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Smoke Screen
by Francis, Dick
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0718110390
- ISBN 13
- 9780718110390
- Seller
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Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
London: Michael Joseph, 1972.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/near fine. SIGNED by Francis on the title page. Spine slightly cocked, some soiling to the page edges, stilll a very good copy in a near fine dust jacket (just some very minor edge wear). Now protected in a mylar cover.
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Books Again, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21
- Title
- Smoke Screen
- Author
- Francis, Dick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0718110390
- ISBN 13
- 9780718110390
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1972.
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- Title Page
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- Fine
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- Cocked
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- Spine
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- 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...
- Edges
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