Le Pur-Sang Bugatti, in 2 Vintage Hardcover Automobile Quarterly 1967 and 1979

Bugatti

Broadside

Automobile Quarterly, Volume VI, 1967. and Automobile Quarterly, Volume XVII, Number 4, 1979. Kutztown, PA. Hardcover. Each about 111 pages. each 8.5 x 10 inches. The 1967 and the 1979 Automobile Quarterly periodical focuses on Bugatti, the high end French-German sports car marque. The central piece of the 1967 is a retrospective called “My Bugatti Years” by acclaimed Grand Prix driver Rene Dreyfus. Subsequently, neo-futurist Syd Mead writes and illustrates a Space Age-inflected feature on the synthesis of man and machine, expressed through the automobile. The 1979 edition has an article on Ettore Bugatti's personal Bugatti - a self-designed racing car that he personally raced at Le Mans. Includes a foldout Bugatti poster on page 65 from its Grand Prix golden era of the 1920s-30s. Also included is an illustrated catalog insert. Bright and stylish color as well as black and white photography throughout the book. Original boards in Bugatti’s characteristic blue with a gilded title. Centerpiece is a caricature of founder Ettoro Bugatti as a horse with the caption: “Le Pur-Sang Bugatti”, or The Thoroughbred Bugatti. In both Volumes, pages are clean and binding is tight . hard cover, oblong books, in fine condition with no signatures or marks of any kind. Both are in overall in very good to fine condition.

Item #17268

Price: $225.00