Автомобиль и Тракторъ [Avtomobil' i Traktor / The Automobile and Tractor]

A practical technical manual covering the construction and operation of automobiles, trucks, and tractors, compiled by engineer I.P. Nikonov from American sources and published in Russian for the émigré community in New York, almost certainly in the early 1920s. The use of pre-revolutionary orthography throughout places it firmly within the White Russian émigré publishing tradition. This author-inscribed copy is addressed to one Leonid Andreyevich Urmeev, presumably an acquaintance within the émigré technical community. No year appears on the title page; dating is approximate.

• Author: Никоновъ, И. П. [Nikonov, I. P.]
• Publisher: First Russian Publishing Corp.
• Place: New York
• Year: [date not stated]
• Physical: 19 x 13cm, pages unconfirmed, original black embossed cloth with gilt automobile illustration to front board
• Inscription: Autograph inscription in Russian by the author on front free endpaper: "Многоуважаемому Леониду Андреевичу Урмееву на добро памят / И. Никоновъ" ("To the much-respected Leonid Andreyevich Urmeev, in good memory / I. Nikonov"); no date given
• Condition: Good