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...
133 pages. This is the mid 1950s re-issue by FOULIS with printed, but not actually illustrated, covers rather than a jacket .
This example has a lot of wear on the spine and it's edges and is a bit grimy on the cover, but the text pages are clean and smart.
