Famous autobiography of the Le Mans winning "Bentley Boy" and top line Grand Prix driver of the early 30s, Tim Birkin.
Birkin was most famous for instigating the production of the Supercharged "Blower" Bentley, a single-seater version of which he raced at Brooklands holding the outright lap record for a time.
He also raced Alfa Romeo, and Maserati cars , winning Le Mans with Earl Howe in the former but burning his arm while getting into the latter... the wound went septic and he died of the septicemia at the peak of his fame in the mid 1930s.
Superb book with some rather strong opinions voiced on how motor racing was being run in Britain at the time...
291 pages. This is the early 1970s re-issue by FOULIS with a plain green jacket with orange title and no illustration.
This example has residue of old tape marks on the inner covers and fly leaves where a protective sleeve had been stuck on at some point (no longer present) otherwise good condition aside from a little foxing. Very good jacket.
