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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, [1965]. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in white pictorial dust jacket by Frederick Banbery; [6],244pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in Very Good to Near Fine jacket, unclipped; just a trifle soiled on front panel and with mild edgewear to extremities; a trifle faded on spine, but better than usual with red portions retaining good color. The author's fourth book and third novel of suspense, set in the milieu of British horse-racing. Quite attractive copy of a book typically found well-worn. HUBIN, p. 155.
Synopsis
Australian horse breeder Daniel Roke had resisted the exorbitant sum of money offered by a suave Englishman to investigate a scandal involving drugged racehorses. But after another investigator dies mysteriously, Roke agrees to fill his shoes--and learns that men who would give drugs to horses are capable of doing much worse to human beings.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51115
- Title
- For Kicks
- Author
- FRANCIS, Dick
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [1965]
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Mystery, Crime, and Detective Fiction;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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