Hingston I R (6 results)

Condition: Good. 1958. 122 pages. Green pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Condition: Good. 1958. First Edition. 122 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over paper covered boards. Clean pages with light tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Tape stain to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild tanning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Light rubbing and marking all over.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Black & White photographs on glossy paper throughout plus diagrams (illustrator). 1st Edition. 122pp. plus 30 pp. of glossy adverts at the end of the book. Within blue (soiled ) printed covers with the lower front corner knocked with small loss. The text clean and unmarked without inscription. Now an interesting piece of social history.

Decorative Illustrated Boards. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Hardcover Scooters and Mopeds 1961, (1st was 1958). Hardback. Small 8vo, 19x12.5cms. Pp.,viii,1138, plus 139-160 adverts. Monochrome plates and text drawings. Publishers pictorial blue, cloth covered boards, illustrated with scooter on front cover, and with advert on rear cover. Clean and bright throughout, and sound binding and covers.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

Hard Back. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor+. 1st Edition. H/b smaller format , Dust Jacket , VG/Poor+ , 1st edition 1958 , illustrated b/w plates+Diagrams , A Practical , easy step by step , non technical langusge - easy to follow book - manual guide - provides a fund of information for the novice and a useful supplement for the experienced , Intro;index , 11 chpts [ choosing - maintaining - how to ride - etc [ blue-green boards to book - no inscsp/annoation , tight binding , clean copy ] [ yellow-tone b/w photo illus D/j not price clipped , 7s 6d , edgewear chips/loss max 20x10mm top spine , crease lines+ assoc line col loss 97%.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Piet Olyslager; Bryan de Grineau (illustrator). A highly illustrated set of six informative guides, hints, and introductions to automobiles, driving, and motors. A fantastic set of six volumes on transport, vehicles, cars, and driving.In the original cloth bindings.Comprising of:[1929] The Austin Seven BookA work by R.T. Nicholson. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece, and in text illustrations throughout. Including advertisements to the front and rear of the volume. TheAustin 7is aneconomy carthat was produced from 1922 until 1939 in theUnited KingdombyAustin. At that time it was one of the most popular carsproduced for theBritish market and sold well abroad. With sections such as 'Cost of Running', 'Grooming and Tending', 'Tyres', 'Learning to Drive'. Undated, dated from a copy held at the British Library.[1932] The Art of DrivingThe new, revised, and enlarged edition. By The Times Motoring Correspondent. Including driving tests: what and how to learn. Including illustrations and advertisements. With a section of the original glassine wrapper. Undated, dated from a copy held at the University of Oxford libraries.[1932] Full ThrottleA work by Sir Henry ("Tim") Birkin with a fore word by The Earl Howe. Illustrated with a frontispiece, 15 double sided plates, and 4 plates of drawings by Bryan de Grineau. Collated, complete. With section such as 'A Car', 'Myself', 'A Race', 'Some Foreigners', '1928'. Undated, dated from a copy held at the British Library.1958 Scooters and MopedsA work by I.R. Hingston. In the original dust wrapper. With in text illustrations, and advertisements to the rear. An informative volume, giving advice for scooter and moped owners. Including sections such as 'How to choose your machine', 'What happens inside the engine', 'ignition and lighting'.1967 Good Driving- the B.S.M WayA work by Ronald Priestly and Tom Wisdom. In the original dust wrapper. With 16 plates, and in text illustrations throughout. Collated, complete. A guide to learning to drive, with sections such as 'The Gears', 'Two-Pedal Control', 'On the Move', 'Baptism by Traffic', 'Night Driving', and more.1967 Illustrated Cars of the WorldA work by Piet Olyslager, with an introduction by Jack Brabham. An abundantly illustrated volume, with coloured depictions of cars throughout. In the original cloth bindings. With two dust wrappers and a glassine wrap. Externally, smart. Odd fading to spines. Light shelf wear to the heads and tails of the spines. Split to head and tail of the front joint of The Austin Seven Book, with rubbing to joints. Sticker to front paste down of Illustrated Motor Cars of the World. Light spotting to endpapers of Full Throttle. Ink inscription to front free endpaper of The Austin Seven Book, with offsetting. Dust wrappers are smart, with chipping to extremities, and slight loss to the heads and tails and the odd closed tear. Glassine wrap is poor, with less than half being in tact, only covering half of the rear board, and the inside rear flap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. book.