Rallying Monte Carlo by Couper Mike Foreword Raymond Baxter (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. No DJ. Residue of previous owner's name on ffep. Some tanning to pages, inside covers, and page edges. Binding is not tight. Some wear along the edges, tips, and along the spine. Some rubbing wear to cloth covers. THIS IS A HEAVY ITEM. ALL ORDERS MIGHT REQUIRE ADDITIONAL CHARGE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Tan boards with black titling, very light soiling, no jacket, slight foxing to map endpapers, otherwise clean and square, no inscriptions. Lavishly illustrated in colour and b&w, 196pp. Author Mike Couper had raced at Brooklands between 1929¿1938 and in 1939 began his stint as a Monte Carlo rally driver. He was in the motor trade throughout his rallying years and before, starting in 1933 selling Bentley, Rolls-Royce, British Leyland and others (the firm still exists and many old rally mementos are on display in their showroom). In his Foreword ex-Spitfire pilot, longtime TV presenter and writer, and the BBC¿s motoring correspondent from 1950 to 1966 Raymond Baxter (d. 2006) who did the Monte 12 times, describes Couper as ¿happily married,¿ a ¿gentleman¿ and someone ¿whom a London cabby automatically calls ¿sir'." (Bill Wolf speedreaders.info).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First published 1956 stated. 6 x 8 3/4 Book; binding firm, mild bumping to bottom corners else boards straight and clean; minor soiling to top edge else text free of marks, appears barely read. Price clipped dust jacket has mild bumping and chipping with small paper loss to mostly spine and flap fold ends, three 1/4" and one 3/4" closed tears to top cover edges. Color sharp. Under archival quality mylar cover. Several photographs. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box.