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Smokescreen [Signed Bookplate Laid-in]
de FRANCIS, Dick
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Harper and Row, 1975. First Edition. First US Printing. Signed Bookplate Laid-in; Octavo (21cm).; black cloth spine over paper covered boards; stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 201pp. Slight lean; faint soiling to front cover; lightly bumped along bottom edge, else Near Fine; dustjacket is price-clipped; lightly rubbed, strip of toning and pencil notations to verso of jacket. VG+.
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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- Librería
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 51945
- Título
- Smokescreen [Signed Bookplate Laid-in]
- Autor
- FRANCIS, Dick
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Harper and Row
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1975
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Modern Fiction; Mystery, Crime, and Detective Fiction;
Términos de venta
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Sobre el vendedor
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
Winchester, Virginia
Sobre Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
