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Recent finds at the local used book store. Who knows anything about the Ferrari book?

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  1. ouzo12

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    #2 pilotoCS, Sep 18, 2022
    It's an official Ferrari yearbook. Not too hard to find on ebay.
     
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    #3 Rosey, Sep 18, 2022
    Ferrari has been publishing them for over 70 years.
     
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    #4 Jack-the-lad, Sep 18, 2022
    I have Lauda’s Ferrari memoir, the Frére Porsche book and Cars at Speed, which is a classic. All are worthwhile.
     
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    #5 Rosey, Sep 18, 2022
    The History of Lamborghini is quite an iconic Lambo book, worth getting.
     
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    #6 ouzo12, Sep 18, 2022
    I liked his autobiography a bit more only because The Ferrari Years is a little hard to follow at times because you can tell it was written in another language and then translates to English. Still really liked it, his stories of Interpreters not wanting to tell the Commendatore what he was saying is funny.

    Cars at speed was a real surprise, never heard about it before but some great stories.
     
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    #7 Jack-the-lad, Sep 18, 2022
    Robert Daley was a respected reporter, covering European racing for The New York Times. He later became a movie producer, producing about a dozen movies for Clint Eastwood, and wrote several novels and nonfiction as well. If you like Cars at Speed you’ll like his The Cruel Sport which is readily available and cheap.
     
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    #8 trashidelek!, Sep 18, 2022
    Oddly enough, less so than it once was. One of the strange effects of the recent pandemic, where more people had more time to stay home and read, was that the prices of some of the old "classic" books went up. In this case, what was once a $5-10 book is now more like a $60+ book. Another good example would be Horst Baumann's The New Matadors. It too was once readily available for $5-10. Now it's typically $150+. Apparently, reports of the complete death of the book market were greatly exaggerated?
     
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    #9 Sempre_gilles, Sep 19, 2022
    The Lauda books are quite entertaining
     
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    #10 bloomberg, Sep 19, 2022
    'The Cruel Sport' is a wonderful publication!
     

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