Books!

[WisJim]

@bmwrd0 , That's the kind of sale that I like to find. Lots of good stuff in your haul.

 

[bmwrd0]

That only scratched the surface of the books of interest at that sale! I have put myself on a short leash in the number of books I bring home, as my office is starting to overflow, I have stacks on all of the downstairs bookcases, and am starting to encroach on my wife's book spaces.

 

[Outlawmws]

I'm planning on going back to te estate sale I got the books from last week today. maybe I missed a couple goodies...

 

[rustyzman]

Picked up some good reading material at an estate sale today:

Originals

Reprints


And more!

That house looks like it had the whole Lindsay collection. I bought a bunch of his reprints, wish they were still around.

 

[Outlawmws]

Got a few more book at the estate sale, one was not what I thought it was...




That "Alferd Packer's Cookbook" has an interesting tale about Alferd Packer, but is not one I'd recommend for the food content. nothing bad, and had noting to do with Alferd Packer and his meals at all.

the plain cover book under it is for winter camping and hiking

 

[Beerhippie]

Alferd Packer

"There were three democrats in this county, and you ate two of them!"... or something like that.

 

[wandrur]

Picked up my auction winnings today:

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I plucked this ca. 1976 sticker book out of a table full of paper this morning at the flea market. Complete and untouched! I also started a little ID game up on the Free Parking thread if anyone would like to test their knowledge of old cars.

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/fun-n-games-with-a-ca-1976-automobiles-sticker-book-for-boys.551218/

EDIT: Un-redacted

 

[Stubby1743]

Purchased yesterday for 50p which is five times its cover price! No date on the book, but it is from the 1930s or even the 1920s I think.

 

[Buckeye93]

Found these in an old workbench that I got recently. Anyone remember getting these for free at the hardware store?

 

[Outlawmws]

Found these in an old workbench that I got recently. Anyone remember getting these for free at the hardware store?

I recall seeing similar, but now you are showing your age!

 

[WisJim]

Got a few books at the local library's fall book sale. Also got a "Birds of Wisconsin" large well-illustrated hard cover and some Fritz Leiber science fiction. The sharpening book seems to be better than I had anticipated and the Atlas/Craftsman lathe book turns out to be only an edition away of one that I have so it may need to find a new home.

 

[bmwrd0]

Fritz Leiber is one of the greats. Gather Darkness is one of my favorites.

 

[four.cycle]

I just got back home after a very peaceful and relaxing nine-day sojourn out to the coast. My nephew came up to visit for a few hours last Saturday. It was pouring down rain. After he left I decided it was just too wet to go out searching for mushrooms, so I picked out a paperback from among the "library" at the cabin and sat down and started reading a novel titled "Russka" written by one Edward Rutherfurd.
It's a fictionalized "historical" narrative of the story of Russia, a country which unfortunately has had few competent leaders over the course of the last several centuries - Peter and Catherine were the best talent they could come up with - the others were incompetents, tyrants, or imbeciles.
Rutherfurd tries to emulate Michener. He's a good story-teller, but he's not Michener. I got to about page 800 before I came home Friday - still another 150 pages to go.

I stopped reading non-fiction probably over 20 years ago. I read Norse fairy tales (and other folk tales), but "novels" just kind of got pushed aside years ago - most all the stuff I read is peer-reviewed papers, management proposals from lands management agencies, articles, and "tool" stuff I read because I'm here on this site.

So it was an interesting experience. I had forgotten how much fun it was to forget about the rest of the world and allow my self to become completely immersed in another man's made-up world full of made-up characters and find myself worrying and wondering about their fates.

I may have to try it again soon.

 

[four.cycle]

FTR: Not the first stuff I've read about Russia - the subject has always fascinated me. My favorite is this "Horizon" set of coffee-table books - one is "History of Russia", the other is "Arts of Russia" - both are lavishly illustrated with fabulous color plates. These were a gift from my mother:

 

[Private Lugnutz]

@DAustin

 

[DAustin]

@DAustin

Thanks, I went back to see the printing date and was surprised. I don't think any of the aircraft on that page came out before 1940/41. But on some of the aircraft shown had the white star without the red dot. They did away with the red dot in the center in 1942.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I've never seen one of these in person. Spotted at my flea market this morning. Published and sent by The London Times to the families of every single one of the 28,000 Americans who died in England during WWII. Blue cloth with gold titles and the name of the soldier stamped on front cover, gold titles on spine. 69pp., black and white photographs, color illustrations, double-page endpaper photographs. A letter from The Times, signed by the Chairman, illegible Astor, was laid-in each one. As fine as this was in condition, with original box, it was very inexpensive, but it's always a little sad seeing things like this floating around, rather than within the family, and I'm not a memorabilia hog for personal items that weren't my dad's, uncles' or aunt's.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Picked up this 1935 Chilton Service Handbook today at the flea market this morning. The Make/Model pages are cool with names and emblems. I was hoping for a Stutz page, for a chance to post my Stutz wrench again, but I will settle for Pierce-Arrow.

 

[Farmer J.]

Here's a 1939 German atlas.
My late Father had it in safe keeping for the previous owner and it's shortly to be returned to his family.
It was stolen from a classroom desk by a Paratrooper, so as he could find his way home. There is an amazing, detailed and fascinating story attached to it, but it's not my story so that's for his family to tell if they wish.
Unfortunately my Mother's dog chewed the corners of it whilst Father nodded off in his chair!

 

[MAD]

A while back I had some time to kill before a dentist appointment and decided to wander the multi-dealer antique mall in the same town. No tools were calling me, but I picked up this TM9-801 manual for a deuce and a half 6x6 truck. The cover is a bit rough, but the inside isn't bad. I was going to scan a few pages, but since google has the whole book I will post that link below the image of mine.

https://www.google.com/books/editio...&gbpv=1&dq=tm9-801&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover

 

[Beerhippie]

^Back around 1980, I drove a deuce-and-a-half converted to a fire fighting truck for the USFS. It had 1,500 gallons of water in a baffled tank and a BB4 (? It's been a while) gasoline pump. I was once ordered to drive through a roadside hurricane fence with it, as the next break in the fence was ten miles down the road and we were something like one mile from the smoke. Ever try to push over a chain-link fence, even with a massive 6wd truck? Ain't easy, but we finally did it with a bit of a running start. We took down something like a quarter-mile of fence.

But we fixed the smoke. No fire, no mo'.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

...a deuce-and-a-half converted to a fire fighting truck...

As some/most of the regglers around here know, a long time ago, seemingly another lifetime, I co-authored a book on the "Evolution of the Willys MB Jeep" onboard toolkit. My co-author and I had access to all kinds of internal Willys-Overland factory documents (BOMs, Engineering Dept blueprints, etc) from NARA, but one of the best sources for corroboration as well as for resolving several issues between documentation and empirical evidence was this "firetruck"!



It is a 1945 Willys MB purchased surplus in 1946 by the Ogunquit, Maine Fire Department. In 2017 it was purchased by a friend of mine and fellow MVPA member.

As you can see, the Ogunquit F.D. painted it red and put that water tank and pumper on the rear.

If you don't know WWII jeeps, except for the oil can (mounted in a bracket on the firewall and under the hood), a late war 15-oz grease gun (mounted on a bracket under the hood), a fire extinguisher (mounted near the driver's left leg), and a First Aid kit (mounted on the dash under the glove compartment), most of the on-board toolkit tools were stowed in the storage compartments ("toolboxes") located on either side of the back seat, over the wheel wells, and an engine crank (mounted on the inside of rear panel).

When my friend pulled off that water tank during the restoration of this jeep, guess what he found!

 

[Jgaz]

What is the title/info of your book?

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Not mine. A chapter in Vol 5 of the Lloyd White's series. Small press, small run, for MVPA jeep enthusiasts. It's a mouthful to explain, but here is the cover.

 

[d42jeep]

Do I get to guess?
-Don

 

[Outlawmws]

Do I get to guess?
-Don

If you expand it you get this - (the thumbnails are often clipped)

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Do I get to guess?

If you expand it you get this - (the thumbnails are often clipped)

I think Don was replying to this part of my post...

When my friend pulled off that water tank during the restoration of this jeep, guess what he found!

But it was meant to be a rhetorical question.

Hopefully all readers understood that what he found under that big red tank, hose and pumper were all the original tools still tucked into their stowage compartments! Whether the Ogunquit F.D. ever even lifted the lids and looked or just decided to bury them, they left them there in 1946.

 

[four.cycle]

My mom didn't think I was reading enough and sent these home with me yesterday:

 

[kyrbz]

Newnes Motor Repair 1959, Volume 1 - Cars A-L

 

[Outlawmws]

My mom didn't think I was reading enough

Looks like she thinks you need to eat better!

 

[RTM]

Looks like she thinks you need to eat better!

I dunno, as often as he talks about going out to cook for mom, I think she wants to eat better. I pay attention to his meal planning, (and I can be pretty sure they are both eating better than I do, and we have a bookshelf full of cookbooks we use for reference,)

 

[Outlawmws]

I dunno, as often as he talks about going out to cook for mom,

Point!

 

[four.cycle]

I dunno, as often as he talks about going out to cook for mom, I think she wants to eat better. I pay attention to his meal planning, (and I can be pretty sure they are both eating better than I do, and we have a bookshelf full of cookbooks we use for reference,)

My mother went on a "cookbook binge" beginning in the early 1960s, when both Peg Bracken published "The I Hate to Cook Book" and Graham Kerr went on national televison with his "Galloping Gourmet" show (which is how I learned how to cook rice when I was 12.)
She accumulated cookbooks like you guys collect tools - hundreds of them.
Some of them are run-of-the-mill. Others are a bit special, like the "Vincent Price Cook Book", signed by the author when she attended one of his cooking seminars and purchased the book. Or the "Trader Vic's Pacific Island Cook Book", signed by Mr. Bergeron.
After several moves, she started unloading books - and cookbooks were not spared.
The one above was going to get donated to the Sequim Senior Center, but at the last minute she decided I needed it more than they, and she suggested I grab that Michener volume because it's one of his I have not yet read.

But to address your statement: My mother is a very adventurous eater. My oldest sister is not. Sister would live on burger patties, green salad, and scrambled eggs and be perfectly happy. Ergo: Mom is always inventing reasons why I need to be up there cooking.

Just wish their house had better ventilation. I pan-fried those lamb chops the other night in Great-Grandma Potter's Dutch Oven and had the whole house all smoked up. The puny "exhaust fan" above the stove just couldn't handle it. Whoever designed the house made no provision for any sort of air circulation through the house.

and FTR: I very seldom look at cookbooks or recipes - I just wing it and make it up as I go along 99% of the time - same as watercolor painting.

 

[WisJim]

My wife has hundreds (maybe more) cookbooks and our joke is that she uses them to find names to call whatever is being made for the next meal. She has been downsizing her collection recently so she has more room on the shelves for new finds.

 

[RTM]

These are not mine, and never will be, but they might be of interest to a few other members of the GJ vintage tool fan club.

Tool and Trades Books - Vintage Hand Tools and Fine Carpentry

Search for Early New Jersey Toolmakers
Early Tools of New Jersey and the Men Who Made them

Both by Alexander Farnham


Email arrived at 2am my time, so all the locals had a much better shot at them than I did.

 

[Sbusmech]

One of the things I always look for when out and about, are older books on technical subjects; woodworking, HVAC, Welding, etc. And I have found quite a few to add to my book collection. And it is a nice way to tie together two of my passions, working with my hands and working with my mind.

So, without further ado, here are some of the highlights of my collection.


The Diesel book is from 1936, tuning is from '74.


The Airplane Welding book is from '29 and Electric Motor repair is from the fifties, and is still the best book on the subject.


The classic South Bend lathe handbook, along with a nice treatise on using dynamite.


The Early Motorcycle manual is not that old, the seventies, but finding anything that talks about these old machines is quite difficult. The machining book is from the teens, and the electroplating is from 1941.


These are all from the fifties.


These are both from the twenties I believe, as the axe manual isn't dated.


The motor book is from the '80s, while the metrology book is wartime.


Aircraft repair is from the thirties, while the radio-TV is from the fifties.


Of course, we need some tool catalogs from the teens and twenties.


And some early books on transportation repair.


Teach yourself how to fly!


Some wartime books on HVAC repair.


Gunsmithing books from the '30s-'40s


And finally, some nautical-themed books. They are from the '20s, 40s, and '50s respectively.

And that is only a representative sample, from just going through the shelves upstairs. There are many actual working books in my shop and a few on my bookshelves on the first floor.

Love it! Great collection.

 

[four.cycle]

Email arrived at 2am my time, so all the locals had a much better shot at them than I did.

already sold.

 

[WisJim]

These are not mine, and never will be, but they might be of interest to a few other members of the GJ vintage tool fan club.

Search for Early New Jersey Toolmakers
Early Tools of New Jersey and the Men Who Made them

Both by Alexander Farnham

Email arrived at 2am my time, so all the locals had a much better shot at them than I did.

Both titles seem to be available through a number of other dealers and on eBay and Amazon. I need to get the "Search" title.

 

[RTM]

already sold.

Like I said, I was already too late