Description: Acceptable. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: E. P. Dutton & Company, New York
Date Published: 1963
Description: B&w plates. Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 239pp [ink name; light chipping, rubbing, foxing and edgewear to dj; foxing to page edges; light insect wear to front cloth cover] read more
Binding: SB
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York, NY
Date Published: 1964
Description: VG. PBK 181 pages. One of Stirling's most popular books. Written within months after his official retirement from World Championship racing, following a near fatal crash. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Kimber, London
Date Published: 1980
Description: Good in Good jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Reprint, 8vo, 240pp, photo illustrations; ex-library copy with all the attendant woes, withdrawn stamps and scarred endpapers, stamps to verso title and, not content with the mutilation so far, this particular public librarian saw fit to strike through both the half-title and title with a biro, ah, such sensitivity; o/w VG Copy in crinkled but VG DJ (presumably the library sleeve was constricting its growth) read more
Description: Very Good. 0718301730 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Redwood Burn Limited, 1980. Different cover art than stock photo. This book has a forward to the 1973 and 1963 editions. This hardcover is very nice and clean, and dust jacket has minimal wear due to protective plastic that covers it. Free Delivery Confirmation on All Orders! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Kimber, London
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good- in Good- jacket. 8vo, 239 pp, 16 pp b&w plates. Four-line birthday greeting in black biro at half-title page. Edges, prelims and endpages foxed. Occasional light foxing throughout. Original cloth in price-clipped dustwrapper chipped at spine head and foot and at corners. read more
Description: Reader copy. Ex library with hardback, 1963 1st edition, usual stamps & markings otherwise good with clean, bright text & tight binding, will despatch immediately. read more
Binding: HB/DJ
Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co. NY
Date Published: 1964
Description: VG+ in VG jacket. 239 pages. Perhaps the best-known and most popular Moss biography and now one of the 1960's vintage racing cult classics. read more
Binding: HB/DJ
Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co. NY
Date Published: 1964
Description: VG+ in VG jacket. 239 pages. Perhaps the best-known and most popular Moss biography and now one of the 1960's vintage racing cult classics. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: E. P. Dutton
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good in Good jacket. Red dust jacket, white and yellow letters. Jacket is torn at spine. Light fraying to edges. Cocked spine. May have some shelf wear. read more
Edition: Pan First Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Pan, UK
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very Good. Pan Non Fiction / Biography / Motor Racing Paperback Book No X421. This Book Is In Very Good Condition But The Book Is A Little Bit Warped At Bottom Of Front Cover & Has Had The Cover Price Blotted Out With Biro On The Front Cover. There Is A Reading Crease To The Front Cover The Back Cover Has A Corner Crease The Page Edges & Pages Are Tanned. The Book Is Illustrated & Has A Picture Of Stirling Moss On Front Cover. We Accept PayPal. read more
Edition: Pan First Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Pan, UK
Date Published: 1965
Description: Near Fine. Pan Biography Paperback Book No X 421. This Book Is In Near Fine Condition But Has Got Some Very Light Small Creasing To The Front Cover The Page Edges & Pages Are Very Very Lightly Tanned. The Book Is Illustrated. We Accept PayPal. read more
Edition: 1st U. K. edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. Kimber, London
Date Published: 1963
Description: Very Good in Fair dust jacket. D/J frayed and short tears on edges and corners. Sl foxing on end papers. First printing. Illustrated by. illus. ; 239 p. : illus. ; 22 cm. read more
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: William Kimber, London
Date Published: 1963
Description: 22cm. VG h/c, no DJ, small inked out name FFEP, indistinct stain front cover, minor foxing, including page edges. 239 pages, 18 mono photographs, one cartoon. An intimate profile by Ken Purdy of one of the best known names in motor racing, covering Moss' successes, near misses and reflections on the sport to which he gave "all but my life. " Tables cover all his races from 1948 to 1961. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: E. P. Dutton
Date Published: 1963
Description: Very Good/Very Good. Clean text. Binding intact. Previous owners bookplate present on inside of front cover. Dust Jacket with minor shelfwear, rubbing included. DJ flap is price clipped. (B35) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: KIMBER
Date Published: 1963
Description: Published by KIMBER in 1963, hardback (no D/J), medium size, stained. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
"This is the first autobiography of a Grand Prix racer that I've read, so I have little ground for comparison, but it seems to me that Stirling Moss is the coolest, smartest race car driver ever. And this book takes place at a fascinating time in his life, after the awful wreck at Goodwood in 1962 where he's cut out of the car with a boatload of serious injuries, including brain and eye trauma.
Ken W. Purdy starts the book in the hospital and records his impressions of his long-time friend as he recovers. The book then blends into a mix of Ken's thoughts about Stirling and about racing with Stirling's comments, and then is almost all quotes from Stirling. It's a graceful and interesting formula.
Stirling comes across as complex, smart, and funny. Purdy looks at his quirk of preferring to race only British cars, private cars, as the thrill of being the underdog. Moss talks about his mental training. He was greatly affected by the crash of Dick Seaman in 1939, in which Seaman died not of his injuries but of staying in the car and then it burned. So Moss trained his mind to instinctively scramble out of the car after a crash, which is what he did at Naples--with a broken knee--and what he was trying to do, according to witnesses, at Goodwood, even tho he was quite unconscious. There's a great chapter on bravery/courage/skill and his "ten-tenths" philosophy. And another nice part where he admits his part in the breakup of his marriage--lovely for such a guy to have such insight--too bad it was too late.
Ultimately, this book is about his journey from being the best race car driver to not being one. In 1963, he takes a car back out onto the Goodwood track to test himself. His conclusion: "I had to think. I had to give orders to myself: here I'll brake, here I must change down, and so on...and the other thing, I used to look at the rev-counter without taking my eyes off the road, not only that, I could see the rev counter and the road and a friend waving to me, all at the same time...I've lost that, that's gone."
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