Buy this book on-line FRANCIS**, DICK: : The Sport of Queens: A Champion Jockey's Personal StoryLONDON.PAN BOOKS LTD.,1974. ISBN 0330242253.
UK,12 mo wraps,p/back 1st thus.NFINE.[Originally published by Michael Joseph (UK),1957 in hardback.This edn is the first p/back appearance,and the first p/back revised edn and simultaneous 2nd revised edn.There were several subsequent revised edns - 4 in hardback - 1968, 1974,
1982, and 1988 respectively,and the last being another PAN p/back revised edn with a revised Chapter 13 and a postscript, in 1995.] No owner inscrptn.Bright,crisp, clean,colour pictorial illustrated upper wrap and blue+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edge heavily aged/toned,fore- edge less so and therefore brighter; contents bright,tight and clean with no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - a reading crease to spine/ backstrip from book being partially read. UK,12mo wraps,14-220pp [paginated] includes 13 chapters,8pp of contemporary b/w subject/author photographs,in one block between pp112/13,an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,acknowledgements,contents+ illustrations lists/tables,and 4pp publisher's adverts to rear.
Dick Francis,one of the outstanding thriller writers in this country and winner of the American Edgar Allen Poe Mystery Award,tells the fascinating story
of his career as champion steeplechaser and as jockey for the Queen Mother.
Written with verve,humour and unassumed modesty,his autobiography provides vivid insights into the owners,trainers,jockeys
and horses that make up the thrilling
'sport of queens.'
Following his retirement as a jockey,he became a respected racing journalist and pundit at The Sunday Express and penned this bestselling memoir of his days in the
saddle.Author's first book,his autobiography,which he has subsequently, and frequently revised.Hardback 1sts are difficult to come by and expensive.This paperback 1st edn thus,is also an uncommon
edn.
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