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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!!!!!!