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THE MOTOR RACING MERCHANTS
Written by Anthony Pritchard.
Stock no. 1808992
Published by Leslie Frewin. 1st 1976. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A review of drivers, circuits, stars and cars from 1922 to 1976. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 292 pages. ISBN: 0856320803. Text block lightly browned and just a little grubby. Contents clean. White dustwrapper is slightly grubby.

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MORE MOTOR RACING THE POSTWAR YEARS
Written by Rivers Fletcher.
Stock no. 1808981
Published by Haynes Publishing Group. 1st 1991. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Bringing up to date, the author's story of his life in and around the motorcar. Blue boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. 221 pages plus index. ISBN: 0854296875. A few foxspots to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge-creased with a small closed tear and laminate creasing to bottom of the spine, a little scuffed/grubby.

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TRIBUTE BY TROPHY
Written by Rex Hays. Illustrated by Rex Hays.
Stock no. 1808965
Published by MacGibbon & Kee. 1st 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The author's own story of his two dominant interests: motor racing and model making. Taking different models he has made as trophies as his starting point, he reflects on the great achievements, famous personalities, thrilling or tragic situations associated with each. Black boards, title to spine. B/w photos and diagrams. 165 pages including index. Small name in ink to front pastedown. Foxing and browning to text block. A few age related marks to margins of contents. Price-cut b/w dustwrapper is edge-rubbed with some pale foxing to flaps.

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BENETTON FORD: A RACING PARTNERSHIP
Written by Phil Drackett.
Stock no. 1808956
Published by The Crowood Press. 1st 1990. Almost very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of one of the brightest and most promising names on the Formula 1 scene at the time of writing - the Benetton Ford motor racing team. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w & colour photos. 192 pages including index. ISBN: 1852233745. Text block a little grubby. Half-title page and rear index page foxed. Some damp marks. Else contents clean. Green dustwrapper is lightly scuffed and has a few small marks to rear.

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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, JANUARY 1865
Written by Mihill Slaughter.
Stock no. 2114426
1865. Good condition.

Volume No. XIII. Purple cloth, gilt titles. Under the sancation of the Committee of the Stock Exchange. Spine and a couple of cover edges are very browned. Bumping to corners. Splits to spine, with some fraying to cloth, joints split but binding tight. Surface paper damage to front pastedown - where inscription in ink has been rubbed out. Some pencil markings to some pages. A few margin marks. A reading copy.

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GREAT BRITISH MOTOR CYCLES OF THE SIXTIES
Written by Bob Currie.
Stock no. 2114012
Published by Ivy Leaf. 1992. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour and b/w photos. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0863630375. Some light fading to cover edges. A few small marks to first and last pages. Wrapper is a bit edge-creased, with a few small marks.

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CLASSIC AND SPORTSCAR: BOOK OF RACING CAR TRACK TESTS
Written by Willie Green; Mark Hughes.
Stock no. 1710648
Published by Patrick Stephens Limited. 1st 1989. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A selection of 30 of the track tests which have given Willie Green the most pleasure, beautifully complemented by superb colour photographs throughout. Grey boards, silver title to spine. 192 pages. ISBN: 185260123X. A nice copy.

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STEAM'S LAST STAND
Written by Mike Esau.
Stock no. 2113868
Published by Silver Link Publishing. 1st 2008. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A 40th anniversary tribute to the end of British Railways steam. Large format. B/w photos. ISBN: 9781857943115. Some bumping and wear to spine and corners. Contents are still excellent. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few slight marks and small nick to base of spine.

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TRANSATLANTIC LINERS 1945-1980
Written by William H. Miller.
Stock no. 2113856
Published by Arco Publishing. 1981. Very good condition.

Green covers with gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0668052678. SIGNED by author, with lengthy inscription to front endpaper. Now partially faded. Some wear to cover edges. A few marks to covers. Some page browning and foxing.

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THE MOTOR CAR 1765-1914
Written by Anthony Bird.
Stock no. 1710577
Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd.. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The hsitory of the motor car in a continuous story from its tentative beginning in the mid-eighteenth century to the mechanical and aesthetic maturity reached by 1914. Green cloth, gilt title to spine with small vignette of steering column to front. B/w illustrations and photos. 256 pages including index. Bleaching of cloth to outer board edges. Text block and endpapers browned. Minor foxing and a lower corner crease to prelims. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Price-cut dustwrapper edge-worn with a few tiny chips and a few closed tears.

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CAPITAL STEAM
Written by Hugh Ramsey.
Stock no. 1710519
Published by Oxford Publishing Co. 1989. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Red boards, silver title to spine. B/w and colour photos. ISBN: 0860934128. Reprint in same year as first.

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ARCHIVE ISSUE 43
Written by Colin E. Mountford; T.B. Maund; et al.
Stock no. 2113542
Published by Lightmoor Press. 2004. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. The quarterly journal for British Industrial and Transport History. B/w photos. Some light wear to cover edges.

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