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April 2021 Auto/Travel
eCatalogue

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We are sending you this advance copy of our eCatalogue listing the items we will be offering at the following Virtual Book Fair.

To order or for more details contact:  bookpress@bookpress.com or (757) 229-1260.
 
Spring Break For Booklovers
Two Popular Regional Fairs
Reunited for One Exciting Virtual Event
What was once a yearly spring pilgrimage from the frozen north
through Washington D.C. to Florida
rethought in a modern Virtual Setting.

Fri, April 9, 2021, 12:00 PM - Mon, April 12 , 2021, 8:00 PM

 
.(AUTO PROMOTION) (BRISCOE MOTOR COMPANY.) MILADY'S CAR.
(Jackson, Michigan: Briscoe Motor Company, circa 1915). 12mo. Stiff decorated wrappers. (16) pages. First edition.

A rare item. OCLC only records one copy in the special collections at Hagley Museum. A finely composed and printed automobile promotion from the Briscoe Motor Company featuring an elegant lady traveling around and driving her car. Illustrations showing her picnicking, and several of her driving around the countryside. Very good.


$185.00
(AUTOMOBILE - TRADE CATALOGUE) AUSTIN MANUFACTURING CO. THE AUSTIN TANDEM MOTOR ROLLER.
Chicago: (circa 1907). Oblong 8vo. Printed pictorial wrappers. 15 pages.


Rare trade catalogue not recorded on OCLC. F.C. Austin established the company in 1888 specializing in construction and street maintenance equipment. This catalogue features their "Tandem motor roller" a heavy motorized roller machine for road construction. Included in the catalogue are photographic images of several versions of the piece with detailed images of the engine and the machine in operation of street building projects. Edges chipped; covers loose, but complete.


$150.00
(AUTOMOBILE ADVERTISING PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET). PACKARD MOTOR CAR COMPANY. MASTER OF MOUNTAINS; STORY OF THE SUPER‑TREK IN WHICH THE NEW TYPE PACKARD TRUCK PROVED ITSELF THE MOST ADVANCED HAULING MACHINE IN THE WORLD.
Detroit: Packard Motor Car Co., 1914. 8vo. Printed decorated wrapper. (24) pages. First printing.


Illustrated from photographs and a two-page map showing the truck's route from Detroit to San Francisco. Finely printed with excellent photographs. Light green paper wrappers printed in dark green and silver. No copies located on OCLC. Finely printed with excellent photographs. Very light wear, else very good.

$750.00
(AUTOMOBILE MAGAZINE) CHALMERS MOTOR COMPANY. THE CHALMERS CLUBMAN, SUMMER 1916. 
Detroit: 1916. Tall 4to. Colored illustrated wrappers. 24 pages.


Scarce early 20th century automobile travel magazine published the Chalmers Motor Company. It was begun in May 1915 and published monthly. All copies are scarce and OCLC only records two or three copies of any. A collection of auto travel articles. This issue features the article "Following the Northwest Trail in a Master Six" by E.W. Humphrey. A detailed description of a trip in Chalmers Six from Fargo, North Dakota to Portland, Oregon through Montana, Idaho, the Fourth of July Canyon, Spokane and Pendelton. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Tips of back wrapper chipped, else very good.

$300.00
(AUTOMOBILE MUSIC) ROSEY, George. THE MOTOR MARCH.
 New York: Home Music Co., (circa 1907). Folio printed in red and black broadside (13 1.4 x 10 1/2 inches).


Illustrated printed broadside promoting the song, "The Motor March" composed by George Rosey "composer of The Handicap March, and The Honeymoon March." Illustrated with photograph of car with lady driving and complete with four pages of music.  


$150.00
(AUTOMOBILE PERIODICAL) SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. AUTOMOBILE NUMBER. Vol. LXXXVI, No. 9.  
New York: Munn & Co., March 1, 1902. Pages 133-164. Folio. Chromolithographic illustrated wrappers. 


The Scientific American was begun in 1845 as a monthly issued periodical. Most issues featured architectural designs for houses and commercial structures with appropriate building and design advertisements, but there were several annual supplements which also focused just on the automobile. This issue, Vol. LXXXVI, no. 9 for March 1, 1902 "Automobile and Outing Number" and one of the earliest featuring the automobile, includes articles "Steam Carriages; The White Steam Carriage," "Gasoline Automobiles; A Novel Air-cooled Gasoline Motor," and "Electric Vehicles; The Ajax Electric Runabout." It has a brightly illustrated cover featuring a "modern" (1902) race car. The articles inside are about automobiles, the industry and the newest advancements and features richly illustrated with black-and-white photographs.  


$225.00
(AUTOMOBILE RACING ‑ 1906 TOUR GLIDDEN TOURING TROPHY) SULLIVAN, T. John. DEFENDING THE TROPHY.
Buffalo, New York : George N. Pierce Co., (circa 1906). Small 4to. Decorated wrappers. 46 pages.


Rare early 20th century automobile racing item not recorded on OCLC. First edition of this detailed description of the second competitive tour, following a route from Buffalo across New York, then north to Montreal, from there to Quebec, and finally south, through Maine and New Hampshire, to Breton Woods. A Pierce Arrow won the inaugural tour in 1905; to defend the trophy, three pierce Arrows were entered and they finished ahead of the other 54 competitors. Illustrated with double-page map "The Route of the 1906 Tour of the American Automobile Association for the Glidden Touring Trophy," frontispiece illustrating the trophy and twenty photographs of the journey and event. Original decorated green wrappers, worn around the edges; front wrapper with several tears repaired on verso with archival tape. A good solid copy.


$1,800.00
(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL ‑ COLORADO) LAVLEY, J.E. SCENES ON THE HIGH DRIVE; NORTH CHEYENNE AND BEAR CREEK CANONS. 
Denver: H.H. Tammen Curio Co., 1907. Square 4to. Decorated illustrated wrappers. (ii), (30) pages.


Scarce early twentieth-century travel booklet of the North Cheyenne and Bear Creek Canons in Colorado illustrated with 29 scenic photographs of the major natural sites and formations such as Sentinel Rock, Devils' Slide, The Head of Sorrowful Satan, Bridal Veil Falls, Silver Cascades, Sand Stone Cliff, etc. Wrapper cover illustrated with mounted color scene of Helen Hunt Falls. The title page states clearly that "The book...will many times in the future recall the pleasures of the drive as well as be a welcomed gift book to convey to the folks at home an idea of these wonderful scenes."


$225.00
(AUTO SCHOOL DIARY) ENGEL, Phillip M. Personal Diary while attending Auto Mechanics School, 1919.
(Detroit: 1919.) Small 8vo. Cloth. Approximately 200 pages.

Handwritten diary by Phillip M. Engel of Philadelphia who attended auto mechanics school in Detroit from April 26 to December 31, 1919. Glimpses of the automobile repair schools conducted in Detroit as well as good details of life in Detroit at the time. The 18 year old Engel writes well (in ink) about his experiences as a student at the auto school run by Maxwell as well as his experiences in Detroit. Interesting and a valuable account of this period. Includes photogravure of author pasted inside of front cover.


$225.00
(AUTO TRADE CATALOGUE) DENNISON MANUFACTURING COMPANY. HOW TO DECORATE HALLS, BOOTHS AND AUTOMOBILES.
(Framingham, Massachusetts: 1923. Small 8vo. Decorated colored wrappers. 36 pages.

A trade catalogue produced by the Dennison Manufacturing
Company, known for their paper manufacturing business, especially specialty crepe paper products. This catalogue shows various examples on how to make crepe paper decorations for baby carriages, balconies, chandeliers, halls, fairs, parade floats, automobiles, etc. Filled with text illustrations of several examples of automobiles decorated for special occasions. Minor edge wear, else very good.


$125.00
(AUTO TRADE CATALOGUE) WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY. CHARGING "ELECTRICS" WITH HAWTHORNE MERCURY ARC RECTIFIERS. Booklet No.9681.                                                                                                 
 (N.P.: Western Electric, circa 1911). 8vo. Illustrated wrapper. (12) pages.

Rare automobile accessory trade catalogue not recorded on OCLC. Profusely illustrated with photographs, this booklet shows a step-by-step illustrated process of an exceedingly fashionably dressed woman pulling her charming convertible coup into her garage to charge her electric car. On the front cover, a young girl steps on a soap box to plug in mother's electric car. Yes, nothing under the sun is new. Small hand-stamp of 1911 to front cover, binding slightly soiled and with creases; paper clip shadows, very good.


$300.00
(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL ‑ MICHIGAN) HILL, (Papa). THE HILL'S IN MICHIGAN AND WISCONSIN.
N.P., n.d.: (Detroit: Privately printed, circa 1920). 4to. Plain stiff wrappers, with cord tie. (22) pages.

Rare privately printed account of a three-week road trip in a 1919 Dodge America by Papa and Mamma Hill, and their three children, Harriet, Janet and Marion. The trip lasted 1200 miles from Oak Park, Michigan, through Illinois and into Wisconsin and north to Lake Superior and Michigan/s Upper Peninsula and return. Includes stops at the Wisconsin Dells and Baraboo. Average miles per gallon of gas: 14. Text in double column; illustrated with 28 original 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch silver prints; original plain gray wrappers, chip out at one corner and spine partially cracked; else very good. Not found on OCLC.


$1,250.00
(AUTO TRAVEL ‑ PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM) BACKUS, Richard C. AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL DIARY/ SCRAPBOOK/ PHOTO JOURNAL.
(N.P.: 1919). Oblong 4to. (9 x 11 5/8 inches). Tan cloth. (17) leaves of typed journal entries (recto only) on onion paper, with hand drawn foldout map (34 3/4 x 9 inches), 85 mounted photographs, 6 color post cards, 1 business card and 1 Ferry Rates broadside.

An apparently unique travel album documenting this group's late-in-the-year 1919 3500+ mile trip from New York City to Los Angeles, and from thence an 876 mile round-trip to San Francisco via the inland valley, returning along the coast. The travelers used three different automobiles for their journey: the "National," the "Winton" and "Hudson 6-40." Entry remarks very from recording such frustrations as "Generator belt broken; radiator leaking; clutch sticking," to the resigned, "Nine mi. along wrong road; back to La. for fresh start," to the enigmatic, "Egna's suitcase burns."
 
All in all, an incredible early twentieth-century record of the country traversed by this relatively new mode of cross-country transportation, the travelers noting such divers aspects as road conditions, hotels frequented, meals eaten, rivers crossed, sights seen, others encountered and perhaps most interesting to the historian of the automobile, reliability, or lack thereof, of these three horseless carriages.
 
The typed leaves of the journal note date, town, time, mileage and remarks of the trip. The fold-out handmade map marks the two trips with stops noted therein. The business card is for "R.M. Buchanan, Indian Trader, Winslow, AZ," and the "Ferry Rates" broadside from Louisiana, Missouri. Name of owner stamped on cloth cover.


$2,800.00
(AUTO TRAVEL ‑ WOMEN) POST, Mary D. A WOMAN'S SUMMER IN A MOTOR CAR.
New York: n.p., 1907. 12mo. Blue cloth spine, white cloth boards, with paper spine label. Frontispiece plate, (viii), 99 pages.

Rare privately printed work with only four copies recorded on OCLC. "One hundred copies printed privately for the author's friends." Signed presentation by author on front end paper. The book chronicles a trip taken by the author in a 40-horse-power Pope-Toledo automobile touring car during the summer of 1906 in the Northeast United States. Frontispiece photographic plate shows the author and two friends driving down the road "leaving the White Mountain for Portsmouth, August, 22, 1906." She makes an unfinished trip to Jersey, returns to the Berkshires and Brattleboro and then to Swampscott and Newport.


$325.00
 (AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL - PACKARD) GRAVES, Fred. THE FLIGHT OF "THIRTY."
Detroit: Packard Motor Car Co., (1907). 4to. Decorated orange and black wrappers. 15 pages. Second edition.

"Being the story of an overland dash of 606 miles from Detroit to Chicago and back which was driven in a Packard 30 motor car in 20 hours and 35 minutes by S.D. Waldon, C.B. Oenney, J.W. Tarbill, Fred Graves and E.R. Roberts." Second edition of this very scarce promotional travel brochure detailing the test run of a Packard 30 as it tried to set a round-trip record from Detroit to Chicago. The detailed record and route is charted in the table at the back, and the five photos offer a fascinating look at automobile travel cross-country in the early 20th century. One large double-page showing the Packard 30 racing along the road. Black stiff wrappers, photo mounted on front cover, ribbon sewn. Near fine copy. (One copy at Clemson).


$450.00
(AUTO TOURING ‑ CALIFORNIA MANUSCRIPT) PRATT, Ira. Auto Touring in Southern California, 1913
.Los Angeles: 1913. 12mo. Limp leather-bound ruled memo book. (73) pages of manuscript entries by Ira Pratt.

Hand written diary of a mid-western man who spent two months vacationing in southern California - based at Highland Park in Los Angeles - with, apparently, his wife and mother. The family traveled to California from Chicago in May and departed in July. The diary covers May 12th through July 17th 1913, with 67 pages of entries plus 6 pages of notes (mostly on expenses). Pratt's focus is to document the time, distance, and sights seen by traveling by auto around Southern California, down to San Diego and as far north as Santa Barbara. Much commentary on roads, traffic, sights, farms, the beaches, oil fields...that is, of the present day.
 
May 20: "We went to the theatre to hear Edison's Moving & Talking Pictures. They were just as real as life and talked and sang as natural, what a wonderful inventor. What will be done in future, time only can tell."
 
May 24: "Morris, Ella & children All of us went to Long Beach to see where the floor fell, the accident if so called was 15 feet of floor fell on the lower floor filled of people & all floors, timber and people was dumped in a heap on the sane below. Had the tide been in all would have fallen in water, 32 persons was killed and one hundred wounded, 8 more have died since. We saw Mrs. Ashley to day."
 
"Fullerton... the commencement of the oil wells and from here to Whittier can see hundreds of wells on the hillsides, in the hollows and on top of hills are wells with no tanks at wells. When we leave Whittier on the left of road is lots of tanks (could not guess number) large ones to store oil. From here to Los Angeles are groves all the way and this had been the most sight-seeing day we have had all the trip..."


$285.00
(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL ‑ POETRY) KING, Mrs. George Edward. MOTORING ABROAD.
 
(Atlanta): 1915. 8vo. Reverse calf. Frontispiece portrait, 97 pages, 16 photographic plates.

Scarce private printing. A collection of poems concerning an automobile tour of Europe by Mr. and Mrs. King and five of their friends. The tour began in England went through France and down into Spain, over to Italy and Switzerland, back to France and then back to England. With fifteen plates of sites and attractions they visited. Very good.
 

$250.00
(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL ‑ SOUTHWEST AMERICA) (MCDERMID, W.A.) CHALMERS‑DETROIT "30"; FROM FLAG TO FLAG.
Detroit: Chalmers Motor Company, 1910. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers. (66) pages, with illustrations.

Scarce item with only two copies recorded on OCLC - University of Delaware and the Henry Ford Museum. McDermid wrote the story from records supplied by the men who made the trip. "On the afternoon of May 1, 1909, four men started in an automobile from Denver to find a practical route for a tour from that city to the capital city of Mexico." The trip was sponsored by the Chalmers Motor Company. Illustrated with many photographic images of the automobile, the men and the adventures they had along the way. Not in Bliss. Very good.


$585.00
 (AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL) BATCHELOR, E.A. THE FLIGHT OF THE GRAY GOOSE; DETROIT TO NEW YORK IN 20 HOURS, 26 MINUTES, AUGUST 17, 1921.   
(N.P.: n.p., 1921). 12mo. Printed wrappers. 15 unnumbered pages.

A trip by C.H. Wills from Detroit to New York to prove the durability of the automobile made by his company, the Wills Sainte Claire to drive the distance within one day. With double-page photograph of his car arriving in New York. Very good.


$250.00
(CALIFORNIA HOTELS) SOUTHERN PACIFIC. CALIFORNIA HOTELS: THE FAMOUS HOSTELRIES ALONG THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS.
San Francisco: Sunset Publishing House, (circa 1911). 8vo. Colored decorated wrappers. (32) pages.

Brightly colored travel promotion by the Southern Pacific (designed by W.H. Bull) advertising the famous California hotels along the coast, with map on back cover. Nice promotion and photos of the Mission Inn, Riverside, Alpine Tavern, Mt. Lowe, Hotel Maryland, Pasadena, Hotels Alexandria and Van Nuys, Los Angeles, Hotel Virginia, Long Beach, Hotel Del Coronado, Coronado Beach, Stratford Inn, Del Mar, Arlington, Santa Barbara, Paso Robles Hot Springs, Paso Robles, Hotel Del Monte, Casa Del Rey, Santa Cruz, Palace, Fairmont and St. Francis Hotels, San Francisco, and Tahoe Tavern, Lake Tahoe. Very good, some edge wear.


$225.00
(TRAVEL ‑ CALIFORNIA) BAYLIS, William. A TRIP TO CALIFORNIA. 
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Privately printed, (1903). Oblong 8vo. Cloth. (54) unnumbered pages. First edition, first issue.

Rare travel journal privately printed for William Baylis with eleven copies recorded on OCLC. "A series of fine western pictures from original photographs in Colorado, Utah, California, the Pacific coast, Yellowstone National Park." Sites photographed include "Union Depot, Denver, Colorado" "Saltair Beach, Great Salt Lake, Utah," "City Hall and Mechanics' Pavilion, San Francisco, California," "Music Pavilion, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco," "China Town, San Francisco," "Hotel del Monte, Monterey, California," "Street Scene during Elk's Carnival, Tacoma, Washington," etc. Well composed photographs representing early turn of the century descriptions of the West. Very good. 


$325.00