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I just bought the "standard" edition from Ferrari Market Letter; it appears to be identical minus the slipcase. But its ISBN is 978-3-8327-9283-1. I would say that this is definitely a book headed for "collectible" status eventually. It's also one of the biggest books in my collection at 14 x 11.7 and over 6-1/2 pounds!

 

Here's something everybody might be interested in:

www.speedreaders.info

Jack.

 

pretty cool; I have this book; I won the first (I think) ferrarichat f1 contest a long time ago. An autographed copy was the prize. I'll post a pic later....
Kevin

 

Actually my book is from 1998; and before Ferrarichat was the FerrariList (e-mail only); and I won that contest. Here is the book, and Rainier's autograph.
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Last Friday "Ferrari 312P and 312PB" by Peter Collins and Ed McDonough arrived and this weekend I found enough time to "read" it. Please notice that the word "read" is in quotes, as this book turns out to be more of a picture collection plus a summary of race reports than a real book. I was expecting / hoping for a detailled technical description of these wonderfull cars, but alas.... To make matters worse: the authors state that they copied most of the chassis no. info from the barchetta website!!!

Needless to say, I am quite disappointed by this book. It certainly did not fill the void on the 312P.

 

Hello from Germany,

while I really don't care about chassis numbers and admire the author's work about the Alfa Romeo racing cars, this book leads me to the conclusion, that the Ferrari subject is not the author's thing.
Just a brief look at the sample pages on Veloce Publishing's website shows the first big mistake:
' Note the boy in the background sitting on the alloy wings of a Ferrari Daytona'..... which indeed is a 275 GTB.

Best Regards

Martin

 

Who got books for Christmas?

Jack

 

Santa left me some nice surprises:

Autocourse 2009 - 2010
Winning - The Racing Life Of Paul Newman
Go Like Hell - Ford,Ferrari And Their Battle For Speed And Glory At Le Mans

Matt

 

Hallo i have a question. Who knows my say information od the Book Ferrarissima.Who bought this Book collection.And what the difference of the Ferrarissima old series and the new Series.
I was happy for pictures and to answer.
Bye Daniele

 

Hi Daniele
I have the Ferrarissima collection. The books were published twice a year and were basically like large large magazines and covered many Ferrari events as they happened and reported on the F1 season year by year.
Ferrarissima New Series was just a continuation of the old series. So, F2 #15 could have/should have been F1 #40. Why they decided to tsrat a new series after #25 I'm not sure, but I think it could have been an attempt to revitalise sales. As you probably know it isn't published anymore. Hope this helps
Nathan

 

Hi Nathan,

Would you know which Ferrarissima New Series was the last produced?

Thanks & ciao,

Lars T.

 

Good morning,you come from Germany, you speak Germany.I would like collecting all the Books.
How much all ligaments are all book Old and New Series .
Is this a good investment idea.i to know the price pro book is ca. 10 euro is this ok.
daniele

 

+1

 

Marc, how long do we have to wait?

http://www.motorbooks.co.uk/notes.asp?bookid=90922

 

Hi Lars
My collection goes up to #18 of the new series. I think that was the last. There might have been a #19 but if so I haven't seen one.
Nathan

 

Buona sera Daniele,

Supposing you are asking if a price of 10 Euro per Ferrarissima is a good price to pay, the answer is yes. However you will not get all available issues for this price, some seem to be more rare (and more expensive) than others. German Ebay is a good place to start your collection though, as there are quite a few for sale there very cheap at the moment.

Ciao,

Lars T.

 

19 was the last of the New Series published. I have a copy.

Jonathan

 

Here's a link showing the cover of No 19 (in Japanese!): http://shopping.hobidas.com/shop/shimadayosho/item/A0289.html

Jonathan

 

Thanks for the answers to my Ferrarissima question.


Just found an interesting book (and website) on the extensive collection of Swiss resident Jean-Pierre Slavic:

www.slaviccollection.com

The content will not exclusively be Ferrari, as the collection also contains several few other cars, but it still looks quite interesting (so I've just ordered a copy)

Ciao,

Lars T.

 

Lars,

Let me know your view on this one. I have contemplated it but am yet to purchase it.
I have the books on the Matsuda collection and also of the Peter Kaus Rosso Bianco collection. Both of which are pretty much picture books but interesting none the less.
The Matsuda book lists the chassis numbers of all cars contained within his collection, the Rosso Bianco book does not however. I don't believe the Slavic book includes this information either.

Paul

 

Hi Paul,

As soon as it arrives, I'll be happy to comment on it here.

What's the title of the Rosso Bianco book btw?
Could you please shortly describe the book?

Thanks & ciao,

Lars T.

 

I'd be interested in that one, too... Rosso Bianco was 10 minutes from here, I'm still very sad that they closed their doors, and the very disgraceful way that happend...

 

this is the book. I purchased it several years ago from a bookstore which dumped them fairly cheap ( around EUR 20,-- ).
I visited the museum several times from the very beginnings in 1987 and agree on the sad way which led to that loss.
Anyone who is familiar with the things that happend will probably agree: Shame on the administration of Frankfurt.
( P. Kaus wanted to move the museum to his hometown Frankfurt, but there noone was interested )

Best Regards from Germany

Martin
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Thanks, Martin!

Yes, absolutely a shame that Frankfurt didn't want that collection. His place here, the old weaving mill, was fantastic to display the cars, but obviously too unknown to attract the masses that museum had deserved. When Kaus sold the cars, he apparently did that with the condidtion that the collection stay together and be on display. The buyer broke the agreement, sold most of the cars and merged the rest with his collection.
The people he employed or hired for the transport didn't know anything about how to treat the cars. I know someone who lives nearby, he saw how, when they weren't able to move the cars whose brakes were locked, just attached ropes to the bodies and dragged them out of the museum, over the yard into their trucks...