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POWER AND GLORY: THE HISTORY OF GRAND PRIX MOTOR RACING VOLUME 1 1906-1951

by William Court

Published by Patrick Stephens Limited. 1st thus. 1988

Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper. Includes race results, records of individual drivers and marques, car specifications, and a general summary of developments. Facsimile of 1966 edition. Large format. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos.

Boards clean, minor bump to lower edge of front board. Minor marks to front endpaper. Top edge of text block has minor foxspots. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned to spine.

ISBN: 1852601841
Stock no. 1824137

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Contents

  • PART ONE - Setting the Stage: 1894-1911
  • 1. The Earliest Days
  • 2. The Grand Prix Becomes Established
  • 3. Vanishing Edwardian Splendours
  • 4. Voiturette Interlude The First
  • 5. Le Grand Prix des Vieux Tacots
  • PART TWO - From Veteran to Vintage: 1912-1921
  • 6. The Struggle for Revival
  • 7. Old Giveth Place to New
  • 8. Le Plus Grand des Grands Prix
  • 9. Redressing the Balance
  • 10. A New Boillot
  • 11. The Sorrows of Ernest Ballot
  • PART THREE - The Vintage Years: 1922-1933
  • 12. Vintage Prelude
  • 13. Italian Risorgimento
  • 14. A Famous Victory
  • 15. The Trefle a Quatre Feuilles Crosses the Alps
  • 16. Alfa Romeo - Triumph and Tragedy
  • 17. The Harvest of Louis Delage - Burning the Tares
  • 18. The Harvest of Louis Delage - Harvest Moonshine
  • 19. Decline and Fall
  • 20. The Ice is Broken
  • 21. Three Cornered Duel
  • 22. Monoposto Supremo
  • PART FOUR - The Early Moderns: 1934-1951
  • 23. The Old Order Changeth
  • 24. German Cosolidation
  • 25. The Rise of Rosemeyer
  • 26. Full Engagement
  • 27. The Litres Begin to Vanish
  • 28. High Boost
  • 29. Voiturette Interlude The Second
  • 30. Quadrifoglio Supremo
  • 31. The Hound, the Trident and the Horse
  • 32. Not Victory...
  • 33. The Titans Walk Again
  • PART FIVE - Epilogues I/II and Appendices

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