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POLE POSITION
No author listed.
Stock no. 1606169
Published by Motor Racing Publications Ltd.. 1st 1987. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of the British Racing Drivers' Club. Large format. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 0947981209. Spine bumped. Wrapper faded to spine and has some edge creasing.

THE 1907 & 1908 RACING ITALAS
Written by Cecil Clutton.
Stock no. 1606162
Published by Profile Publications. Circa 1967. Very good condition.

Card wraps. Profile Publications Number 61. B/w photos, with colour illustrations to inside covers. 10 page booklet. Covers scuffed and slightly grubby.

1985 CHEVROLET TRUCK PARTS & SERVICE SUPPLEMENT
No author listed.
Stock no. 1606160
Published by Mitchell Information Services Inc.. 1st 1985. Very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. 3 punched holes to allow insertion into appropriate ring-binder. B/w illustrations. 284 pages. ISBN: 0847098818. Some scuffing and marks to covers. Contents clean.

A CENTURY OF GRAND PRIX MOTOR RACING
Written by Anthony Pritchard; Stirling Moss.
Stock no. 1606154
Published by Motor Racing Publications Ltd.. 1st 1998. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A panorama of Grand Prix motor racing from the pioneering road races during the last years of the 19th century to the highly sophisticated and lavishly promoted events of today. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w and colour photos. 272 pages. ISBN: 1899870385. Contents fine. Dustwrapper spine faded to pink (from red).

THE MOTOR MANUAL
No author listed.
Stock no. 1606141
Published by The Temple Press. 24th Almost very good condition.

Beige cloth. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Boards a little grubby. Name in ink to front pastedown. Pages browned.

THE WORLD CHAMPIONS
Written by Anthony Pritchard.
Stock no. 1606137
Published by Leslie Frewin. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

From Giuseppe Farina (1950) to Emerson Fittipaldi (1972). Their Lives, their failures, their triumphs. Black cloth boards, no titles to boards. B/w photos. 265 pages. ISBN: 0856320544. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is a little worn at edges, very slightly faded to spine, and is lightly browned.

THE POWER GAME: THE HISTORY OF FORMULA 1 AND THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Written by Ivan Rendall.
Stock no. 1606088
Published by Cassell & Co.. 1st 2000. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The 17 Grands Prix which make up the World Championship are worth some £2bn a year. They are firmly controlled by Bernie Ecclestone and the Formula 1 team bosses, a small, tightly knit group of tough, equally entrepreneurial men... Navy blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w & colour photos. 256 pages including index. ISBN: 030435399X. Red spot to spine edge of lower text block. Text block lightly browned. Joints a little worn. Partially erased pencil annotation to rear endpaper (relatively minor). Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is clean.

POSTCARDS FROM DETROIT: REMEMBERING FORMULA 1 IN THE MOTOR CITY
Written by Roger Hart.
Stock no. 1605923
Published by David Bull Publishing. 1st 2006. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Capturing the uniquely American atmosphere of the Detroit Grand Prix and a bygone era in Formula 1 racing. Roger Hart's compelling b/w photographs and accompanying recollections convey the relaxed camaraderie among drivers and a sense of fun that is hard to imagine in today's more intense paddock area. Red cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w photos throughout. 96 pages. ISBN: 1893618722. A lovely copy.

THE VINTAGE ALVIS
Written by Peter Hull; N. Johnson.
Stock no. 1712087
Published by The Alvis Register. 1995. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w and colour photos. 620 pages. ISBN: 0952334405.

AUTOMOBILE YEAR No. 7 1959-1960
No author listed.
Stock no. 1712075
Published by Edita S.A. Lausanne. 1959. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

1959-60. Large format. Colour and b/w photos. Wrapper edge-worn.

BUGATTI LE PUR-SANG DES AUTOMOBILES
Written by H.G. Conway.
Stock no. 1712051
Published by G.T. Foulis & Co. Ltd.. 1968. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Revised edition. Additional material includes details of a Bugatti steam engine and an index compiled with characteristic thoroughness. The authoritative history of the Ettore Bugatti and the exquisite road and racing cars that he created. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos & diagrams. 459 pages including index. ISBN: 0854290842. A few marks to boards. Text block lightly browned. Name & date in ink to verso of front endpaper. Else contents clean. Some creasing to dustwrapper.

VINTAGE STYLE: THE STORY OF CROSS & ELLIS
Written by Gillian Bardsley.
Stock no. 1712047
Published by Brewin Books. 1st 1993. Nearly fine condition.

This monograph describes the history and the products of the Coventry Coach builders. The heyday of handbuilt luxury cars on such chassis as Alvis Armstrong Siddeley and Lea Francis with coachbuilt bodies by Cross and Ellis, has been carefully researched. Large format. Pink pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. 68 pages. ISBN: 1858580110. A few minor marks to covers, spine is faded. Contents clean.