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Buy this book on-line FRANCIS**, DICK: : FLYING FINISH.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]LONDON.PAN,1968. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,12mo wraps,SIGNED,paperback 1st edn.
VG.Slightly cocked.Fore-edges aged as usual/normal for age,with lightly marked wraps with a small water-stain to rear bottom edge of wraps.Pictorial photographic colour front wrap,some currency,a gun,a bottle of aspirin etc, lying on straw.Signed Dick Francis to title-page.Author's fifth novel.
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UK,12mo wraps,SIGNED,32nd imp edn.VG++.
[Originally published by Michael Joseph (UK)1966, in hardback,then PAN (UK)1968 in p/back and now in 32nd imp.] No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,handwritten,blue ink signature - without dedication - to title page.Bright,clean,colour photographic illustrated upper wrap by Colin Thomas (different illus from earlier p/back edns - broken goggles and gilt+black lettering) ; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - and reading creases to spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges heavily toned/aged - as usual/normal; contents bright,tight and clean with inevitable page-edge toning - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.UK,12mo p/back,author SIGNED, 32nd imp edn,5-222pp [paginated] includes 18 chapters plus [unpaginated] half-title,author
SIGNED title page,and no publisher's advert to rear (present in p/b 1st and earlier p/back reprints - see rja377310).
A very nice later issue paperback edition/copy of an uncommon and sought after early Dick Francis title and novel.
Even with an increased initial print run,still a difficult title to find in hardback 1st edn. Uncommon in it's first and second paperback appearance.
Story revolving around the international transport of racehorses and breeding stock, drawing on Dick Francis's R.A.F experiences and his wife Mary's,after she took flying lessons, eventually gaining her pilot's licence,buying her own 'plane,a Piper Cherokee,and both of them flying on a horse transporter to Italy.
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