Lot 40
Motor Racing & Record Breaking.
A good selection of 23 hardback volumes, various formats, mostly without dust jackets but in sound condition, including: Circuit Dust, by Barre Lyndon, 1st edition 1934; Motor Racing and Record Breaking by G. E. T. Eyston & Barre Lyndon, 1st ed 1935; Motor Racing, by S. C. H. Davis, 1st edition 1932, with presentation inscription by the author in the lower margin of the portrait frontispiece, repaired fragment of the book's front cover loosely inserted and, most significantly, an autograph letter from the author to Bill Guinness also present; Fifty Years of Brooklands, Edited by Charles Gardner, with contributions by W. Boddy, "L'Ancien", and E. Colston Shepherd, 1st edition, 1956; The Book of Speed, with numerous contributors, including Malcolm Campbell, G. E. T. Eyston, & G. De Havilland, 1st edition 1934, in dust jacket; Barney Oldfield: The Life and Times of America's Legendary Speed King, Revised, Expanded ed by William F. Nolan, 2002, as new in dust jacket; plus 17 other volumes, similar. (23)
