TIME AND TWO SEATS - FIVE DECADES OF LONG DISTANCE RACING; VOLUMES I & II. Subtitled: The World Sports Car, Grand Touring, and Manufacturers Championships. By Janos L Wimpffen.

DELUXE EDITION, LEATHER BOUND, SIGNED and INSCRIBED, LIMITED EDITION.

LIMITED EDITION of only 250 copies, this being copy #8, as stated on the half-title page. Early numbered copies of limited editions are often reserved for presentation by the author, and the inscription indicates this is one of those.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the half-title page by the AUTHOR, JANOS WIMPFFEN, to MARK KETCHAM, a well-known rare sports car collector and broker (Ketcham Imports), and winery owner (Ketcham Estate): "To the Ever Noble Mark Ketcham / From Too Many Names / Janos L. Wimpffen". You can read about Mark Ketcham and his rare sports car collection (he loved Ferraris) on many places on the Internet.

Also SIGNED by THREE RACE CAR DRIVERS, PHIL HILL, BRIAN REDMAN, and DEREK BELL. Each driver signed his name below his full page photograph in the Foreword section of the book.

TWO VOLUMES, bound in LEATHER with SILVER TITLES, 9x12 inches (23x30.5 cm), illustrated throughout with photographs, race course line maps, and detailed drawings. Together the two volumes contain a total of 2255 pages. The two volumes are housed in a leather covered slipcase.

Published by Motorsport Research Group, Redmond, Washington, 1999.

A comprehensive, award-winning, two volume history of five decades of long distance racing, covering the World Sportscar, Grand Touring, and Manufacturers Championships events from 1953 through 1999. Every event, every entrant, complete and accurate results. Includes driver listings and profiles, course maps, photos, chassis numbers and much, much more.

FINE condition, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. Lovely.

An important resource for that motorsports enthusiast in your life or soul

The DELUXE EDITION, LIMITED TO ONLY 250 COPIES is RARE; inscribed by the author to the racing car enthusiast, collector, and broker Mark Ketcham makes it especially so.

FROM THE ESTATE OF MARK KETCHAM.

About the Author, János L. Wimpffen (from Wikipedia):

******János L. Wimpffen (born 1950s, Graz, Austria) is an American motorsport historian and writer of Austro-Hungarian origin who specialises in sportscar racing; he is best known for his 1999 debut book Time and Two Seats, which won multiple awards.******

About MARK KETCHAM, to whom the book is inscribed (from his Obituary in the Healdsburg Times):

******Mark Ketcham, b.1955 d.2020. Classic sports cars, family, good food and great wine. In no particular order, these were the things that made Mark Ketcham happy. Over the course of 20 years as a resident of northern Sonoma County, Ketcham founded Ketcham Estate Winery and established himself as a fixture in the local philanthropy scene.

Ketcham began his career in hi-tech, but cashed out of high-tech and turned his passion for collecting vintage Ferraris and other rare sports cars into a business for buying, racing and brokering collector cars. The business, Ketcham Imports, still exists, though Ketcham sold his beloved blue 1972 Lancia Stratos a few years ago.

Ted Johnson, owner of Milestone Motor Cars in Boynton Beach, Florida, who worked with Ketcham on dozens of car deals over the years, said Ketcham was a "true connoisseur," and was known around the world for his attention to detail with record-keeping. "He was a race car historian," Johnson said of his late friend. "He owned (Ferraris). He played with them. He loved them."******