V.16 - The Story of the B.R.M. Engine

19x26.5cm. First edition. The technical story of the BRM engine. pp25(1) with monochrome photo illustrations, 8 colour acetates, two graphs, and advertisement on final page. Acetates quite densely rippled, images perfectly clear. Green endpapers with marque logo in white, white inner-facing sides of flyleaves with printed dedication at front and advertisement at rear. Shallow indentation remaining from erased pencil price on front flyleaf. Green boards, front titled in orange. Slight loss at foot of backstrip. Front board with sharp & narrow rust-tinted indentation of length about 0.5cm, along one side of which board-covering a little lifted over distance 1cm and width up to 0.3cm. Binding staples rusted, minimal spread of rust pigment. The whole a little bowed. Binding holding firmly, contents generally clean and tight. GOOD copy in POOR unclipped dust jacket rubbed, creased, chipped with loss, and with several closed & near-closed tears.