Old Motor Racing Books, Catalogues and Programmes

[onemorelap]

Don't know if this is the right forum for it but I'm mulling over selling all of the motor racing books, programmes and car catalogues i've amassed over the years and am looking for a bit of advice as to where to best sell them. There are also a few motor bike related items but this is no where near as extensive as the rest of the "collection"

Flea bay seems to be quite popular for the smaller books, programmes and car brochures etc but the larger books don't seem that popular due to postage costs i imagine?

Are there any other web-sites / forums that these can be advertised on or dealers that may be worth contacting to gauge interest?

The biggest "lot" i have is a collection of Autocourse annuals from 1984 to date which i would ideally like to pass on as a collection instead of splitting. Is this realistic?

Apologies, lots of questions but any advice appreciated tbh.

[Whatty]

Try over at the Atlas Nostalgia Forum

http://forums.autosport.com/index.php?s=df85c92fd5...

Lots of historians/authors/bookworms who could advise.

Out of curiosity whatcha got bookwise? I'm always adding to my library

[hot metal]

Yes ,lets have a list of the books .

[lowdrag]

I also could be a buyer so let's see a list of the for sale catalogues. To give you a dfifferent idea though, there was a moment when I thought of selling up all of my press stuff - MacLaren F1 catalogue, Honda NSX press pack - you get the idea - and I spoke to H&H auctions. Most informative, most helpful, and less commission than the others. In the end I didn't sell butthey were most impressive.

[onemorelap]

Thanks for the replies, much appreciated.

I'm already a member on Atlas and am continually amazed at the encyclopedic knowledge that a lot of the contributors show on there. I can only assume there knowledge is derived in part from a far more comprehensive collection than mine!!

I don't want to break the rules on posting being seen as advertising on here but seeing as you asked (mods - i'm definitely still at the mulling point ) the things i have basically cover the mid 1970's through to current be it car brochures, motorsport programmes or motorsport books (nothing as grand as Maclaren F1 press packs though).

Book wise, as well as the Autocourses mentioned previously there are books like Only here for the beer, All arms and elbows, Villenueve and Hunt (both by Donaldson), The Eoin Young book about Bruce Maclaren and various others of that sort of ilk.

Programme wise there's random 90's to 05 Le Mans programmes, various F1, Lombard RAC and Bike GP programmes as well as a few GPC, 1000km, ETCC programmes and also a Silverstone TT programme from the late 70's(on the back page of which i tried to fake James Hunts signature as a child!!) . There's also F3000 programmes and numerous club level F3 and BTCC type programmes from the late 80's / early 90's as well as others i've no doubt neglected to mention.

Brochure wise there's various MG brochures from the 70's along with a mixed bag of land rover,bmw, Ferrari, Porsche, Lotus, Caterham, Mx5 brochures all ranging from early 80's onwards. God knows why but there is even one for a Toyota Crown in there somewhere as well........

TBH it's just a random collection that's come together over the years as i didn't want to throw things out. I've even got some old Brooks auction catalogues but i'm buggered if i know why or how they got in there.