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Auction No 421, Category: Books

106 Lots (displaying 101 - 106)

UK Bus history & nostalgia including Roberts "Bristol RE: 40 Years of Service", 2002; Jones "Moss Motor Tours of Sandown, Isle of Wight", 2017;

Lot: 135

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £60
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UK Bus history & nostalgia including Roberts Bristol RE: 40 Years of Service, 2002; Jones Moss Motor Tours of Sandown, Isle of Wight, 2017; works by Matthew Wharmby (3, all in d/jkts) and other illustrated works, many h/bk, 1970s to modern. None with inscriptions. Good to VF (25)

UK Bus, Tram & Coach Local History titles, 1970s to modern, h/bk and s/bk, including Lacey "Smith’s Coaches of Reading 1922 to 1979";

Lot: 136

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £86
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UK Bus, Tram & Coach Local History titles, 1970s to modern, h/bk and s/bk, including Lacey Smith's Coaches of Reading 1922 to 1979; Weager Bournemouth's Bus & Coach Station; and Keeley Birmingham's Blue and Cream Buses, in d/jkt; and other illustrated works. VG/VF, one signed by the author o/w no inscriptions. (26).   

The ‘Metrovick Electric’, 1930s, scarce showroom brochure for Metropolitan Vickers range of electric vans. 24pp. Landscape quarto.

Lot: 137

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £30
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The ‘Metrovick Electric', 1930s, scarce showroom brochure for Metropolitan Vickers range of electric vans. 24pp. Landscape quarto. Spike hole upper left o/w VG.  

Motor Car showroom brochures (8) and related leaflets (3), late-1950s, with some duplication. VG/VF.

Lot: 138

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
SOLD £100
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Motor Car showroom brochures (8) and related leaflets (3), late-1950s, with some duplication. VG/VF.  Also cover only for a 1930s showroom brochure for MG sports cars.

Motoring ephemera and softback publications; including Earls Court "Motor Show" catalogues for 1951,1956 and 1958;

Lot: 139

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £115
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Motoring ephemera and softback publications; including Earls Court Motor Show catalogues for 1951, 1956 and 1958; Morris Eight Workshop Manual 1948; many Invoices/Billheads from wide range of companies, 1960s/70s; Halfords catalogue 1955; Oulton Park motor-racing programmes 1955 & 1956; Belle Vue Stock Car racing programme 1954; rare Kathanode Batteries for Delivery Vehicles trade catalogue 1939, 28pp; qty. of Tax Discs and MOT certifcates; and other items, a few unrelated. Fair to VF (Large qty).

Philatelic Literature including Robson Lowe "The Encyclopaedia of British Empire Postage Stamps, Vol.5 - North America", in d/jkt;

Lot: 192

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
UNSOLD
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Philatelic Literature including Robson Lowe The Encyclopaedia of British Empire Postage Stamps, Vol.5 – North America, in d/jkt; Van der Linden Catalogue des Marques de Passage, 1993, 336pp; Smith The Development of Rates of Postage, Quarterman reprint [c.1981]; Firth Postage Stamps and Their Collection, 1897; Francis Field Air Mail pamphlets (9); Tranmer The Postal History of Austria 1938-1946; and related titles. Good to VF (27)