lodgemark press (51 risultati)

Hardback. Condizione: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condizione: Good. Boards are clean. Content has toning. Good DJ with some edge wear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Light wear to boards. Pages tonned. DJ has edge tears and light toning.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. There are books with modest ambitions, and then there is Two-Stroke Ports for Power by Roy Bacon, which strides onto the scene with the energy of a man who has stared deep into an engine cylinder and decided that what it really needs is more menace . This is not a book for people who think vehicles should simply start, run, and arrive somewhere politely. No, this is a book for those who look at a machine and immediately wonder how to extract a bit more speed, a bit more noise, and quite possibly a bit more danger from it. The title alone is magnificent. Two-Stroke Ports for Power. It sounds less like a workshop manual and more like a manifesto, or perhaps an ultimatum issued to a particularly reluctant motorcycle. Roy Bacon, a name reassuringly suited to the greasy, practical business of mechanical improvement, knew exactly what his readership wanted: not vague inspiration, not philosophical reflections on transport, but hard-won guidance on how to meddle with the internal passages of a two-stroke engine in pursuit of that most noble and historically expensive goal, performance. This is tuning in the old style, before software updates and polite emissions compliance spoiled everybody?s fun. Here, power is something you carve, grind, reshape and coax out of metal with patience, nerve, and a healthy disregard for resale value. And what a wonderfully specific obsession it is. Ports. Not the glamorous bits. Not chrome, not badges, not sweeping Italian bodywork. Ports. The hidden apertures through which the whole smoky symphony of a two-stroke engine lives or dies. This is the mechanical equivalent of a book devoted entirely to improving a cupboard hinge and somehow making it thrilling. To the uninitiated it may sound impossibly niche. To the correct reader it is practically scripture. As sold by Crappy Old Books, this copy is in good condition , which feels pleasantly surprising for a title that surely spent much of its life near workbenches, oily fingers, and men saying things like ?I reckon there?s more in it yet.? One imagines it being consulted beside dismantled Villiers engines, over mugs of tea gone cold, while someone debates transfer timing with the seriousness usually reserved for constitutional law. The survival of such a book in good order suggests either remarkable care or a previous owner who was wise enough to read it before attacking the cylinder barrel. The joy of a book like this is that it belongs to a vanished world of practical, slightly unhinged expertise. A world where enthusiasts did not merely buy performance but manufactured it themselves, often by filing away expensive parts in sheds while hoping the results would be ?livelier.? There is something almost heroic about that confidence. Modern machines bristle with sensors and sealed components, muttering darkly about warranties and authorised service centres. This book comes from a more direct age, when the solution to engineering limitation was often: remove some metal and see what happens. It is also gloriously unapologetic. There is no attempt here to broaden the concept for casual readers. No chapter called ?The Joy of Motorcycling.? No lifestyle photography of handsome people in scarves. No soft-focus nonsense about freedom. It is about two-stroke ports. For power. If you do not already feel a slight quickening at those words, this may not be your spiritual home. But if you do, then welcome: your people are here, and they smell faintly of petrol. For collectors of vintage motoring and motorcycle literature, it is a splendid thing. For engineers, tinkerers, shed philosophers and anyone who enjoys the sternly practical charm of mid-century specialist publishing, it is even better. There is a particular pleasure in books that assume the reader is serious, competent, and willing to spend a weekend making a machine objectively less sensible in pursuit of a subjective improvement in exhilaration. And of course it is faintly ironic now, because the whole enterprise feels gloriously anti-modern. Today performance comes wrapped in finance packages, traction control and marketing videos featuring drones over mountain roads. Back then, performance could begin with a paperback, some workshop courage, and the conviction that a few internal alterations might transform an ordinary engine into something thrilling, furious, and only intermittently reliable. That is not progress exactly, but it is certainly character. So this is more than just a technical manual. It is a small, sturdy relic from the high church of mechanical optimism: the belief that with enough knowledge, enough patience, and perhaps an inadvisable amount of grinding, the world can be made faster. Two-Stroke Ports for Power does not merely sit on a shelf; it radiates intent. It suggests that machinery is there to be improved, that power is there to be found, and that subtlety is, at best, optional. In short, this is a wonderfully focused, gloriously unfashionable, faintly combustible slice of engineering enthusiasm from a time when the route to happiness often involved a smoky exhaust note and a manual telling you exactly where to start filing. Crappy Old Books is proud to offer it to the sort of reader who understands that true sophistication sometimes begins with a two-stroke engine and an extremely specific grudge against factory settings.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. 4th Edition. Fourth edition and first printing. In near fine minus pictorial glossy boards, with two black and white photos of go-carters to front with orange title field with white and black titles. The boards are tight, straight and clean; very slight wear to spine ends. The text block is illustrated with black and white photos and in near fine minus condition, with firm and even pages; lightly tanned edges to title page and to cut edges. No dedications etc. Without jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, top and bottom of spine a little bumped and worn, holes in the surface of the cover and gutter of spine, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but yellowing, rear map present and in good condition, remains of a sticker on top right corner of front end paper and a hole from the cover on left side of first few pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Corner unclipped, some wear to edges and corners of dustjacket, edges creased and worn, small nicks on corners, some light wear to covers and spine, corners a little bumped, top and bottom of spine a little bumped and worn, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but slightly yellowing, map present and in good condition, a couple of small rips on folds.

Softcover. Condizione: Good. 5th or later. Undated but circa 1970. 38pp stapled booklet in stiff card covers, with black and white illustrations. 12mo. Covers have some gentle edge wear and are a little soiled and faded. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. An introduction to the sport of karting, including a brief overview of the sport.

8Vo Softcover. Condizione: Good. 72pp. Text is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages. Spine is unbroken, textblock is square with bumped corners. Moderate overall shelf/timewear, coverwear, light foxing and pageblush.

Laminated Board. Condizione: Very Good. 4th Edition. UK 1973 4th edition hardcover in very good condition. Minor wear to cover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Acceptable. 2nd Edition.

Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1980 facsimile reprint of 1929 original edition.

hardback, 8vo, xiv,494pp, illustrated, folding map, page edges browned, text clean and tight, no inscriptions, blue cloth, gilt titles, Very Good condition in slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. ISBN: 0850770688.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Some light wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, top edge a little creased, top right corner of cover missing, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hard cover, with blue boards, gilt lettering on the spine. The boards are in a very good condition, with minimal edge ware. There is a pop out map at the back of the book. The pages are in a very good condition, apart from minimal spotting on some of the page edges. There is a colourful illustration on the frontispiece. The jacket is in a very good condition with minimal edge ware on the top and bottom of the spine. Overall in a very good condition.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Very good.

Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. xv + 494pp, illustrated with coloured frontis, many black and white plates and text illustrations, bound in blue cloth with VG unclipped dustwrapper With a chapter on The Manor and Palace by Philip Norman,; Large Octavo.

Condizione: Used - Good. Good paperback. 1987 publication with numerous B&W illustrations; large discolouration marks on verso of front and back covers - not noticeable from the outside; earlier pages slightly wavy as a consequence of this spillage; otherwise, a good, tidy copy.

Paperback. Condizione: Used: Acceptable. Condition clean, some pages creased, cover fading to spine area and some creasing.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. Blue boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 215 x 150 mm approx. xv + 494 pp. Colour frontis + all other illustrations as called for. Fold out map to rear paste down.1980 Facsimile printing of the original edition of 1929. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Good (Book- Mild general shelf wear to boards, no previous owner name or insc. paper of book block evenly tanned with hint of foxing to edges not affecting margins.Map in good order. Dust Jacket - moderate rubbing to laminate at extremities, publisher's cover price sticker affixed to front flap fold - cover £7.95. Now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve. No other notable defects to book or jacket).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Third Edition. 160pp. 8.5 x 6 inches approx. First published 1967. 'Covering every aspect of the sport, this book takes you from the very first kart in the world to the latest models.' Fully illustrated in b&w. A little edge wear at spine corners and moderate edge foxing.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 494pp, some black and white photographs and maps; fold-out map on rear pastedown. Blue cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Rubbed spine ends. Pages tanning; volume shaken. Otherwise, internally neat and clean. Dust jacket starting to tan, has small closed tears, mirrors book damage.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Publication of 283 pages. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed, small creases and a small chipped piece on the spine of the book. Internally there are minor annotations and marks. The text remains clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

pictorial hard cover. No Jacket. 1st edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 19 cm. 167 pages VG. Very good condition with light shelf wear to covers, wear around top of spine.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Cover is different than pictured on Amazon; Photos available upon request. Front cover has prominent scuffing and smudging from shelf wear, back cover has mild scuffs. Mild separation from binding adhesive between inside front cover and front endpaper. but nevertheless the binding remains strong and intact. Otherwise the text pages are pristine, crisp, bright, and clean. Cover edges and corners are sharp.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 52 pages. 9.80x8.00x0.30 inches. In Stock.