HASLUCK & LAVERGNE: The Automobile [1903]; and other Transport Books available from Bristow & Garland Booksellers

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BARTLEET, H.W: Bartleet's Bicycle Book.
London: Ed. J. Burrow, (1931).
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.186, original purple cloth; pencil notes on endpapers. Spine faded, generally good.
Quote Item No. 8519
Price: £35.00

BLUNSDEN, JOHN & PHIPPS, DAVID: Such Sweet Thunder, the Story of the Ford grand prix engine.
London: Motor Racing Publications, 1971.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, original cloth; very good in d.w.
Quote Item No. 2603
Price: £18.00

BOWLER, MICHAEL [Editor]: Classic Car [Magazine] Volume 1, Number 1 to Volume 2, Number 11 but lacking the issue for November 1974.
London: Transport Press, October 1973-to-November 1975.
Twenty-two issues . Profusely illustrated, coloured plates and illustrations, original coloured pictorial wrappers; in very good condition. Contained in two of the publisher's blue plastic binders and as such are easily removable. Extremely heavy - please request a postage quote.
Quote Item No. 8465
Price: £30.00

BOWLER, MICHAEL [Editor]: Thoroughbred & Classic Cars [Magazine]. Volume 2, Number 12 to Volume 4, Number 12 but lacking the issues for November 1975 & July 1976.
London: Transport Press, September 1975-September 1977 23 issues.
Profusely illustrated, coloured plates and illustrations, original coloured pictorial wrappers; in very good condition. Contained in two of the publisher's blue plastic binders and as such are easily removable. Extremely heavy - please request a postage quote.
Quote Item No.8466
Price: £30.00

BURY, VISCOUNT and HILLIER, G. LACY: Cycling. In the Badminton Library series.
London: Longmans, Green, 1887.
First edition. Well illustrated. 8vo, pp.xiii:459:(2, advertisements), original brown pictorial cloth; a very nice copy. With the decorative bookplate of Herbert & Ethel Reynolds on front pastedown and his signature and date, 1887, on half-title.
Quote Item No. 8521
Price: £95.00

DICKINSON, H.W: James Watt, Craftsman & Engineer.
Cambridge: University Press for Babcock & Wilcox, 1935.
First edition. Plates. Tall 8vo, pp. xvi:207, original red cloth; spine a little faded else good.
Quote Item No. 5498
Price: £20.00

DODGSON, G. and BELCHER, HENRY: Illustrations of the Scenery on the Line of the Whitby and Pickering Railway, in the North Eastern Part of Yorkshire from Drawings by G. Dodgson. With a short Description of the District and Undertaking by Henry Belcher.
London: Published for the Proprietors, 1836.
First edition. Engraved additional title and 11 engraved plates together with vignettes in the text. 8vo, pp.viii:115, original blindstamped green cloth lettering decoratively blocked in gilt on upper cover, errata slip tipped-in at end. Lacking one plate. Joint between engraved and printed titles crudely reinforced with paper tape, backstrip detached and in two pieces. Plates foxed, some browning to the text.
Quote Item No. 4358
Price: £30.00

ELLIS, HAMILTON: British Railway History . An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of the Railways 1830 - 1876 & 1877 - 1947.
London: Allen & Unwin, 1956 & 1959.
Two volumes. Vol. 1 a reprint, Vol. 2 a 1st edition. Plates. 8vo. pp.443 & 416, original cloth; very good in very good d.w's. Tape marks to inside of d.w's. where originally brown paper outer protective wrapper fixed; this brown paper outer wrapper having done a very good job at protecting the d.w. but of course has left these marks which are however not visible apart from very light show-through to face of wrapper.
Quote Item No. 6335
Price: £20.00

FAITH, NICHOLAS: The World the Railways made.
London: Bodley Head, 1990.
Plates. 8vo, pp.360, original cloth; some browning of the text else very good in d.w.
Quote Item No. 4211
Price: £10.00

FRASER, JOHN FOSTER: Round the World on a Wheel, Being the Narrative of a Bicycle Ride of Nineteen Thousand Two Hundred and Thirty-seven Miles through Seventeen Countries and across Three Continents. With 100 Illustrations.
London: Methuen, 1899.
First edition. 8vo, pp.xii:532:38(publisher's catalogue), original green cloth pictorially blocked in black, blue, and white. Corners bumped and rubbed, short splits at head and tail of spine, some rubbing to the binding. Contemporary signature on front pastedown and at head of first leaf of text.
Quote Item No. 8520
Price: £75.00

GRAYSTOKE, W: Motoring. In the series "The Hobby Books."
London: Thomas Nelson, n.d.
Illustrations. Small 8vo, pp.293, original red cloth; spine with patches of fading, upper inner joint pulled, in the original pictorial d.w. showing a couple in an open motor car. The d.w. chipped and slightly torn with some loss.
Quote Item No. 4033
Price: £20.00

HACKNEY COACHMEN: An Ordinance for the Regulation of Hackney Coachmen in London. And the places adjacent. Fryday June 23, 1654. Ordered by his Highness the Lord Protector and His Council, That this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and Published.
Printed by William du-Gard and Henry Hills, Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector, 1654.
Folio, partly black letter. Title and pp.409-413.
Quote Item No. 915
Price: £90.00

HASLUCK, PAUL N. [Editor] - LAVERGNE, GERARD: The Automobile. A Practical Treatise on the Construction of Modern Motor Cars, Steam, Petrol, Electric and Petrol-Electric. Based on Lavergne's "L'Automobile sur Route." New Edition enlarged to 832 pages completely re-written up to date.
London: Cassell, 1903.
804 illustrations. Large 8vo, pp.xx:832:16(Publisher's list), original burgundy cloth. Small damp-spot on upper cover, spine a little faded and headband bumped. Inner hinges tender due to weight of text block. First printed in 1902. This is the first edition of the enlarged version.
Quote Item No. 6193
Price: £160.00
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JUDGE, ARTHUR W: The Modern Motor Engineer. A Practical Work on the Maintenance, Running, Adjustment, and Repair of Automobiles of all Types, and on the Management of Garages.
London: Caxton Publishing, n.d. [1937].
Illustrated in black & white. Four volumes. 4to, pp.xi:366, ix:400, ix:363 and ix:357, original green grained cloth lettered in gilt on spine; bindings generally dusty, bumped, various spots and marks; some leaves slightly finger-marked; Volume 3 joints cracked; generally good.
Quote Item No. 6733
Price: £30.00

KLING, KARL: Pursuit of Victory. The Story of a Racing Driver.
London: Bodley Head, 1956.
First edition. Black & white photographic plates. 8vo, pp.192, original black cloth in dustwrapper; dustwrapper shelf-rubbed with very small chips to edges; ink name on front free endpaper; generally very good.
Quote Item No. 8091
Price: £25.00

LYNDON, BARRE: Combat. A Motor Racing History.
London: Heinemann, 1933.
First edition. Coloured frontispiece, plates. 8vo, pp.333, original tan cloth ruled in green and lettered in gilt. Binding a trifle marked but generally very good. One plate detached but present and undamaged. The colourful front panel of the d.w. by Roland Davies neatly pasted to half-title, other parts of the d.w. neatly pasted to front free endpaper and fly. Contemporary inscription on fly.
Quote Item No. 8240
Price: £38.00

MOTOR SPORT: Motor Sport, Official Journal of the British Racing Drivers' Club incorporating Speed and the Brooklands Gazette. Fifteen bound issues from Volumes 23 & 24, 1947 & 1948.
Fifteen issues of this magazine bound in one volume, that is: Volume 23, Numbers 1, & 5-12 and Volume 24 numbers 1, 3-5, 9 & 10. All apart from Volume 23 Number 5 bound with their wrappers.
Illustrations throughout. 4to, old binder's cloth; spine badly damp-marked.
Quote Item No. 3945
Price: £35.00

NOCK, O.S: Locomotion, a World Survey of Railway Traction.
London: Routledge, 1975.
Oblong 8vo, pp.280, original cloth in d.w. Signature on endpaper, dustwrapper worn at headband, some browning to the text else very good.
Quote Item No. 4213
Price: £10.00

OSBORNE, E.C. & W: Osborne's London & Birmingham Railway Guide.
Birmingham: E.C. & W. Osborne n.d. but ca. 1840.
Engraved frontispiece, engraved title, engraved plates and vignettes, single page map of Birmingham. Small 8vo, pp.viii:270, contemporary cloth; very good.
Bound without the folding map of England, as is often the case.
Quote Item No. 3181
Price: £90.00
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PUGH, PETER: The Magic of a Name. The Rolls-Royce Story. Three Volumes.
Cambridge: Icon Books, 2000, 2001, 2002.
Volume 1, The First 40 Years; Volume 2, The Power Behind the Jets; Volume 3, A Family of Engines. Illustrated in colour and black & white. Three volumes. Large 8vo, pp.xii:340, pp.x:342, pp.xiii:338, original cloth in glazed dustwrappers contained in slip-case with silver Rolls-Royce emblem on sides; upper two corners to Volume 2 badly bumped and dustwrapper with slight dent-marks; overall a very good set.
Quote Item No. 6735
Price: £28.00

ROBSON, GRAHAM: Motoring in the 30s.
Cambridge: Patrick Stephens, 1979.
First edition. Profusely illustrated. 8vo, pp.216, original cloth; a very good copy in like d.w.
Quote Item No. 4392
Price: £18.00

ROLT, T.T.C. and WHITEHOUSE, P.B: Lines of Character.
London: Constable, 1952.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.188, original cloth; very good in d.w. Tape marks to inside of d.w. where originally brown paper outer protective wrapper fixed; this brown paper outer wrapper having done a very good job at protecting the d.w. but of course has left these marks which have some light show-through to the front of the wrapper.
Quote Item No. 6334
Price: £25.00

SETRIGHT, L.J.K: Bristol Cars and Engines.
Croydon, Surrey: Motor Racing Publications, 1974.
First edition. Plates and illustrations. 8vo, pp.160, original grained cloth; an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 8440
Price: £180.00

TONKS, ERIC S: The Southwold Railway.
Birmingham: by the author, 1950.
Illustrations. 8vo, pp.32, original printed wrappers; small pieces of tape on inside of wrappers else very good.
Quote Item No. 6322
Price: £25.00

WHITEHEAD, R.A. and SIMPSON, F.D: The Story of the Colne Valley Railway.
Brentwood: Francis Ridgway, 1951.
First edition. Plates, folding chart. 8vo, pp.82, original cloth; lightly marked in good d.w. Tape marks to inside of d.w. where originally brown paper outer protective wrapper fixed; this brown paper outer wrapper having done a very good job at protecting the d.w. but of course has left these marks which have some show-through to the front of the wrapper.
Quote Item No. 6338
Price: £21.00