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Product Description The Golden Agei is a superb, very high quality softbound booklet of 32 pages. It illustrates the 27 superb photographic motor racing images from The Klemantaski Collection, one of the worlds largest archives of motor racing photography The text and captions for the photographs in The Golden Age were created by Peter G. Sachs of The Klemantaski Collection. The Golden Age is a companion volume to The Eye of Klemantaski which has achieved wide popularity among enthusiasts for both photography and motor racing. The Golden Age includes photographs by Robert Daley, Edward Eves, Alan R. Smith, Nigel Snowdon and Colin Waldeck. About the Author Robert Daley, whose father Arthur Daley was for many years the Sports Editor of The New York Times, has written many highly acclaimed books, including Cars at Speed and The Cruel Sport, two famous reviews of motor racing in Europe in the 1960s which he illustrated with his photographs. Edward Eves contributed both race reports and photographs to The Autocar, and his photographs also appeared in Autocourse and Automobile Year. Alan R. Smith is the author of many motorsports articles and produced the excellent photographic book Fifties Motor Racing The GP Scene. Nigel Snowdon, together with his wife Diana Burnett, has been a major contributor of photographs to the British racing annual Autocourse, has been particularly known for his portraits of Grand Prix drivers and is the author of an outstanding new book of his work:Formula One Through the Lens.