Norris, I am presuming this delightful thing is in French? Sorry to be wo rse than broke just now and refusing your kind offer. I like to hear the ne ws of it even tho i can't get one... not until i'm a bit more flush. Devon Warner san francisco, USA
> From: Norris Lockley <norris.lockley@yahoo.com>
\r?\n> Subject: [CR]Le Monde Du Cyclisme
\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 12:38 PM
\r?\n> Doing the rounds, this afternoon, of shops in Bourges where
\r?\n> I might pick
\r?\n> up a few bargain bikes, I dropped by into Troc de
\r?\n> l"ile.
\r?\n> This is one of at least 200 similar shops in France where
\r?\n> you can take in a
\r?\n> nything you wish to sell..and where you can often find most
\r?\n> of the things y
\r?\n> ou wish to buy..second-hand. They are Aladdin's Caves
\r?\n> full of wonderful del
\r?\n> ights.
\r?\n> In addition to a couple of lightweight bikes made by local
\r?\n> frame-builders I
\r?\n> came across a whole section of books for sale...all new
\r?\n> but to clear from
\r?\n> the publishers.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> The range was impressive and the discoubnts more so..The
\r?\n> sepia-coloured cov
\r?\n> er photograph showing a grinning Ferdie Kubler
\r?\n> out-sprinting a dis-spirited
\r?\n> Gino Bartali grasped my attention. At first I misread its
\r?\n> title as Miroir
\r?\n> de Cyclisme..then did a retake and made it out correctly as
\r?\n> "Le Monde du Cy
\r?\n> clisme".
\r?\n> The author is Jean-Paul Ollivier, the historian of the Tour
\r?\n> de France when
\r?\n> it goes out live on French TV...and learned author of so
\r?\n> many first rate bo
\r?\n> oks on French cycling. The book was first published in
\r?\n> 2003, and in its 360
\r?\n> + pages it carries over 500 photographs. The photos and
\r?\n> text describe in gr
\r?\n> eat detail some of the great events and cyclists of the
\r?\n> period 1869 to 2003
\r?\n> .. Ollivier was even generous enough to permit a couple of
\r?\n> photos of a very
\r?\n> miserable and disgruntled-looking Lance Armstrong to be
\r?\n> included..but there
\r?\n> were much better ones of Greg Lemond.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> The book's cover had a sticket showing that the list
\r?\n> price of 60 euros had
\r?\n> been discounted to the bargain price of 32 euros...there
\r?\n> were six copies on
\r?\n> the shelf...now there are five as I could not leave the
\r?\n> shop empty-handed
\r?\n> of such a treasure.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I do not know whether this Paris-produced book was ever
\r?\n> distributed in the
\r?\n> States..but if it wasn't, it should have been. The
\r?\n> point of this email is n
\r?\n> ot to revel in my good luck but to ask CR Listers if anyone
\r?\n> would like me t
\r?\n> o purchase one for them. The books weigh in at 1.9kgs...so
\r?\n> it is all good p
\r?\n> aper and card. I return to Settle UK later this week and
\r?\n> would be more than
\r?\n> happy to purchase copies and to send them off to you when
\r?\n> I get home...to
\r?\n> arrive.maybe just in time for Christmas.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I make to be just after noon in Seattle..I shall be back at
\r?\n> this computer s
\r?\n> ometime tomorrow..but not too late on as I have bikes to
\r?\n> pack...say 15 hour
\r?\n> s from now at the latest...to stake your claim
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Norris Lockley..Sancerre France