Pierce Riemer (29 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Custom Fords (A Foulis book) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content has spotting and water marks to the page ends. Good DJ with some stains and spotting.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. reprint hardback with dustwrapper very good / very good 120 pages, illustrated, no inscriptions, clean, tight, bright copy.

As new! Paper bound in stapled pictorial wrappers, illustrated throughout with maps and photos, 52pp plus index. A tight, umarked copy in new condition. 130 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Very slight wear to book, dust jacket has light edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Illustrated, a very good clean tight copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. There was a time when an elderly Ford Escort reaching the end of its useful life was not necessarily destined for the scrapyard. In the hands of a determined British enthusiast, it might instead become a sports car, a vintage roadster, or something resembling a miniature Ferrari, provided its creator possessed sufficient imagination, a reasonably well-equipped garage and a spouse prepared to tolerate several years of mechanical debris. In Ford-Based Kit Cars (1988), Pierce Riemer and Stephen Mills explore the wonderfully eccentric world of home-built motoring, where humble Ford mechanical components could be transformed into vehicles of considerably more exotic appearance. Published by Haynes, this fascinating volume celebrates the ingenuity of Britain?s kit car industry, an extraordinary enterprise built upon the belief that ordinary motorists should be allowed to construct their own dream machines, preferably without the inconvenience of establishing a major automobile factory. Ford provided an ideal mechanical foundation for this peculiar automotive revolution. Its engines, gearboxes, axles and suspension components were plentiful, relatively affordable and familiar to generations of mechanically minded enthusiasts. Why purchase an expensive sports car when you could acquire a collection of fibreglass panels, dismantle an ageing Cortina and spend the next eighteen months discovering that nothing fitted quite as easily as the manufacturer?s brochure suggested? The book examines the remarkable variety of Ford-based creations that emerged from Britain?s flourishing specialist car industry. From sporting roadsters and dramatic coupés to nostalgic recreations of earlier motoring eras, these vehicles demonstrated that imagination and mechanical resourcefulness could produce extraordinary results from the most unpromising beginnings. Naturally, kit car ownership required a particular temperament. Patience was essential, optimism indispensable and a willingness to improvise absolutely fundamental. The finished vehicle might possess the appearance of an expensive Italian thoroughbred while retaining the mechanical heart of a modest British family saloon. This was not necessarily a disadvantage, particularly when replacement parts could be obtained from the local motor factors rather than imported from Modena at considerable expense. Riemer and Mills capture this distinctive period of motoring history, when small manufacturers and enthusiastic amateurs challenged conventional ideas about automotive production. It was a world in which individuality mattered, engineering ingenuity was celebrated and the phrase ?some assembly required? could represent several years of one?s remaining life expectancy. Condition: Good. This is a previously owned copy dating from 1988, showing ordinary signs of age and handling. Unlike the vehicles featured within its pages, it arrives already assembled and should require neither specialist tools nor an understanding of Ford electrical wiring. Published by Haynes in 1988. ISBN: 9780854296231. Offered by Crappy Old Books , where we admire the British tradition of taking perfectly ordinary machinery, surrounding it with fibreglass and announcing the creation of something magnificent. An excellent addition to any collection of kit car literature, classic motoring history or amateur automotive engineering. Particularly recommended for anyone who has ever looked at a rusty Ford Sierra and thought, with dangerous optimism, that underneath all that disappointment was a Lamborghini waiting to escape.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. A NICE COPY , VERY GOOD CONDITION , EXCELLENT VALUE.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Glazed pictorial boards with no inscriptions and unclipped DJ. A clean, tight, bright copy of 168pp. illustrated throughout.

Hard Back. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First. 168 very clean pages. Laminated boards. The jacket has a small sign of edge wear to the top edge, and is bright and clean. -- This is a fascinating book for anyone who is either curious about this alternative form of motoring or seriously contemplating buying an example of this very personal mode of transport. Also an ideal book for seasoned kit car constructors. Size: 11in 81/2in. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. - 244 mm. Trade paperback. Illustrated. Pp. 159. Fine. Clean and bright.

Hardbound. Condition: Fine(1). A fascinating book. With d/j Illustrated by: .

27.5x21.5cm. First edition. 120pp with numerous monochrome photo illustrations, and colour plate sections. Hardback / hard cover: colour-illustrated boards. Foot of backstrip inwards-curled and a little creased, outer corners of front board slightly bumped. Tips of lower outer corners of a few leaves of contents creased & furled. VERY GOOD+ copy in VERY GOOD+ unclipped dust jacket.…

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 160 pages : illustrations, maps, facsimiles. Subjects; Water mills. Woollen industry. England Gloucestershire. History. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 160 pages : illustrations, maps, facsimiles. Subjects; Water mills. Woollen industry. England Gloucestershire. History. 1 Kg.

275 mm. by 210 mm. 120 pages copiously illustrated in colour and b / w. This is a review copy, slightly bumped to corners but generally in v.g.+ condition in like d / w.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon état. Livre en anglais. In-4 relié 27,6 cm sur 21,3. 168 pages. Bon état d'occasion. in-4°.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. In recognition of the ability and talent that has gone into the making of custom Fords, in this book the authors have paid tribute to the cars and their owners. The text is illustrated throughout with photographs , their is a mark down the crease of the paste-down. The boards binding and text block are all square and tight, the boards have light wear to the corners as do the dust jacket. Book price includes 2nd class post in UK only.…

Publisher's Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. - 269 mm. Green cloth hardcover, gilt titling to spine. Illustrated. Maps. B&W photographs. Pp. 160. DJ is price-clipped. Mild wear and rubbing to DJ. Overall, VG / VG.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This book is number 273 in a limited edition. 160 pages, well illustrated with photpgraaphs, endpaper maps. 8.25 X 10.5 inches. Near fine book in a near fine dustwrapper, book is very clean and unmarked throughout, no ins criptions.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st 1991. Slightly better than very good condition with no wrapper. This book records the county's industrial past - its craftsmen, millers, machines and buildings - in a largely photographic record, with extensive information, a brief introduction and a useful list of illustrations. Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. Faint pencil erasure marks to free front endpaper. Contents clean. Boards slightly grubby (minor). Packaged with care and promptly dispatched.…

Condition: Used - Very Good. VG hardback. 1st edition. B&W photographs; glazed boards. Name heavily crossed-out on front pastedown Used - Very Good. VG hardback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. Dust Jacket may NOT BE INCLUDED.CDs may be missing. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Condition: Gut. 203 S., Ill. engl. sprachig, Einband leicht berieben, Ecken leicht bestoßen, ohne Schutzumschlag LIEFERZEITEN / DELIVERY TIMES: DEUTSCHLAND 5 - 14 Tage EUROPA/EUROPE: 7 - 30 Tage/Days USA/WELTWEIT/WORLDWIDE: 14 - 60 Tage/Days (!!!) +++ Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 4800 gebundene Ausgabe, Hardcover/Pappeinband.…

Condition: Good. 418 pp., paperback, library markings, base of spine worn, else text clean & binding tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. …