Motor Racing & Record Breaking - With Rare Belly Band
EYSTON, G.E.T. & LYNDON, Barré
London : B.T. Batsford
First edition
1935
Very Good / Very Good
B4794
First edition. Octavo, pp xii, 116 + 32 pages of publisher’s advertisements. Bound in orange cloth covered hard boards and in the original dust jacket, un-clipped (7s. 6d. net). Enhanced by the original and very rare yellow belly band. Photogravure printed end-papers. Book written by Eyston, best known for his land speed records at Bonneville Salt Flats , and Barré Lyndon (pseudonym of Alfred Edgar Frederick Higgs) who was a motor racing journalist and later a playwright. Liberally illustrated with photographs of motor racing. Book is in Very Good condition, spotting to edges and prelims; jacket is also Very Good, bright and clean chipped to top edge, spine has only the gentlest of fading; belly band is tanned to the spine and with one tear and some crushing to the rear panel. Overall very attractive.