Ferrari is offering up what is likely the most expensive book (at face value) ever published. By any means, The Official Ferrari Opus Enzo Diamante edition is what they’re calling “the most exclusive book in the world.” The book weighs 37kg, is bound in the finest leather (in the colour of your choice) and features a 16 x 12cm 32.3-carat diamond-encrusted silver Prancing Horse studded with approximately 1500 stones (clarity ‘VVS-VS1’, colour is ‘F’)… and it’s strictly limited to one copy per country. So if you want one, you better get on it.
Trying to find that perfect birthday gift for the James Glickenhaus in your life? Then might we suggest “The Official Ferrari Opus,” an 852 page, 82-pound book coming soon to a Ferrari store near you.
The book, which at around 200,000 words is a novella short of half as long as “The Stand,” contains detailed information on every car the gang from Maranello has ever created, whether for road or for track, along with profiles on every racing driver in the company’s history.
If you’re just looking to add a copy to your library and don’t care too much about collectability, you’ll probably be happy with the Classic edition, which is limited to 4,100 copies and costs $4,100; for that price, your copy will be signed by current F1 drivers Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa. If you want something a little more exclusive, though, the Ferrari reps will gladly point you in the direction of the limited-to-500 units Cavallino Rampante edition of the book, which is signed by “Ferrari greats, past and present.” (Basically, whoever was in the office the day your book passed through.) That one will run you $7,000.
Still not tony enough for you? Well, try the Enzo edition on for size. It’s limited to 400 copies, comes with a carbon fiber case and has been signed by every one of Ferrari’s living world champions, who inscribe their John Hancocks on a silver foil sheet. One of those will run you $37,500. If that’s still not fancy enough for your tastes, you can request your Enzo edition be turned into an Enzo Diamante edition, which makes it sound like it comes with a 1990s Mitsubishi to store the book in.
In fact, the Enzo Diamante sticks a Ferrari logo coated in 30 diamonds on the front of the book, and enters you into a competition to win a replica of Michael Schumacher’s F1 car. The diamond-studded book will cost at least $275,000—around the price of a well-equipped 458 Italia. Only one Enzo Diamante edition will be available for each country, though; we say, if you’re serious about getting one, this is as good a time as any to file for Afghanistani citizenship.
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