CAVALLINO MAGAZINE was founded in 1978 by Ferrari historian Stanley Nowak, Cavallino became the preeminent publication devoted exclusively to Ferrari automobiles, history, competition, restoration, and collecting. For more than four decades, the magazine documented the Ferrari marque with a level of detail rarely found elsewhere, featuring factory records, chassis-specific research, concours coverage, race reports, technical articles, market commentary, and photography from many of the world’s leading automotive journalists and historians. Long regarded as required reading among Ferrari enthusiasts, restorers, judges, and collectors, Cavallino helped shape the Ferrari collector community while building an international readership spanning North America, Europe, Asia, and beyond. Individual early issues have become collectible in their own right, while complete runs are seldom offered for sale, making comprehensive collections such as this one an exceptional reference library and a significant piece of Ferrari enthusiast history.
THIS Collection of magazines began with the first issue in September of 1978 and spanned over four decades closing with issue 247 in March of 2022. All of the magazines are in good condition, although some better than others. Many were kept in their official red Cavallino slipcases, but with 16 original slipcases included in the collection, each holding approximately 12 issues, a few more slipcases would need to be acquired to keep them all. Of the 247 magazines issued in that 522-month period, 241 are for sale in this collection. Issues 32, 109, 169, 203, 227, and 245 are not included. The six missing issues can be acquired directly from Cavallino as reprints, but have been left out of this collection to retain originality. All of the examples in this collection are first-edition prints except for one, a duplicate copy of issue number 33 that was reprinted later and acquired for reasons unknown at this time. It should be noted that issues 19, 22, 150, 178-179, 206-208, 212-214, 221-226, 228-244, 246, and 247 were found outside of their slipcases and are in slightly less perfect condition than the rest of the collection.
Complete Cavallino collections are rarely assembled and even more rarely preserved with their original inserts intact. Beyond the magazines themselves, the included postcards, event invitations, subscription materials, and archival ephemera provide a unique snapshot of the evolution of the Ferrari collector community over nearly five decades, creating a resource that is as much an archive as it is a magazine collection.
