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344 Racing Biographies. Champion Year ‘My Battle for the Drivers’ World Title’, by Mike Hawthorn, (the manuscript delivered lust before the driver’s death), 239pp, 1959 third edition, with the author’s printed signature on the dedication page. With, Challenge me the Race, 240pp, 1958 4th edition. Both books with very good DJs. Also, The Brabazon Story by Lord Brabazon, 227pp, 1956 1st ed; Sir Henry Segrave, 227pp, 1961 1st ed by Cyril Posthumus; Parry Thomas, 176pp, 1959 1st ed by Hugh Tours; my Twenty Years of Racing by Juan M. Fangio, 224pp, 1961 1st ed; Bits and Pieces by Prince Bira, a 1946 petit edition. All these books with good or better DJs. Together with All but my Life by Stirling Moss, without DJ.
341 Motor Racing Circuits & Races. The Gordon Bennett Races by Lord Montagu, with an inscription and signature in blue ballpoint by Lord Montagu, ‘For Michael Sedgwick without whom this book would not have been completed, Montagu of Beaulieu July 1963’. The book was in fact ghosted by Michael Sedgwick, 1963 1st ed, with a good DJ. Together with, Montlhéry ‘The story of the Paris Autodrome 19241960’ by William Boddy, 170pp, 1961 1st ed, without DJ; Tourist Trophy by Richard Hough, 253pp, 1957 1st ed; Targa Florio, 164p and Motor Racing Memories 1903-1921, 192pp, 1960 1st ed, both by W. F. Bradley; 500cc Racing by Gregor Grant, 178, 1952 second edition; The Chequered Year by Ted Simon, 1971 1st ed, with a good DJ, and four other similar 8vo books. (11)
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£100-150
£100-150
342 The Motor Car in Art by John Zolomij, 300pp, 1990, a full colour landscape-format 4to volume, a well-written treatise on art related to the automobile. In excellent condition, with a DJ. Also, Car Mascots by Sirignano & Sulzberger, 1977; Motor Badges & Figureheads by Brian Jewell, 1978; Car Badges of the World by Tim Nicholson, 1970 1st ed, Automobilia by M. Worthington-Williams, 1979; The Price Guide & Identification of Automobilia by Gardiner and Morris, 1982 1st ed and San Sylmar, a coffee table book about the Nethercutt Collection, 1978. All with good DJs where appropriate. (7)
£50-100
343 Bugatti Subject Books. The Bugatti Story by l’ebé Bugatti, 207pp, 1966 1st English edition, with a good DJ, albeit a little feathered. Bugatti by Hugh Conway, a 1st ed of 1961; Bugatti by Borgeson, a 1981 edition; The Amazing Bugatti’s a square-backed soft-bound booklet discussing the three Bugatti generations, and Bugatti in the Great Marques series by H. Conway, 1984. With DJs in fair condition.
345 Ten Years of Motors & Motor Racing by Charles Jarrott, 297pp, 1906 1st ed, with its original much worn cloth cover; Motoring by Berriman, 308pp, 1914 1st ed, with a decorative green binding; Also, When James Gordon Bennett was Caliph of Bagdad by Albert Crockett; Romance of Motoring (two editions) by Bridges & Tiltman; The Antique Automobile and Romance Amoungst Cars, both by St. John Nixon; The Badminton Library ‘Motors’ a 1902 2nd ed. Tight spines.
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£50-100
£50-100
346 Cars & Motor Cycles, edited by Lord Montagu and Marcus Bourdon, 1268pp, 1929. In three volumes, with blue boards, gilt tooling and titles. Profusely illustrated and in good, clean condition with tight bindings. (3)
£100-150
347 The Automobile edited by Paul Hasluck, 3rd ed of 1905, published by Cassell, ‘specially prepared for subscription’. The subtitle, ‘A Practical Treatise on the Construction of Modern Motor Cars, Steam, Petrol, Electric and Petrol-Electric’ sums up the contents. Profusely illustrated, detailed line drawings a feature, three matching volumes in green cloth, gilt-blocked. Each volume with a photographic frontispiece, Volume 1 and Volume 2, 863 pp, Volume 3, 451pp with index. 6¼ x 8¾-inches. Good, clean condition, bindings a little loose. Lot 344
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£100-150