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[ensign14]

If my "awaiting reading" pile gets any bigger, I'm going to have to move to a larger house.

The Japanese have a word for it...

 

...and I share your sweet, sweet pain.

[Vitesse2]

The Japanese have a word for it...

 

...and I share your sweet, sweet pain.

Don't we all?

 

In my bookselling days I used to work with a descendant of Thomas Frognall Dibdin, author of 'Bibliomania; or Book Madness'. Dibdin was even one of his middle names.

[jimturner]

In my bookselling days I used to work with a descendant of Thomas Frognall Dibdin, author of 'Bibliomania; or Book Madness'. Dibdin was even one of his middle names.

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With regard to the upcoming Porter Press Motoring Literary and Art Festival at Silverstone  I just checked their website.

To visit the festival on one of the two days and hear, say, two talks (many of which are only an hour long) would, I calculate, cost £66 per person.

That seems an awful lot of money for what is on offer……

[Doug Nye]

Have received the email inviting me to purchase - very tempted. I wonder if Doug could give an idea of the split of content between F1 and sportscars please ?

 

I really can't give anything other than a ballpark split between F1 and sports cars in our Lini '70s book other than to say it's around 50:50 or 60:40 (ish).  Sports Car World Championship races get a fair shake, I hope any reader will appreciate.  The photographic content also includes a fine seasoning of Formula 2 and rally images, even a hint of associated ice racing - oh, and of Indianapolis - and the Spa 24-Hours touring car races - too.  

 

Franco Lini barely spent a weekend February-November without attending a race or rally somewhere around the world.  Images are included from events in Europe, North and South America, Japan, even North Africa.  He was an extremely popular and engaging member of the International Racing Press Association, in addition to having served as Ferrari's sporting director through 1967 into '68.  

 

One aspect of his team management right at its outset - the Daytona 24-Hours '67 - always impresses me deeply.  There he was presiding over the famous 330P4-P3/4 1-2-3 demolition of Ford upon their home soil just six months after losing Le Mans to them, yet amongst his film negatives and transparencies we hold wonderful images that he still made time to capture out on circuit with his trusty cameras.

 

Not too shabby for a man upon whose shoulders rested so much expectation (not least from Mr Ferrari but also from the fervent Italian tifosi in their thousands). Or maybe his actions showed irresponsibility?  They certainly reflected his breezily positive outlook.

 

He was a charming gentleman.  Sadly he was also a helpless chain smoker and succumbed early to cancer.  For the first 10-12 years that we held his photo collection an acrid waft of tobacco taint would issue from every single file or envelope we ever opened...  

 

We acquired the collection from Franco's daughter Béatrice in Milan, loaded it all into my Volvo estate, and into the roomy top-box I'd mounted on it, and we  drove it back here with poor old 'Sven' on its bump-stops the entire distance...  

 

DCN

Edited by Doug Nye, 19 November 2023 - 17:50.

[Doug Nye]

Sorry to change subject slightly - and/or to confuse this issue of many books emerging simultaneously - but I am still struggling to fix and finalise the photo selection for Evro's Mr Ferrari biography, which I owe them dearly...

 

DCN

[a_tifoosi]

This will have to be the last of my (relative to me anyway!) expensive book purchases for a while.  I cannot remember a point in the recent past when there were so many great books coming out all at once?  Though I guess it is a nice problem to have.

 

But as well as the new pre war Maserati book, the Branger book, and recent new Prince Bira book, I have caught up with a couple from the recent Racemaker Press sale and managed to pick up the last of Simon Moore's Alfa books I needed to complete my set. I'm looking forward to much reading over Christmas!

 

I have the very same feeling   .

 

I suspect that early 2024 will bring Alessandro Silva's Millanta on Ferrari (Sportfahrer), Vol. 1 of the GT40 Ultimate series (Porter Press), Vol. 2-4 of Figoni (now focused on Bugatti, published by Moteurs!), etc. I suspect that none of them will be cheap... 

[dwh43scale]

I really can't give anything other than a ballpark split between F1 and sports cars in our Lini '70s book other than to say it's around 50:50 or 60:40 (ish).  Sports Car World Championship races get a fair shake, I hope any reader will appreciate.  The photographic content also includes a fine seasoning of Formula 2 and rally images, even a hint of associated ice racing - oh, and of Indianapolis - and the Spa 24-Hours touring car races - too.  

 

DCN

 

Thank you - that's helpful and probably tips the balance in favour of a purchase ... an early Xmas present, perhaps.

[FastReader]

Thank you - that's helpful and probably tips the balance in favour of a purchase ... an early Xmas present, perhaps.

Having expressed an interest in the book with Palawan, I've been sent some sample pages and what I've seen looks very good indeed. There's a particularly nice shot of the starting grid at Montjuich Park from the 1972 Tour de France Automobile and a lovely image of Vern Schuppan in the Mirage Renault rounding Mulsanne during the 1978 24 Hours. Especially pleasing is the use of the full page for many of these pictures, allowing them to really dazzle. I think I'm going to have to buy a copy...

 

*Edit* I would try to post these pages from the book here but I think I might fall foul of copyright if I do so.

Edited by FastReader, 22 November 2023 - 08:19.

[a_tifoosi]

Does anyone know whether "Ferrari. Presunto colpevole" by Luca dal Monte will be published in English any time soon? I'd like to read it, but my Italian is rather poor  .

[FastReader]

Does anyone know whether "Ferrari. Presunto colpevole" by Luca dal Monte will be published in English any time soon? I'd like to read it, but my Italian is rather poor  .

No, but I do know that David Bull are about to reissue his Enzo Ferrari - Power, Politics, and the Making of an Automotive Empire in various editions. Full details here. 

 

They're also going to issue Volumes 4 & 5 of Twice Around the Clock - The Yanks at Le Mans next Spring. More details here.

 

And, Randy Leffingwell's Against All Others - Porsche Racing History, Volume 1 and Michael Lynch's Luigi Chinetti and the History of NART are both going to be published next year according to an email I've just received from David Bull Publishing. No other details available as yet.