Quarto, pp., xi, [1], 734, plus 855 black-and-white photographs within text. Publisher’s brown buckram; titled in gilt to spine; top edge gilt; white end-papers. Contemporary armorial bookplate of Francis Saxham Elwes Drury to front ...

First printings of this paperback edition, with the number line ‘1’. 16 volumes. Octavo. Uniform publisher’s photographic paper wraps by Webb & Webb. Light corner creases to lower cover of three volumes only; a bright, fresh set, seemingly unread. Near-fine.

First English edition, after Lockert’s four volume edition in French. Octavo, pp., xv, [1], 218, [6] of publisher’s advertisements, plus 92 wood-engraved illustrations of automobiles, engines, etc. within text. Publisher’s diagonal-grain forest-green ...

First edition. Octavo, pp., xii, 200, iv advertisements for motoring equipment, 16 publisher’s catalogue, 48 publisher’s catalogue, plus 76 wood-engraved illustrations of motor cars and mechanical diagrams within text. Publisher’s original blue ...

First edition. Octavo, pp., [x], 452, [4] contents. Sig., [pi]1 A⁴ B-2F⁸ 2G⁴. Collated and complete. Later rose half-leather over pink and gold marbled paper; spine on five raised bands; titled ...

First Pan Edition. Octavo, pp., 204 [4 - catalogue]. Publisher’s pictorial soft-cover. Creasing to spine and lower cover, lightly toned throughout.

Fifth Impression. Small Octavo, pp., 256. Publisher’s iconic green soft-cover. Minor creasing and toning to spine. Text-block lightly toned.

Eighteenth Impression. Small Octavo, pp., 192. Publisher’s iconic green soft-cover. Minor creasing to spine. Text-block lightly toned.

First Penguin Edition. Small Octavo, pp., 288. Publisher’s iconic green soft-cover in matching dust-jacket. Some cracking to spine with loss and minor tearing to dust-jacket spine and folds. Missing rear flap. A very good ...

First edition. Quarto, pp. xii, 454. Illustrated throughout with diagrams, plans, maps, sections, sketches and photographs, many of which are in colour. Publisher’s photographic soft-cover with titles in white to upper cover and spine ...

Landscape folio, pp., 105, [1], printed on one side of the leaf only, including 34 full-page photographs printed in violet-tinted sepia, presentation leaf to front, as called for. Publisher’s straight-grain leather; titled in gilt ...

All first editions, first impressions. Dust-jackets of vols. 3, 4 and 5 price-clipped; light spotting to verso of jacket on vol. 2; spine-panel of ‘Unfinished Tales’ sunned. Top edge of vol. 5 a touch dusty ...