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10-lb Penalty (Copy 2)
by Francis, Dick
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG++/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0718142454
- ISBN 13
- 9780718142452
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
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
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9
- Title
- 10-lb Penalty (Copy 2)
- Author
- Francis, Dick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG++/VG
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0718142454
- ISBN 13
- 9780718142452
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1997-09-04
- Pages
- 272
- Size
- 16.2 x 2.7 x 24.2 cm
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime, Thrillers & Mystery;
- X weight
- g
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- Tail
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