HORSELESS CARRIAGE L T C Rolt 1st Ed MOTOR CAR Racing ENGINEERING Sport INDUSTRY

HORSELESS CARRIAGE L T C Rolt 1st Ed MOTOR CAR Racing ENGINEERING Sport INDUSTRY (image 1/1)
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VERY GOOD CONDITION This sale is for a vintage hardback FIRST EDITION entitled “ Horseless Carriage ,” subtitled “ The Motor-Car in England ,” by L. T. C. Rolt , with 30 vintage photographic illustrations, including a frontispiece of the first ‘Silver Ghost’ Rolls Royce of 1907. It was published by Constable and Company Ltd., of London , and is the 1950 FIRST EDITION (stated). An outline of the evolution of the motor car in England, in which Continental and Transatlantic influences played a part, and the progress from craft to mass production. L. T. C. Rolt, known as Tom Rolt (1910–1974) was a prolific author on engineering subjects, industrial history, heritage railways, and canal/narrow boat/waterways books. Please see my other auctions for other books by L. T. C. Rolt. The contents include: · Early Primitives · The Coming of Internal Combustion · Edwardian Baroque · The Roaring Twenties · The Age of Mass Production and Monopoly · The Racing Car · The Sports Car …and more… The book measures 8.75 inches x 5.75 inches and has 204 pages + illustrations. The book is in very good condition for its age, neat and clean, with wear and closed tears/chips to the edge of the original dust-jacket (not price-clipped; old tape repair to the underside). There are NO inscriptions/book-plates and NO other ink or pencil markings in read more
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