ISBN: 9788879110549 - Edoardo Bianchi (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Assumed first. Text is in English and Italian. A new book. No owner's or library markings. No underling or highlighting. All pages clean, tight and bright. See our photos. This is a very heavy book and cannot be mailed outside of the U.S. without considerable extra postage as the U.S. Post Office mails books only at a first class, airmail rate. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a rare hardback first edition of this book which was published with English and Italian text. This well illustrated book relates the story of this long established Italian company from its humble beginnings in Milan and its expansion into manufacturing bicycles, motorcycles, cars and commercial vehicles. The company had strong links with Tazio Nuvolari and Fausto Coppi. The bicycle division continues today.This is a large, heavy book which may require additional postage. Inventory # M6066.…

Buono, firma alla sguardia. 248 p., 28 cm, tela editoriale, sovr. Buono, firma alla sguardia.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. EDOARDO BIANCHI. Antonio Gentile. Vimodrone (Milano): Giorgio Nada Editore, 1992. First printing (colophon: printed June 1992 by Arti Grafiche Ubezzi & Dones): the original issue in yellow cloth with pictorial dust jacket (priced L. 90.000). Later reprints were issued in paper covers under the same ISBN. Parallel Italian and English text; English translation by Alasdair McEwen. Profusely illustrated with nearly 500 photographs and drawings, a few in colour. ISBN 88-7911-054-3. A history of the Bianchi company's motorcycles, cars, commercial vehicles and aero engines, with a biography of the founder, Edoardo Bianchi (1865-1946), who founded the firm in Milan in 1885. LOOSELY INSERTED: an autograph letter signed "Bunty Scott-Moncrieff", 2 pages on his printed letterhead (Rock Cottage, Basford Hall, Leek, Staffs.), dated "12th Jan '58" as written, to "Dear Clive". The writer is almost certainly David "Bunty" Scott-Moncrieff (c.1907-1987), the Leek-based dealer in vintage Rolls-Royces and Bentleys, self-styled "purveyor of horseless-carriages to the nobility and gentry", and author of Veteran and Edwardian Motor Cars (1955) and The Thoroughbred Motor Car 1930-40 (1963). He offers Clive one of "two late vintage 10.4 h.p. O.H.V. Bianchis" (1929 and 1930), both being restored, at around £125 each, recommending the two-seater with its completely rebuilt engine: "a little gem, most beautifully built". He also writes of selling his twelve-cylinder Hispano-Suiza and a 2 LTS Ballot to America, of Lancia Lambdas and a Lancia Artena, an open four-seater 4½ litre Bentley, a Jeep, a twin-cam Alfa Romeo "going spare", and of Avril's Cooper-Climax breaking a big-end bolt (Avril probably being his wife Averil, herself a club racing driver). CONDITION: Good+. Hardback in dust jacket. Strong binding, crisp pages. Previous owner's name to the paste-down. Some spotting to the last page of text. Dust jacket: Very Good. Not price-clipped; just slight edge rubbing. The letter: Good, with vertical and horizontal folds and marks to the backs of the leaves. …