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Whip Hand
by Francis, Dick
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0718118456
- ISBN 13
- 9780718118457
- Seller
-
melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Michael Joseph, London, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Black coloured boards with silver coloured titles to the backstrip. Photographic dustwrapper, showing Mike Gwilym, star of Yorkshire Television's The Racing Game, with white and gray coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of the author on the back dustwrapper panel. Sequel to the authors' book " Odds Against ". Sid Halley, private investigator for the racing world, is now overworked and stretched too beyond his limits for all work coming his way. Bumping and a little rubbing to the head and to the heel of the backstrip and rubbing to the book corners. Marks to the book panels. Browning and foxing to the text block edges. Offset tanning and marking to the endpapers. Bumping and creasing, quite noticeable to the top rear dustwrapper panel, and lighter to the other dustwrapper edges. Marking and rubbing of the laminate. On the front dustwrapper panel is a sticker with the words " Winner Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award for Fiction ". Rubbing along the fold over creases. This is the first UK edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VI, 256 pages, last three pages blank.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; Horseracing; Fiction -- Crime; ISBN: 0718118456. ISBN/EAN: 9780718118457. Inventory No: 0106075. . 9780718118457
Synopsis
Whip Hand is a crime novel by Dick Francis, the second novel in the Sid Halley series. The novel received Gold Dagger Award in 1979.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0106075
- Title
- Whip Hand
- Author
- Francis, Dick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0718118456
- ISBN 13
- 9780718118457
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Fiction -- Crime -- Horseracing, British Crime Fiction; Horseracing; Fiction -- Crime; Unbranded ISBN: 0718118456 EAN: 9780718118457 Francis, Dick Whip Hand
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...