THE SPORT OF QUEENS
FRANCIS, DICK
ISBN 10: 1562870483 ISBN 13: 9781562870485
Published by OTTO PENZLER BOOKS 1982, 1993
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Fine in Fine dj, US First Edition, First Printing Hardcover First Edition of the Otto Penzler 1993 edition with a signed bookplate inscribed Mike Hi SIGNED Bubble wrapped and shipped in a box. Seller Inventory # 96051
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The author recounts his career as a steeplechase jockey in Great Britain, and shares his opinions of the sport
About the Author:
Dick Francis was one of the most successful post-war National Hunt jockeys. The winner of over 350 races, he was champion jockey in 1953/1954 and rode for HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, most famously on Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National. On his retirement from the saddle, he published his autobiography, The Sport of Queens, before going on to write forty-three bestselling novels, a volume of short stories (Field of 13), and the biography of Lester Piggott.
During his lifetime Dick Francis received many awards, amongst them the prestigious Crime Writers' Association's Cartier Diamond Dagger for his outstanding contribution to the genre, and three 'best novel' Edgar Allan Poe awards from The Mystery Writers of America. In 1996 he was named by them as Grand Master for a lifetime's achievement. In 1998 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List of 2000.
Dick Francis died in February 2010, at the age of eighty-nine, but he remains one of the greatest thriller writers of all time.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: THE SPORT OF QUEENS
Publisher: OTTO PENZLER BOOKS 1982
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
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The Sport of Queens: The Autobiography of Dick Francis (Inscribed by the author)
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Otto Penzler Books, New York, 1993
ISBN 10: 1562870483
ISBN 13: 9781562870485
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First edition. First edition, first printing. INSCRIBED ON THE HALF-TITLE PAGE, "February '95/ ______ & _____/ Very best wishes/ Dick Francis" and dated February '95. Fine, fresh apparently unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. 254 pp. with index. A title in the publisher's Armchair Detective Library series. The autobiography of Dick Francis who went from champion jockey in England to one of the world's best selling authors, Dick Francis (1920-2010). He transitioned to mystery writing at age forty and authored over 40 international best sellers, most of which centered on the world of horse racing. Seller Inventory # E30913
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