Brown (Edward T.) The Owner-Driver’s Handbook
£125
London, Ward, Lock & Co., [1929]..
‘New and Revised Edition’. 8vo. Original green cloth blocked in black. Dust-jacket.
Transportative jacket artwork on this vintage guide to car maintenance.
In stock
Contemporary gift inscription on front endpaper; cloth quite excellent; jacket chipped with some loss to spine ends and fore-corners, but overall very good.
Advertorial endpapers; jacket artwork by G.H. Tavis.
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