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John Wyer & Chris Nixon: Racing with the David Brown Aston Martin, Volumes 1 & 2; signed by the authors and Aston Martin drivers and staff for Eric Thompson, and other Aston Martin driver signed ephemera,

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Lot 4

John Wyer & Chris Nixon: Racing with the David Brown Aston Martin, Volumes 1 & 2; signed by the authors and Aston Martin drivers and staff for Eric Thompson, and other Aston Martin driver signed ephemera,

John Wyer & Chris Nixon: Racing with the David Brown Aston Martin, Volumes 1 & 2; signed by the authors and Aston Martin drivers and staff for Eric Thompson, and other Aston Martin driver signed ephemera,

dark green cloth-bound hard covers, standard 1st editions with dust jackets, published 1980, comprising Volume 1 signed to title page by Chris Nixon with dedication 'To Eric..', further signed by Chief Engineer Harold Beach to frontispiece, and elsewhere to relevant pages by John Wyer, Eric Thompson, Angela Abecassis, Noel Cunningham-Reid and Innes Ireland; Volume 2 signed for 'Eric' by Chris Nixon to title page, and signed elsewhere to relevant pages by Roy Salvadori, Jack Fairman, Brian Shawe-Taylor, David Brown, Eric Thompson, Tony Brooks, Ted Cutting, Peter Clark, Noel Pasteau (Hotelier of the Hotel de France, La Chartre-sur-le-Loire), Carroll Shelby, Stirling Moss, and Gillian Harris/Stillwell; offered together with a folder of signed loose ephemera, including a race programme, autograph pages and letters, bearing signatures of Jim Clark, Reg Parnell, Lance Macklin, Lance Macklin, Tommy Wisdom, Pat Griffith, Les Leston, Jack Brabham, Geoff Duke, and Maurice Trintignant.
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