Cooper Cars - signed leather-bound edition

Doug Nye

ISBN 10: 0850454883 / ISBN 13: 9780850454888

Published by Osprey Publishing, 1983

About this Item

Extremely comprehensive history of this highly successful company which transformed motor racing. Hardbound with its original clear paper dust jacket which is a little worn and creased. 20cm x 25.5cm. This is one of just 100 leather-bound copies, each individually signed and numbered by Doug Nye.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1713352384702

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cooper Cars - signed leather-bound edition
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0850454883
• ISBN 13: 9780850454888
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Motor Racing

About this title

Synopsis

No stone was left unturned in researching this book. This incredibly comprehensive work includes many items from John Cooper's personal records and photo albums, the company's chassis books, as well as 300-plus black-and-white photos and 16 color images. Further unique archival material comes from many of those involved in building the cars and the cars' subsequent owners. Unquestionably regarded as the benchmark work on Cooper, the cars so significant in the development of postwar racing car design.Originally published in 1983 ISBN 1-85532-919-0 Winner of the Montagu Trophy and the Pierre Dreyfus Award

About the Author

Doug Nye is widely acknowledged as the world's foremost authority on classic and historic international motor racing. His expertise is widely sought by car owners, restorers and racers and his accuracy and attention to detail is renowned throughout the book publishing world. BRM has always been his particular passion, and his three volumes on the marque (with a fourth and final volume to come) have set a standard of unrivalled comprehensiveness which have earned him many accolades and awards.