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[Graham Gauld]

At the tender age of 90 I am continuing to fillet my library of motoring and particularly motor racing booiks and magazines.  They are all listed here  

 

Graham Gauld 

Wadebridge: Cornwall

[chdphd]

I guess the post was supposed to contain this link:

• https://motorracingmemorabilia.com/

[GreenMachine]

Well this is interesting. 

 

I sympathise with you Graham, I am currently tracking a decade or so behind you, and have been contemplating this step, painful though it is.  I have looked at ebay et al, the specialist on-line secondhand book sites, and despaired.  The local secondhand bookstores, even the specialist ones, are uninterested, probably waiting for my heirs to arrive with the boxes desperate to get rid of them, and willing to accept a pittance  .

 

So thank you Graham, good luck with your disposal, enjoy the proceeds!  I now have the lead that I suspected was out there, but until now was groping blindly for.

[DCapps]

Me being me, in January a crew from Belmont Abbey College arrived and loaded up my motor sport publications (books, magazine, programs, etc) into a big U-Haul truck and it is now being processed by the library staff.

I kept a few items for the paper that I am writing, but once it is done, those items will join the others at Belmont Abbey.

As an academic library, they have the ability to keep items in their collection that might be looked at only once in 25 years by a researcher.

The point being, that a book or magazine itself is there and accessible for literally decades and decades by future researchers.

That was the point made by the head of library services at the college that sealed the deal.

 

HDC

 

Postscript. Buy Graham's books!!!!!!

[D-Type]

Don,

I'm surprised you haven't given them to Watkin's Glen.  Or is that not the type of thing they want?

Edited by D-Type, 13 February 2025 - 21:15.

[DCapps]

Don,

I'm surprised you haven't given them to Watkin's Glen.  Or is that not the type of thing they want?

 

Several issues involved, primarily that Belmont Abbey College is maybe three hours away and Watkins Glen about 10 hours, but also that we are moving for what I hope is the final time (my 13th or so personal move since 1990), this time back to the Washington DC Metro area.

That the roughly 300 boxes of books etc and 16 library quality bookcases going to BAC instead of with us make the move easier would be an understatement.

Plus, there is probably more than a bit of overlap with what is in the IMRRC collection.

 

This was not an easy decision by any measure to say the least. 

Belmont Abbey College has a Motor Sport Management program and is one of the few colleges or universities that actually has motor sport history classes as part of their curriculum. 

Only the IMRRC and Appalachian State University (in Boone, NC, thanks to the amazing and wonderful Suzanne Wise) have motor sport history collections accessible to the public.

Time to begin adding another one to the list.

 

The Detroit Public Library's National Automotive Collection, the SAH Special Research Collection of books at the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Museum (in Auburn, Indiana), and the automotive history collection (which the SAH helps support) at Kettering University are other general automotive history resources.

The Benson Ford Research Center at The Henry Ford Museum is another great resource, of course, along with REVS in Naples, Florida.

 

My love for the IMRRC is complete and enduring. 

The idea for my material going to Belmont Abbey College came up at an Argetsinger Symposium, in fact.

Another factor is that Belmont Abbey also took whatever I had left from my academic holdings in the way of books.

 

Also, this was done while I am still above ground...

 

HDC

[DCapps]

Oh, I forgot to add...

 

 

BUY GRAHAM'S BOOK'S!!!!!!!!!  

 

BUY GRAHAM'S BOOK'S!!!!!!!!!  

 

BUY GRAHAM'S BOOK'S!!!!!!!!!  

 

BUY GRAHAM'S BOOK'S!!!!!!!!!  

 

BUY GRAHAM'S BOOK'S!!!!!!!!!

Edited by DCapps, 14 February 2025 - 17:02.

[PaulButler58]

I bought a copy of "Mon Ami Mate" off Graham back in 2022, it was an extremely smooth transaction with the book being in excellent condition.

 

Enhanced somewhat by his recollections of Peter Collins and his friendship with him. Sent me a lovely photograph of himself , Peter and Louise taken in September 1957 as well.

 

Thoroughly recommend purchasing any of his books and I have my eye on a couple that will , hopefully, be there next pay day!