Sold for £52
(including buyers premium)
This 1966 first-edition offers a history of the event and the lifestyle around it. It captures the atmosphere of the people and the cars. From the first meeting held in 1906 this event was destined to become known all over the world.
Captured within these pages are images of the magnificent cars which competed in the early years: SCAT, FIAT, Mercedes, and Isotta Fraschini. As it’s notoriety grew so did the entries: the likes of Enzo Ferrari with a 1919 CMN competed, with other famous names such as Caberto Conelli Pierre de Vizcaya, Elisabeth Junek , Ajmo Maggi, Alfieri & Ernesto Maserati, Emilio Materassi, and Tazio Nuvolari, in cars ranging from Alfa Romeo, Austro Daimler, Ballot, Bugatti, Hispano Suiza, Maserati, to Mercedes, OM, Salmson and Tatra. Covering the social side, super colour paintings are reproduced portraying the crowds which used to view the race, ladies in their fine dresses, and the cars in competition illustrated by Gordon Crosby’s artwork.
Though there was a break in the running of the event due to World War Two, the early post wars years did bring back its passion for the likes of Franco Cortese running a Bristol engined Frazer Nash in the early 1950s, not forgetting the home based manufacturers like Ferrari and Maserati that also took part. A selection of personality images again add to the atmosphere of the event with a super study of Stirling Moss and a shot of Neubauer, the Mercedes Benz Manager studying his stop watch. The book concludes with route maps over the period 1906-1965, an index of drivers 1906-1965 (by surname and competition year) and a list of marques which have competed. Good original condition, with protective card sleeve.
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Auction: H&H Live Auction Online, 24th Nov, 2021
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