The Motorist’s Weekend Book by Michael Frostick & Anthony Harding (eds.)

The Motorist’s Weekend Book, edited by Michael Frostick and Anthony Harding, was first published in 1960 by B. T. Batsford Ltd of 4 Fitzhardinge Street, Portman Square, London, and made and printed in Great Britain by William Clowes and Sons, Limited, London and Beccles. This is the first edition hardcover, bound in red cloth with gilt lettering and a steering-wheel device on the spine.

The front flap describes The Motorist’s Weekend Book as “something different”: a collection of essays on subjects ranging from Bugatti to broadcasting, road tests to rallying, Le Mans, dicing, dress and picnics, contributed by leading names in motoring and listed on the back of the jacket, with pictures to look at as well as plenty to read.

The Motorist’s Weekend Book will appeal to collectors of vintage motoring books, classic car enthusiasts and anyone interested in the motoring culture of Britain at the turn of the 1960s.

Condition – Good

Red cloth boards with gilt spine lettering, the board edges and spine ends rubbed and lightly bumped. The pictorial dust jacket is complete but worn: the spine panel is heavily rubbed and sunned with loss of colour, there is chipping and short tears at the head and tail of the spine, and the edges and corners are rubbed and creased, with light marks to the front panel. The jacket is toned and lightly spotted on the reverse. The front free endpaper carries a browned mark, and there is light foxing to the endpapers and toning and spotting to the page edges. The binding is sound and the text block clean.