COLLECTORS CAR BOOK

TITLE: ASTON MARTIN ULSTER - SURVIVORS AND THE FITTEST

PUBLICATION YEAR/ DATE: 2011 (1st CLOTHBOUND EDITION)

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

LIMITED EDITION: YES - INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED BOOK OF 500 PRODUCED

COVER TYPE: HARD-CLOTHBOUND PUBLISHED WITHOUT DUST JACKET, PRESENTED WITH A SLIPCASE

SIZE & # OF PAGES: 27CM x 30CM - 450 PAGES

PUBLISHER & AUTHOR: PALAWAN PRESS - ALAN ARCHER WITH JEFFERY AND STEPHEN ARCHER

CONDITION: BRAND NEW 10 OUT OF 10 - BUYER WILL RECEIVE A NEW, NEVER OPENED EXAMPLE OF THE BOOK. THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE FROM OUR DISPLAY COPY

Detailed Item Description:

JUST THIRTY-ONE ULSTERS WERE BUILT BETWEEN 1934 AND 1935. TWO OF THEM LASTED JUST MONTHS AND WERE THEN RE-BUILT AND RE-NUMBERED AS FRESH CARS, WHILST ONE CAR DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A TRACE IN 1939. ALL TWENTY-EIGHT REMAINING ULSTERS HAVE SURVIVED TO THIS DAY AND THEIR WHEREABOUTS ARE WELL KNOWN. OVER TWO-THIRDS OF THE BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE HISTORIES OF THESE SURVIVORS. ONE BY ONE THEY ARE DESCRIBED IN GREAT DETAIL, SUPPORTED BY COMPREHENSIVE PHOTOGRAPHS, BOTH OLD AND RECENT, WITH THE THEME OF MOTORSPORT EVER-PRESENT. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT SPORTS CAR RACES OF 1934 AND 1935 (NOTABLY LE MANS 24 HOURS AND THE TOURIST TROPHY) ARE ALSO COVERED AND ILLUSTRATED BY MANY FASCINATING AND REVEALING IMAGES. IN TOTAL THERE ARE OVER 530 OUTSTANDING PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS, A LARGE NUMBER OF WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN PUBLISHED BEFORE, INCLUDING REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE 1930S.

LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, NUMBERED 1 – 500, THE BOOK IS BOUND IN BLACK BUCKRAM CLOTH WITH WHITE AND GOLD FOIL BLOCKING ON THE FRONT, BACK AND SPINE, AND IS ENCASED IN A BLACK BUCKRAM CLOTH SLIPCASE.

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