2006, ISBN: 9781406798685

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New York: Random House, 2004. Fine condition in a bright and beautiful Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NOT price clipped ($24.95). A clean, tight copy… Plus…

New York: Random House, 2004. Fine condition in a bright and beautiful Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NOT price clipped ($24.95). A clean, tight copy. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. "First U.S. Edition" is so stated, with complete number row (246897531) on the copyright page. Illustrated with a few documents and many old photographs. Bound in the original cream-color boards with a green spine, lettered in shiny metallic light blue. From the Dust Jacket: "Transcending her provincial background, Hellé Nice, born Hélène Delangle, made her way into the Parisian demimonde of the 1920s as a nude model, ballerina, and cabaret dancer. But it was on the racetrack, thrilled by the heady mix of machinery and speed, that Nice would realize her destiny, becoming the 'fastest woman in the world.' Catching the attention of the formidable Ettore Bugatti, designer of the world's most desirable cars, Nice gained admission to the exclusive club of male drivers. Her readiness to pose for the camera with seductively half-closed eyes and a radiant smile, coupled with her willingness to risk her life for a record or a win, made Nice an irresistible commodity for Bugatti's marque. Impenitently promiscuous, her many lovers ranged from engineers and mechanics to aristocrats of the racing world such as Baron Philippe de Rothschild and Count Bruno d'Harcourt. Hellé Nice placed in numerous grand prix, was the only woman to drive the treacherous American dirt tracks and speedbowls in the 1930s, and set new land-speed records -- until a notorious accident in Brazil nearly ended her racing career. Her comeback impeded by the war, she lived out the Occupation in the South of France. In 1949, after being mysteriously denounced by a hostile fellow driver as a Gestapo agent, she was written out of racing history. Drawn from a remarkable cache of previously unseen papers, Miranda Seymour's BUGATTI QUEEN sheds new light on both the perilous world of international racing and life in Occupied France. 'Even if you have never thrilled to the drone of powerful cars jockeying for position on a racetrack,' writes London's LITERARY REVIEW, 'Miranda Seymour's biography of the daring female driver Hellé Nice will have you riveted to your seat.'". First Printing of the First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. (xxiv), 323pp., Random House, 2004, 5, New York, New York: Riverside Book Co. Very Good. 1990. First Edition. Soft Cover. KB#004154: Lower corner of back cover is slightly creased. Otherwise, covers and pages are clean, unmarked, brightly colored, and tightly bound. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "Leonardo was born in the village of Vinci, between the Tuscan cities of Empoli and Pistoia, on 15th April 1452. In 1469 the family moved to Florence, where his father sent him to study with the most versatile and sought-after Florentine master of the time: the sculptor; painter and goldsmith Andrea Verrocchio. In 1472 he was enrolled as a master in the Company of Painters. Leonardo was attracted to every sort of artistic discipline, and was able to complement those disciplines with his scientific knowledge, the fruit of tireless investigation into natural phenomena, which he observed acutely. Leonardo da Vinci examines the life of this painter, sculptor and engineer, including his time spent at the workshop of Verrochio, and the political and cultural atmosphere of Florence around 1480. The book also concentrates on particular elements found in da Vinci's works, including his use of action and movement, anatomy, mechanics, and caricature - and, of course, that smile.": 8.25 x 11 in.: 77 pages ., Riverside Book Co, 1990, 3, Home Farm Books, 2006-01-01. reprint. Paperback. Very Good. 2oo6 reprint. slight edgewear., Home Farm Books, 2006-01-01, 3<