Isbn: 9780947981730 - alvis: the postwar cars (marques & models) (10 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Used; Very Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 144pp, illustrations & colour photographs. Light shelf wear. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardback. Zustand: Fine. Ah, Alvis ? The Postwar Cars (1993) by John Price Williams. ISBN: 094798173X. Published by Motor Racing Publications. Condition: Fine. Sold, naturally, by Crappy Old Books , where irony is standard equipment and oil leaks are optional. This is not merely a book about cars. This is a book about that particular species of British optimism that believed, quite sincerely, that one could engineer one?s way out of anything. Postwar austerity? Build a better straight-six. Export crisis? Add walnut veneer. Social upheaval? Fit wire wheels and proceed calmly to Goodwood. Alvis, for the uninitiated (or the tragically modern), was the marque for those who found Rolls-Royce a little too obvious and Jaguar a little too louche. Alvis was for the quietly confident. The sort of person who preferred engineering integrity to marketing noise. The sort who understood that true prestige does not shout; it idles smoothly at 3,000 rpm and awaits instruction. John Price Williams approaches his subject with the seriousness it deserves. Here you will find coachbuilders, chassis numbers, production variations, and all the delicious minutiae that make the true enthusiast?s pulse quicken. TE21s. TD21s. TF21s. Dropheads, saloons, the elegant collaboration with Graber. These were cars built in Coventry by people who believed that quality was a moral position. And what cars they were. Postwar Alvis machines managed the rare trick of looking dignified without looking dull. They are the automotive equivalent of a Savile Row suit worn slightly off-centre: impeccable tailoring with a hint of defiance. Not brash. Not flashy. Just correct ? in the most quietly superior way imaginable. The book itself (and let us speak plainly here) is in Fine condition. Not ?fine for its age.? Not ?fine if you squint.? Fine. Crisp pages. Tight binding. No mysterious garage aromas. It has clearly been treated with the respect usually reserved for torque wrenches and the Daily Telegraph crossword. Inside, you will find photographs, specifications, production data, and the kind of lovingly compiled detail that makes one want to stand in a cold garage in January, gazing thoughtfully at a polished rocker cover. This is scholarship with petrol in its veins. There is, too, something faintly heroic about postwar British carmakers. They built elegant grand tourers while the country was still rationing sugar. They exported beauty to America while much of Britain was still grey. Alvis did not chase volume. It chased refinement. A most unfashionable ambition. So here we have it: a beautifully produced 1993 tribute to a marque that refused to compromise. If you own an Alvis, this book is essential. If you aspire to own an Alvis, this book is aspirational therapy. If you merely enjoy the idea of dignified mechanical excellence from a vanished era, this will sit on your shelf like a well-polished radiator grille. Fine condition. Properly bound. No nonsense. Crappy Old Books ? supplying understated British motoring gravitas, one straight-six at a time. …

Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Zustand: Very Good. First edition (first printing). Hardback. Pictorial boards; Measures 10" x 7¾" (1.2 kg); pp 144; Includes: Technical specification tables; Production figure tables; Black & white photographs, within the text; Facsimiles; Colour photographs, on individual leaves; Appendices (3); || 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 #204416 ||.…

Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Zustand: Good. Condition Notes: Much sunned at the spine, a decent copy otherwise; First edition (first printing). Signed copy. Hardback. Pictorial boards; Measures 10" x 7¾" (0.8 kg); pp 144; Signed by the author, in name only, on the title page without provenance. Includes: Technical specification tables; Production figure tables; Black & white photographs, within the text; Facsimiles; Colour photographs, on individual leaves; Appendices (3); || 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 #203756 ||. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. 144 pages. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographs, except for 8 pages in colour. Laminated pictorial boards. Every book is sent in a rigid cardboard posting box. Size: 25.5 Cm x 19.5 Cm.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. Printed Pages - 144. Illustrated - Colour and Black and White Photographs.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1ST 1993. Slightly better than very good condition with no wrapper. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. A few light marks to outer page edges. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched.

May 01, 1993. Zustand: Sammlerstück; wie neu. Aus einer Sammlung, Hardcover, praktisch ungebraucht.