Juan Manuel Fangio

Foulis. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Hardcover with scarce related ephemera from the publisher, (1958?) Stated Revised Edition Foulis 199 pages. Very Good, in a Good+ DJ..minor shelf/edge wear to red cloth boards with white titles - corners lightly bumped. Foxing to top edge of textblock edges. minor shelf/edge wear and some foxing/rubbing to unclipped DJ - now in mylar. FFEP has a fold the length of the page. No previous owner marks - all pages are clean and crisp. 65 B&W Photographs. Translated by Charles Meisl. Juan Manuel Fangio Déramo 24 June 1911 – 17 July 1995), nicknamed El Chueco ("the bowlegged one", also commonly translated as "bandy legged") or El Maestro ("The Master"), was a racing car driver from Argentina. He dominated the first decade of Formula One racing, winning the World Drivers' Championship five times. He won the World Championship of Drivers five times—a record which stood for 47 years until beaten by Michael Schumacher—with four different teams (Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Maserati), a feat that has not been repeated. A member of the Formula 1 Hall of Fame, he is regarded by many as one of the greatest F1 drivers of all time and holds the highest winning percentage in Formula One - 46.15% - winning 24 of 52 Formula One races he entered. Fangio is the only Argentine driver to have won the Argentine Grand Prix, having won it four times in his career—the most of any driver. "..worthy to take its place on the shelf reserved for the best biographies of the aristocracy of Motor racing" - R.L.W., The Motor -- DJ states that this is revised edition and indeed the number of pages has expanded to 199. Four more chapters than the first edition. Book is undated but laid in is an interesting piece of publishers ephemera - an advertising card from the publisher (Foulis) dated January 1958, listing 34 auto related titles (including this one) and complete with postcard tear-off to subscribe to the Foulis mailing list (uncommon for these to survive). Handsome copy of a scarce book with related ephemera. LOC SSS-37