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1834 The Book of Speed
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Description
Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding
A first edition copy, bound in half calf leather.
The Book of Speed is a comprehensive volume that details the quest for speed from the dawn of flight to motor-cycle racing and speed boat racing, with various contributors such as Stephen King-Hall, Colonel P. T. Etherton and James Guthrie amongst others.
With a colour frontispiece and extensive photographs throughout the volume.
With a bookplate for Michael Matantos.
Condition
In half calf binding with cloth covered boards. Externally, lovely with some fading to the spine. With a bookplate for Michael Matantos to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with light scattered spots to the occasional leaf.
Very Good Indeed
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