New Jaguar XK140 book – expressions of interest sought
Greetings to all classic Jaguar lovers!
This email is to ask you whether you may be interested in acquiring our next book, “The Jaguar XK140 in the Southern Hemisphere”. The book is our biggest and best, the writing has been completed, and it is in the final design etc stages before it goes to the printer. We expect it to be available later in 2022, but we are not yet accepting orders.
So, if you can advise us of your interest, a simple “yes” will do in a reply. This is of course on a totally “no obligation” basis.
Some more details are set out below.
- The book will be of the same page size etc as previous books, The Jaguar XK in Australia, The Forerunners of Jaguar and The Jaguar XK120 in the Southern Hemisphere. It will happily sit our your bookshelf with those tomes!
- It will be one of the largest ever Jaguar history books, at some 528 pages, more than 360,000 words/figures, and more than 1,200 photographs*.* Bigger even than the XK120 book.
- It deals with the individual car histories of nearly 500 XK140s. Areas dealt with are Australia, New Zealand, South America, all of Asia, all of Africa, and the Middle East: every XK140 known to us to have ever been in those parts of the world. It is the result of many thousands of hours of research over decades.
- It also contains detailed sections on the export of XKs generally and XK enthusiasts in each area.
- Special slip case with XK140 bonnet badge copies will be available limited to 50.
- It is intended to number books up to 1,000 (we may be able to meet specific requests to match car chassis numbers) although probably only 500 copies will be printed.
Examples of what are included are:
- XK140 OTS cars in rhd – histories of 26 cars of the 73 built
- XK140s sold new in or later in the USA – 184 cars
- XK140s sold new in or later in the UK – 109 cars
- XK140s sold new in or later in Europe – 49 cars
- More than 900 registration plates indexed
It will be the best of the series referred to above – in terms of depth of research (e.g. longer car histories, some features on early owners), design and layout. See reviews of earlier books at www.jtpublications.com.au/reviews. The XK120 book is still available and may be ordered at www.jtpublications.com.au/orders/. It has been quoted by major auction houses and dealers as an authority on provenance.
The proposed price is A$375 inclusive of postage and packing anywhere in the world – the same as the XK120 book, despite inflation of some 25% since that book came out and printing costs up by an estimated 50%. Approx equivalent now of about US$270 / £190 Stg / Euro 235. We expect that around half of sales will be to buyers outside Australia.
John Elmgreen
Jaguar XK Motoring Historian
Sydney, Australia
Inquiries can be made to tmcgrath@bigpond.com
see also
(1) The Jaguar XK in Australia | Facebook
(1) Jaguar Archives | Facebook
