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DRIVING FORCE
by Dick Francis
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0399137769
- ISBN 13
- 9780399137761
- Seller
-
Walcott, Iowa, United States
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About This Item
New York: Putnam, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First Edition with full number line beginning with "1" and $21.95 price on dust jacket. Hardcover with yellow boards, orange cloth binding and gilt letters on spine. Slight shelf wear.Inscription using black marker on half title page shows bold signature. 318pp.
Ex-jockey Freddie Croft breaks a hard, fast rule: Never pick up a hitchhiker. If one crpse is bad for business, what happens next could well be fatal
Ex-jockey Freddie Croft breaks a hard, fast rule: Never pick up a hitchhiker. If one crpse is bad for business, what happens next could well be fatal
Synopsis
New York Times bestselling grand master of crime fiction Jockey Freddie Croft discovers a high-stakes conspiracy that exposes the seedy underside of horse-racing-and faces deadlier odds of survival than in any steeplechase run.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lamplighter Library
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4
- Title
- DRIVING FORCE
- Author
- Dick Francis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0399137769
- ISBN 13
- 9780399137761
- Publisher
- Putnam
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Horseracing,
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- Cloth
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- Half Title
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- Spine
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- Shelf Wear
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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