Racing books for sale

[John Merriman]

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LOTS OF GOOD READING for the off-season.....all are in very good to excellent condition. Several are collector's items.
Priced as shown plus packing and shipping cost
email me directly johnm63 @ gmail.com
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The World of Racing Cars – Eric Dymoch, 1972 – hardcover - $15
The Birth of Hot Rodding - The Story of the Dry Lakes Era - Don Cox, 2003, hardcover - $20
THE LIMIT – Michael Cannell – Hard Cover w/ dust jacket – unmarked - $15 - covers the '61 season, Phil Hill's Champ. year
Against Gravity – Ed McCabe – Paris to Dakar, 1987, hardcover - $15
Americans at LeMans – Albert Bochroch – 1976 – hardcover, rare, excellent - $30
The Cruel Sport – Robert Daley, 1963, First Edition - $75 - often called the first great book about Formula One
The Grand Prix Car – 1954–1966 – LJK Setright – no dust jacket - $50
MARQUIS de PORTAGO – McDonough – a masterpiece - $80
Max Mosley – Formula One and Beyond - $20

Board Track – Guts, Gold and Glory – Wallen – in a slipcase - $80 - THE definitive history of the astounding board tracks
Colin Chapman – Inside the Innovator – Ludvigsen - $45
A French Kiss With Death – Steve McQueen and the making of LeMans – Keyser - Amazing book - $45

VANWALL – Jenkinson and Posthumus 1975 - $40
Carroll Shelby – Rinsey Mills - $20 - the complete story told in great detail
Evolution of the Porsche 911 in Competition 1965 – 2010 – Michael Keyser - $35

Adding the following - all like new

CUNNINGHAM - Batchelor & Bochroch - $50 - fascinating story of Cunningham and his cars

American Grand Prix Racing - Tim Considine 1997 - $45
Tony Southgate - Autobiography - Excellent book! Like new $45
The Brothers Rodriguez - 600 p, 1,000's of pic, as new condition - $80 OBO

INSPIRED TO DESIGN - F1 and IndyCars - VERY detailed look at technical matters - Nigel Bennett - $20

[E1pix]

I’ll commit to:
— 84 Hours of Endurance
— Dan Gurney: The Ultimate Racer
— Inside Shelby American

I have PMed my phone number.

[John Nesbitt]

Archie and the Listers is indeed a gem. The inspiring and tragic story of someone who overcame serious physical handicaps (in the Fifties, a time when there was little allowance made for them) to race at the highest levels. A terrific book. If you haven't read it, jump on this one.

[John Merriman]

ALL BOOKS - I AM OPEN TO OFFERS !!!

John M.

[E1pix]

Oh, No!

Our check has been mailed and now I want More, More, More!

I’ll add:
— Niki Lauda
— The Playboy and the Rat

I met and photographed them both, and shared a wonderful, human moment with Niki in the “official” Montreal bar in 1978.*

Might consider:
— NART


*EDIT — I hope it’s okay to post this here… written the day he died:

Sometimes people you don't know have a greater effect on personal development than the ones you do -- even beyond those entrusted in one's life growth.

Such is the case of Niki for my wife and I.

I never much rooted for Niki as a driver -- partly from my gravitating towards flamboyant drivers, and underdogs. He was so good as to be boring to watch, truly a machine controlling another machine to inhuman tolerances. It was impossible to discern any variance whatsoever from one lap to the next -- and this when first witnessing him nine weeks after his Last Rites. He simply didn't need to draw anything from fans, he had it all either way.

But as a person I absolutely idolized the Man, especially over this past decade in harvesting from his courage and strength when faced with our own near-death experience and subsequent disabilities. In drawing on that more than thirty years after Nurburgring, I can think of no greater compliment to another human being.

Two years after his mesmerizing performance at the Glen, I found myself in Montreal, barely 18, and with access. In the course of one hour, I shared an elevator with the Wilson sisters (their rock band Heart had just done a concert there, as I finally learned forty years on), was part of a tearful, standing ovation for Mario (tears for Ronnie, and everyone in that hotel-top bar had them), and amongst the eight or so drivers in there was Niki. I just had to meet him and shake his hand, using autograph-seeking on my Labatt's media binder as an excuse to do so.

I felt like I stood in a grand cathedral just being in his presence. He looked up timidly, as if expecting that I was yet another staring at his battle wounds, so I focused hard on not doing that like so many others must have. We all know he could have afforded reconstruction, my take was him thinking "If you can't accept me like this, I don't care to know you anyway."

I've wondered ever since if that impression was correct, or merely the wanderings of a teenaged mind. It's only been over these past few years that I'm evermore convinced I may have been right. He scribbled "Lauda" on my binder, reached out, and shook my hand. This moment still draws from my eyes, especially today.

We are all products of our circle, and our experiences. Today I honor what he offered to our lives, and I will never forget Niki Lauda.

[sabre1fv]

I purchased 4 books from John and am VERY pleased with the books and his care in shipping them. I am really looking forward to reading them ;-)

Thank you John.

-Jim

[E1pix]

Ours are being sent and lent to a great friend in Denver, who has like a foot of racing books and we for sure have twenty.

But ours are all in storage. So he’ll have our six books for years, and someday I’ll see them. I’ll instruct him to not tell me how they end.