Smokescreen
de Francis, Dick
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Librería
-
Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Michael Joseph, 1972. The intriguing world of horseracing as could only be told by Dick Francis! Fresh attractive book in likewise price clipped dust jacket that is protected in a mylar jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. FIRST EDITION.
Sinopsis
Dick Francis (pictured with his son Felix Francis) was born in South Wales in 1920. He was a young rider of distinction winning awards and trophies at horse shows throughout the United Kingdom. At the outbreak of World War II he joined the Royal Air Force as a pilot, flying fighter and bomber aircraft including the Spitfire and Lancaster. He became one of the most successful postwar steeplechase jockeys, winning more than 350 races and riding for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. After his retirement from the saddle in 1957, he published an autobiography, The Sport of Queens , before going on to write more than forty acclaimed books, including the New York Times bestsellers Even Money and Silks . A three-time Edgar Award winner, he also received the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association’s Cartier Diamond Dagger, was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, and was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2000. He died in February 2010, at age eighty-nine, and remains among the greatest thriller writers of all time.
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Detalles
- Librería
- The Rare Book Shelf
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 000074
- Título
- Smokescreen
- Autor
- Francis, Dick
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Michael Joseph
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1972
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Sobre el vendedor
The Rare Book Shelf
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Herefordshire
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- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
