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    Over twenty years in the making, its pages are reflections of metalled emotion. It transverses lawn and asphalt to examine the Twentieth Century’s defining automotive engineering.
    The earliest examples of le Belle Époque through to the end of the Century’s Avant Garde exotica are presented to honor the designers imagination, industrial vision, art of the craftsmanship, and intimately, the driver's visceral experience.
   The conversations are stories told by the low rumble at idle, the reverberating thunder echoed across concrete and hillside, approaching, passing, and vanishing into the distance of time, from where their histories emanate.
   An art gallery in three volumes, over 965 pages.
   Hand produced in the United States, untilizing a special new printing methiod developed specifically for the art prints here.
Hand produced at our printer and bookbinder in the United States, utilizing a special new printing method and process developed by us over the past year specifically for the hundreds of art prints presented here on the 12" x 8" pages.

   View from the Mouth of the Dragon spotlights the story of Alfa from before the beginning, to its highly evolved products at the eve of World War II.
   A period that saw Giuseppe Merosi and Vittorio Jano combine the latest aviation engineering and manufacturing capabilities, evolving the very term high performance.
   This print edition of View was art directed to have the look of a 1950s publication. To achieve this we produced 65 engineering illustrations specifically for this edition. They are joined by 52 art quality photographs taken over twenty years. To bring the many 1920s & 30s competitions alive there are dozens of period film frames from the original digital edition.

How does a provenance become a detective story? By taking the reader on the journey of discovery. Here we take you along on the eighteen month investigation, to examine every clue as it presents itself, red hearings and all. The editorial basis of every good detective novel is how the plot is dialogue driven. It is through conversations with the characters involved that the real story comes forth, and the mystery is solved…eventually.
And that is exactly what Scott Callan does here in his non-fiction mystery. Every conversation was recorded as it happened. and transcribed exactly, full of humour and insight. Taking you within the story as it unfolds.

'Apple' is our suspense novel

Revenge and murder in a small computer company, widens out into an international political thriller, in our time of Orwellian digital malevolence.

It has often been said that Social Security is the third rail of American politics, so it proves to be in 'Another Bite at the Apple'.

Originally formatted for Amazon's Kindle, we have here loaded the entire novella for your mobile reading pleasure. It was written in the tradition of traveling paperback mysteries.

   Here we tell the story of a Marque in a completely different manner.
   Most books discuss the cars from the technical standpoint of how they were conceived, produced and sent out into the world. Here we discuss with owners how Maserati’s engineering has actually served over the years.
   As the Maserati road cars were so closely derived from the racing cars, as a result of budgetary constraints, we show the complete lineage of every Maserati made for the track and how it evolved to the road.

   Now you’ll notice we peg the origin of the company at 1926. The Maserati brothers produced their first car in 1926. It was actually called the 26 for just such a reason. Alfieri may have influenced the production of other Marques to pioneer the sports car when manager of these firms. Such was the case of the 1911 Isotta Fraschini FE. Which is rather where our story starts…

   For your online reading pleasure we present the first 148 pages of the book here.

   We follow the fate of a race car operation struggling to reemerging from the rubble left by WWII on the Peninsula, through to the Mid-Century Modern period of Italian industrial design.
   All the engines of Colombo, Lampredi, Jano, Chiti, Forghieri, and the cars of Carrozzeria Touring, Vignale, Michelotti, Scaglietti, and Pininfarina are deeply examined. We attend every road race and F1 from the war's end to 1966.
   At its base, this is the story of people, a select group of whom have the responsibility of foresight, to see the future of the automobile.
   In this case, the high performance automobile..in its ultimate state.
   A 416 page walk through the twenty years that defined Ferrari.

Set in the Irish racing green Isle, this is the tale of the last of the SOHC MG’s. Made as a high performance road car, it was soon serving as a competition car. In the hands of the heir to the first Irish airline fortune, it would begin its life as a shape-shifting embodiment of the Irish Racing scene, whose roots are that of Grand Prix itself in it earliest days.
The Iona Special is then followed forward through post war racing, the collect car scene of the ‘60s and on through the many lives it lead, on its way around the world and back to the Emerald Green Isle.

James Elliot
Managing Editor
Classics and Sports Cars
September 1997

   "Make no mistake, this hi-tech CD-ROM is actually a book. Alfa Romeo: View from the Mouth of the Dragon comes from the States and traces the history of Alfa from its Darracq roots and through all the great characters such as Ferrari, Jano and Merosi. To use the book you need a PC running Windows and-be warned-it does take a little getting used to reading a book on a computer screen.
   On the plus side S Scott Callan's book is an absorbing read and the big advantages of all this technology are motion sequences and subfiles on the more important figures.
   An excellent 500-page 'living archive' as fascinating as it is encyclopaedic."

The content of the softbound is the same as the 416 page leather bound Ferrari book. The similarity extends to the fact that the new editions are being run by our master printer in San Francisco on the same 2500 dot per inch press as our custom leather limited editions. The only difference being we are running them in small batches of 50.