Lancia and De Virgilio, At the Center

by Geoffrey Goldberg

First edition.  Phoenix, AZ:  David Bull Publishing, 2014  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD+ condition, with a VERY GOOD DJ.

• Black cloth covers are mostly clean, with silver text.  Boards show a little shelf wear.  Lower corners are bumped.  See photos.  
• Spine has silver text and is bright with firm ends.
• Binding is tight. 
• Photo illustrated end papers/ pastedowns show little to no sign of age or wear.
• Illustrations are bright and clear.  
• Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Photo illustrated DJ has light edgewear, including bumps, rubbing, tiny closed tears and chips.  See photos.   
• PS2025.0709

329 pages. 10.75 x 11.5 inches

ISBN:  978-1-935007-25-8

A Very Good Plus copy of this volume dedicated to the overlapping histories of the Lancia car company and automotive engineer and designer Francesco De Virgilio.  Large quarto, richly illustrated with archival photographs.  Glossy illustrated dust jacket. 

In the postwar era Lancia was the most innovative and design-driven automobile company in Italy, if not the world.  Francesco De Virgilio (1911-1995) was one of the company's leading designer-engineers whose quiet drive for excellence reflected the company's goals.  His beautiful technical drawings illustrate that period's tension between traditional artisanal processes and mass production.  De Virgilio worked in the 1940s and 1950s with Gianni Lancia, the founder's son.  He  was responsible for Lancia's famous V6 engine, the first in production, used in their successful and  trendsetting Aurelia.  Having married into the Lancia family, De Virgilio remained an intimate part of the Lancia company into the 1970s.  This is automotive and social history, seen from the inside.  The atmosphere of post-war Italy is magnificently reflected by both the Lancia company's culture and the De Virgilio family.

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