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A Lamborghini book.

 

Thanks. I thought it might be Nye’s Ferrari book. I wouldn’t mind seeing that one going to Palawan.

 

I think you’re confusing Veloce with Evro.

 

You’re absolutely correct. My mistake. Thanks for the correction.

 

If all good titles go to Palawan, I will end up in the poor house!

 

Already there, I'll have a coffee waiting for you.

 

Bought this week.

Ferrari 75.
Settantacinque Vetture Che Hanno Fatto La Storia (Seventyfive cars that have made the history).
Author Leonardo Acerbi.
312 pages in color.
Size 27 x 29 cm.
Giorgio Nada Editore, Italy.
Italian text (I am sure there will be an English version as well).
ISBN #978-88-7911-844-6.
Price paid was Euro € 45,00.

Marcel Massini

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Also received this week.

Adolfo Orsi & Raffaele Gazzi's 26th edition of their legendary "Classic Car Auction Yearbook 2020-2021".
Published by Historica Selecta.
400 pages.
ISBN #978-88-96232-13-2.
Price Euro € 80.00.

Marcel Massini

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Awful cover!

 

I'll probably buy the English edition once it is published.

 

I'm sure it's another 'must have'.

 

Just ordered my copy.

 

I'm going to be controversial here - I don't see the point of books like these. These general books about Ferrari are 2 a penny. What do books like these add to our knowledge, compared to 250 GTO or GTO 64 or Breadvan for example?
Nathan

 

It shows Robert Brooks, a defining professional and character in the classic car auction world and founder of the eponymous auction company which later became one with Bonhams. He just recently passed away.

It is a fitting tribute, RIP Robert.

 

Deserving of a tribute indeed, I just have an irrational hatred of car books/magazines etc with no car on the cover. Each to their own!

 

But you're not the intended audience. I can't comment specifically on this book since I haven't yet seen it but I do suggest that the first car or Ferrari book you owned was not very likely to be anything along the lines of those you mention. My first Ferrari book was one of Godfrey Eaton's which fulfilled a similar role to that I imagine Ferrari 75 will do. In other words, it gave you a bit of an overview of a lot of Ferraris and served as a kind of primer to lead you onto other books (lots of other books in my case). You might reasonably say that there are plenty of other books that do a similar job but there is a much bigger market for a general book on Ferraris than there is for detailed books about a single car or model.

 

That's where I've been going wrong
Nathan

 

Maybe. Although I suspect if you want to actually make money from writing books you need to be writing about romance, crime or boy wizards rather than cars!!

 

I have a feeling that the next Palawan might be on Alpine. Could be interesting if that is the case.

 

So my next book will be about a boy wizard who drives a car and falls in love then commits a crime. I’ll be quids in!
Nathan

 

Be sure to do a collector’s edition!

 

Funny, that was exactly how I started when my parents bought me the thin hard-covered Godfrey Eaton Ferrari book. I read it cover to cover many times over.

Nathan if you want to make real money I think you should write a 50 Shades of Grey style of book on the erotic and kinky acts behind a closed garage door between a man and his Ferrari.

Stripping, polishing, waxing, leather, rubber, etc ....

 

Thanks for the suggestion but I wouldn’t know anything about that type of thing.
Nathan

 

But, only if it is also a "limited" numbered edition, with "premium" leather binding, and "exclusive" collector's edition only extras. All available for just a brief period of time with "special" (outrageously high) pricing.

 

Dear lord I can't believe I logged in for this...
The market for high-end car/Ferrari books is doomed

Natan