Product Description
The first edition of this scarce women's handbook to motoring by Dorothy Levitt, the first British woman to race cars and a record-breaking competitor, illustrated with twenty-eight photographic plates.
The first edition in the publisher's original cloth.
Dorothy Levitt (1882-1922) was the first British woman to race cars and a record-breaking competitor.
She taught Queen Alexandra and the royal princesses to drive and promoted female motoring by writing articles on the subject.
Illustrated with twenty-eight photographic plates including a monochrome frontispiece.
Typically depicting Levitt performing repairs, one of her many motoring skills besides the sport, and demonstrating practical details of dressing.
Collated, complete.
With eight pages of original publisher's advertisements to the rear of the work.
In the publisher's original cloth.
Externally, very smart with only light shelf wear to the extremities and bumping to spine head and tail.
Internally, firmly bound.
Pages clean and bright with spotting to first and last few leaves.
With eight pages of original publisher's advertisements to the rear of the work.
Very Good
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