Phil E Irving (10 results)

Condition: Good. Fifth edition second impression. Light wear to boards. Content has toning to page ends. Good DJ with some edge wear and light fading.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd Printing Revised. An As New copy, Fine hardcover in an unclipped Fine dust jacket. Full bound black cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to the spine. Clean inside and out, with no writing or other marks. Binding is solid and square. Collects numerous articles by Irving based on long experience in designing, constructing, riding and writing about motorcycles in Australia and overseas. From the front flap: "Following the success of Rich Mixture, another volume of Phil Irving's erudite articles has been published in similar vein. Once again, the man recognized as the world's leading technical writer covers engine design, brakes, steering, carburation, etc with plenty of anecdotes thrown in to enrich the mixture." And Irving notes in the Introduction: "As most of you who read this sorry of book will undoubtedly know, running an engine with a rock mixture will usually cause the exhaust pipe to emit black smoke. With black smoke coming after a rich mixture, it would seem obvious (to me anyway) that a follow-up book to last year's "Rich Mixture" should be titled "Black Smoke".". …

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Small corner crease to rear cover, slight rubbing on spine ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 326 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Small top corner crease to cover, slight spine crease, a clean and tidy copy ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 326 pages.

Laminated Boards. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. 1st Edition. Good Plus With A Cracked Front Gutter ( Binding Faullt) Pp77 (This Book Appears To End At Page 77 Whereas Other Copies Have 80 Pages) Charts And Diagram Scarce.

Laminated Boards. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. 1st Edition. Good Plus With A Cracked Front Gutter And A Bumped Top Corner ( Binding Faullt) Pp80 Charts And Diagrams Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Black cloth with gilt titles on spine, some very slight shelfwear but otherwise in Near Fine condition, dustwrapper with slight shelfwear and very small scuff to outer edge of rear cover but otherwise in Near Fine condition. Second Revised edition 1978, pp 128, b&w illustrations throughout. Very Scarce Revised Edition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book and jacket in very good condition. 182pp with b/w illustrations. 0.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Sixth Edition. This work contains information on the improvement of motorcycle engines. Tuners of classic and modern machinery alike will find questions answered in a straightforward and explicit manner by the author, a world-renowned Australian engineer. This work is based upon many years of his actual factory experience. The book contains photographs, illustrations, drawings, tables, graphs, charts, an appendix and an index. This copy is clean and solid.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Cover has very light ageing spots. Contents Fine. Reprint of features that first appeared in "Motor Cycling " magazine. Fully illustrated with technical drawings. 80 pages.