First edition. Octavo, pp xi, 129. Bound in blue cloth covered hard boards, gilt lettering to the spine, and in the original price-clipped dust jacket. With 16 pages of b/w photographs at centre. SIGNED and inscribed by the author to the title page: “To Jock | Best Wishes | Andrew B. Cowan” and further signed by his wife, “Linda Cowan 14.5.17” to the bottom of the title page. The book has also been signed by Ian Scott-Watson to the half title. Cowan and Scott-Watson were friends, together with Jim Clark, first meeting through the Ednam Young Farmers Club in the mid 1950’s. This book is about the inaugural London-Sydney Marathon, which Cowan and his two co-drivers won in a Hillman Hunter in 1968.


Near Fine book in VG+ jacket. A scarce book to find signed by the author.