Search Results: nerve by francis

Pan, 1964. yellow pictorial, black ltrs, yellowed edges, corners and head-heel of spine are nicked & chipped, crease on spine, clean and tight.. Sid Halley had one good hand and anaother made of metal. Five hundred pounds of horse had landed on him, directly ending his career as a brilliant jockey.. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. G++.

NY: Pocket Books, 1975. [1st printing] Dec. 1975; #80142. Photo cover. Small bit off at lower front edge.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good-.

NY: Pocket Books, 1975. [1st printing] Dec. 1975; #80142. Photo cover. Minor creasing and roll; slight wear; top end # stamp.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

Reader's Digest. G+/VG. 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Spring selections. Text is clean/tight however cover hinges are beginning to separate due to bindery glue drying. Free gift wrapping, card and drop shipping. Let us know the occasion and message. ; Vol. 2; 8vo .

New York: Pocket Books, 1975. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Pocket Books 42280-4; an early novel from Francis' best-selling, long-running mystery series with an English horse-racing setting; text is clean, tight, square in pictorial wrappers with minimal surface and edgewear.

Signet Books. Very Good. 1965. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. 12mo; 191 pages .

signet, 1965 first edition . 2607 very good, creases paperback,

Reader's Digest. G+/VG. 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Reader's Digest Condensed books. Volume 2. Text is clean/tight however one side of spine is cracked due to sundrying and repaired with tape. TEG. 'When the Cheering Stopped' is the story of President Woodrow WIlson. 'Nerve' is the story of the steeplechase. Comes with original green slipcase which is in VG condition showing only light usage. Inked ownership. Free gift wrapping, card and drop shipping. Let us know the occasion and message. ; Small 8vo; 575 pages .

London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, & Co.. Author uses three of Charles Darwin's illustrations to prove his thesis. Scattered red pencil marks, primarily in table of contents. Two small tears along back of spine. Dr.'s name and address stamp endppr. xiv, 135 pp. Full page, text illustrations. . Good Plus. Dark Blue Cloth, Gilt Lettered. First Edition. 1887.

New York: Harper & Row, 1964. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -/Very Good. New York: Harper & Row, 1964. An ex-library first printing copy in a nice bright DJ with light wear at the spine ends and a faint sticker shadow. The binding is worn at the spine ends and the bottom corners and has tape stains on the boards. The front endpaper and the title page are stamped and five or six pages near the center of the book have a small round burn.. First American Edition. Very Good -/Very Good. Book.

New York: Harper & Row, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. First American edition. Price of $3.95 intact on dust jacket flap and date 0364 at bottom of flap. Book has a couple of rubs on rear black board and a bump on front corner. Small bookstore sticker at bottom of rear pastedown. Bright dust jacket has some rubs and creases and a 1/2" tear.

New York: Harper & Row, 1964. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Row, [1964]. First American Edition with B-O letter code on copyright page. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in red and white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.95); [6],273pp. Light soil and edge wear to dust jacket, verso rather foxed, else a Very Good copy in a splendidly unfaded dust jacket. The author's second mystery novel in what would be a long tradition of jockey mystery novels, many most likely ghost-written by his wife Mary.

New York: Harper & Row, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First American edition. Slightly cocked spine and foxing on the page edges else very good in a good only dust jacket with foxing, creasing, and shallow chips.

New York: Harper and Row, 1964. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Octavo, 273pp. A fine, crisp copy in the publisher's black boards with beige cloth spine. In a near fine dust jacket, gently wrinkled, but with none of the usual spine fading, and no significant tears. A nice copy of the first American edition of this second effort by the prolific British master of equine crime fiction.

New York: The Armchair Detective Library, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition thus, this is copy 88 of 100 signed by Dick Francis. The story of a struggling young jockey who discovers that his troubling losing streak is caused not by a lack of skill or confidence, but by something far more sinister. This edition includes a new introduction by Mike Lupica. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with a portrait of Francis inset on the front board and decorative gilt stamping. A fine copy, housed in the publisher's slipcase.

New York: Harper and Row, 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First American edition stated. 8vo. Vg in good dj. Cocked, spine ends and front corner bumped, with foxing to all edges, some glue residue on inside rear cover on top edge. Dj exhibits foxing, stained on corner of rear flap, with wear to spine ends, half inch tear on top of front cover and one inch tear on bottom of rear cover. 273pp.

NY: The Armchair Detective Library, 1990. Beautiful gift quality copy! Gilt embossed maroon cloth with inset of Dick Francis illustration on front cover. Number 72 of 100 copies of the limited edition; signed by the author on Limitation page. textblock and binding immaculate and tight in original maroon slip case. 313p.. Signed by Author. First Armchair Library Edition. Gilt Embossed Maroon Cloth. Fine. 8vo - Over 7 3/4" -9 3/4 " Tall. Hard Cover.

Harper & Row, 1964. First edition, first printing. Tiny crimp to upper spine, else fine in near fine, faint soiled dust jacket with a small water spot and closed tear to upper rear panel and a rub mark with some color loss to lower spine panel in mylar cover.. Signed by the author.

NY: HARPER & ROW.. Fine in Good+ dust jacket. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 9997410335 . First American Edition. Fine in good+ . Dust jacket. (Literary agency sticker on front end paper. 1 &1/2"-inch tear at head of front cover. 3/4"-inch tear at base of front cover. 1"-inch tear at head of rear panel of jacket. Small edge tears & traces of rubbing at base of spine on jacket. ) Author's SECOND mystery. .

London: Michael Joseph, [1977]., 1977. First edition. First edition. Signed.by the author on the title page. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. An omnibus edition containing DEAD CERT, NERVE and FOR KICKS. In DEAD CERT, jockey Alan York anticipated losing the race to Bill Davidson and his great racehorse Admiral, but this time York was destined to win. Before Admiral jumped the final fence, Bill Davidson was dead. Alan knew that horse-racing is a dangerous sport, horses fall and jockeys get hurt, but Bill also realized that this was no accident. NERVE is the story of a struggling young jockey -- a misfit in a family of accomplished musicians -- who discovers that his losing streak is not the result of a lack of talent or lack of nerve, but by something much more sinister. Finally, in FOR KICKS Daniel Roke leaves his Australian stud farm to help look into an English horse-doping scandal. Soon enough Daniel learns that men who will give drugs to horses will do much worse to people!