From Saffron Books, Ely, Cambridgeshire., United Kingdom
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About this Item
Light crimping to bottom of jacket spine, signed "Alan & Francis all god wishes D J Taylor 14.vii.11" to the title page. As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all England is heading for Epsom Downs - high life and low life, society beauties and Whitechapel street girls, bookmakers and gypsies, hawkers and acrobats, punters and thieves. Whole families stream along the Surrey back-roads, towards the greatest race of the year. Hopes are high, nerves are taut, hats are tossed in the air - this is Derby Day. For months people have been waiting and plotting for this day. Even in dark November, when the wind whistles through the foggy London courts, the alehouses and gentlemen's clubs echo to the sound of disputed odds. In Belgrave Square old Mr Gresham is baffled by his tigerish daughter Rebecca, whose intentions he cannot fathom. In the clubs of St James' rakish Mr Happerton plays billiards with his crony Captain Raff, while in darkest Lincolnshire sad Mr Davenant broods over his financial embarrassments and waits for his daughter's new governess. Across the channel the veteran burglar Mr Pardew is packing his bags to return, to the consternation of the stalwart detective Captain McTurk. Everywhere money jingles and plans are laid. Uniting them all is the champion horse Tiberius, on whose performance half a dozen destinies depend. In this rich and exuberant novel, rife with the idioms of Victorian England, the mysteries pile high, propelling us towards the day of the great race, and we wait with bated breath as the story gallops to a finish that no one expects. Seller Inventory # 002520
Bibliographic Details
Title: Derby Day - **Signed** - 1st/1st
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Not Price Clipped
Signed: Signed, Inscribed and Dated
Edition: First Edition/First Printing.
Book Type: Book
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