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(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL - MOTOR COURT DECAL) (MOTOR COURT DECAL). H. & H. SERVIC MOTOR COURT. $65.00 Kadoka, South Dakota: (circe 1930). Oblong 12mo. (3 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches). Rare auto novelty item. The colorful motor court decal for visitors to the motel. Illustrated with scene of H and H, Texaco service station which featu "cabins, cafe, Firestone." (40201).… Read more about this item

MOTOR TALLY-HO COMPANY. Promotional Travel Pamphlet for Automobiles. (New York: circa 1910). 16mo. Oblong printed wrappers. 48 pages. Scarce travel promotion pamphlet printed for the Motor Tally-Ho Company in Ne York - a company that specializes in planning and conducting private auto tou from New York, to Havana, Cuba. Illustrated with photographs of many of the sites they tour… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE TRADE CATALOGUE) WESTERN AUTO SUPPLY COMPANY. AUTO SUPPLIES, 19 $95.00 Los Angeles: 1926. 8vo. Colored pictorial wrappers. 128 pages. Third edition Scarce automobile supply catalogue. OCLC records several editions (usually o in single or double copies), but none for 1926. A richly illustrated trade catalogue of the range of stock items on everything to do with cars each… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE RELATED PHONOGRAPH RECORD) GOTTLER, Archie, and Edgar Leslie. O THE ROAD TO OLD KILARNEY. New York: Little Wonder Records, 1915. 5 1/2 inch circular shellac record. Early 20th century example of a phonograph recorded song about auto travel in Old Kilarney, Ireland - a popular song in 1915. It was recorded by Little Wonder Records in New York… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL - ITALY) MILTOUN, Francis, and Blanche McManus. ITALIAN HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS FROM A MOTOR CAR. Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1909. 8vo. Decorated cloth. ix, 380 pages, 42 plates. First edition. An auto travel journal kept by Francis Miltoun of his trip in 1909 - one of a series of auto travel journals he published of his… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES) AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF BOSTON. MASSACHUSETTS. AUTOMOBI DIARY. $95.00 Boston: (circa 1914). 8vo. Limp textured leather. 48 pages. Scarce autmobile travel item not recorded on OCLC. The Automobile Club of Boston printed leather bound an Automobile Diary for their members which includes pages for keeping travel records as well as milage, gas consumption, repairs, vehicle maintenance, etc. It… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL - SPAIN) PENFIELD, Frederic Courtland. THE MOTOR THAT WEN TO COURT. New York: Privately Printed, Christmas, 1909. Large 8vo. Red full-morocco binding, top edge gilt. Frontispiece. 92, (1) pages, 25 photographic plates. First edition. "A fact story, with random illustrations." Printed by the DeVinne Press for author, the text covers his auto trip through Spain. A Christmas… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL - CALIFORNIA) GRAVES, J.A. OUT OF DOORS, CALIFORNIA AND OREGON. Los Angeles: Grafton Publ. Co., 1912. 8vo. Cloth spine, boards. viii, 122 pages, 27 leaves of plates. An early twentieth-century motor trip along the west coast of Oregon and California. Chapter headings include: "A motor trip in San Diego's back country," "A great day's sport on Warner's… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE MANUAL) MECREDY, R.J. THE MOTOR BOOK. $175.00 London/ New York: John Lane, 1903. Small 8vo. Limp leather. xi, 148, (8) pages, 34 plates. First edition. An early example of an auto manual published by R.J. Macredy, editor of The Motor News. It is part of The Country Handbook -II series edited by Harry Roberts. Illustrated with numerous detailed… Read more about this item

LOS ANGELES TIMES. AUTO LUNCHES, AND PICNIC REMINDERS. $50.00 Los Angeles: (1924) 16mo. Printed wrappers. 14 pages. Suggestion on what foods to prepare for an autompobile trip such as , salads, drinke, etc. and what accessories to pack sandwich. Also includes list of places to go. 39998.

(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL - PIKES PEAK) PIKES PEAK BY AUTO. $65.00 (N.P.: n.p. circa 1920). Oblong 8vo. (16) photographic pages. Colorful illustrated travel guide to Pikes Peak. Each page is a photograph (many colored) of sites and views along the trails on and aroung Pikes Peak. This copy is issued by and stamped B. & M. Auto Service. Very good.… Read more about this item

KELLY-SPRINGFIELD TIRE COMPANY. SMILIN' THROUGH BY LOTTA MILES $95.00 (Cleveland: Caxton Company, 1923). 12mo. Illustrated wrappers. 14 pages. Rare automobile promotion pamphlet with only one copy recorded on OCLC - University of Virgina. It was produced for the Kelly-Springfield Tire Compan in New York but distributed around the country to their distributors. This c is printed on the front… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE THEMED ENVELOPES). Three Colorful Mailing Envelopes Featuring Au and Travel Themes. $65.00 N.P.: n.d. (circa 1920s?). Oblong 8vo. (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches). Colorful and amusing cartoon drawings showing an auto themed and other travel motifs. One is of a man driving an early automobile and another is of a hors drawn wagon from the rear with… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE TRADE CATALOGUE) DAVIS ROBE COMPANY. THE DAVIS IS KING OF MOTOR LAP-ROBES. $75.00 Chicago: (circa 1908). Tall 12mo. Printed wrappers. 16 pages. Scarce auto trade catalogue. OCLC records one copy of another Davis Motor Company trade catalogue on auto travel robes (or blankets) but not this title An illustrated catalogue of the range of their product line for… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE - ROADS - AMERICA) RIEPERT, Peter Hans. AUTOMOBILSTRASSREN IN AMERIKA. Charlottenberg, Germany: Zementverlag, 1925. 8vo. Illustrasted wrappers. 22 pages. First edition. Rare item. OCLC only records one copy in America - University of Chicago. However there is a copy in the Library of Congress as well, for our copy bear duplicate stamp from the Library of Congress. German… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL - MANUSCRIPT) MY TRIP. (Manuscript diary in ink of various auto trips, April, 1924 to February-Marc 1930. 8vo. Leather covered. (172) pages. Diary from a Mainer, possibly of Winthrop, Maine. First trip in 1924 via a (Ford?) truck from Maine to Florida. Many movies and auto troubles along dri to Clearwater, Orlando, Ft. Pierce, Miami, West Palm… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL ACCESSORY) COOK, & SON, Thomas. COOK'S INTERNATIONAL TRAVELLING TICKETS. London: (1914). 12mo. (5 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches). Black cloth boards with accord pocket inside, with three loose items inserted. Rare example of early twentieth-century auto travel accessories - a small pocket-sized carrier for documents and other papers for the traveller. Insid the two boards have printed… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL - GUIDE - NEW YORK) AUTOMOBILE GUIDE COMPANY. INTRODUCTI PRINCIPAL AUTOMOBILE ROUTES AND MAPS. NEW YORK TO VARIOUS POINTS. New York: Automobile Guide Co., (1907). 8vo. Printed wrappers. 49 pages. Rare item not recorded on OCLC. A handy guide for the traveler to New York i 1907. Filled with maps and tour directions from New York to… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL - NEW ENGLAND) CANEDY, Charles R, Photographer. THE TRA OF THE MOHAWK; MILES OF MAGNIFICIENT MOUNTAIN SCENES, UNRIVALED ON THE ATLANT COAST. North Adams, Massachusetts: (circa 1917). Oblong 8vo. Illustrated colored wrappers. (48) pages. A pictorial souvenir guide book designed for the developing automobile travel popularity. It features the Mohawk Trail which winds through the New England… Read more about this item

(AUTOMOBILE PAINT MANUAL) PATTERSON-SARGENT COMPANY. AUTO AND EXTERIOR ENAM THE PERFECT MODERN ENAMEL $75.00 (Cleveland: 1931). Tall 8v color printed brochure. Five-fold card stock brochure with 32 paint mounted samples. Rare auto paint sample brochure not recorded on OCLC. "Easy to apply - high gloss durable - covers in one coat," "dries in 6 hours." The Patterson-Sarge Company, headquartered… Read more about this item