Talbot Invincible (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. Sound internally, although this has obviously been used in earnest and most pages have greasy/oily finger marks, lubrication chart and wiring diagram mounted on cloth and fold out from inside front cover; card covers covered in Rexine to form envelope with flap, cover has faded gilt title etc.

Paper Cover. Condition: Good. Interior in nice clean condition, having been loosely bound into a compilation it is still unfolded. Includes many display ads for cars, properties, equipment etc. In title line I have listed some of the articles / pictures in this issue.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition hardback copy. Fine condition in Fine jacket. Thick heavy 8vo book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Grenville Publishing Co, London, UK. 1st edition 1970. Hardcover. 496 pp. 255x160 mm (10"x6ĵ") approx. Many B&W photos plus some technical illustrations. Condition: Fine in a fine non price-clipped dust jacket which is protected in a clear plastic cover. Please see the photos of the actual item to assess its condition. Important note for customers in the USA: Due to the imposition of import duty on low value goods by your current administration, it is now impossible to provide a universal default shipping cost. Please ask for a shipping quote before ordering.

LACKS D/W, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 496pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, light soiling to prelims, prev. owner's details in pencil to ffep).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. 496 pages, illustrated throughout with 181 black-and-white photographs and technical drawings. A near fine copy, with the binding square and very slightly loosened on the backstrip. Signs of shelf-rubbing to the backstrip's top and bottom edges. Front cover includes a dent to the top right-hand corner, but the cloth otherwise bright, clean and unmarked. Very light foxing to the page edges. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with lightly rubbed and nicked pictorial dustwrapper that is midly toned to the middle panel and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.   A classic of  motoring marque history. A massive 496 page study of the Talbot from 1926 to 1935 when designer Georges Roesch brought his finely honed his design expertise to the near bankrupt concern and not only saved it from going under but turned it into one of the prime sporting marqiues of the post-Wall-Street-Crash era. During this time the works and privateer cars exercised a domination in the Alpine Trials and achieved great success in major motor racing events at home (Brooklands) and in Europe. The race reporting in this book is said to be among the most evocative and well written anywhere and the authors technical 'handle' on the road cars and their design in unsurpassed.Book in good condition,one or two marks small areas of shelf wear on the jacket .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good.   A classic of  motoring marque history. A massive 496 page study of the Talbot from 1926 to 1935 when designer Georges Roesch brought his finely honed his design expertise to the near bankrupt concern and not only saved it from going under but turned it into one of the prime sporting marqiues of the post-Wall-Street-Crash era. During this time the works and privateer cars exercised a domination in the Alpine Trials and achieved great success in major motor racing events at home (Brooklands) and in Europe. The race reporting in this book is said to be among the most evocative and well written anywhere and the authors technical 'handle' on the road cars and their design in unsurpassed.Book in good condition,one or two marks on the cover cloth and some wear to the edged of the jacket  at the top of the spine etc. with a bit of creasing across the top/back edge. (see photos).

1st Edition. Hb in Dw xvi,496pp frontisplate, illustrations and plates Biography of The Chief Engineer of Talbot Motor Sport in the 1920s & 30s A Vg/Vg copy and Uncommon.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dustjacket good with some slight chipping and ruffling to edges, boards good with depressing to top and bottom of spine, name and address to front end paper, internally appears generally clean and good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 493 pages, well illustrated. Excellent marque history. The dustwrapper has a loose fitted protection. Heavyweight title will require additional postage for international customers For full listing of my motoring titles RobinPeake/MotoringLiterature/ABEBOOKS. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition. Royal 8vo; xvi,496pp. Green cloth with gilt title on spine, very light wear to edges. Binding square and tight. Dust jacket with general wear and tear, particularly to edges; long tear along fore-edge repaired with tape. Owner's inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise generally clean within. B/w illustrations and plates with frontispiece. A 'Good' copy.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Condition Notes: Just a hint of fading to the spine of the dust wrapper. Slight age-toning to the edges of the text block, more so to the top edge. The contents complete, clean and tight; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over green boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 10" x 6ĵ" (1.5 kg); pp (xvi) 496; Preface by Lord Essendon; Includes: Black & white photographs on individual leaves; Maps; Cutaways; Frontispiece; Appendices (8); || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #204431 ||.

8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous plates; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-browned and chafed at extremities. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.

Hardbound. Condition: Fine(1). The story of Georges Roesch, a mechanical genius, who saved the Talbot company from bankruptcy, carrying it right through the economic depression of the early thirties. Written with authority and authenticity. With d/j Illustrated by: .

FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xvi, 496. Frontispiece plus 181 numbered monochrome images to plates. Publishers' grass green cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Spine tips a little rubbed; contents clean with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket slightly nicked & creased top edge. A Very Good copy in like jacket. Biography of the mechanical genius and Chief Engineer at Roesch Talbot, Georges Roesch (1891-1969).

pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. 40pp car prices and models, many illustrations. Stapled.