Duryea Chas (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. 8vo. Title page photograph of the author. 32 pp. Illustrated with B & W photographs and illustrations. Printed on coated paper. Original printed brown stapled wrappers. Topics include: expense, the engine, the cooling system, the frame, etc. This booklet by the co-founder of America's oldest automobile manufacturer is scarce: OCLC lists just 2 copies in libraries worldwide. This is a fine book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Edited, designed, engraved, and printed for the Stevens-Duryea Company, by R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Chicago. 4to. 63 pp. +[1] page. Erratum slip laid in. Profusely illustrated in color. Printed on coated paper. Original decorated green paper-covered boards, embossed in gold and dark green front cover, with unprinted green cloth spine in the original unprinted glassine DJ and matching publisher's paper-covered box. The Stevens-Duryea Company made high-end automobiles between 1901-1915 and 1919-1927. Starting with two cylinder cars in 1901 and, after 1907, manufacturing only six cylinder versions which sold for up to an amazing $9500 for the Model E in 1919. This catalog shows both 4 cylinder and six cylinder automobiles. Illustrated are the automobiles (detailed duotone illustrations over photographic backgrounds) as well as a wealth of chassis, suspension, engine ("power plant"), gears, etc. are shown. ALSO LAID IN is a unusual piece of Steven-Duryea ephemera: a postcard size invitation (6/12" x 3 1/2") to visit their booth at Madison Square Garden January 6th to 13th, 1912; printed and illustrated one side in three colors on card stock. OCLC lists only six copies of institutionally housed copies of this book. This is an extraordinary copy, perhaps sine qua non: the book has been protected in the original DJ and publisher's box and is very bright, tight and very fine; the cover gilt has absolutely no dulling. The glassine DJ has several small edge tears, but is remarkably nice. The publisher's box has a couple of small areas of wear along the edges but is bright, complete. Overall perhaps the finest example of this scarce book, and rare thus.