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I feel confident you are basically correct. My experience has been that they "chandelier" pre-auction bids to just under the bidder's maximum, while the actual in-person bidding goes by at lightning speed without any real time given for competing bidders.

 

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Looks great.

I wonder how many standard editions, special editions, collectors editions, leather editions, owners editions, former owner editions, wish I was an owner editions these guys will chun out ??!!

 

Standard edition GBP 100.-
Owners non plus ultra GBP 2500.-
Your choice!

 

Hahahaha for me it's an obvious choice.

 

That's only if you're one of the first 40 buyers. Each lot of 40 goes up by GBP 100.

 

Have they given any indication on a release date?

 

No. They said they are printing it at the moment.

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I hope they want to produce at least a "Nice Cover One" Edition, because this one is a big no-no for me.

 

Just acquired and just signed!

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Things that make ya go hummmm; the first picture is from Hortons Books, of a copy they have for sale and the second one is my book at home. Same book and same addition .
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Did you buy your copy directly from Nathan?

 

I had to go look at my receipt, bought back in 2019, it was from Hortons. Anyway, more than likely there is my answer; that is the picture of my book that they are using for their current ad description.
The Zero in the “10” looks the same.

 

Probably true.

 

Absolutely worthless !!

 

That is bizarre. Nathan is on this board, so perhaps he will explain.

 

The F40 book by Porter has 240 pages and will be 69.00 GBP and can be pre-ordered now.


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Glad it's not a high-dollar book...and apparently not limited, so I'll wait for US availability to cut down on the $40 shipping.

 

They are making Palawan look reasonably priced !

 

In a quirk of timing, I see Giorgio Nada Editore also have a book on the F40 due out next month. Their book is by Gaetano Derosa. 168 pages. English/Italian text. https://www.giorgionadaeditore.it/in_preparazione/ferrari-f40.html

 

The standard edition will do me just fine.

I would have been surprised if they made the standard version a limited edition like the 250 GTE due to the popularity of the model.

Don't worry though, there will be plenty of limited editions to come.

 

It’s bilingual, and Nada is not known for good English editing.

 

The style of cover actually reminds me of the Automobila series of individual Ferrari model books from the 80/90's.

 

I could swear I saw this posted somewhere else around here but I couldn’t find it, so….

Here’s Randy Lanier’s new memoir written with A.J. Baime who’s a very good writer. Although not especially dense in Ferrari content Randy did get his first big break in Preston Henn’s BBLM at Daytona ‘way back in 1982. I was at that race as I was a big fan of IMSA in those days. It was the Wild West for sure. Drug money was really fueling the series and Porsche 935s and Chevy Monzas were thick on the grids. Then the GTP cars became premier and the manufacturers pretty much forced John Bishop to clean up the series. They wanted no association with sketchy team finances and anyway, even drug money couldn't keep up with the manufacturers’ ’ budgets once they really committed to winning.

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I expect that the price of the book will come down soon after publication (it was released on August 2) and I do plan to buy it,

 

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By the way, I’m not sure that’s the actual dust jacket, but it’s the only one I could find on the web. It looks too cobbled up to be the final version.