THE SECOND MOTOR BOOK: THE AGE OF ADVENTURE 1919-1939
Written by T.R. Nicholson
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.
in 1964
THE SECOND MOTOR BOOK: THE AGE OF ADVENTURE 1919-1939
Written by T.R. Nicholson.
Stock no. 824251
1st.
1964.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
An anthology edited by Nicholson. A first-person record of the early years of motoring, related by the men who created the Age of Adventure on the racing circduits of Britain, the United States and Europe, and in the roadless ways of Agrica, Asia and Australia. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 240 pages including index. Light shelf rubbing to base of spine. Text block browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at corners and a little scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- 1 The Great Journeys
- 2 The Golden Age of Motor Racing
- 3 The Birth of Sports Car Racing
- 4 High Noon on the Hills
- 5 Pure Speed
- 6 Battle to the Sun
- 7 The Poets of Speed
- 8 The Crystal-gazers