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April 29 - May 1; doors open at 9 a.m./PDT
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(AUTOMOBILE ‑ REO MOTOR CAR COMPANY) AKERS, Forest H. BRIDGING THE LAST GAP BETWEEN FARM AND MARKET.
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Lansing, Michigan: Reo Motor Car Co., 1919. 12mo. Illustrated wrappers. 16 pages.
Rare auto trade promotion not recorded on OCLC. Forest H. Akers was sales manager for the Reo Motor Car Company who authored this sales pamphlet promoting the company's line of commercial farm grade trucks. Illustrated with photographs of thirteen models suitable for a variety of farm needs, each one with an endorsement letter. Very good.
$285.00
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(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL ‑ GOLDEN GATE). POST, Emily. BY MOTOR TO THE GOLDEN GATE.
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New York/London: D. Appleton and Company, 1916. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and paste-down map on front cover. xii, 281, (26) maps. 31 photographic plates. First edition. (Bliss # 23).
A travel journal written by Emily Post of her automobile trip across the country from New York To San Francisco in 1915. Filled with photographs and maps of the stages of her trip. End pages have United States maps charted with the trip. Very good.
$225.00
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(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL ‑ UNITED STATES) GLADDING, Effie Price. ACROSS THE CONTINENT BY THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY.
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New York: Brentano's, 1915. 8vo. Decorated cloth. 262 pages, 1 folding map plus 28 photographic plates. First edition. (Bliss, # 19).
A trip by automobile from California to Virginia by way of the Lincoln Highway. With numerous photographs of the many sites and locations they visited which includes early photographs of historic sites in Virginia at Williamsburg and Jamestown.
$125.00
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(AUTOMOBILE PERIODICAL) SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. AUTOMOBILE NUMBER. Vol. CII, No. 3.
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New York: Munn & Co., January 15, 1910. Pages 43-80. Folio. Chromolithographic illustrated wrappers.
The Scientific American was begun in 1845 as a monthly issued periodical. Most issues featured architectural designs for houses and commercial structures with appropriate building and design advertisements, but there were several which also focused just on the automobile which we have here. This issue, Vol. CII, no. 3 for January 15, 1910, includes articles on "Automobile Fire Engines, a New Type of Motor Vehicle," "The Motor Car and the Road. The Destructive Effect of High Speed," "Automobile vs. Airship," and "What the Motor Vehicle is doing for the Farmer." It has a brightly colored chromolithographic cover of a stylish automobile with passengers stopped at a roadside station overlooking a mountainous valley below. The articles inside are about automobiles, the industry and the newest advancements and features richly illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
$150.00
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SOUTHWORTH, May E. THE MOTORIST'S LUNCHEON BOOK.
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New York/ London: Harper & Brothers, 1923. Small 8vo. Decorated cloth, decorated dust jacket. (iv), 146, (2) pages. First edition. (Bitting, p. 443).
Scarce dust jacket. Early American book for motor picnic. Chapter headings include: "The gypsy Trail," "Thermos, Friday," "Chafing Dish, Thermos," and "Added suggestions for sandwich fillings."
$225.00
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(AUTOMOBILE RACE) BRUSKE, Paul Hale. THE STORY OF A WORLD'S RECORD‑SETTING FEAT BY A 20 HORSE POWER MOTOR CAR.
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Detroit: Studebaker Corp., 1911. Square 8vo. (6 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches). 32 pages. First edition.
Scarce automobile race item with only five copies recorded on OCLC. The cover title: "Down the Dixie Trail: New York to Jacksonville, Florida with the Flanders '20' 1911 Glidden
Pathfinder." A promotional pamphlet produced by Studebaker Motor Corp. Filled with photographs taken by the author of the experiences and sites along the route, especially in the southern back country. With a map of the route delineated. Very good.
$585.00
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(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL & RACING ‑ PIKES PEAK) (PENROSE, Spencer; J.J. Cogan, and F.C. Matthews) PIKES PEAK.
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Colorado Springs/ Manitou, Colorado: Manitou & Pikes Peak Railway, Auto Highway, (circa 1925). 4to. Illustrated color wrappers. (16) pages. First edition.
First edition of this scarce advertising promotion for the Pikes Peak Highway, and the Mt. Manitou excursion. Spencer Penrose, entrepreneur, gold mining baron, and the adventurer decided in 1913 to turn the primitive narrow road to the summit of Pikes Peak into an automobile highway in 1915. In collaboration with the Denver & Rio Grande Railway, the Pikes Peak Auto Highway Company, the Pikes Peak Automobile Company, and the Mt. Manitou Park and Incline Railway Company they widened and converted the narrow road into the highest highway in the world for automobiles and motorcycles in which travelers would pay a toll of $2.00 per passenger with a $4.00 minimum per car, motorcycles were charged $2.00 per passenger, and children were half-price. To publicize the event, Penrose promoted the Pikes Peak Hill Climb with $6,000 in prizes. With color and black-and-white illustrations throughout, Beautiful cover art painting showing automobiles and railway climbing the sides of Pikes Peak; map on back cover. Slight creasing to corners, very minor shelfwear, else a near fine copy.
$125.00
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COLORADO SPRINGS‑MANITOU CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. COME TO COLORADO SPRINGS – MANITOU: THE PIKES PEAK REGION.
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Colorado Springs: The Chamber, 1920s. Square 8vo. Colored illustrated wrappers.(22) pages.
Scarce travel promotion for Colorado Springs and region in the 1920s. A richly illustrated (many in color) booklet of the sites, natural wonders as well as tourist resort activities available to the automobile traveler.
$125.00
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(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL ‑ SOUTHERN STATES) GILSON, James W. WAY DOWN SOUTH IN DIXIE.
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(Racine, Wisconsin?): Mitchell-Lewis Motor Company, 1911. Oblong 8vo. Illustrated wrappers. 39 pages. First edition.
Rare Southern auto travel item with only two copies recorded on OCLC - State Historical Society of Iowa, Library, and Knox College. "Logging the 1910 Glidden Tour Route with the Mitchell Ranger Automobile piloted by Frank X. Zirbies." A promotional pamphlet published for the Mitchell-Lewis Motor Company tp promote their new Mitchell Ranger Car. "Starting from Cincinnati in a February blizzard the Mitchell Ranger Car successfully surveyed the route of the 1910 A.A.A. reliability contest traversing Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa and Illinois and finishing at Chicago a distance of approximately three thousand miles." Illustrated with many half-tone photographs in-text of the trip and the adventures, trials and sites along the way. Stamped on back cover "Hearsey-Willis Co. Indianapolis, Ind." Wrapper rubbed, else very good.
$625.00
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HUGHES, Edith Wakeman. MOTORING IN WHITE FROM DAKOTA TO CAPE COD
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New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1917. 8vo. Original black boards. (2), 98 pages, with 7 plates from photographs. First edition.
A native of Bismarck, North Dakota, the author is best known for her philanthropic work on behalf of the American Braille Institute and other worthy causes. But she was also a writer, and this work is a charming example of the motoring narratives that proliferated in the early decades of the 20th century. Mr. Hughes--an engineer, inventor, and state legislator --- owned the first automobile in North Dakota and had been pestering his wife to agree to a cross-country trip for years. She finally agreed, as long as she got to plan the route, stock the car with anything and everything a motor traveler might need, and, of course "keep a perfect log of the trip. Near fine. Hardcover lightly rubbed.
$185.00
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(AUTOMOBILE RACING) HUSS, Dwight B., and Percy F. Megargel,. FROM HELL GATE TO PORTLAND: THE STORY OF THE RACE ACROSS THE AMERICAN CONTINENT IN OLDSMOBILE RUNABOUTS.
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(N.P.: 1931). 8vo. Illustrated wrappers. 46 pages.
Scarce automobile racing item with ten copies recorded on OCLC of the 1931 reprint and possibly one copy of the 1905 edition. Bliss records the 1931 reprint (# 3) but no copies of the original version. "Told by the men who rode and the man who looked on." A flyer insert cites, "A reprint - of the thrilling story of the first Transcontinental Automobile Race between 'Old Scout' and 'Old Steady,' 1905. Reprinted after 26 years for 'Old Scout's' Second Transcontinental Run, 1931." The goal of the race was the National Good Roads Convention in Portland, Oregon. Richly illustrated with photographs of the vehicles and various stages of the race and the challenges of diving on the roads of the day. Very good.
$685.00
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(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL ‑ NORTH AMERICA) PERCIVAL, Charles G., M.D. THE TRAIL OF THE "BULL‑DOG,' A 50,000 MILE JOURNEY BY MOTOR CAR THROUGH THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, MEXICO, B.C., ALASKA, AND THE KLONDIKE.
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(N.P.: N.P. 1913). 4to. Colored illustrated wrappers. 96 pages.
A scarce item with only five copies recorded on OCLC. Not in Bliss. A travel journal kept by Dr. Charles Percival of his automobile trip all over the United States, Mexico and Canada. The trip commenced from Kansas City on July 31, 1910 the doctor came East and went Westward through the Alleghenies to Oklahoma and Texas, through "old and New Mexico" to "glorious southern California," eventually "motoring in Alaska," then "over the trail from Caribou to White Horse," and "over the road from Seattle to San Francisco and finally "through rain and snow from Denver to New York" and concluded the trip at Portland, Maine on March 15, 1912. "Illustrated with 200 photographs by the author" of the challenges of driving across the continent with primitive roads and natural obstacles everywhere, especially in the wilderness of Canada and Alaska. Interspersed with numerous advertisements. Edges fingered.
$750.00
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(AUTOMOBILE MAGAZINE) THE RAMBLER MAGAZINE. Number Twenty‑nine
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Kenosha, Wisconsin: Thomas B. Jeffrey & Co., 1906. 8vo. Illustrated wrappers. pages 726-750, (6) pages.
Early auto magazine which began publication in 1905 and came out monthly. This issue is complete. Articles of interest include, "a Family Tour in a Rambler from Fresno City to Monterrey," and "Through Illinois in a Rambler." With many in-text half-tone photographs of the automobiles and travel. With six pages of auto based advertisements in back.
$125.00
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(AUTOMOBILE CALENDAR) TUCK & SONS, RAPHAEL. 1908 Chromolithographic Die‑Cut Calendar.
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London/Paris/Berlin/New York/Montreal: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1907. Die-cut chromolithographic multi-piece cardboard stock calendar. (9 x 9 1/2 inches).
Unusual and whimsical colorful calendar for 1908 of dogs and cats riding in a car with motorcycle riding along side as a pop-out. The calendar is in a pop-up window on the side of the car behind the stand-out motorcycle.
$225.00
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CALIFORNIA STATE AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION. MOTOR LAND; FORMERLY THE CALIFORNIA MOTORIST. Volume IV, Number 5 (May, 1910).
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San Francisco: May, 1910. 4to. Decorated wrappers. 80 pages.
Illustrated motor car journal issued monthly. This issue "Oregon Number" featuring articles and advertisements on automobile travel through Oregon with numerous photographic images of sites to visit as well as people involved in the auto industry. Features include an 8 page article on "The Columbia River Highway," "Oregon, The Sportsman's Paradise," "Portland the City Beautiful," (6 pages) as well as an article announcing "The Yosemite Road Fund Drive...Its Campaign to make $1,000,000 for Construction."
$150.00
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(AUTOMOBILE MANUAL) BROKAW, H. Clifford. HANDLING THE CAR ON THE ROAD
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New York: Young Men's Christian Association, 1910. 8vo. Printed wrappers. 22 pages.
Scarce early twentieth-century automobile manual not recorded on OCLC. It gives details of every mechanical feature: Starting crank, running break pedal, gasoline tank, tires, etc. as well as instructions on every step to start the car and how to drive. With text illustrations. Very good.
$125.00
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AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL ‑ CRYSTAL PARK) STEWART BROTHERS. VIEWS OF THE CRYSTAL PARK AUTO TRIP, MANITOU, COLORADO.
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Manitou, Colorado: 1911. Oblong 8vo. Illustrated wrappers. (28) pages.
Scarce item with only seven copies recorded on OCLC. A photographic album published by Stewart Brothers, photographers. A collection of 24 full-page high quality photographs of the natural wonders in Crystal Park its mountains, roads, and scenic views - a travel guide intended for the popularity of automobile travel. The introduction announces that "The Crystal Park Auto is the new attraction of the Pikes Peak Region." Very fine copy.
$285.00
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( AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES) HAYWOOD TIRE & EQUIPMENT COMPANY. ON THE UP‑GRADE ROAD TO WEALTH.
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Indianapolis: (circa 1914) 4to. Illustrated wrappers. 40 pages.
Rare automobile equipment business promotion. OCLC only records two copies: Indiana Historical Society and Indiana State Library. A detailed and profusely illustrated catalogue on opening and operating a tire equipment business by Haywood Company. It gives detailed information on every step to operate a business from acquiring a store, equipment and training in the business and equipment catalogue. Great photographs of garage being operated and using the company equipment in the tire business. Very good.
$185.00
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(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL ‑ COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY) PORTLAND PRESS CLUB. THE COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY; THE WORLD'S MOST SCENIC THOROFARE.
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Portland, Oregon: (circa 1919). Small 8vo. Pictorial wrappers. 23 pages.
Rare automobile travel guide with only one copy recorded on OCLC - Washington State Library. An illustrated guide for the scenic highway along the Columbia River illustrating sites and natural features along the highway. It is published as a promotion for safer and better quality roads. "Public interest demands that old macadam roads be saved and utilized by laying over them a bituminous surface which will meet every modern traffic condition." Very good.
$110.00
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(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL ‑ YOSEMITE). MAGILL, H.B. TOURING THRU THE YOSEMITE.
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San Francisco: Yosemite Publishing Co., 1926. Oblong 4to. Black cloth. (44) unnumbered pages, including 34 full-page photographs. First edition.
An early automobile travel photographic guide for Yosemite. The photographs are fine examples and include numerous panoramic scenic views of the park landscape as well as the camp sites and tourist activities, horseback riding, winter skiing and other group activities. Includes the original manilla emailing envelope stamped and posted 1929. Very good.
$285.00
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(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL GUIDE - MOUNT RAINIER) UNITED STATES. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, 1920, USEFUL HINTS TO MOTORISTS.
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(Washington, DC: 1920). Tall 8vo. Printed folded broadside (10 1/2 x 10, unfolded).
Rare early twentieth century automobile guide to Mount Rainier National Park. Inside is colored map of the national park with an "automobile guide map showing roads in the Mount Rainier National Park," delineating geological and geographical features, roads, natural sites and camp grounds. Printed insert warning about dangers of fire attached to inside. Back side gives history of national park.
$110.00
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