Nigel Mansell by Nigel Mansell OBE & James Allen

Nigel Mansell (Ted Smart Edition in Illustrated Dust Jacket)

The Formula One and IndyCar Champion's Own Account of His Racing Career, Written with James Allen

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Nigel Mansell: My Autobiography
• Authors: Nigel Mansell OBE & James Allen
• Publisher: Ted Smart (first published by Collins Willow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers), London
• Publication Date: 1996
• ISBN-13: 9780583323062
• ISBN-10: 0583323065
• Edition Details: Ted Smart edition, 1996, first published in 1995 by Collins Willow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers. Reprinted 1995 (four times) as stated on the copyright page.
• Binding: Publisher's printed pictorial hardcover boards, with a dust jacket.
• Physical Format: Octavo hardcover with colour photographic plates. No maps.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
• Exterior / Boards: The dark boards carry a printed photographic design matching the jacket. They are clean, with only slight speckling or dust marks visible on the dark surface.
• Interior: The text pages are clean and bright, with no foxing or markings. The hinge and endpaper are clean, with a few tiny specks. The book opens normally. Colour photographic plates are included.
• The Dust Jacket: Present, in a protective archival-type plastic cover. The glossy jacket carries a portrait of Mansell on the front and a family photograph on the back. It is clean and bright, with slight specks to the flap. A pink round price sticker is on the jacket spine near the foot.

Synopsis & Historical Value

Nigel Mansell: My Autobiography is the racing driver's own account of his career, written with the motoring journalist James Allen. It follows him from his early days in junior single-seaters through his years in Formula One, including his time at Lotus and Williams, and on to his IndyCar season in America.

Mansell won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1992 with Williams and the PPG IndyCar World Series in 1993. In 1992 he set new single-season records for wins and pole positions. The book also touches on his family and life away from the circuit, and its colour plates include images from his racing and personal life.

This is the Ted Smart edition of 1996, issued after the original Collins Willow publication of 1995. It is a clean, presentable copy in its illustrated dust jacket, and suits followers of British motorsport and collectors of Formula One biography.

Author Profile: James Allen

James Allen is a British journalist and former television commentator, born in Liverpool in 1966. He began in motorsport in the late 1980s, working as a press officer with Brabham and Scuderia Italia, and later became ITV's lead Formula One commentator until 2008.

His first book was this ghost-written autobiography of Nigel Mansell, published by HarperCollins. He has since written two books on Michael Schumacher, Quest for Redemption (also published as Driven to Extremes) and The Edge of Greatness, as well as Ferrari: From Inside and Outside, published in 2023.

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