BOOKS FOR SALE

Greetings Fellow Cycliana Collectors,

Here are some books from my library which might suit a new home.  

I will attempt to add some others but a direct email would help.  

All listed Alphabetically.   

• BUFFALO BICYCLES by Carl F. Burgwardt. Soft Cover.  8-1/2" x 10".  There are 165 Printed Pages.  Published in 2001.  TONS of historic photos and text.  Lots of info on the New York state cycling scene but also a retrospective of the Burgwardt Bicycle Museum's collection.  MINT - $20.00
• CYCLING MANUAL - Soft Cover - 20th Edition for 1946 season - Temple Press with PATTERSON drawings.  4" x 6-1/4" -  Lots of info.  Good for Derailleurs and British Cycling.  Not commonly found as it is just after WW-II and not many produced.  Very Good overall. - $25
• FREEWHEELING ~ The Story of Bicycling in Canada - Soft Cover - 1986 - 1st Edition - written by William Humber - Lots of Photographs and Canadian Cycling history. 160 pages -  8-1/2" x 11" - NEVER READ - near mint condition with slight signs of handling only - $30.00
• ILLUSTRIERTE FAHRRAD-GESCHICHTE by Jutta Franke.  Well illustrated in Black~white + Colour.  Museum fur Verkehr und Technik Berlin.  5-1/2" x 11".  156 Ppgs. Printed 1987.  Text in German.  MAINLY bicycling but a few motor bikes as well.  Good reference.  Ex Burgwardt Bicycle Museum Library. Near Mint.  Author's card attached at frontis.   $18.00
• MIT DEM RAD DURCH ZWEI JAHRHUNDERTE by 3 authors ~ Max Rauck, Gerd Volke & Felix Paturi.  9" X 11-1/4".  Published in 1979.  Illustrated Hard Cover.  223 Printed Pages. In the German language.   EXCELLENT photos and text on everything from the Draisienne to the Safety.  Memorabilia and Posters + Photos.  Quite a nice book.  MINT condition. Ex Burgwardt Bicycle Museum Library.  $40. 
• SMITHVILLE - The Result of Enterprise by William C. Bolger.  7-1/2" x 10" Published in 1980.  255 Printed Pages. All about the H. B. Smith Manufacturing Company (makers of the Star Bicycle and other products) that you wanted to know and more.  Uncommon.  Near Mint with some curl to the front's soft cover.   Ex Burgwardt Bicycle Museum Library.  $25.00
• THE BICYCLE by Pryor Dodge. 9" x 11".  Hard Cover with Dust Jacket.  Over 223 pages. This 1st Edition was published in 1996.  One of the MUST OWN books in any cycling library.  FANTASTIC history, images and objects.  Pryor is one of the foremost cycling collectors of our time.  MINT condition.  $40.00
• THE INDISPENSIBLE BICYCLIST'S HANDBOOK by Henry Sturmey.  Published by ILIFFE in Coventry.  1881 Edition.  5-1/4" x 8".  Over 300 pages. WoWoW for rarity and importance.  ALL the accessories, lamps, cyclometers, and componentry.  As far as I am aware Copake Auction has never sold a single example of a Sturmey.  Rare and important.   COVERS MISSING.  Loose.  Some soil.  Should be rebound.  Asking $525.00
• THE MOST BENEVOLENT MACHINE ... A HISTORICAL ASSESSMENT OF CYCLES IN CANADA by Sharon Babian of the (Canada's) National Museum of Science & Technology.  Soft Cover. 8-1/2" x 11".  Published in 1998 and contains 122 printed pages.   Many images and total history.  MINT.  $18.00

Some other books and memorabilia for sale. 

I look forward to hearing from fellow Cycliana Collectors.

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