Velo

First Edition. Fine hardback copy with original dust jacket. Illustrated with black & white by Jo Burt. Published by Bruce Sandell, London, 2012. Black cloths boards with silver lettering to spine.

Book Dimensions: 22 x 18 cm & Number of Pages: 157.

Condition
Fine Copy with fine dust jacket. Well bound. Bright and clean drawings and text. Boards in excellent shape (Please see the pictures).

“What are you looking for when you buy a cycling book? For the most part, cycling books deliver facts, some more coldly than others. By and large they tend to be somewhat utilitarian, you read them for the stories they tell, more so than for the way the story is told. A few authors do stand above the crowd and serve up books that are worth reading for the way the story is told as much as the story itself. Paul Fournel is very much of this later order, that rare breed: a cycling author who serves up something you can actually enjoy reading. That something isn’t a how-to manual or techs-mechs porn. It isn’t about heroes or villains, biography or autobiography. It isn’t about roads or races. It’s neither novel nor poem. What it is is Velo and the story it tells is a mix of all the things that it isn’t “.