Cars & Motorcycles

Frontispiece and very numerous illustrations from b&w photographs (and paintings of the earlier vehicles), reproductions of adverts and period documents, appendix giving brief technical details of all road vehicles produced, chronology, bibliography & index, 192 pp, black boards in d/w, in very good condition, Osprey 1992

26.8 x 19.3 cm, 830g, ISBN 1 85532 237 4

Entirely in English, although both the authors, and the subject of the book, are Czech.

Skoda had a long and distinguished engineering history before it took over Laurin & Klement in 1925 and moved into full-scale car production.  This book gives the history before Skoda became part of the Volkswagen Group.  See the description (below) from the dustwrapper flap.

The book is extremely rare, and other booksellers ask ridiculous prices.