First and Fastest: A Collection of the World's Greatest Motor Races
by Hough, Richard (editor)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Ashmore, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1963. 151 pages, coloured frontispiece: Europe v America on the Monza banking, 8 pages of b/w photo plates. Prelims, endpages and edges lightly foxed. Cloth boards in dust-jacket which has insect damage at the endges with loss at the spine head. Racing drivers and motoring writers bring together and make live again some of the greatest motor races of the 20th century, from1903 Paris-Madrid to the 1947 Land Speed Record.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- Lawrence Jones
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019667
- Title
- First and Fastest: A Collection of the World's Greatest Motor Races
- Author
- Hough, Richard (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- George Allen and Unwin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Charles Jarrott Dr Benjafield Rudolf Carracciola Louis Chiron John Cobb Stirling Moss Clarence Phillips W Boddy S C H Davis 1905 Paris-Madrid 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Le Mans 1930 Indianapolis 1925 Tripoli Grand Prix 1934 1937 BRDC 500 KM 1952 Le Mans Mille Mi
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About the Seller
Lawrence Jones
Biblio member since 2006
Ashmore, Queensland
About Lawrence Jones
I carry a general stock of approx 70000 titles of which only a small percentage is online. Viewing at my Ashmore bookrooms is welcome by appointment. While not specializing I have a good selection of art, natural history, military and surfing in stock. I also have many other non-fiction subjects, as well as approx 10000 paperback fiction titles on hand.
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