Thornley john w (37 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. Revised Edition. Good/poor, used, second and revised edition, black colored cloth with silver text to spine and upper, 187pp. Interior clean, no marks except a former owners name stamp on the front and rear paste-down, also on the ffep, binding tight. Dust jacket is rubbed, small cip to top edge of the upper near spine, large chip at the tail of the spine, small chip and tear to top edge of the lower, dj is price-clipped. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Acceptable. Second and Revised Edition (Re-set). The book is in fair condition with a dust jacket that exhibits notable wear, including tears and discoloration. The binding remains intact, and the pages are clean, though slightly yellowed with age. Despite the wear, the book is structurally sound and retains its historical and collectible value. Worn, with tears and some discoloration.…

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 4th Edition. Hardback. 8vo. (1990). Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. Bookplate on front pastedown. 4th Edition. Cigarette smoke smell.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. No Jacket. Revised Edition. 187pp, illustrations. Some old sellotape marks to the endpapers. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 2nd Edition. SMALL CHIP TO THE UNCLIPPED DJ, CLEAN COPY.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. 2nd Edition. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 2nd revised edition . 2nd Revised edition. Publication of 187 pages. Frontispiece. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and chipped pieces on the top edge of the spine. There are old tape residue marks around the edges of the jacket and on the first and last pages. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 4th Edition. The book outlines the development of the MG from its modest beginnings to the period of its all conquering supremacy in its class. The book has a slight bump to the top front corner and minor wear to the top of the spine of the dust jacket but is otherwise in very good condition. Inventory # M5486.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Illustrated with photographs in colour and black and white. 22 cm. 192 pages Illustrated with photographs in colour and black and white. 22 cm.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. Hardcover, Fourth Edition 1990 Motorbooks International 187 pages. Near Fine, in a VG+ DJ. Black cloth boards with silver titles - corners sharp. just a touch of shelf/edge wear to unclipped DJ - now in mylar. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and crisp. loaded with photographs. unique insight into the workings of Abingdon in the peak years of MG's popularity. General manager Thornley takes the reader inside the workings and development of the MG through the late 40's into the 50's. ISBN-0947981543. LOC SSS-3.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 3rd edition . 3rd edition, 1971. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 187 pages. Frontispiece. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed. The boards are in good condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. …

Condizione: Fair. Acceptable condition. Poor dust jacket. (automobile racing ) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Second Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiii, 239 pages [16] pages of plates. Subjects; Automobiles. MG cars, history. car design. racing. ford. design. style. car model. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condizione: VG-. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st. Classic work on the development of the racing MG car up to the early post-war years. 92pp, well illustrated. VG clean copy, very slight spotting to edges. Dust wrapper rather worn with small areas of loss.

First Edition. Good copy in the original green gilt-blocked cloth, somewhat sun-toned and edge-bumped. Remains well-preserved overall. Series; Motor Racing Scrapbook ; 9. Physical description; 92 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. Subjects; M.G. automobiles History. Automobile racing Great Britain History 20th century. Automobile industry and trade England Abingdon History. MG cars 1924-1950. Thornley, John W. 1909-. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Revised second edition. Protected dustwrapper. The Dustwrapper spine is faded.

First Edition. Good copy in the original green gilt-blocked cloth, somewhat sun-toned and edge-bumped. Remains well-preserved overall. Series; Motor Racing Scrapbook ; 9. Physical description; 92 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. Subjects; M.G. automobiles History. Automobile racing Great Britain History 20th century. Automobile industry and trade England Abingdon History. MG cars 1924-1950. Thornley, John W. 1909-. 1 Kg.…

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condizione: [very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Condition Notes: Dust wrapper worn at the edges with several chips, some reinforced with tape and backing. Minor age-toning to the edges of the text block. The contents complete, clean and tight; Hardback. Dust wrapper over green boards with gilt titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 11¼" x 9" (0.9 kg); pp 187; 2nd (revised, reset) edition, 1st printing, first published 1950. Includes: Errata slip laid in; Black & White photos on individual leaves; Graphs; Colour frontispiece; Appendices (5); || 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 #205977 ||.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Printed Pages - 92. Illustrated - Black and White Photographs and Drawings.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 4th edition. Black hardcover with silver titles to front and spine, in glossy dust-jacket. 145 x 223 x 23mm. 187pp. B/w drawings, diagrams, photos; with 5 appendices. A couple of minor spots and light creases to jacket; very faint spots to front endpapers; otherwise virtually as new. NB: An extra shipping charge may be requested for heavier or more valuable items. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.…

Cloth. Condizione: Poor. No Jacket. Signed First Edition. Type: Book N.B. Inscribed by author. POOR CONDITION. No dust jacket. Boards are loose with heavy rubbing and fraying to edges and corners of spine. Heavy staining to boards. Front and rear paste downs are wrinkled. Content unaffected. two stamps from garage (previous owner).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 28.5 cm. [2], 92 pp., 16 b/w plates. Hardcover cloth with dust jacket. Jacket a little dust-stained and with slight edge wear, Slight wear to binding, very good inside. * The scarce first edition with jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Includes dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 3rd Edition. 187 pages with photo plates and engine part diagrams in the text, a really bright tight clean and fresh looking copy of this vintage car and racing car highlight. No inscriptions, names, etc. Vg to fine. Octavo. (Not ex-library and NOT in a warehouse).…

Hardbound. Condizione: Good (Average)(3). Outlining the development of the MG from it s beginnings. 1st. edition. Some foxing of pages, sun faded binding and chip at top of spine. No dust jacket, faded green boards, previous owner name. I have one copy inscribed and dedicated by Thornley to Frank Churchill. $175 Illustrated by: .…

Hardback. Condizione: Fair. There are motoring books, and then there is Maintaining the Breed by John W. Thornley, a title so magnificently British it sounds less like a workshop manual and more like a private warning issued over port in a walnut-panelled room. Published in 1950 by Motor Racing Publications, this is not merely a book about cars. It is a book about standards . About lineage. About preserving the right sort of machine in the right sort of way, preferably with oily hands, sound judgement, and a complete lack of interest in anything vulgar. The phrase Maintaining the Breed is wonderfully loaded. One can almost hear the unspoken continuation: ??and do try not to let the side down.? John W. Thornley, of course, was no random scribbler with a passing fondness for carburettors. He was deeply associated with the world of fine motoring, and that gives the whole enterprise a rather satisfying authority. This is the sort of book that feels as though it was written by a man who believed mechanical sympathy was not just useful but moral. A man who understood that certain cars are not so much owned as stewarded, and that looking after them properly is part engineering, part devotion, and part social class in overalls. And what a title for Crappy Old Books to get its hands on. Maintaining the Breed suggests polished bonnets, exact tyre pressures, clipped workshop wisdom, and the quiet conviction that a motor car ought to be treated with decency. It belongs to that post-war world where machinery still carried personality, and maintenance was not a matter of plugging in diagnostics but of listening, adjusting, checking, cleaning and generally behaving like a responsible adult in the presence of important metal. As sold by Crappy Old Books, this copy is in fair condition , though the reality sounds rather better than that might imply. The book itself is in good condition , while the dust jacket has a few tears but remains about 98% intact , which is really the sort of brave performance one likes to see from a seventy-five-year-old jacket. A vintage motoring dust jacket should not look pampered. A few tears only add to the sense that the book has led a proper life: read, handled, admired, perhaps consulted beside a motor car of some distinction while someone muttered approvingly about bearings or coachwork. And let us pause to appreciate the jacket itself, because books like this are as much about atmosphere as text. A torn-but-mostly-there dust jacket is the bibliophile?s equivalent of a well-preserved old tool roll: used, honest, and still doing the job. Ninety-eight per cent intact is splendidly specific too, suggesting not a wreck but a survivor ? a little battle-worn, certainly, but with its dignity very much intact. In other words, exactly the kind of copy that gives second-hand books their charm. There is also something gloriously old-fashioned about the whole concept. Today, a car maintenance book might be full of computer diagrams, warning lights, and apologetic notes about dealer servicing. Maintaining the Breed comes from a more confident era, when men expected to understand machines and machines, in return, rewarded attention. This is the age of tappets, tuning, proper road manners and the belief that mechanical things should be kept right because that is what decent people do. The irony, naturally, is delicious. Modern life is full of disposable appliances, sealed units, and vehicles that seem faintly offended if you so much as lift the bonnet. Then along comes this 1950 volume, radiating calm authority from a time when maintenance was assumed, excellence was aspirational, and a motor car could still be discussed in terms faintly resembling bloodline. It is impossible not to admire such seriousness, even while smiling at it. For collectors, it is a lovely find: post-war motoring literature, Motor Racing Publications, Thornley?s name on the cover, and that irresistible combination of practical knowledge and period charm. For classic car enthusiasts, it offers the added pleasure of belonging to the older religion of motoring ? the one in which cars were temperamental, elegant, and in need of regular respectful attention. For shelf appeal, it is excellent. Few books say ?I may have opinions about valve clearances? quite so persuasively. It is also one of those books that makes you want to inhabit its world, at least briefly. A world of garages with proper benches, cars with presence, and owners who considered upkeep part of the romance rather than an inconvenience between finance payments. There is tremendous charm in that. Even the very idea of ?the breed? hints at an age when the motor car was not merely transport but character made visible in steel, leather and noise. So here we have a very nice overall copy of a 1950 motoring title with a good sound book inside and a dust jacket that has taken a few knocks but remains admirably, heroically present. It is practical, period, faintly grand, and exactly the kind of survivor Crappy Old Books likes best: a book with a bit of wear, a lot of atmosphere, and absolutely no interest in modern nonsense. Maintaining the Breed is more than just a book about keeping cars going. It is a small hardback monument to mechanical duty, good breeding in both senses, and the vanished age when maintenance was part of honour. If you like classic motoring, vintage transport books, or simply the idea of owning something that sounds like advice for both Jaguars and minor aristocrats, this is a thoroughly appealing old thing.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. White wraps. pp 48. Illustrated throughout by A. Russell Lowry, and 12 figures. Booklet explaining television 'receivers.' Slight soiling and marks; VG-.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition first printing. The book has an owner name on the front end paper. The dust jacket has light edge wear. Book.