Catalogue No. 2, July 2022: Transportation Books

Not wasting any time, we're diving straight into our second catalogue listing. This time, it contains books and other published material on methods of transportation - aeroplanes, trains, automobiles and ships, with a few other forms of transport thrown in to add some interest. The keen-eyed will notice that there are quite a few items focusing upon early competitive car-racing, and that there are some fascinating items of ephemera included. Once again, if there's something here which catches your eye, don't hesitate to get in contact with us at moroccobooks1000@gmail.com.

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(69382) Barbara Winter, Atlantis is Missing - A gripping true story of survival in the Australian wilderness ...a true account. Australia's most bizarre air rescue, Angus and Robertson Publishers, Sydney NSW, 1979.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, full cloth with endpaper maps; 152pp., with maps and 16pp. of monochrome plates. Mild wear; covers lightly edgeworn. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

$25

(74746) Timothy & Elizabeth Hall, The Observer’s Book of Civil Aircraft of Australia and New Zealand, Frederick Warne (Publishers) Ltd./Methuen of Australia Pty. Ltd., Sydney NSW, 1979.

Duodecimo; hardcover, with illustrated boards; 214pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; spine extremities softened. No dustwrapper as issued. Very good.

The Observer's Book series was a strange little exercise which Frederick Warnes undertook into the 1970s. the range of titles was designed to accommodated information about many widely varied fields of knowledge and included everything from the British Parliament to English Cathedrals. Notable in the series was the volume on Jazz (only printed once) and the English Premier League. Equally niche is this volume on civil aviation in Australia and New Zealand.

$25

(69698) Richard Hack, Hughes - The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters; The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire, New Millennium Press/NM World Media Inc., Beverly Hills CA, 2001.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in cloth with silver-gilt spine titles; 444pp., with a monochrome portrait frontispiece and 12pp. of monochrome plates. Minor wear. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine.

$30

(68365) Hamilton Ellis (Introduction by Roger Lloyd), British Railway History - An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of the Railways, 1830-1876, George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1954.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 444pp., top edges dyed black, with a colour frontispiece and 24pp. of monochrome plates. Mild wear; a little shaken; spine head pulled; text block edges spotted; spotting to the endpapers. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; spine panel sunned with chipping to the extremities; a few small tears; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.

$45

(74384) Patsy Adam Smith, Patsy Adam Smith's Romance of Australian Railways, Rigby Ltd., Adelaide SA, 1973.

Royal octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and decorative endpapers; 247pp., with many full-colour and monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; slightly rolled; text block edges lightly toned; some light offset to the endpapers. Dustwrapper is lightly rubbed and edgeworn. Very good.

$30

(73482) Colin Garratt (Various, illus.), Best of Britain's Steam Railways - Exploring Britain's Railway Heritage, AA Media Ltd./AA Publishing, Basingstoke Hampshire UK, 2010.

Reprint: square quarto; hardcover, with illustrated boards; 143pp., with many full colour illustrations. Minor wear. Some mild moisture damage to the dustwrapper upper panel. Very good.

$30

(74607) Robert & Bruce Wheatley, Railway Portraits: Volume Two - signed, WriteLight Pty. Ltd., np., 2010.

Quarto; hardcover, with upper board titles and decorative endpapers; 112pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; signed in ink by the authors to the verso of the flyleaf. Dustwrapper is now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.

$60

(74909) C.A.N. May, Wheelspin - Competition Motoring from the Driver's Seat, G.T. Foulis & Co. Ltd., London, 1945.

Octavo; hardcover, full cloth; 174pp., with a monochrome portrait frontispiece and 15 plates likewise. Mild wear; spine extremities mildly softened; text block edges lightly toned and top edge dusted; light offset to the endpapers; previous owner's ink stamp to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; some small tears to the edges; light chipping to the spine panel extremities; a small tear along the spine panel hinge from the heel and across the spine; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

$45

(76490) Paul O'Shea (Bern Williams, ed.; Robert Halmi, illus.) Guide to Competition Driving - Modern Sports Car Series, Sports Car Press Ltd., New York NY, 1958.

Third printing: octavo; paperback; 127pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; covers rubbed and edgeworn; hinges a little scraped and spine pulled; some minor internal marks; an old price in ink to the first page. Very good.

$30

 

(76492) Ralph Stein (Tom Burnside, illus.), The Great Cars, The Ridge Press Ltd./The Hamlyn Group Ltd., London, 1969.

Quarto; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine and upper board titles; 252pp., with many full-colour and monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; slightly rolled; text block edges lightly toned and top edge dusted; scattered foxing to the preliminaries. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; spine panel lightly sunned. Very good.

$35

(68655) [Scientific Publications Pty. Ltd.], Peugeot 403, 403B & 404 – Workshop Manual, Scientific Publications Pty. Ltd., Sydney NSW, 1971.

Reprint: quarto; paperback; unpaginated, with many monochrome illustrations and diagrams. Moderate wear; covers rubbed and edgeworn with some moisture damage; inked workshop notes to the inside back cover. Vinyl dustwrapper a little sunned and edgeworn. Very good.

$35

(76491) Anthony Pritchard, Sports Car Championship, Robert Hale & Company, London, 1972.

Octavo; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine titles; 240pp., with 24pp. of monochrome plates and other line drawings likewise. Mild wear; text block edges a little spotted and top edge dusted. Price-clipped dustwrapper is a bit rubbed and edgeworn a small tear to the top edge of the upper panel; spine panel lightly sunned; some lacquer-lift along the hinges. Very good.

$30

 

(72764) [The Rover Company Ltd.], Rover 3500 and 3500S Workshop Manual - 607202 Issue 1; Supplement No.3 (Incorporating Supplements 1 & 2) Rover 3500 - Automatic gearbox models and Rover 3500S - Synchromesh gearbox models, The Rover Company Ltd., Solihull Warwickshire UK, 1972.

Quarto; hardcover, loose leaf text block in a specially-printed vinyl ring binder; unpaginated (314pp.), with many monochrome diagrams and illustrations. Mild wear; binder a little rubbed and scuffed; some minor dusting to the early preliminaries; a few very minor internal marks. Very good.

A comprehensive workshop manual for this early 70s Rover model - with all the later issued supplements - incorporating both the automatic and manual (or "Synchromesh") gearbox variants. This copy has no missing pages and is remarkably clean and free from grease!

$70

 

(76447) Phil May (Melbourne Brindle, illus.; Introduction by Julien Levy), 20 Silver Ghosts - The Incomparable Pre World War I Rolls Royce, Doubleday & Company Inc., Garden City NY, 1978.

Quarto; hardcover, full cloth with silver-gilt spine titles and upper board decoration; 158pp., with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; text block edges lightly toned; some speckling to the board lower edges and lower text block edge. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.

$50

(76699) [Gregory's Publishing Co.], Falcon Fairmont XD Series, 6 Cylinder - Service and Repair Manual: Gregory's Scientific Publication no.165A, Gregory's Publishing Co., Sydney NSW, 1981.

Second edition: quarto; hardcover with illustrated boards; 216pp. with many monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; a little shaken; boards a little rubbed and edgeworn. No dustwrapper as issued. Very good.

$30

(76623) Robert Cordon Champ, The Illustrated History of Sunbeam Bicycles and Motorcycles, The Promotional Reprint Company, London, 1995.

Quarto; hardcover, with illustrated boards; 112pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. A small tear to the spine panel head of the dustwrapper. Very good.

$30

(77006) Jim O'Connor (ed.), The 1936 Australasian Cycling Year Book, A.G. Healing Ltd., Adelaide SA, 1936. 

Octavo; paperback; 186pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; tape remnants from crude repairs to the spine and front and rear gutters; wrapper rubbed and edgeworn with some creasing and minor loss; some loss to the spine extremities; scattered foxing to the preliminaries. Fair.

An extremely rare survivor.

$120

(70142) Francis Chichester, Gipsy Moth Circles the World, World Books, London, 1968.

Reprint: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 269pp., with maps, diagrams and schematics, and 40 pp, of full-colour and monochrome plates. Moderate wear; some mild insect damage to the top board fore-edge; text block and page edges toned; mild offset to the endpapers. Dustwrapper is well rubbed and edgeworn; insect damage to the top flap-turn; a few mild stains to the lower panel; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.

$20

(68843) Gavin Thurston, The Great Thames Disaster – Proof Copy, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1965.

Octavo; paperback, printed wrappers with publisher’s ink stamps; 173pp., with a monochrome frontispiece, maps and 14 monochrome plates. Moderate wear; covers rubbed and edgeworn; slight chipping and a small tear to the spine extremities; text block edges spotted; some minor offset around the plates and map; a magazine review stapled to the inside front cover. Very good.

$40

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Ephemera:

 

Various (eds.), Air Trails, Street & Smith Publications Inc., New York NY, 1937-38.

Quarto; stapled paperbacks; around 96pp. per volume, with many monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; covers rubbed with some light creasing and some slight tears; hinges tender; spines split and rubbed at the extremities. All magazines are sealed in archival-quality, 4 mil. Mylar bags and backed by 24pt., precision cut, 100% acid-free boards. Fair.

(70119) Volume IX No.1 October 1937, $25

(70120) Three partial vols.: Volume VII No.3 December 1936; Volume VII No.4 January 1937; & Volume VII No.6 March 1937, $20

(70126) Volume X No.6 September 1938 - Annual School Issue, $25

 

B.G. Davis (ed.), Popular Aviation, Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, Chicago IL, 1936-39.

Quarto; stapled paperbacks; around 90pp. each, with many monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; covers rubbed with some light creasing; hinges tender; spines split and rubbed at the extremities. All magazines are sealed in archival-quality, 4 mil. Mylar bags and backed by 24pt., precision cut, 100% acid-free boards. Fair.

(70121) Volume XIX No.1 July 1936, $25

(70122) Volume XXIII No.1 July 1938, $25

(70123) Volume XXIV No.3 May 1939, $25

(70124) Volume XXII No.5 May 1938, $25

(70125) Volume XXIII No.6 December 1938 - partial volume, $10

(75268), A. Romanov, Spacecraft Designer - The Story of Sergei Korolev, Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, Moscow USSR, 1976.

Octavo; paperback, with printed wrappers; 120pp., with an illustrated title page and 16pp. of monochrome plates. Mild wear; covers a little sunned; some light scraping and chipping to the spine; text block and page edges toned. Very good.

$35

 

(75542) Dale Budd, Steam Album, First Division - Pictures of Steam Locomotives in New South Wales, The New South Wales Rail Transport Museum, Sydney NSW, 1968.

Octavo; paperback, stapled booklet; unpaginated (56pp.), with many monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; some moisture damage to the covers. Very good.

$15

 

(76842) [Sundowners of London, Travel Centres], Trans Siberian Railway Dossier, Sundowners of London Travel Centres, Sydney NSW, nd. (c.1975).

Octavo; paperback, stapled booklet; unpaginated (40pp.). Moderate wear; covers rubbed and edgeworn; some internal tearing and creasing around the staples. Very good.

During the 70s, when Australians began to venture forth out into the wider world in greater numbers due to improved forms of transportation, many companies organised highly curated travel itineraries to help tourists get their money's worth when travelling. One such company was the Sundowners of London and this brochure is representative of the care and detail that went into their package tours. This is a hand-crafted document which pre-figures today's Lonely Planet guides by a good twenty years.

$15

(69861) [The Gregory Publishing Co.], Gregory's Guide to the Blue Mountains and the Jenolan Caves - A Complete Handbook for the Motorist, Hiker, and Sightseer, The Gregory Publishing Co., Sydney NSW, nd. (c.1950).

Octavo paperback, stapled booklet; 56pp. (an extra leaf containing pp. 1-2 and 51-52 (blank) stapled in), with maps and many monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; covers rubbed and edgeworn with some toning; top half of the spine split, with small tears and creasing along the torn edges; text block edges toned; some internal marks. Good to very good.

$50

(75417) [Department of Main Roads], Map: Sydney and Surrounding Districts - Sydney and Suburbs, Department of Main Roads New South Wales, Sydney NSW, 1971.

One sheet printed on both sides and folded five ways (990mm x 700mm). Mild wear; a little rubbed with some marks. Very good.

$20

(73355) Lieut. Henry Roberts (1756-1796), “Plan of Adventure Bay (Bruny Island), on Van Diemen's Land, presented under a View of the South Side of Adventure Bay”, Alexander Hogg, London, c.1780.

Engraved map, 221mm x 330mm, on a sheet 229mm x 349mm. Moderate wear, mild creasing and edgewear; a couple of foxy spots and some marks; a greasy stain to the lower right corner. Mounted. Very good.

This is a copy of the original map made for Capt. Cook and King's journal "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere..." Henry Roberts served under Cook aboard the HMS Discovery and was entrusted with many hydrographic and cartographic duties. The view at the top of the map is after a sketch by John Webber. After the release of the original book, many publishers copied the map - as in this instance - for their own marketing purposes.

$350

Edward C. Fisher Jr. & Allan C. Harris (eds.), Warship International, Naval Records Club Inc./The International Naval Research Organization Inc., Toledo OH, 1966-2001.

Quarto; paperback, stapled booklets; 75-100pp. each, with many full colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Very good.

(76495) Vol.XII No.4 1975, $20

(76496) Vol.XXXVIII No.3 2001, $15

(76498) Vol.III No.II Spring 1966, $20

(76501) Vol.XXXV No.2 1998., $15

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(75683) J. MacDonald Holmes, How To Use the Prismatic Compass - with a Section on the Methods of Finding Direction and Approximate Time by the Stars, Angus and Robertson Ltd., Sydney NSW, 1943.

Duodecimo; paperback, stapled booklet with printed wrapper; 54pp., with diagrams and monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; wrappers rubbed, sunned and edgeworn; minor splitting of the spine extremities; text block edges toned; retailer's bookplate to the inside front cover; mild scattered foxing to the preliminaries. Very good.

$25

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NB: All prices are in Australian Dollars (AUD) and DO NOT include postage, which will need to be calculated according to individual circumstances at the time of sale.

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