Sayre John E (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. Very Good copy. (see picture) 514 pages including index.All clean,tight and bright.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Viii, 304 Pp. Soft Cover Issue, First Printing Of Second Edition, 1978. Near Fine, No Marks.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Perfect bound card stock softcover, sharp and square, some shelf wear to edges. Very Good +. Book is firm in binding, 199 pages, with b&w historic photographs. Very Good +. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; B&W Photos & Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 199 pages.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. This issue devoted to motoring. Features: Title page photo of the sport of winter motoring; One-page cartoon by E.W. Kemple represents the G.O.P. as a car tilting in the 'stand pat' direction; Improvement to be offered auto purchasers in 1911; Photo comparison of Fifth Ave. traffic between 1901 and today (many more cars in use and no horses to be seen now); How to Sell a Car; The Anatomy of the Motor; Joy-Riding of the Real Kind - new car models are brutally tested; Motoring in Winter; Boggs Sees Naples and its Environs; Two photos of new fire truck for the Bradford, England fire brigade; First Aid to Broken Cars - article with great vintage photos; Laocoon (snake fiction by Herman Scheffauer); Article on Superstitions; Witherup's Cyclopaedia of the Months; Romances of the Recruiting Offices (for the United States Army); Home Song for Montana (poem by Leonard Bacon); Blanche Bates (article with photo); The Well-Kept Car "At Home" - article with photo of home grease pit in use, small home machine shop, and large storage building with several cars parked in front; The Horse and the Motor Car - article by Henry Harrison; One-page Goodyear tire ad; Automobile Horns - article by Steven D. Thatton; Sensational one-page illustrated ad for the Phipps-Grinnell Electric Car, featuring the Model "C" 1911! (yes, electric cars were in production well over 100 years ago!); Bond Markets Renewal - article by Franklin Escher; Nice one-page ad for the Carhartt Thirty-Five automobile; Nice half-page photo ad for the Speedwell Motor Car Co. of Dayton, OH features the 4-passenger Torpedo; Quarter page ads for the Premier Motor Mfg. Company and the Atlas Motor car Company; Motoring on European Highways; Nice illustrated ad for the Hupp-Yeats Electric Car Co. of Detroit; Full-page ad for the White Company of Cleveland features illustration of a Western canada Flour Mills Co. truck. Middle leaf loose but present. Please note: front cover is numbered page 3. Presumably this issue originally included an illustrated outer wrap which is no longer present. Otherwise, it appears complete and unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy, notable for its wonderful coverage of a formative time in the history of motoring - both gas and electric. Kemble, E.W.; Fancher, Louis; Groesbeck, Dan Sayre; Levering, Albert; Bayha, Edwin F.; Taylor, Horace (illustrator). …

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 214 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.49 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 344 pages. 11.00x0.81x8.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.