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Price took me back a bit there - I knew it was tricky to find but I've still not seen one change hands for more than £90 over here.
And to think I bought mine as a "second" from a discount bookshop in 1996 for £11.50... |
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Thanks for the link. In view of the price I think I'd like to flick through the pages before parting with money.
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Yes, I'd be reluctant to pay that price for any book. The most I ever paid was £90 for 'The Certain Sound' by John Wyer on eBay last year, although I was told I was lucky to get it for under a £120 or so. It is in really good condition, too, with nice dust cover.
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Blimey. Especially as I paid 12 quid for it when it was remaindered a few months after first appearing.... |
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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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I've been over that several times for older books though - The Certain Sound I got for just over £100 a couple of years ago, but prices seem to be slightly down for that, and I was shocked when I got the equally rare Automobile Year Book Of Sports Car Racing for about £60. At the moment I'm trying to get an affordable copy of David Weguelin's history of ERA, but that is proving expensive, and to extend my Autocourse collection back before 1976-77 -- I was outbid on a Hesketh presentation copy of '75-6 last month, which is annoying ;P |
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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. |
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The "David Brown Aston Martins" was the one (or 2) I kicked myself over, I could not afford £15 for them as well as the £25 for Doug Nye's Autocourse History and the Black Books that I was accumulating with my Saturday job money...well, at least the latter are appreciating as well. I wonder if it will be re-vamped and re-issued at some point? |
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13 Jul 2005, 11:23 (Ref:1354496) | #35 | ||
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£20 Zborowskis also available from Collectors Carbooks and (if you must) Chaters!
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Ensign, I'm not sure if you've heard my David Brown Astons story - I bought a pair from Chaters' stall at Silverstone at a GP one year (1986 I think) for the fabled £15. Proudly wandered round with it for the afternoon before discovering I'd lost my wallet including my return rail ticket.
I had to go cap in hand to Chaters to ask them to buy it back so that I could afford to travel home from the GP. I managed to replace the books about 5 years ago, but it cost me £100 to do it, and they were from a smoker's household to boot. You can always tell... yellow tint to the tops of the pages... |
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Here are my top 20, in no particular order.
1.Le Mans 24 hours official yearbook's 2000-2004 2.Le Mans 24 hours - Brian Laban 3.Bentley at Le Mans - Race Tech 4.FIA GT yearbook's 2003-2004 5.International Motor racing guide - Peter Higham 6.Touring car world 2003-2005 - Fabio Ravaioli 7.Moto GP season Guide 2004-2005 - Julian Ryder 8.Moto GP season Review 2004 - Julian Ryder 9.Le Mans'55 - Christopher Hilton 10.LMES Yearbook 2004 11.Grand Prix Who's who 3rd Edition - Steve Small 12.The Daily Telegraph, Formula One years 13.Motor Racing's strangest races - Geoff Tiballs 14.Michael Schumacher, the greatest of all? - Christopher Hilton 15.The Daily Telegraph complete Encyclopida of Formula One 16.Champ Car official yearbook - Autocourse 17.The Power Game - Ivan Rendall 18.Formula One Unseen Archives - Tim Hill 19.My Autiobiography, Unless Im very much mistaken - Murray walker 20.ITV Sport Grand Prix Guide 97,2000-2005 |
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20 Jul 2005, 16:22 (Ref:1359461) | #39 | ||
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Thanks to everyone who pointed me at Chris Knapman for a copy of The Racing Zborowskis. 95 quid would've been a bit steep for it but 50 or 60 would've been eminently reasonable, and at 20 it's one of the bargains of the year - there are LOTS of well-chosen words and an excellent selection of pictures. Highly recommended.
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Really its more of a stats book than a actual review. There are pictures within the book with writting at the side next to the photos though, not a annual though. If your a touring car fan though IMO you cant really go wrong, its a very good stats book covering every touring car series worldwide running to Super 2000 regulations, doesent cover the DTM. See this link for more details. http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...744025-7454055 Probably the cheapest place you will find too IMO to purchase this book, ive looked elsewhere and its normally a few quid more from other sites. Hope that helps.
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Its sounds decent might look into that, thanks.
It is all in English yeah? |
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Yeah its all in English, I assume there are other versions of the book in differnt languages but the one on Amazon and the copies ive got have all been 100% English.
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26 Jul 2005, 10:51 (Ref:1363650) | #45 | |
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I've just read The Piranha club and, I have to say, it was awful. I'm sure it's a great book, but it has far too many commas in it and is practically unreadable!
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Purchased two books at the bookshop at Brands over the weekend (during the Historic Superprix):-
'Nowhere to Hide' by Paul Lawrence (Story of Royale Racing cars - includes all chassis nos.) for £9.99 - there was at least one other copy there, and 'The Works MGs' by Mike Allison & Peter Browning (covers both pre-war and post-war achievements) for £8.99. Both excellent value, I'd say, although obviously I haven't read them yet! |
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Thats cheating Collins...!
I haven't got/read all that many motorsport books...although Perry McCarthy's is great! Am currently reading The Prince and I, about Prince B. Bira, thats good too. |
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I wasn't impressed by his Jordan and JYS biographies either; his writing style is too jittery and sensationalist to appeal to me. The JYS book was particularly disappointing, Collings has no real feel for history. Unsurprisingly, both of them seem to have been remaindered pretty quickly! |
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Agreed. The JYS book is horrid. As a rule, I avoid Collings books now.
He doesn't seem to gather any real inside info and his writing style is a debacle to say the least. |
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