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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 ...".
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.

£100

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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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