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	RAC Rally by Max Le Grand. ISBN1861264151. £19.95 - weight 900gms. We need a good reference book on the RAC rally with full results from each year and good reference photos. This is not it! The story of the events from the beginning of the last century is comprehensive but presented in a jumbled style that makes it hard to find any one yearÕs event. The accompanying photos are useful but grainy and frankly fail to add much to the total. We still need an RAC Rally reference book. Zoltan Glass - Speed and Spirit. ISBN3775790500. £29.99 - weight 1.3kg. Photographer Zoltan Glass worked in Germany in the 1930s and - after escaping that regime - in London. During the 30's he had a close association with Mercedes-Benz and spent a good deal of time photographing their race cars and racing efforts. This book is largely a collection of those arty studies - (which were 'lost' until their recent rediscovery) - many of which are superb. Their style is dated but all the better for that - indeed his work as shown here may be among the best there has been in classic motor racing. Novi-V8 Indy Cars 1941 - 1965 - Ludvigsen Library. £15.95. ISBN1583880372. Weight 700gms. Few cars have evoked as much excitement through their unqiue sound and appearance as the fabulous Novi Indy machines. With its centrifugally supercharged V8 engine and at first a front-wheel drive configuration it earned a wicked reputation as a driver killer - but still there was a queue of eager hotshoes willing to show that they could tame the wild beast. A Novi never won Indy but they came near and were always contenders. This excellent landscape format paperback is a photo and caption book that tells the story in excellent style and detail. If you have even a small interest in Indy, buy it. A-Z of Grand Prix Cars - David Hodges. ISBN1861263392. £25.00. Weight 1.6kg. Until the arrival of this excellent reference book there had been no alternative to the superb two-volume History of the Grand Prix Car by Doug Nye - and that bookÕs coverage ended with the 1991 season. As one would expect from the much-respected David Hodges, this new book is absolutely comprehensive. It sets out to cover the history of every GP car creator that there has been and tested by our team - that included the erudite historian David Blumlein - came up as being 100% for both coverage and content right up to the 2000 season. If you do not have a F1 make by make history book then buy this - its is a library essential. Red Arrows - Ferraris at the Mille Miglia - Giannini Marzotto. ISBN8879112406. £50. Weight 2.3kg. For some years we have been using a small landscape-format book by Marzotto which also covers all the Ferraris that ran in the Mille Miglia so this new one - even though much larger - seemed at first to be unnecessary. But - because of the larger format - there is much more here. More photos, more history, more anecdotes from drivers, a complete car-by-car checklist which includes full details of the car - chassis number etc - and full details of how each fared. Ferrari and the post-war Mille Miglia are inseparable. The histories of both embody heroic days - great feats - terrible tragedies. This therefore is a very important book and - because of the fine photo coverage - excellent for modelling reference. Go to books page 2		GP Modelista Vol 1 no. 2. MCGP0102. £10.00. This is a new edition of the Japanese F1 modelling magazine with excellent photographic reference content. There is good coverage of the main cars from the first race of the season - a review of BBR's first model of the new Ferrari - and from there on this edition concentrates on the Tyrrell P34 six-wheeler. There is coverage of the main models from BBR etc and of course of the full-size car. Plus - it's all in very fine colour. For F1 modellers this magazine is a 'must'. Ferrari 330/P4 - Paolo Marasca. ISBN0760310815. £99.50. Weight 2.7kg. In a box made of 1/4 inch thick board and with covers of the same thickness and material this large tome falls (heavily!) into the strengthened leg coffee table niche. It offers excellent glossy coverage of the major races of the cars together with excellent - mostly seen before - photos together with an excellent text history in three languages - including English! But in our library we already have several excellent books which give us more comprehensive coverage of these cars. If however you want to impress visitors to your home by leaving this lying around......... Ferrari Glory - Single Seater Victories 1948-2000 - Gianni Cancellieri. £79.99. ISBN8879111164. Weight 2.1kg. This is the first of two books - the second will cover the sports and GT race cars. This one covers the story of the birth and development of the F1 cars from 1947 to 2000 and has first class, highly erudite text and very fine colour and black and white photographs many of which are used in very large format. The book itself is huge - in landscape format it is 14.25 inches wide - and that allows the pictures to be really useful for reference. Whether you invest in it depends on your passion for Ferrari F1. Formula One - the full story of Grand Prix Racing - various authors. £29.99. ISBN1859745008. Weight 1.7kg. This is a 'pot boiler' popularist story of F1 which concentrates on the stories of the main men, Moss, Fangio, Senna, Damon Hill etc and then on the circuits themselves with maps etc. It's worth a look to see if you need any of the shots but the rest of the story related here you already know. Book reviews continue on page 2. A NEW rough guide to book weights & postages GPM has negotiated with Royal Mail a special rate for books to our overseas customers. This works out at approximately: 50p per 100g to Europe - 60p per 100g to Rest of World. This will enable our far distant customers to buy more books which previously the high cost of posting has prohibited.