The Modern Sports Car
by Tom McCahill
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York : Prentice-Hall, 1955. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. A bright copy of this work celebrating the modern sports car, with illustrations throughout. Third American printing of this volume. The Modern Sports Car explores what a sports car is and breaks down which sports cars are best for different people, including Jaguar, Porsche, Aston-Martin and other sports cars. The work also explains how to drive sports cars and learning to drive in competitions. With sixty pages of photographs. Collated, complete. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart with some marks to the boards and spine. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original unclipped dust wrapper which is smart with some chipping to the extremities and marks to the wraps and spine. Very Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 843B88
- Title
- The Modern Sports Car
- Author
- Tom McCahill
- Illustrator
- Not Stated
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Prentice-Hall
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
- Size
- 9" by 6"
- Keywords
- The Modern Sports Car tom McCahill cars sports cars tom McCahill
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Rooke Books
Biblio member since 2007
BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....