Sport of Queens
by Francis, Dick
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper & Row. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1969. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. 247 p. 21 cm. Sound and square binding, in 3/4 green paper-covered boards and black cloth spine. Minor wear to bottom edges. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Dustjacket has a small bit of crimping at head of spine and one corner, with a tiny amount of yellowing along the top edge. Lightly rubbed. Not price clipped. An autobiography of famed British mystery writer Dick Francis, in which he discusses his career as a steeplechase jockey. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 955
- Title
- Sport of Queens
- Author
- Francis, Dick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st American Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Horses
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
Biblio member since 2011
Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...