Motor Cruising: The Lonsdale Library Volume XIX
London: Seeley Service & Co. Limited, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Stout 8vo. Pp. 640. Frontis. cruiser photos. Over 500 illustrations: line drawings, diagrams and halftone black & white photo reproductions. Series preface by the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Lonsdale. Index including glossary. Light brown buckram, titles and Lonsdale device stamped in gilt on the spine, device on the cover, dark brown topstain, illustrated endpapers: spine ends pushed, edges rubbed, leaf edges spotted. In the dust jacket printed red on textured tan paper, photo illustrations mounted to the cover and spine, price 21s. intact on the front flap: edges chipped, rubbed and soiled, transparent tape repairs recto, spine darkened and mounted illustration chipped. Good+ / Fair. Item #6812
Multiple experts headed by Miller of The Yachting World and Irving, yachting editor of The Field inform motorists taking to the sea and seamen taking to motors. Splendidly illustrated. The dust jacket, scarce in any condition, is now preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.
Price: $30.00