Haining Peter Dick Francis (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of horse racing short stories by various authors. Earlier owners' name plate on the first glued end page. No price on the dustjacket indicating it was printed in the UK but for sale in Canada. In near fine / near fine condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. (xviii) 487 pp. Glossy pictorial boards matching the dustjacket. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. This anthology contains: The Protection Racket by Dick Francis; Won By a Neck by Leslie Charteris; The Crackler by Agatha Christie; Something Short of Murder by Henry Slesar; Silver Blaze by Arthur Conan Doyle; My Old Man by Ernest Hemingway; Nobbling the Favourite by Nat Gould; Under Starters Orders by John Masefield; A Racing Swindle by Thomas Gaspey; The American Invasion by Frank Johnson; A Derby Horse by Michael Innes; The Horse that Died for Shame by Peter Tremayne (Peter Berresford Ellis); Murder on the Race Course by Julian Symons; The Body in the Horsebox by John Francome; Calling the Tune by Steve Donoghue; To Win a Race by Alfred Watson; Dead Cert by Leon Breaker; Nat Wedgewood Trapped by Jack Fairfax-Blakeborough; The Phantom Jockey by Bat Masters; Thoroughbred by Max Brand; Saratoga in August by Hugh Pentecost; The Photographer and the Jockey by James Holding; Ellen Keegan's Revenge by Mary Ryan; Straight from the Horse's Mouth by Edgar Wallace; A Story Goes With It by Damon Runyon; Had a Horse by John Galsworthy; Morning in the High Street by Barre Lyndon; Born Gambler by Thomas Walsh; The Later Edition by Victor Bridges;Two and a Half Per Cent by Mark Daniel; and En Famille by Ed Gorman. Size: 8vo. Book.…