Hints Tips Motor Cyclists (16 results)

Condition: Good. 1957. 182 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to s…

Condition: Good. Twelfth Edition Revised. 204 pages. Photographic dust jacket over blue paper covered boards. Light thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding is slightly loose but pages remain attached. Boards hav…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 5th or later Edition. The book is very good with light edge wear and light stain to lower edge of cover not affecting the interior in a poor dust jacket with edge wear and paper loss to front and spine ends. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and m…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. circa 1917. Iliffe & Sons Ltd. A small Softcover in Good (for its age) condition. The book is a historic gem. 402 hints and tips provide a glimpse into motorcycling more than a hundred years ago. The book shows the sort of wear one would expect from a book of its age, especially to the edges of the b…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Seventh Edition. Undated. Main text unpaginated, [xv] adverts to rear. Dark blue cloth boards with illustrated title paneltipped onto front cover and titles in black to somewhat faded spine. No inscriptions. Covers slightly bumped to extremities with slight toning to illustration. Original Cambri…

13th edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; vii, 184 pages ; (8º). Subjects; Motor-cycles. Motorcycles; history. Motor-cycles; maintenace. Motorcycles; descripti…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No date but pre-1914. 100 x 150mm. Boards shelfworn and rubbed with corners turned. Cracked at both joints. Browning to endpapers with a chip at the top edge of the ffep and a small bit of insect damage to the rear endpapers. One of the index leaves is detached and has a short closed tear at the outer…

Reprint (undated, but c.1919). 12mo., blue clothbound hardback, with remains of pictorial title label to upper cover; unnumbered pages with 402 hints and tips and 3 text figures + 6pp index marks and contemporary adverts + 5pp index. Previous owner's in name and inscription to ffep, and date (1919) to half-title. Some staining t…

13th edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; vii, 184 pages ; (8º). Subjects; Motor-cycles. Motorcycles; history. Motor-cycles; maintenace. Motorcycles; descripti…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. The 13th edition of Hints and Tips for Motor Cyclists, published by Iliffe & Sons Ltd in 1955, is a vintage guide originally compiled by the staff of The Motor Cycle magazine. Authored under the pseudonym "Road Rider," it served as a practical manual fo…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Circa 1917. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Small format. Blue cloth, b/w photo onlay to front cover. 6th edition. Cover edges rubbed. Rear cover marked. Name in ink to front endpaper. Pages browned. Address label to rear pastedown. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched…

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 3rd. Good condition with no wrapper. Small format. Blue cloth, b/w photo onlay to front cover. 3rd edition. Wear and marks to covers; bumping to corners. Damp marking to onlay on front cover. Front joint is cracked/partially broken, with webbing showing through. Foxing and browning, mostly t…