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LOT 58

Christian Hueber & David A Sulzberger: Bentley Continental Sports Saloon; a limited 'Owners' Edition' presentation cased set, published by Palawan Press, 2003,

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Lot 58

Christian Hueber & David A Sulzberger: Bentley Continental Sports Saloon; a limited 'Owners' Edition' presentation cased set, published by Palawan Press, 2003,

Christian Hueber & David A Sulzberger: Bentley Continental Sports Saloon; a limited 'Owners' Edition' presentation cased set, published by Palawan Press, 2003,

containing a limited 'Owners' Edition' of 208 copies published, in buckram wrap-around covers with pop-stud and gilt tooling, large 4to, numbered to title page with 'BC65D' the chassis number, 400 numbered pages, well illustrated reference title relating to the R-Type Continental, together with a Bentley Register for the Continental Sports Saloon, in black card covers, with build and ownership details of the cars and a folio of reproduced drawings and blueprints of coachwork styles by various coachbuilders including H J Mulliner and Pinin Farina, and two Palawan Press order forms for the various editions of the title, all contained in a black buckram solander library case applied with 'Bentley Motors Ltd' title plaque engraved with matching chassis number 'BC65D', the case 50cm wide overall, also including the scarce earlier 2002 edition of Bentley Continental Sports Saloon by the same authors, in green card covers, 8vo, published by the Continental Register and given to all participants in the August 2002 50th anniversary celebration held at Silverstone.

Footnotes

Of the 358 copies of this book published, 150 were produced as Standard Editions, with the remaining 208 published as Owners' Editions which were issued for owners of the R-Type Continental, with 'owners' manual' style covers and each numbered with the corresponding chassis number, this being one such example. BC65D, was one of 3 R-Type Continentals belonging to the Hon. Alan Clark M.P. Bought as a 'write-off' in 1965, Clark had the car rebuilt by Bradley Brothers as the only 'Special' on an R-Type Continental chassis.

Provenance: from the library of the late Christian Hueber.

Further detailed information from the co-author David Sulzberger relating to the title is offered to view with the lot.

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