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Bugatti: Carlo, Rembrandt, Ettore, Jean

by Amanda Dunsmore, John Payne

If all you can think of is “cars” when you hear Bugatti, you’re missing something. Furniture, sculpture, and, yes, cars—there’s a Bugatti for that. This book shows pieces that are held in public and private collections in Australia.

DS miniatures de mon enfance

by Renaud Siry 

The real car sold 1.5 million copies; who knows how many toy cars were sold? Today the latter sell for more than the former! This book doesn’t count but show them—all sizes, all colors, all materials.

French Curves: Delahaye, Delage, Talbot-Lago

by Adatto, Figoni, Hinds; photos by Furman 

Twenty-five cars from the Mullin Automotive Museum illustrate the finer points of French coachwork—and it’s not all swoops and chrome.

Citroën DS, Design Icon

by Malcolm Bobbitt

Even for a company known for building innovative cars, the DS was wildly radical—and sold nearly 1.5 million copies!

Amilcar

by Gilles Fournier

The “poor man’s Bugatti”! Zippy French cars, well-liked, successful on the track—and still the marque died.

The Brescia Bugatti

by Bob King

The most-built Bugatti is the least-written about—until now. This book presents known survivors and their history.

Henri Chapron

by Dominique Pagneux 

While always current in terms of popular taste, Chapron’s designs were not flashy or avant-garde but sober and of restrained elegance. During the peak years of 1928–31 their output reached a lofty 500 cars a year.

Bugatti (Hawley)

by Hawley, des Cordes, Mishne

From stone masonry to automobiles this catalog of a museum show looks at the artistic output of the entire Bugatti clan across three generations.

Delage, France’s Finest Car

by Daniel Cabart, Claude Rouxel, David Burgess-Wise

“The Beautiful French Car” is not a slogan cooked up by a clever press person but an accolade given by the public. The serious literature on this marque is quite thin and this book goes a long way toward painting a definitive picture of the entire lifespan of the company, not just the glamour decade from the late 1920s onwards.

Delage, Styling and Design

by Richard S Adatto and Diana E Meredith

The most challenging aspect of this book is keeping one’s attention focused on the words that are printed on the pages. That’s simply because the images keep pulling you back to look some more. Few can resist the visual feast of those lush, lovely sculpted lines created by the fabled French coachbuilders.

Gotha de l’Automobile Française

by Claude Rouxel and Laurent Friry

To cut a long story short, this is THE book to have on French car manufacturers if you have an interest in the upper crust cars of the Twentieth century.

The Fate of the Sleeping Beauties

by Ard & Arnoud op de Weegh, Kay Hottendorff

This is one book that could have used a subtitle! Not only are there several others with the words “sleeping beauties” in their tile, one of them covers the exact same subject—except . . . it tells a vastly different story and its sins of omission and commission are the raison d’être for this new one.

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