CARS: THE EARLY YEARS
Written by Brian Laban
Published by Konemann
in 2000
ISBN: 3829028997
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- TRANSPORT
- CARS
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE
- GERMAN
- FRENCH
CARS: THE EARLY YEARS
Written by Brian Laban.
Stock no. 1609600
1st.
2000.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The Hulton Getty Picture Collection. A collection of historic, amusing or thought-provoking images. Large, oblong format. Black cloth boards, silver titles. B/w photos. Captions in English, German and French. 349 pages plus index. ISBN: 3829028997. Some marks to textblock. Some offsetting of ink from facing frontis on title page. Else contents clean. Dustwrapper edge creased and worn; some fading to spine.
Front cover
Contents
- Prologue
- 1. Entering the Automobile Age
- 2. Out with the Horse? 1900 to World War I
- 3. Building up the War Machine
- 4. Post-War Optimism: A Time to Grow
- 5. Age of Concern? Optimism, Despair, Decadence, Depression
- 6. Back to War: The Forties under Fire
- 7. A New Order - And Conspicuous Consumption