The Way We Drove: Toronto's Love Affair with the Automobile in Stories and Pictures by Bill Sherk - 1993-01-01

Boston Mills Press, 1993. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 102M Pages Illus..

Erin, Ontario, Canada: Boston Mills Pr, 2003. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR! Light edgewear otherwise a fine clean solid copy. From the publisher:" The Way We Drove begins in 1983, when Toronto patent attorney Frederick Barnard Fetherstonhaugh took some nervous dignitaries for a ride in his new electric automobile, on a small circular track in front of the grandstand in the Toronto Industrial Exhibition. Five years later, John Moodie of Hamilton drove his new Winton automobile over forty miles through mud and dirt to Toronto and created one of the Queen City's first auto-related traffic jams, around Yonge and Melinda, as eager spectators pressed forward to view the strange contraption. Toronto's love affair with the automobile had begun.The story of this love affair, told here through photographs, commentary, and anecdotes, spans over half a century--from that day at the 'Ex' in 1893 to the space-age tailfins of the 1950s. Nearly all the cars that chugged, rattled, and roared through the… Read More

Erin, Ontario, Canada: Stoddart Boston Mills Press, 2003. Oblong softcover, 102 pages including many illustrations in black-and-white and full colour; signed by Sherk on the half title page with the generic inscription "Happy motoring through these pages"; very tiny traces of shelf wear, but clean and unmarked.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good ++.

Boston Mills Press Books, 1993. Softcover. Good. Paperback, oblong, circa 23x28cm, richly illustrated with b/w photographs.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Boston Mills Press, January 1993. Trade Paperback. Used.