What books are in your Maserati library?

No, not to my knowledge...

 

I see you have all the good Alfa 8C books. Off topic I love the new Alfa books by Patrick Dasse and Martin Ubelher. I hope he continues with the T33 series as was planned. Fantastic books.

So what's your next Maserati book? Maybe open wheel GP racing Maserati's?

 

As president of the swedish Maserati club I am also the custodian of the club archive. We have many interesting old books. Here are som exemplet.
This one was given as a gift from the factory when a group of club members visited in May 1976. It is in Italian and covers only racing cars.

 

This one is even more interesting(to me) as it covers the road cars with a 1976 perspective.
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This one is also from 1976, from 400 pages only the last 35 covers the road cars.
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This one in Italian from 1980.
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What about This one from the 70’s in Japanese?
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Last but not least. Not a book but a Bora model from the 70’s
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I've got all of those in my library except for the car kit. I do have a lot of 1:43 maserati models and some larger than that.

 

I have it, little jewel, a great effort.

 

Whats my next Maserati-book? What and see.....

 

Hello fellow bookworms,

since you are deep into library talk here you can probably shed some light on a question i have for a while now: Since i have most of the general "run of the mill" Maserati books mentioned here i am still searching a book about the Mexico especially. Do you know of any book especially dedicated to the Mexico? I could not find anything, there seems to be nothing out there, just some pages here and there in the general books. Any suggestions (perhaps older out of print ones)?

Cu lbird

 

We all love books. But until there is one, this is your best source: http://www.mexico-registry.com. There is a Quattroporte book, though (edited by Maserati itself), more on digital media: tipo107.com

 

Good surprise us. Judging by what you have done so far an A6GCS book can't be far off. Leave Maserati F1 for another day.

 

I have the Revell kit and three RC Boras in silver, red and black. Some toy supplier here in the USA had a stash of them years back and I bought some. I also have one of the Maserati Birdcage 75th radio controlled that's also operated by some now obscure Motorola flip phone.

 

This is my only book on Maserati, covers one of my favorite periods in racing
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I won't post a photo yet but so far:
1) Maserati at Heart by Cozza
2) The Family Silver by Trow
3) Maserati Catalogue Raisonne 1926-2003 by Automobilia
4) The Maserati 300S by Baumer
5) The Magnificent Front-engined Birdcages by Oosthoek & Bollee
6) Birdcage to Supercage by Oosthoek & Bollee
7) Maserati Sports Racers by Unique Motor Books
8) Maserati 1965-1970 by Brooklands
9) Road & Track 1968
10) Maserati Coupe The History
11) Maserati Pocket History
12) Maserati Owner's Handbook by Hans Tanner
13) Car Magazine (Japan) No. 250 4/1999
14) Maserati Heritage by Sparrow / Ayre
15) Maserati A6G 2000 by Baumer (ordered)

 

I also have the Archivio Maserati portfolio, but it is too big to fit on my bookcase.

 

I wonder which one is the rarest of all Maserati books. I once read that most of the first Finn books were destroyed as the printer's bill wasn't paid. But even if the story is true, I think that the Schwartz book is probably the rarest. What do you think?

 

Yes the Schwartz book is very rare, I saw two on ebay in the 90's and got the second one. Never saw one on the market again or before that.

However the rarest of all is one of Severo Boschi's books: Maserati, Storia di una grande casa. Last copy I saw on a day I was shopped out was 800 Euros.

The most beautiful in terms of layout is Vittorie 1926-1964 Maserati published by the factory. Four figure price.

 

Reading all the post on the books in a Maserati library and just now reading about rare ones, I looked through my library and I found that I have the Schwartz book and also the Severo Boschi book, Maserati, Storia do tuna grande casa. I also have two of the Severo Boschi books, Il Tridente storia della Maserati in my library. Another rare item is a small, 95mm by 170mm, paper item titled, Maserati, A Coys of Kensington Marque Profile by David McKinney, published in 1990, 40 pages long covering the history of the company from the beginning up to the Typo 123, the V-6 Quattropote II.. Don't asl where I found it but it's part of my Library from way back.

 

Not a book but I bought this about a year ago and can say it is superb. They don't do that many prints I want but when they do boy do they go overboard. I also bought the Pan Am 356 print wich is an amazing quality print with added elements. Now if we could only get them to do more vintage and less modern F1 They also made a Mille Miglia A6GCS print wich is not as pretty and a few Maserati open wheel and MC20 prints.


Maserati A6GCS Berlinetta 1954 - Blue | Unique #s, #7 | Facebook

 

This was a perfectly nice copy of the Hans Tanner book, until some mice discovered a liking for the glue in its spine. I hope the sticker price wasn't the actual price I've paid for it a Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

Ouch, very sad...Even more so as that book more often than not is to be found with the dust sleeve missing.