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KNOCKDOWN
by Francis, Dick
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good-Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060113391
- ISBN 13
- 9780060113391
- Seller
-
Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
NY: Harper & Row, 1975. First U.S. edition, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Near Fine in fine dust jacket, light fade to jacket spine, lightly rubbed and soiled, not price clipped, $6.95 intact, in protective mylar cover. Steeplechase jockeys, like all other professional sportsmen, have to find a second career for themselves as the years go by. Jonah Dereham, retiring from the saddle at thirty-two, chooses to become a bloodstock agent and spends his life travelling round racehorse sales, finding and bidding for the sort of horse each of his clients wants. Jonah wants only to mind his own business, but several disturbing incidents force him to realise that someone is out to ruin him, and to survive he has to find the answers. A couple of bully boys begin to put the boot in, and Jonah finds himself progressively forced to fight for the survival of his brother who hits the bottle; helped by a blonde in an orange MGB, he presses onward to a rough conclusion. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good-Very Good. Book.
Synopsis
For a generous commission, ex-prize-winning jockey Jonah Dereham reluctantly agrees to bid on a young steeplechaser on behalf of a wealthy American woman. But his life is thrust into danger immediately following the auction, when he receives a blow to the head by two thugs demanding ownership of the horse. Unfortunately, that’s just the beginning—and now Jonah must figure out the high-stakes game being played…before he becomes its next casualty.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Murder By The Book
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012271
- Title
- KNOCKDOWN
- Author
- Francis, Dick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good-Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060113391
- ISBN 13
- 9780060113391
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- MYSTERY AND CRIME, HORSES, ENGLAND
- Bookseller catalogs
- Horses/Horse Racing;
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About the Seller
Murder By The Book
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Warwick, Rhode Island
About Murder By The Book
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- First Edition
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- Soiled
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- Fine
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- Price Clipped
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
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