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London : Michael Joseph, (1965). First edition. Inscribed, signed and dated by Dick Francis in the year of publication. The first Sid Halley novel – steeple-chase jockey turned sleuth investigates the cunningly contrived decline of a race-course.
Post 8vo (21cm). (256)pp. Original brown boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; a few tiny marks, but a very good copy in the Broom Lynne dust-jacket – bright, fresh and very good indeed, with only minuscule wear at foot and a couple of marks to inner flaps. A very attractive copy.

£250

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London : Michael Joseph, (1969). First edition. “Yesterday I lost my licence ...” – jockey Kelly Hughes “sets out to find out who framed him. But the nearer he gets to the truth, the more violent is the retaliation” (Liverpool Echo, 6th November 1969).
Post 8vo (21cm). 224pp. Original red boards, blocked and lettered across spine in gilt; very faint spine crease, but a very good copy in the original Carl Bernard dust-jacket – a photographic design lettered in white and red – just lightly worn and slightly nicked. With the December 1969 ownership inscription of Suzanne Eastmease and the label of the Sandon Saddlery Company of Buntingford.

£75

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London : Michael Joseph, (1971). First edition. Abduction and a famous Newmarket stables under threat — “Quite perfect little thriller about a rich loon who wants his amateur rider son to win the Derby. The doting parent will stop at nothing — not even at breaking the horses’ legs — to get his son the winning post. The narrative comes across in a nice horsey, heady style” (Belfast Telegraph, 18th June 1973).
Post 8vo (21cm). (216)pp. Endpaper maps. Original black boards, blocked and lettered on spine in gilt; a few slight marks, but a very good copy in the Beverly le Barrow dust-jacket — price-clipped, lightly marked, and just slightly worn at extremities.

£40

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London : Michael Joseph, (1973). First edition. British jockey disappears in Norway.
Post 8vo (21cm). 224pp. Original pinkish grey boards, ruled, blocked and lettered on spine in gilt; a very good copy in the original Beverly le Barrow dust-jacket – a near monochrome photographic design, with the principal lettering in yellow and white – just faintly creased and with slight sticker residue on lower panel. Contemporary ownership inscription – Gandage – on front free endpaper and (in pencil) on last leaf. Foyle’s sticker on front paste-down.

£25

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London : Michael Joseph, (1976). First edition. Art, racing, wine, women, and murder in Australia and New Zealand.
Post 8vo (21cm). (252),[iv]pp. Map. Original black boards, blocked and lettered on spine in gilt; very mild dusting to edges, but otherwise a very good clean and sound copy in the original photographic Chris Yates dust-jacket, the principal lettering in white on black.

£15

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London : Michael Joseph, (1979). First edition. The second novel to feature Sid Halley, jockey turned private eye – the winner of two major crime-writing awards.
Demy 8vo (23cm). (254),[ii]pp. Original black boards, lettered across spine in silver; slight spine crease; a few faint marks, but a very good copy in the dust-jacket – also very good.

£15

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London : Michael Joseph, (1986). First edition. Biography of the Long Fellow.
Medium 8vo (25cm). [2],(xii),338pp. Original black boards, blocked and lettered in silver; very good in the dust-jacket – also very good.

£20

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London : Michael Joseph, (1987). First edition. Murder of a fifth wife.
Medium 8vo (25cm). [viii],(278),[ii]pp. Original black boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; mild tanning of edges, but a very good copy in the Chris Yates dust-jacket – also very good.

£20

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London : Michael Joseph, (1990). First edition. "I accepted a commission that had been turned down by four other writers, but I was hungry at the time ...".
Medium 8vo (25cm). [vi],(278),[iv]pp. Original black boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; a very good copy in the dust-jacket – also very good.

£20

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London : Michael Joseph, (1993). First edition. Stratton Park racecourse, privately owned, faces ruin in the hands of a squabbling family.
Medium 8vo (25cm). [vi],(278),[iv]pp. Original red boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; a very good copy in the John Knights dust-jacket – also very good.

£20

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London : Michael Joseph, (1994). First edition. Secrets of the confessional.
Medium 8vo (25cm). [vi],(282)pp. Original black boards, blocked and lettered in silver; a very good copy in the dust-jacket – also very good.

£20

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London : Michael Joseph, (1995). First edition. Sid Halley, champion jockey turned investigator, returns.
Medium 8vo (25cm). [vi],(280),[ii]pp. Original black boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; very good in the dust-jacket – also very good.

£20

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London : Michael Joseph, (1998). First edition. A collection of thirteen short stories.
Medium 8vo (25cm). (x),(274),[iv]pp. Original brown boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; very good indeed in the dust-jacket – also very good indeed.

£20

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London : Michael Joseph, (1999). First edition. The catastrophic power of a giant hurricane.
Medium 8vo (25cm). [vi],(282)pp. Original black boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; very good indeed in the dust-jacket – also very good indeed.

£20

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