Need help finding more "Official Automobile Blue Books"

[Route66Fan]

I'm wondering where I could find more "Official Automobile Blue Books"? I would like to map out, at least, the 1918 routing of the Pikes Peak Ocean-to-Ocean & National Old Trails Road autotrails in Kansas & Colorado. Would I have to buy a copy. The one that I am interested in is the "1918 Official Automobile Blue Book, Volume 7". Google Books has some, but not all, of them. I would prefer a PDF copy of the books. I have seen some for sale on eBay & Amazon. Are there any other places that I could get a copy of this book.

[Mapmikey]

Hathi Trust has a lot of stuff.

Here is the 1919 version of the location you are looking for - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000052908552&view=1up&seq=13

[Route66Fan]

Hathi Trust has a lot of stuff.

Here is the 1919 version of the location you are looking for - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000052908552&view=1up&seq=13

Ok, thank you. I didn't know about that website. The only thing that I don't like about that website is that I can't download the whole book, or at least more than 1 page at a time.

[mgk920]

I would still get the hard copy versions from eBay.  Feel free to copy them to you heart's content, they are all in the public domain due to copyright expiration.

Mike

[kurumi]

Hathi Trust has a lot of stuff.

Here is the 1919 version of the location you are looking for - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000052908552&view=1up&seq=13

Ok, thank you. I didn't know about that website. The only thing that I don't like about that website is that I can't download the whole book, or at least more than 1 page at a time.

It takes a little effort, but you can automate the download and then stitch the pages together (on the Mac, drag them all into the first page pdf).

Run it in a separate window (it pauses 10 seconds between pages, to not trip any "hey, he's scraping our site!" alarms)

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DOC="ien.35556021219647"  # get from any page url
for i in `seq 1 144`  # select the page range you want
do if [[ ! -s "$i.pdf" ]]; then
    curl "https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/imgsrv/download/pdf?id=$DOC;orient=0;size=100;seq=$i;attachment=0" \
          -o "$i.pdf"
    sleep 10
fi
done