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5958•Christian Hueber & David A Sulzberger: BentleyContinental Sports Saloon; a limited ‘Owners’Edition’ presentation cased set, published byPalawan Press, 2003,containing a limited ‘Owners’ Edition’ of 208 copies published, inbuckram wrap-around covers with pop-stud and gilt tooling, large4to, numbered to title page with ‘BC65D’ the chassis number, 400numbered pages, well illustrated reference title relating to the R-TypeContinental, together with a Bentley Register for the Continental SportsSaloon, in black card covers, with build and ownership details of thecars and a folio of reproduced drawings and blueprints of coachworkstyles by various coachbuilders including H J Mulliner and PininFarina, and two Palawan Press order forms for the various editionsof the title, all contained in a black buckram solander library caseapplied with ‘Bentley Motors Ltd’ title plaque engraved with matchingchassis number ‘BC65D’, the case 50cm wide overall, also includingthe scarce earlier 2002 edition of Bentley Continental Sports Saloonby the same authors, in green card covers, 8vo, published by theContinental Register and given to all participants in the August 200250th anniversary celebration held at Silverstone.£1,000 - 1,500€1,200 - 1,800Of the 358 copies of this book published, 150 were produced asStandard 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 thecorresponding chassis number, this being one such example. BC65D,was one of 3 R-Type Continentals belonging to the Hon. Alan ClarkM.P. Bought as a ‘write-off’ in 1965, Clark had the car rebuilt byBradley Brothers as the only ‘Special’ on an R-Type Continentalchassis.Provenance: from the library of the late Christian Hueber.Further detailed information from the co-author David Sulzbergerrelating to the title is offered to view with the lot.6059•A set of four Bentley Le Mans ‘Successes’ booklets1927-1930,comprising ‘Le Mans 1927’, cream card covers, onion skin jacket,23 numbered ages, large 8Vo, ‘Again 1928’, blue card covers, onionskin jacket, 27 numbered pages, small 4to, ‘The Hat Trick’ embossedbrown card covers, 36 numbered pages, large 8vo and ‘Plus Four’,cream card covers with printed vellum outer, 40 numbered pages, large8vo, together with two original postal envelopes.(6)£1,200 - 1,600€1,500 - 2,00060•Guy Fabrice Mestrot & Manuel Dos Reis: ‘P2’;scarce CIJ P2 Alfa Romeo clockwork toy reference book, limitededition 12/20, French text, embossed leather bound cover, 75numbered pages beautifully illustrated with all known variants of thispopular tinplate clockwork toy, large 4to, with leather library case, alsocontaining reprinted CIJ catalogue, P2 book with English translationand a printed certificate.£2,000 - 2,600€2,500 - 3,200Automobilia | 23