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Hope shipment are correct now... Band of Gangsters.

 

Yes, the book arrived swiftly and well packed. My experience with Sportfahrer Zentrale has always been excellent.

 

Thank you Sven, I take it into account.

 

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High quality and high price (print on demand, bound in leather).

 

I agree with bloomberg. See post 3624 of this thread for my prior impressions.
https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/posts/147955018/

 

Well that's ONE way to avoid overprints, dumped at Half Price books!

Hi jm2!

 

Received the 275P book from Porter from UPS yesterday in perfect shape as promised in email. Shipped from a service out of Manchester, NH, here in the states. Just scanned it but looks to be what I was hoping for.

 

Good one.
I'm jealous as I'm waiting for Keith to sign my copy so probably won't get it till after Goodwood Revival.

 

May I go off-topic again ?
After a short while, I found the exact location where the photo was taken, and it has nothing to do with Lake Viterbo; it's hundreds of kilometres away... And I got caught up in it: since then, I've identified the exact location, without a shadow of a doubt, of four of the photos taken by Klemantaski during the 1957 Mille Miglia. It's quite an exciting search...
I'm starting to get an idea: borrow a Ferrari and a photographer, and reproduce them today. I met someone in the communications department at Maranello who was receptive to the idea...
But I'm also starting to have a lot of questions about the photos themselves. Perhaps one of you has a good contact among Klemantaski's beneficiaries who could help me?
If you have any publications, press articles, or anything else in your archives that talks about these photos in more detail than just illustrating the history of the MM 57, I'd love to see them.
By the way, does anyone know where Collins overtook Von Trips?

 

My copy just arrived a few days ago, and here are my very first impressions:

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Everyone talks about the book's unusually large format, so do I: At first, I was very impressed by the sheer size of the book and the beautifully reproduced period and modern images, the latter having been mainly supplied by Girardo & Co and Tom Shaxson Photography. But as I continued to look through the book, its size became somewhat of a pain and made it no easy task to just browse through, especially with its landscape format. But that is a very personal impression, and I didn't come to a final conclusion whether I like the format or not (but I am happy to have found a place for it on my shelves, which is a challenge).

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The dusk jacket would make a nice poster

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Nice modern shots by Girardo & Co. / Tom Shaxson Photography.

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Author Keith Bluemel researched a plethora of period images and material, although, not being a 250/275P expert I cannot evaluate how many of them have been seen before or not. But anyway: they make a very nice book, and do not appear to leave any questions unanswered or events undocumented.

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Nice to see 26 pages of the Ferrari Classiche Red Book reproduced by Keith Bluemel. For me, a very interesting source of information as so far, I hadn't had the opportunity to look through a real Red Book.

My conclusions based on first impressions:

A clear Buy! Excellent material, fine graphic design, first texts I read are a good read.

Regrets? As I said, maybe the too-huge format, but I am still thinking about. But clearly in my view the many racing driver biographies, which have been spinkled in at numerous places in the book. Because as it has become a habit of Porter Press and other's books to do so, you have read that stuff really often enough. And they interrupt the flow of text on the actual topic of the book (maybe, these biographies could be added as an addendum at the end of a book in the future).

 

Klemantaski Collection might be willing to help.

 

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Does anyone know this book? Is it any good ? It was published by Peter G Sachs who actually owns Collins/Klemantaski' Mille Miglia 315 S

 

Yes, I’ve had a copy for many years. I think it’s very worthwhile but I have no idea of value since I don’t know what the current price would be.

 

There are copies available starting at 50 $...

 

Very well reproduced photo’s from Louis Klemantaski and Jesse Alexander, not a huge pagecount (approx. 100 pages). Was expensive when published.

 

I've tried to place orders with the collection in recent months and have yet to receive a response.

 

+1

 

Thanks for the time and effort taken to do your reviews Sven.
They are much appreciated.

 

I have the feeling the website is an empty shell now, and that Getty images is now managing the pictures fund...

 

Are there any good books about the factory and production methods? Specifically 70s,80s,90s?

 

Not specific to your time period, but Inside Ferrari by Michael Dregni is a gem of a book.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I have ordered a copy.

 

Here is another one, there are 60 pages on the factory in the early 90s

 

Thank you. I will put that one on the want list.