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I had the leather bound book sold it 12 years ago and have regretted it ever since, I posted it on here in 2009, was a fantastic book


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They sell for Kidston Miura book prices now. I was quoted a price of 6000 USD for a copy of the Owners Edition a year ago.

 

Wow, I passed on both and just bought the standard Driving Ambition edition and even those have gone up to around the $500 mark.

 

One more photo (and coffee table) book, available since about three weeks.
Delius Klasing Publishing Germany, 312 pages, large format. Gunther Raupp photos. Hardbound in a not so solid slipcase. 1947 copies printed.

Marcel Massini

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I can get another for 6000 USD, Or do I wait as 2022 is the 30th anniversary of the F1 [emoji848]


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As "limited" as 1,947 copies can be ...

Would be interesting to know how many copies Delius Klasing usually prints of a book. I don't think they do more than 2,000 or 3,000 copies of each book. So, the term "limited" gets relative. All the more as expensive books by nature do not sell as many copies as average books do. So, the market limits the number, not the publisher's choice.

 

Raupp’s style is not my cup of tea. At all.

 

Nor mine!!! And comforting to know I'm not alone.

 

Morgue photography.

 

^ Marc, thanks for the laugh. Well it did make me laugh, but did not mean to attach 2 big emojis! Sorry in advance.

 

Not too late to edit!

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HA! Thanks! I tried, but couldn't make the change.... might've been the Cabernet kicking in. It's always five O'clock somewhere.

 

Don't get me started;-)

Gunther: "Ztrikly between you and me my real day job is chief photographer for ze German medical examiner in charge of murder autopsies, my favorrrit eez ze muerders where ze victim got zer zkull bashed in, zat ees zo koool ja! And if I can photograph while zee blood still shines eet ees zee ultimate! I lov ze reflektions on ze brain matter and skull pieces, ach zoo beautiful Ja! Also when ze jaws they are smeshed and rearranged I feel like I get photo angles that Dali and Vasarely would approve, zey would zay I am a great talent Ja!
Alzo ze way the steel slab shows ze Korpz's shape ees what makes me fotograf ze Ferraris with ze mirroring puddle, zame effekt.
Zo when I fotograph ze car I try to make it as beautifool as ze korpse, zank you I know I am ze genious Ja!

Annnnyway end of spoof, written in jest, as a ribbing tease and not in any way as an insult. I respect Gunther, I collaborated with him back in the late 90's, wrote a 333SP article for the Ferrari of Germany magazine he edited and during a Cavallino classic when he was a guest of Preston Henn we borrowed a dinghy from Preston and went to dinner at a local restaurant off the Intracoastal. He is certainly talented but I don't agree or like that photography however I respect it and his succcess; to each his own.

 

And I too thought I was the only one who felt that way... Much of his photography makes me feel like I am staring directly at the sun. Kind of like touching a hot stove in childhood, it produces an almost instinctual recoil.

Plenty of sample images from this book can be found at the link here:
https://www.spiegel.de/auto/fahrkultur/ferrari-75-fotograf-guenther-raupp-zeigt-was-den-mythos-der-marke-ausmacht-a-422ae83c-a152-48df-a99c-5d2293726be4#fotostrecke-fe430430-9384-4abb-81e6-7d40b7369787

 

Oh Dear Based on that link, I’ve cancelled my Amazon order


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I'm sure you already know the individual 330 LMB chassis are covered in the Pourret/Bluemel and Anthony Pritchard 250 GTO books.

 

You can now pre-order with a 22% discount

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Thanks. I tried that but wasn’t offered the discount. I’ll try again another time.

 

I believe that if you add your email to their mailing list you will get the 22% discount.

 

Yes, and the GTO64s were covered in other books, yet we have a fine new book with a lot more information. That’s what I’m suggesting for the LMBs.

 

It worked that way for me. The total using the code came out to $112.45 ($97.50 for the book plus $14.95 for S/H)...

 

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It worked for me...

 

^^^
Interesting that you were able to get the discount on the special edition. The Octane website says that the discount doesn't apply to the special edition, and I just tried starting checkout and it doesn't work. I wanted the regular edition anyway, and the code worked for me even before I input my email.

 

Perhaps they changed it after I made my purchase?

 

^^^
Good for you!