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Come To Grief
by Francis, Dick
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG++/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0718137531
- ISBN 13
- 9780718137533
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, ?AUTHOR SIGNED,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. (Stated)* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1995* Publisher: Michael Joseph.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. Very slight bump to top rear corner, no rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing horseshoes and flames, white and gold titles to face and to spine. Small price clipping, showing shelf price of $29.99. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top edges and to head of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. AUTHOR SIGNED & DEDICATED to half title, ?Hi Diane! Dick Francis. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to top-edge, otherwise no other visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 279 pp. text. iv pp., blank pages at rear.* Description: In this, his third adventure, Sid Halley is still in his mid-thirties, still troubled, courageous and unwilling to admit defeat. He uncovers a crime by a friend whom he - and everyone else - has held in affection. It is the morning of the friend?s trial and Sid is due to be called as a witness.* A NEAR VG+ Author Signed copy of the 1st/1st. with some minor faults in a VG protected dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 706
- Title
- Come To Grief
- Author
- Francis, Dick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG++/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0718137531
- ISBN 13
- 9780718137533
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 288
- Date Published
- 1995-09-04
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime, Thrillers & Mystery;
- Size
- 15.2 x 2.8 x 23.6 cm
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- VG
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- Shelf Wear
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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