The Observer's Book of Automobiles by Richard T Parsons (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Fully Illustrated, (illustrator). First Edition. Forward leaning and firmly bound. Jacket illustration of a Sunbeam Talbot. Some text neattly underlined ink as part of carspotting.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Profusely illustrated throughout. (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition 1955. Profusely illustrated throughout. Publishers brown printed cloth very good. The dustwrapper is very slightly rubbed and darkened, else near fine copy with no chips or tears. Not price clipped. Spine of dustwrapper is not faded. Difficult to find in this condition, generally speaking a very good plus copy. The first automobiles to be published in the observer's book series.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Edwin S. Rockefeller's name and notations on front endpage. (automobiles, cars, vehicles) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Brown boards and spine lettered in a darker brown. Some soiling to unclipped jacket; front hinges and spine edges rubbed; a little loss to the four front corners and at head and base of spine; lettering on spine faded. Internally clean, tight and unmarked. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. Describing 107 Makes with 266 half-tone photographs and 52 drawings of badges, also 84 line sketches by the author. Faint small smudge to rear cover of light buff cloth on boards with dark red titles. Edges: faint few only foxings. Eps: security sticker to rep foot. Clean glossy contents. Binding is As New. 288p Dj: light dusting of just a litte soiling. Some ex-cellotape residue to flaps. Spine: sunned; No 21 at foot, tiny split to head frontside edge. Small split to front bottom edge. Chips to head & foot of flaps spines. Price-cut to head of front flap corner.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. The Observer's book of Automobiles by Richard T Parson with foreword by Stirling Moss, fully illustrated. Describing 107 makes with 260 half-tone photographs, 53 drawings of badges also 90 line sketches by the author. Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.first edition 1955. Hard cover with pale orange cloth binding and partial dustwrapper (top half of spine area and other smaller pieces missing). Front illustration and most of tile is intact. Book has slight lean and corners and top and botttom of spine are bumped.A little fading to some pages, otherwise very good inside. Dustwrapper is not price clipped but poor as described above.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Rare US edition 1955 (Printer's code 732.455). Firmly bound and very carefully read. The book is excellent clean condition. No inscription or ownership markings. No torn loose or missing pages. Comes with reproduction jacket (see photos) showing the original price of $1.25. The book is similar to the British version but with some different pictures & description of some of the American cars.

Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 260 photographs, 53 illustrations of badges and 90 illustrations in the text; original series binding of terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in maroon, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled, with minor loss (affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip, and short closed tear on rear panel. Observer 21. Print code 732.455. Well-above average copy of the scarce original edition, albeit in worn wrapper. VERY SCARCE IN DUSTWRAPPER. Marren & Carter, p.158-9.