers are picked up by a man in his mobile home, eventually disappearing into the Florida everglades, where they experience a number of hallucinatory,… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Gene Slott Productions, 1986. Draft script for the 1986 film. Single annotation in manuscript pencil on page 4, and a copied annotation on page 73. A veteran thief is hired by the feds to steal politically inflammatory computer discs, which he stashes in his high-tech ultra-fast car, the eponymous "Black Moon." When Black Moon-and the… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1977. Final Draft script for the 1978 film. A unique script in terms of the narrative, with each scene described in fragmented sentences. Director Walter Hill's existential neo-noir, heavily influenced by Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Samourai" (1967), with some of the finest car-chase sequences ever committed to celluloid. The film follows a skilled getaway… Read more about this item

Berkeley: University of Berkeley Theatre, 1989. Vintage flyer for the premiere of "Wild Wheels!," "a mixed-media extravaganza" benefit to raise funds for the 1992 Art Car documentary by Harrod Blank, Saturday, April 8, 1989, at the U.C. Theatre in Berkeley, California. The flyer, which notes that it is "a benefit for Harrod Blank's next film, Wild Wheels," featuring… Read more about this item

Portland, OR: Graphic Arts Center Publishing, 1990. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket has a short closed tear on the top edge of the front panel, with brief wear at the spine ends and a couple of nicks on the corners.

London: Gentry Books, 1979. First UK Edition, preceding all others. An account of the making of the Sunbeam Tiger, a high-performance V8 British roadster produced between 1964 and 1967. Small chip on the top corner of the dust jacket rear flap, else Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition. First Edition. The author's first book, announcing his gonzo voice to the world. Fine and unread in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Owner name on the front endpaper.

N.p.: N.p., 1980. Archive of 133 vernacular photographs from an custom automotive upholstery shop, the "Auto Seat Cover Co.," located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, housed in acrylic photo sleeves in a photo album, circa 1961-1983. The vast majority of the photographs in the archive appear to be from the 1970s, and are predominately before and after photographs, and ornate… Read more about this item

Detroit: Packard Motor Car Company, 1955. Collection of 13 vintage photographs of a Packard 200 (though the accompanying envelope notes the car as a Packard Patrician) taken over the course of a factory endurance test drive to California, circa 1955. Included with the photographs is a copied "Design Analysis" sheet, noting the various mechanical issues experienced over the course… Read more about this item

Youngstown, OH: N.p., 1930. Vintage stainless steel sign with hand painted lettering, advertising two trucking companies on either side, circa 1930s. An early piece of trucking Americana, originating from Youngstown, Ohio. Noted on both sides of the sign is the PUCO (Public Utilities Commission of Ohio) number, issued to intrastate trucking firms starting in the 1920s. An… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1952. Vintage string bound photograph album belonging to William Arthur Slaughter, an ambulance driver in Southern California, circa 1951 and 1952. Included with the album are a pay stub dated June 1948 and noting Slaughter's previous employment by Southern Pacific Company as a railway lineman, two driver's identification cards dated 1951 and 1952, a promotional matchbook bearing… Read more about this item

Peru, Indiana: N.p., 1967. Vintage stringbound vernacular photograph album documenting the vehicular obsessions of one Greg Wildrick of Peru, Indiana, who would ultimately kill four people in a motor vehicle accident and later die himself in the same manner while speeding. Approximately 150 black-and-white photographs and 50 color photographs, with manuscript ink annotations captioning most of the images. … Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1940. Archive of 59 photographs of automobile accident scenes or damage to vehicles in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area, circa late 1930s through late 1940s. All photographs with manuscript annotations to the rectos or versos, or stamps on the verso, indicating their use in legal proceedings, and occasionally with dates or locations. Also included is a brown… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1935. Archive of 24 vernacular photographs documenting a 1935 summer road trip through the badlands of South Dakota, Idaho, and Wyoming. Each photograph with manuscript ink annotations identifying location to the margins, and manuscript pencil annotations to the verso noting locations and dates, along with the stamp of Rays photography studio in LaCrosse, WI. Captured… Read more about this item

N.p.: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co, 1977. Vintage poster for the 1978 Daytona 500, held on February 19, 1978 at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Poster is cross promotion for the 1978 Daytona 500 and Winston Cigarettes. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's Winston Cigarettes sponsored the NASCAR Cup Series from 1971 to 2003. The 1978 NASCAR Grand… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1940. Vintage jumbo oversize borderless photograph of four women workers at a Buick plant, posing on an in-process Buick on the assembly line, circa 1940s. As with many manufacturers, General Motors would convert a large percentage of their production lines to manufacture munitions for the military as a result of Franklin D. Roosevelt's establishment of the… Read more about this item

Osceola, WI: Motorbooks, 1997. First Edition. First Edition. Profusely photo-illustrated in color throughout. Manuscript ink price annotation on the front wrapper, else Near Fine.

Cambridge, MA: David Bull, 1995. First Edition. First Edition. Photo-illustrated throughout in color and black-and-white. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.