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Francis, Dick. Blood Sport. Harper & Row, New York, 1967.
Price: US$2.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG/VG-. 241 pp. First edition. DJ age-darkened and lightly soiled with creases at one corner and spine. Red lettering on spine considerably faded. Page edges sun-darkened. Front flap has "99" in ball-point ink. Pages 11 and 13 have edge creases wh ere edge of page was folded upward. Rear free end paper creased at corner.
Seller: Books to Die For, The Woodlands, TX, U.S.A.
Dick Francis.. Blood Sport.. Harper & Row,, 1967.
Price: US$4.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Blood Sport. Dick Francis. Harper & Row, 1967, FIRST ED. 241p, xlib HARD COVER WITH DUST JACKET, WITH USUAL X-LIB MARKS/STAMPS/CARD POCKET--4.00
Seller: TotalitarianMedia, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Dick Francis. Blood Sport. Harper & Row January 1967, 1967.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Description: Dust jacket has shelf wear. Dust jacket is protected by mylar Name of previous owner inside cover.
Seller: R Bookmark, Youngtown, AZ, U.S.A.
Dick Francis. Blood Sport: A Harper Novel of Suspense.. Harper & Row January 1967, 1967.
Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pages and DJ yellowed with age especially spine and top edge; DJ has some wear & faint scratches
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. BLOOD SPORT. A Harper Novel of Suspense.. Harper & Row, New York, 1967., 1967.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, hardcover, writing on endpaper saying "good" with date, else fine in orange boards with black embossed horse on cover, in VG white price-clipped dj. 241 deckled pages and notes on author. Book Club edition. The author's fifth book, a suspense novel in which a British civil service worker accidentally becomes embroiled in a hunt for one of the world's great throroughhbred stallions, hijacked somewhere between JFK and a Kentucky stud farm.
Seller: Virginia Martin, aka bookwitch, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Blood Sport. Harper & Row, 1967.
Price: US$12.60 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Stated First U.S. Edition . Very slightly cocked. Dust jacket slightly tanned at edges. tight, clean, unmarked. Remarkable condition for its age.
Seller: Timshala Books, Olathe, KS, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Blood Sport. Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, 1967.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dust jacket in brodart.
Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Blood Sport. Harper & Row, NY, 1967.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Book NEAR FINE evidence of erasure on half title; dj NEAR FINE spine sunned.
Seller: Barrister, Inc., Davie, FL, U.S.A.
FRANCIS, Dick.. BLOOD SPORT.. Harper,, 1967.
Price: US$17.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Ex lending library copy. FIRST EDITION (American) in dust jacket. The library marks are very unobtrusive: mild glue residue on FFEP; small rubber stamp on one of rear pages. The dust jacket is sunned and has minor wear to the edges. The author's sixth mystery.
Seller: Monroe Stahr Books, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Dick Francis. Blood Sport. Harper & Row, 1967.
Price: US$19.06 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Slight signs of age or use to hardcover and pages, DJ is sunned on spine and has some edgeware. 241 pages,
Seller: Chequered Past, Jacksonville Beach, FL, U.S.A.
FRANCIS, DICK.. BLOOD SPORT.. Harper & Row, New York, 1967., 1967.
Price: US$19.82 + shipping
Description: 241 pp, decorated end-papers, previous owner's details on half-title, d/j spine faded, else very good copy in like, illustrated d/j. . First U.S. edition.
Seller: Camberwell Books & Collectibles Pty Ltd, HAWTHORN EAST, VIC, Australia
Dick Francis. Blood Sport. Harper & Row, New York, 1967.
Price: US$27.00 + shipping
Description: First printing of the first American edition (stated). Very good plus with small light stained area to the FFEP (glue residue?) in very good plus to near fine dust jacket that has a small area of wrinkle damage to the bottom of the front panel. As with most Francis myseries, a horse racing setting.
Seller: J. F. Whyland Books, Jeffersonville, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$27.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good with very good, price clipped dust jacket in a plastic sleeve. Four tape stains and a lot of light spotting on boards. Large glue stain on front fly leaf. Some wrinkling to dust jacket laminate. Small chip at bottom front corner of dust jacket.
Seller: Jerry Merkel, XENIA, OH, U.S.A.
Dick Francis. Blood Sport. Harper & Row, New York, 1967.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated First U.S. Edition. Very good book in like jacket, with fading to spine lettering. DJ not clipped, with original $4.95 price on the front flap. No signatures or marks to book.
Seller: Graver & Pen Rare Books, Midland, MI, U.S.A.
Dick Francis. Blood Sport. Harper & Row, 1967.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In looking at this book, I am thinking it is about as good as an ex-library copy can be. The dust jacket is near fine, no chips, rubs, or tears. The only mark is a faint bit of stain on the front flap. The text is solid and square. The only real library mark is a bit of staing on the back free end paper. (see photo). Shelf wear on corners. A collectible book.
Seller: Prairie Home Books, Crosby, ND, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Blood Sport A Harper Novel of Suspense. Harper & Row, New York, 1967.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tight square book with clean bright text, unmarked but for a red margin checkmark to two pages; in moderately rubbed dut jacket with 2 cm and 3cm tears from base of spine. Stated first US edition, with 4.95 to front flap. ; 241 pages
Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
Francis, Dick. Blood Sport. Harper & Row, New York, 1967.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Minor mark on half title page. Otherwise good condition. Stated first U.S. edition. Dust jacket with original $4.95 price on flap. Lettering on spine faded, else very good jacket.
Seller: Graver & Pen Rare Books, Midland, MI, U.S.A.
Francis Dick. Blood Sport :. NY Harper & Row.1967 Stated first US edition., 1967.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: cloth hard cover.8vo 241 PP near fine copy in dear fine Dustwrapper price present .
Seller: The Compulsive Collector, New York NY, NY, U.S.A.
Francis , Dick.. Blood Sport.. Harper Bros., 1967.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing, NY,1967. A very good book in the original cloth binding. Clean with contents excellent. In a near fine jacket with very slight fade at the spinie. Not price clipped.
Seller: Somewhere In Time Books, St. James, NY, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Blood Sport - 1st US Edition/1st Printing. Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover with DJ, Stated First Edition 1967 Harper & Row 241 pages. Near Fine, in a VG DJ. Just a hint of shelf/edge wear to black cloth spine with red foil titles over terra cotta cloth boards - corners sharp. Minor shelf/edge wear, dust soiling and edge-toning to original unclipped DJ - now in mylar. Spine titles of DJ are lightly faded and there is a some edge-toning to the top edges of the front panel and DJ flaps. Price sticker from Hudson's on front panel. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and unmarked. Distinctive harper patterned endpapers. deckled edges. Finalist for the 1969 Edgar Award for Best Novel. Richard Stanley Francis CBE FRSL (31 October 1920 ? 14 February 2010) was a British crime writer, and former steeplechase jockey, whose novels centre on horse racing in England. Handsome vintage First Edition in DJ. LOC SSE-2
Seller: Eyebrowse Books, MWABA, Dearborn, MI, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Blood Sport. NY: Harper & Row, 1967.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine dj (slight fading to dj spinal lettering as is common with this title). First Edition, First Printing. Author's fifth mystery.
Seller: Peter Lenz Bookseller, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Dick Francis. Blood Sport. Harper & Row, 1967.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardbound in dust jacket. Signed by Dick Francis on half title page. 1st US edition. Minor toning to dust jacket, otherwise very good.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. BLOOD SPORT. N.Y. Harper & Row 1967., 1967.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: "FIRST U.S. EDITION" stated stamp on half-title page, else VERY GOOD+ in NEAR FINE dust jacket. 1st US edition.
Seller: Pettler & Lieberman, Booksellers, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. BLOOD SPORT. Harper & Row, Publishers [1967], New York and Evanston, 1967.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth backed boards. Edgar award nominee. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 265-66. Fine in a near fine price clipped dust jacket with some light dust soiling to white background. (8139)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Blood Sport. Harper & Row, New York, 1967.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: D-j chipped and lightly worn. Two small scratches on top edge. Light wear on bottom of rear board.
Seller: Encanto Books, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. BLOOD SPORT. Harper & Row, 1967.
Price: US$81.20 + shipping
Description: BLOOD SPORT, Harper & Row, 1967, first American edition, near fine in like color pictoral dust-wrapper.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Dick Francis. Blood Sport. Harper & Row, 1967.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine copy In Like Price Clipped Jacket. First Edition Stated. Attractive Book Plate Excellent Fresh Copy Of an Early Francis Book.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
FRANCIS, Dick.. Blood sport.. Harper & Row, [1967]., New York:, 1967.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. [6], 241, [5] pp. Half-blk cloth over brick-red boards, w/ d.j. (slght creasng to laminate on frnt cvr, slght shlfwr), NF/VG, w/ bkplate of Luella R. Pollock. First edition.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
FRANCIS, Dick.. Blood Sport.. NY: Harper & Row, [1967]., 1967.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Hardbound in dust jacket. First American edition. Fine in dust jacket with the red color faded from spine.
Seller: Skyline Books, Forest Knolls, CA, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Blood Sport. Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Author's FIFTH BOOK published. Beautiful unclipped dust jacket has mild age-tanning to spine and edges else appear bright and crisp in a bordart. The book itself has minor wear to exterms.; mild scuffing to front board otherwise a great copy. Internally pristine with NO marking and tight binding. Genre Case. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick.. Blood Sport.. NY. Harper & Row. 1967., 1967.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition (Stated "First U.S. Edition" with "A-S" at bottom of copyright page). A Harper Novel of Suspense. NF/VG+ clean and crisp in woven black cloth spine stamped brightly in pinkish red. In a complete dustjacket which is lightly chipped at the top and bottom of the spine. Colorful drawing on the front panel of a bikini-clad woman pointing a gun while stylized drawings of horses race above her. First Edition (Stated "First U.S. Edition" with "A-S" at bottom of copyright page).
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. BLOOD SPORT. Harper & Row, New York, 1967.
Price: US$131.25 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo; 241 pages; 20799
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
DICK FRANCIS. BLOOD SPORT a Harper novel of Suspense. HARPER and ROe, US, 1967.
Price: US$149.00 + shipping
Description: BLOOD SPORT by DICK FRANCIS- 1967 1st ed 1st prt US HC NF in NF DJ
Seller: Happy Heroes, Monroe, NJ, U.S.A.
Francis,Dick. Blood Sport. Harper & Row, New York 1995, 1967.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A few foxing spots to the top edge else fine This is a review copy with slip laid in. Review copies are uncommon especially in earlier titles
Seller: Always Superior Books, marietta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A first printing of the first American edition in Fine condition housed in an equally unblemished dust-jacket. Book is signed by author Dick Francis on the half-title page which also bears a previous owner's name; Gene Hawkins, a British civil servant and secret agent, becomes involved in a quest to discover a great thoroughbred stallion named Chrysalis that has been taken in an act Hawkins believes is no accident; 8vo; [i-vi] 1-241 [242-250] pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Blood Sport. Harper & Row, Publishers [1967], New York, 1967.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. [6], 1-241, [9] pp. Quarter black cloth over red boards with a jockey and horse embossed on the front board, purple lettering on the spine. Brown endpapers and pastedowns printed in white. Price of $4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Price of $4.95 on front jacket flap. Ahearn APG 009b. Hubin 395. A lovely copy of Dick Francis' sixth published book. A touch of toning to the jacket, a smidge of foxing to its reverse.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Blood Sport. Harper & Row, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1967.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1967 Harper & Row Stated First US Edition of the 5th Francis mystery. **SIGNED** on a pasted in slip. It is in VG/VG condition. The HB has very minor edge wear and just a tad of fading at the spine. The inside is clean and tight throughout The DJ shows $ 4.95 and is clean and protected in mylar. Adapted as a 1989 TV movie starring Ian McShane as David Cleveland.
Seller: Bren-Books, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
FRANCIS, Dick.. Blood Sport.. Harper & Row, New York, 1967.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 241 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First American edition. A near fine copy in a bright, fresh jacket without the usual soiling, and with just the faintest fading to the orange lettering on the spine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Blood Sport. Harper & Row, New, 1967.
Price: US$177.10 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Book Near Fine, sticker ghost and owner stamp to end papers & Very Good + jacket, clip, fade to spine, no tears or chips, Signed in protective cover
Seller: Dallas Surplus Stacks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Dick Francis. Blood Sport. Harper and Row, New York; Evanston, 1967.
Price: US$178.37 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A first US edition of celebrated jockey and author Dick Francis' novel. This first US edition of celebrated author Dick Francis' novel 'Blood Sport' was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1967. The novel follows Gene Hawkins, a government security agent, as he attempts to track down a hi-jacked thoroughbred stallion, discovering a good deal about himself as he journeys from the Thames to Las Vegas. Dick Francis was a RAF pilot during WW2, a successful steeplechase jockey, and crime writer, whose works deal with crimes in the horse-racing world, producing more than 40 best-sellers. First US edition, in unclipped dustwrapper. 'Blood Sport' is brilliantly exciting in Francis' classic style, exploring the adventures of a new hero in able, tough, and intelligent Gene Hawkins. In the publisher's original hardback binding, with stamped decoration to the front board, and unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, generally very smart, with only some handling marks to the boards and minor shelfwear to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. The dustwrapper is generally very smart, with some age-toning, and some shelfwear to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean, with some minor age-toning. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
FRANCIS, Dick.. BLOOD SPORT. (SIGNED). Harper & Row, 1974., 1967.
Price: US$179.99 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION (American) in dust jacket; SIGNED by Francis on the half-title page. The book is fine. The dust jacket has some wrinkles, not creases and is mildly sunned at the spine - near fine. The author's sixth mystery.
Seller: Monroe Stahr Books, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Blood Sport. Harper & Row, New York, 1967.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. The hunt is on to find a thoroughbred stallioan that's been hijacked between New York's Kenndy Airort and a Lexington, Kentucky farm. Light wear to top edge of front flap., light creasing/wear to spine ends of dj, a hint of rubbingto flaps.
Seller: Nothing Like a Good Book, Miller Place, NY, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. BLOOD SPORT. Harper & Row, Publishers [1967], New York and Evanston, 1967.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth backed boards. Edgar award nominee. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 265-66. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a little dust soiling to upper spine panel. (5309)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Blood Sport. Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, 1967.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Description: 241pp. Cloth backed boards. A fine copy in almost fine dustjacket with mild toning to spine. ; Octavo.
Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Blood Sport First US Edition. Harper & Row, Publishers, New York And Evanston, 1967.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: A first US edition first printing in fine condition with foxing on the edges. Book is housed in a fine dust-jacket with foxing on the edges and tanning on the spine. There is an ink marking on the front flyleaf along with a former owner's signature. There is also a small tear and folding to the first few pages; "Gene Hawkins, investigator by trade, was expert at arranging events so that they appeared accidental to all involved. Therefore when he himself became a witness to an "accident" his curiosity flared to bright and he insisted on looking into what he regarded as a work of art. He finds himself trailing after lost blood horses over half america, until he in turn became the prey and the sport changed sides with a vengeance." From book jacket ; Jacket Design; 8vo ; 241 pages
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. BLOOD SPORT. Harper & Row, New York, 1967.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, pp. 265-66. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with a little dust soiling to upper spine panel. (#82684)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Dick Francis. BLOOD SPORT. Harper & Row, New York, 1967.
Price: US$299.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Light foxing on front/rear panels.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Dick Francis. Blood Sport. Harper & Row, 1967.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine copy in like price clipped jacket.First Edition.Presentation Copy."Dear_ Dick Francis." Lovely Copy.Author's Fifth Book.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$993.10 + shipping
Description: A COLLECTION OF 17 FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS being FLYING FINISH, BLOOD SPORT, THE SPORT OF QUEENS, FORFEIT, THREE TO SHOW, ENQUIRY, RAT RACE, BONECRACK,SMOKESCREEN, SLAYRIDE, ACROSS THE BOARD, KNOCKDOWN, HIGH STAKES, IN THE FRAME, TRIAL RUN, WHIP HAND & RISK, Harper & Row, 1967 thru 1980, all fine in like color pictorial dust-wrapper save for 2 that are near fine in like color pictorial dust-wrapper and 3 that are very fine in like color pictorial dust-wrapper.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.