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Stated first edition. Hardcover. Tan cloth and black boards in price-clipped dust jacket. One-inch open tear at lower corner of dj; rubbing overall and bumping to spine ends. Page edges are lightly spotted. Two marks on each board from tape which has since been removed. Overall, Good only.
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Rob Finn was a bit of a misfit: a struggling young jockey in a family of accomplished musicians, a man in love with a beautiful woman who wouldn't have him -- he suddenly looked like a rider who had lost his nerve. Could it be, though, that the horses were unusually sluggish, and that there was something more sinister attempting to sabotage him...?
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Dick Francis was one of the most successful post-war National Hunt jockeys. The winner of over 350 races, he was champion jockey in 1953/1954 and rode for HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, most famously on Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National. On his retirement from the saddle, he published his autobiography, The Sport of Queens, before going on to write forty-three bestselling novels, a volume of short stories (Field of 13), and the biography of Lester Piggott. During his lifetime Dick Francis received many awards, amongst them the prestigious Crime Writers' Association's Cartier Diamond Dagger for his outstanding contribution to the genre, and three 'best novel' Edgar Allan Poe awards from The Mystery Writers of America. In 1996 he was named by them as Grand Master for a lifetime's achievement. In 1998 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List of 2000. Dick Francis died in February 2010, at the age of eighty-nine, but he remains one of the greatest thriller writers of all time.
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date1964
- ISBN 10 9997410335
- ISBN 13 9789997410337
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages273
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NERVE.
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HARPER & ROW., NY, 1964
ISBN 10: 9997410335
ISBN 13: 9789997410337
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. 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. Seller Inventory # 24506
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