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PININFARINA ART AND INDUSTRY 1930-2000
Written by Antoine Prunet.
Stock no. 2139855
Published by Haynes Publishing. 1st 2000. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. B/w photos. ISBN: 1859606849. A few marks to covers. Wrapper is a bit edge-creased with some marks.

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AEROSPATIALE: ARCHITECT OF THE FUTURE
Written by Gerard Maoui.
Stock no. 2139848
Published by Le Cherche Midi Editeur. Circa 1989. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue covers with silver title to spine. B/w and colour photos. Text in French and English. ISBN: 2862741507. Bumping and light wear to spine and corners. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few small tears; some grubby marks.

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AERMACCHI - FROM NIEUPORTS TO AMX
Written by Giorgio Apostolo.
Stock no. 2139843
Published by Giorgio Apostolo Editore. Circa 1991. Very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour and b/w photos. Some bumps/knocks along cover edges and to corners. A few indentation marks to covers and grubby marks.

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LEISURE AIRLINES OF EUROPE
Written by Klaus Vomhof.
Stock no. 2139839
Published by Scoval Publishing Ltd. 1st 2001. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

An illustrated history of the Airlines that did so much to reduce costs of travel for millions of east and west Europeans. Large format. Matt pictorial boards. Colour photos. ISBN: 1902236092.

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ALASKAN AVIATION HISTORY: VOLUME ONE 1897-1928
Written by Robert W. Stevens.
Stock no. 2139829
Published by Polynyas Press. 1st USA 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Part of a 6 volume series. Blue boards with gilt titles. B/w photos. ISBN: 0929427017. SIGNED by author, with dedication to a previous owner to bottom of front endpaper. Bumping to corners. Browning to page edges.

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MOTOR CAR AND COACH PAINTING: FOR PRIVATE, COMMERCIAL AND MASS OUTPUT
Written by Charles E. Oliver; Arthur Seymour Jennings.
Stock no. 2139825
Published by W.R. Howell & Co.. 2nd 1926. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Edited by Jennings. Second edition, with special chapter on "Painting with nitro-cellulose products". Contains pages of examples of motor car colours that were available at the time. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; a little fraying to cloth at base of spine. Spotting/foxing and some fading to covers. Page edge browning and foxing. Wrinkling to colour samples pages. Front joint starting to crack but binding is tight.

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W.O. BENTLEY: THE MAN BEHIND THE MARQUE
Written by Malcolm Bobbitt.
Stock no. 1823866
Published by Breedon Books Publishing Co.. 1st 2003. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The first full biography of the founder and inspiration behind Bentley Cars. An insight into the conception and design of some of the most famous sporting cars in automobile history. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 1859833527. A fine copy. Dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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THE BENTLEY BEDSIDE BOOK
Written by Hugh Young.
Stock no. 1823865
Published by Bentley Drivers Club Ltd.. 1st 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The best articles which have appeared in the Bentley Driver's Club Review. B/w photos. Text block lightly browned with minor foxing. Foxing to prelims else contents clean. Black dustwrapper is lightly scuffed and lightly edge-rubbed.

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BY MOTOR TO THE GOLDEN GATE
Written by Emily Post; Jane Lancaster.
Stock no. 1823860
Published by McFarland & Company, Inc.. 1st thus 2004. Very good condition.

In 1915, journalist Emily Post set out from New York to investigate whether is was possible to drive comfortably across the country to San Francisco in an automobile. This is a reprint of Post's only travel book, originally published in 1916. This annotated edition includes a biographical sketch of Post. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0786419407. Glued binding at half-title is drying out and thus split at lower half - front joint fragile but binding still tight elsewhere.

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BENTLEY GOLDEN JUBILEE BOOK 1919-1969
No author listed.
Stock no. 1823859
Published by Bentley Drivers Club Ltd.. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A recording of the Bentley Drivers Club activities during the Bentley Golden Jubilee. A companion volume to the Bentley Bedside Book. Green cloth boards with gilt titles. B/w photos. Boards clean and bright. Foxing to endpapers, browning to text block. Else contents clean. Black dustwrapper is scuffed.

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PARRY THOMAS DESIGNER-DRIVER
Written by Hugh Tours.
Stock no. 1823851
Published by B.T. Batsford. 1st 1959. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos. Biography of the car designer and racer (Full name John Godfrey Parry Thomas). Spine browned, browning to rear board. Minor foxing to text block. Previous bookseller's rubber stamp to lower edge of front endpaper. Contents clean. Price-cut blue pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at corners, lightly browned to spine and just a little scuffed.

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TWICE LUCKY: MY LIFE IN MOTORSPORT
Written by Stuart Turner.
Stock no. 1823848
Published by Haynes Publishing Group. 1st 1999. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Autobiography of Stuart Turner, one of the leading motorsport figures of the time. Foreword by Jackie Stewart. B/w photos. ISBN: 1859606024. SIGNED by the author, Stuart Turner, to title page (no dedication). A nice, clean copy. Green pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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