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Holy Cecil Kimber....someone has bid a Blowers manual up to $255 on Ebay......a book that is available new from Amazon for $83.50...Barnum where are you? I hope this isn't any of my fellow listers!

Cheers, Terry

It all depends - my copy of an original Motor Racing Publications Ltd. "Blower" cost me 30 pounds years ago, so with inflation that is up several times. And that is a 3rd. edition, 1953. 1st. & 2nd. edns. were 1952. The modern reprint by Robert Bentley Inc. (softback, probably prone to page fall-out if you actually used it or even tried to put it on a photocopier) is a different animal altogether.

Incidently, some people refer to it as "the MG Workshop Manual" by Bentley, probably because poor old Eric Blower's name does not appear at all on the cover or spine. But then , he did not actually write it - almost everything between the covers was "lifted" from original factory workshop notes and manuals....

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In a message dated 2/12/00 5:48:21 AM Pacific Standard Time, roger.46tc@virgin.net writes:
because poor old eric blower's name does not appear at all on cover or spine. But then , he did not actually write it - almost everything between the covers was "lifted" from original factory workshop notes and manuals....

The one on Ebay is the newer Bentley reprint....I could see it if it were a first edition. I have 3 copies of the old red hard back version. The last one I bought at a swap meet last yoar for $10. My one copy of the Bentley reprint is much more readable with these old eyes!

BTW, what do we know about Eric Blower? Was the book commissioned by the factory. I think Blower worked there perhaps in the rectification department???

This same ebay phenom occurs repeatedly with a puzzle that is a painting by Dietz of a P type and a Hurricane on a WWII airfield. They are available new from the manufacturer in N. H. for about 15 bucks but consistantly get bid up to $50 or so.....Ebay brags about the businesses they have helped to start up. I guess this is an example. Let the buyer beware!

Cheers,
Terry

Holy Cecil Kimber....someone has bid a Blowers manual up to $255 on Ebay......

And its a modern paperback copy -

OK Guys -

What price my mint first edition Hardback copy then?

Bids, with cash in large multiples of 50 notes to.....

Clive Sherriff

Clive, whats the date on your 1st edition? Did it have the TD updates in it?
Terry