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Originally Posted by TimD
There are so many classics that went through a remaindering stage. Most of my Dave Friedmans have been acquired through careful watching of remainder shops. Racing With the David Brown Aston Martins was for a while £15.00 the pair. Michael Reidner's Mercedes W196 book was spotted in a seconds shop for £12.95 indecently soon after publication.
Right now, most booksellers are taking advantage of Transport Bookman selling off their inventory on the cheap. I would strongly suggest laying down copies of Shooting Star, Sports Car Heaven, The Robert Fellows Collection and The Rivals while they're still available.
And £20 for the Zborowski biography (original price £95) can't last forever.
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Who's got the Zborowski book for a score?
I also have a cheap copy of Riedner - bought it in a strange bookshop near St Paul's Cathedral in about 1990 along with the previous year's Jane's All The World's Aircraft, for a total of under 30 quid.
I bought Friedman's "The Legends Of Motorsport" recently and paid a lot more than a tenner for it... but that's an
exquisite book.
The one I kick myself for is when The Certain Sound was remaindered not long after it came out. There was one copy of it, sitting on a remainder table in the book department of Blacker's department store in Liverpool, and I flicked through it, thought "oh yeah, that's nice, I'll pick it up next time I'm in town", and bought something about then-contemporary F1.... It was
a fiver.