Bluebird and the Dead Lake, by John Pearson. Published by Collins, 1965.

Bluebird and the Dead Lake. The Story of the Strangest Record Ever Won, by John Pearson. Published by Collins, 1965.

The Story of Donald Campbell's Land Speed Record at Lake Eyre in 1964. Illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates.

Hardback with jacket, 188pp. Ex-Library.

First Edition. Condition: Good.

Jacket covered in plastic, taped to boards in usual library manner. Plastic covering is intact but original paper jacket underneath show slight edgewear to head and heel of spine. Library sticker on spine. Light rubbing to upper- and lower edges of the jacket hinges. Jacket unclipped. The boards are reasonably crisp and intactone corner bumped. Very lightly shelf-rubbed but hardly any edge-wear besides sunning to top edge. The usual library stickers and stamps on the front endpapers (ligthly foxed), and back of title page. Clearly stamped: Cancelled/Gekanselleer. Light foxing to prelims. A couple of folded corners. The occasional finger smudge, a couple of pale brown oil stains, and occasional limited foxing in the margins throughout text block. No loose or missing pages, no torn pages. No other inscriptions, no highlighting or underlining, no annotations or marginalia.