barry eaglesfield (18 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First British Edition. Quite a nice copy, with some stressing showing to jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Motor Racing Publications Ltd London 1954 First Edition VG (blue cloth w title in yellow on spine, sl worn, head and foot of spine sl bumped, edges sl foxed, bookseller stamp on fep) in VG+ DW (dw had been plastic protected so is particularly bright, spine sl faded).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. A REALLY NICE COPY OF THE FAMOUS BOOK, VG IN VG JACKET. 374pp WITHPERFECT BLUE CLOTH HARDCOVERS AND BRIGHT YELLOW TITLES TO SPINE. UNMARKED ENDPAPERS, FOREWORD BY RT. HON. EARL HOWE, INTRODUCTION BY BARRY EAGLEFIELD,SECTION ONE : LIST OF BUGATTIS BY TYPE NUMBER (441) WITH DETAILS OF CARS AND OWNERS. (MOST WITH PHOTOS), SECTION 2 SPECIAL BUGATTI TYPES, TEXT BY W. BODDY. PERIOD 1933-1939. DETAILS OF OWNERS AND HISTORY INCLUDING RACING. SECTION 3: HOW THE FIRM WAS BORN. SECTION 4 :HISTORICAL. SECTION 5 TECNICAL. SECTION 6 INSTRUCTION BOOKS : SECTION 7 BUGATTI OWNERS CLUB. SECTION 8 BUGATTI OWNERS. ENORMOUS COLLECTION OF PERIOD B/W PHOTOS OF THE CARS. CONDITION VG/VG.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 366 pages. 9.13x6.06x0.94 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 1st Edition. The book was originally published to commemorate the 25 years existence of the Bugatti Owners' Club. With over 250 illustrations the book covers the history of the 441 cars then known to the BOC together with a pictorial section on Bugattis through the years, technical notes and instruction manuals. The book is from the library of the late David Thirlby, the well known motoring author and Frazer Nash authority and bears his bookplate and is SIGNED by him. The book has a loose insert of the Bugantics Special Edition introducing the Type 251. Inventory # M4198.

8vo, 374 pp.; blue cl bds, spine lettered in yellow; photos, illus.; VG (light scuffing & soiling to bds; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; moderate cracking to front hinge, bdg slooppy; prev booksellers' stickers to front pastedown); in d/w, VG (light scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate chipping; light tanning; in plastic wrapper).

Hardback. Condición: Good. Slip on your driving gloves, adjust your goggles to ?glamour,? and set your ears for the melodious whirr of precision engineering. The Bugatto Book (1960) by Barry Eaglesfield ?from the ever-octane Motor Racing Publications ?is the sort of volume that parks itself on your coffee table and immediately starts leaving elegant oil spots of history on your imagination. It?s a brisk tour through the temple of pre- and inter-war motoring excellence, conducted by a guide who can identify a crankshaft by its shadow and a coachbuilder by the way the door politely clicks shut. Call it a handbook, a hymn book, or a blue-blooded field manual?it?s all three. Eaglesfield assembles race reports, model notes, workshop wisdom, and period photographs with the calm confidence of someone who has been within conversational distance of a straight-eight at full song. Expect Type numbers that read like secret society ranks , spec sheets that gleam like polished alloy , and anecdotes that smell faintly of Castrol and victory wreaths . You?ll browse a page ?for a minute,? surface forty minutes later, and find you?ve acquired opinions about superchargers, brake drums, and why the right curve is a moral decision. Inside, the delights idle smoothly: A lineage of legends from svelte sports to aristocratic grand tourers, mapped with the neatness of a pit board. Workshop morsels : tolerances, tweakery, and the kind of practical lore that implies you could rebuild a carb in a dinner jacket (do not test this). Circuit cameos and hillclimb gossip , where the cars are characters and the drivers merely translators. Period photography that catches light on louvers and hub nuts like jewelry with an alibi. Eaglesfield writes with mechanic?s clarity and historian?s tact ?no purple fog, just the sweet, factual perfume of machinery done properly. There?s reverence, yes, but also the sly understanding that perfection is a moving target best pursued at unreasonable speeds, preferably to the applause of French hedgerows. Why this copy? It pulls into the paddock courtesy of the magnificently plain-spoken dealership Crappy Old Books , wearing the livery Condition: Good . Translation: sound binding, tidy pages, some honest shelf patina ?the paperback equivalent of a car that starts on the button, idles like a purring diplomat, and bears a couple of stone chips as medals. No concours fussing; just integrity, charm, and the right sort of smell. Vital stats for your glovebox log: Title: The Bugatto Book Author: Barry Eaglesfield Publisher: Motor Racing Publications , 1960 ISBN: none (it prefers to be known by reputation) Condition: Good (straight, clean, delightfully unprecious) Vendor: Crappy Old Books ?a name with the handbrake on, stock with the revs up. Buy it for the lore; keep it for the tone ?that elegant, lightly oil-stained assurance that engineering can be art and art can lap the competition before lunch. After a few chapters you?ll find yourself inspecting bonnet straps for moral fibre, pronouncing ?coachwork? like a benediction, and plotting detours that exist purely to align your life with a perfect apex. If enthusiasm had a workshop manual, it would look very much like this.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Motor Racing Publications, London, UK. 1st edition 1964. Hardcover. 375pp. 215x145mm (8¾x5¾") approx. B&W photos. Condition: near fine in a very good dust jacket which has a tear and fold to the front, and is now in a clear plastic protective sleeve. On the front flyleaf is a gift dedication from Peter Hampton to Stanley Sears dated 1954. Important note for customers in the USA: Due to the imposition of import duty on low value goods by your current administration, it is now impossible to provide a universal default shipping cost. Please ask for a shipping quote before ordering. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardbound. Condición: Fine(1). A history of Bugatti with a pictorial section on Bugattis through the years with technical notes and instruction manuals are included in this book. With d/j. Discrete previous owner stamp on inside cover. Illustrated by: .

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 3rd Edition. The protected dustwrapper has some creasing to the spine ends.Excelleny marque title with 376 pages and 250 illustrations.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Scarce title, published to celebrate 25 years of the Bugatti Owners Club.  Hardbound with dust jacket.  15cm x 21.5cm. 374pp. In fine condition, the dust jacket is in a thick plastic sleeve, has black strengthening tape to the edge and the flaps have been taped to the front and rear boards.

Second Impression. 8vo., blue clothbound hardback, with dust jacket; 374pp, with black and white illustrations plus contemporary adverts. Ink gift inscription dated 1956 to top of ffep plus old rubber stamp to lower corner. Slight sunning to edges, boards lightly sunned and a little worn at edges, very worn at spine ends, some sunning to spine, dust jacket edgeworn, spine very rubbed with loss in the centre and at both ends, priceclipped. Overall a VG copy in a damaged dust jacket. (Shelf 89) ** Pictures available upon request, if not already displayed here.** Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

Motor Racing Publications Ltd. 1954. First edition. Hardcover without DW. Bliue cloth, yellow lettering. Iluustrated. Spine slightly faded, board extremities a little worn. Ownership inscription to front endpaper o/w contents clean and sound.

374 p. Illustrations. 22cm. A very good copy in the publisher's cloth binding. The dustwrapper torn on the spine without loss and now sleeved for protection.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Third Impression. 374pp, b/w illustrated, dark blue d/j with title in bright yellow to spine. Some shelfwear, scuffing to d/j edges and creasing to top and bottom of d/j spine, toning to eps and pages. Slight toning/fading to d/j. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardbound. Condición: Fair(4). A history of the 441 cars known to the Bugatti Owners Club, a pictorial section on Bugattis through the years, technical notes and instruction manuals are but some of the contents of this book - the most detailed work ever to be published on one make of car.No d/j Illustrated by: .

Hardbound. Condición: Very Good(2). A history of the 441 cars known to the Bugatti Owners' Club, a pictorial section on Bugattis through the years, technical notes and instruction manuals are but some of the contents of this book-the most detailed work ever to be published on one make of car. Illustrated by: .

First edition, early printing of this work on Bugatti. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt topstain, marbled endpapers, illustrated. In near fine condition. Founded in 1909 in Moslheim, Alcace by Italian-born Ettore Bugatti, French car manufacturer Automobiles Ettore Bugatti became renowned for its production of beautifully designed high-performance automobiles. The company gained a reputation not only for its great success in early Grand Prix motor racing; but for the unprecedented level of artistic detail put into their automotive designs.