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10-lb Penalty (Copy 2)
de Francis, Dick
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- VG++/VG++/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0718142454
- ISBN 13
- 9780718142452
- Librería
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
Michael Joseph Ltd, 1997-09-04. First Edition, 1st. Imp.. Hardcover. VG++/VG++/VG. 16.2 x 2.7 x 24.2 cm. Box X03 HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1997 * Publisher: Michael Joseph.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. Rear corners very lightly bumped no rubs, no other visible faults. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing dial of weighing scales. Price clipped. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to top and fore edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 272 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: At nearly eighteen, easy-going young Benedict Juliard has no stronger ambition than to ride in steeplechases as an amateur jockey. His father, George, driven by powerful urges towards a life of public service and politics, asks his only son to enter into a pact that neither of them will commit any act that could destroy the father's growing reputation and career. Ben agrees light-heartedly, but five years later finds himself targeted in a vicious attack mounted by his father's increasingly violent political enemies.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with some minor dust jacket wear and minimal faults reducing it to VG* 0
Sinopsis
A wanna-be jockey accepts a job in his father's campaign for Parliament--and realizes that politics can be the most perilous horse race of all.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 9
- Título
- 10-lb Penalty (Copy 2)
- Autor
- Francis, Dick
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - VG++/VG++/VG
- Edición
- First Edition, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0718142454
- ISBN 13
- 9780718142452
- Editorial
- Michael Joseph Ltd
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1997-09-04
- Páginas
- 272
- Tamaño
- 16.2 x 2.7 x 24.2 cm
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Crime, Thrillers & Mystery;
- X weight
- g
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Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
Sobre Cocksparrow Books
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
