Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Francis, Dick. Slayride. Harper & Row, 1973.
Price: US$7.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Stated First U.S. edition. Dust jacket is shelf worn witha small tear where front meets spine. Book is tight, clean, unmarked, not price clipped.
Seller: Timshala Books, Olathe, KS, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Slayride. Harper, New York, 1973.
Price: US$7.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. A VG+ copy in a VG+ dust jacket.
Seller: AcornBooksNH, New Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. SLAYRIDE. Harper & Row, New York, 1973.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Description: 5 1/2 x 8, 219 pgs, decorated endsheets. Mystery set in Norway, where a steeplechase racer has disappeared.
Seller: High-Lonesome Books, Silver City, NM, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Slayride. Harper & Row, 1973.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Clean And Tight. Stated 1St Edition. No Markings But Some Kind Of Glue Residue On Ffp. Jacket Has Some Wear And Bumps But Now In Protective Mylar.
Seller: Jen's Books, Douglas, WY, U.S.A.
FRANCIS, Dick. Slayride. Harper & Row, 1973.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 219pp, octavo, the last page has a small piece of the lower corner torn off, tight binding, clean throughout, clean boards - colorful jacket with mild soiling to the back.
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
DICK FRANCIS. SLAYRIDE. HARPER AND ROW, 1973.
Price: US$10.29 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: DUST JACKET IS WORN WITH RUBBING, TEARS AND CREASING. WEAR TO EDGES AND CORNERS. DJ IS COVERED WITH A PROTECTIVE PLASTIC WRAPPER. COVER BOARDS ARE MARKED AND RUBBED WITH BUMPING TO EDGES AND CORNERS. PAGE EDGES HAVE AN UNFINISHED EDGE. SPINE COCKED BUT BINDING STILL FIRM. ODOUR TO BOOK. SOME STAIN MARKS TO TOP OF SOME PAGES (NO TEXT AFFECTED). PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.
Seller: Happyfish Books, Meopham, KENT, United Kingdom
Francis, Dick. Slayride. Harper & Row, 1973.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Clean Tight And Square. Book Club Edition No Markings. Jacket Has Some Wear And Bumps But Now In Protective Mylar.
Seller: Jen's Books, Douglas, WY, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. SLAYRIDE. Harper & Row, New York, 1973.
Price: US$12.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st US ed. A Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket. 8vo., 219 pp. Cloth and paper over boards in pictorial dust jacket. The dj has moderate edge wear, with a slightly darkened spine. Binding slightly canted, back to front. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve. A Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket.
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
FRANCIS, DICK. SLAYRIDE. HARPER & ROW, NY, 1973.
Price: US$12.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Slayride. Harper & Row, New York, 1973.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First printing of U.S. first edition. Tiny crease on board corner. Dust jacket, with price on flap, has 2 quarter-inch tears.
Seller: Old Algonquin Books, Arvada, CO, U.S.A.
Dick Francis. SlayRide. Harper & Row, 1973.
Price: US$16.46 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good hardcover with DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelf wear. Binding is tight, hinges are strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear with some rubbing and scuffing. Light foxing spots/dusting on pages top edge. Cover does not match the illustration.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Slayride. Harper & Row, NY, 1973.
Price: US$17.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First (US) printing. Fine in a fine dustjacket. (box 166)
Seller: Bruce Davidson Books, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. SLAYRIDE. Harper & Row, New York, 1973.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An early novel among Francis' many crime-thrillers set in a horse-racing environment. David Cleveland, an investigator for the English Jockey Club, is sent to Norway to help in the investigation of the disappearance of British steeplechase jockey, Bob Sherman, with the day's take from the race track. Instead, Cleveland finds Sherman's lovely wife, Emma, and discovers himself a target for murder. Boards show wear and color-fading around edges and top of spine, a touch of foxing on top edge of text block, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, reasonably tight and square. The dustjacket is somewhat worn, with small tears and chipping at the spine ends, and shows a price sticker on front flap, though it is not price-clipped and shows the original $5.95 price above the sticker. Becoming quite scarce in a basically whole dj.
Seller: H. W. Gumaer, Bookseller, Canandaigua, NY, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. SLAYRIDE. Harper & Row, New York, 1973.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First U. S. edition, first printing, hardcover. 219 pages. Quarter bound in green cloth with blue titles, over blue-paper covered boards. Very good with slight slant to spine, and fading to top edges, in a price-clipped dust acket with edgewear at spine and corners, including 1/2" tear to top edge at spine. Mylar cover on jacket. David Cleveland, official investigator for the English Jockey Club, goes to Norway to investigate the disappearance of British steeplechase jockey Bob Sherman from the Ovrevoll racetrack.
Seller: Ziebarth Books, Coal Valley, IL, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Slayride. Harper & Row, New York, 1973.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue paper-covered boards with green backstrip and blue lettering.Rubbiing to all edges, light uneven sunning to boards. Text is clean and bright, no marks. DJ shows rubbing to all edges, small chips and tiny closed tears head and heel, minor general scuffing. "David Cleveland, official investigator for the English Jockey Club, thirty-three and hardy (which was, indeed, fortunate), had been sent to Norway to work with his friend Arne Kristiansen, official investigator of the Norwegian Jockey Club. Arne was investigating the disappearance of Bob Sherman, British steeplechase jockey, from the Øvrevoll track with the day's stakes." (from the jacket)
Seller: Gyre & Gimble, Holden, ME, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Slayride. Harper & Row, New York, 1973.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Very good with lightly bumped and faded edges Good with bumped, rubbed, and lightly chipped edges. Closed tear mid-spine, approximately 3 inches. Slender horizontal abrasion lines across front panel and head of spine
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. SLAYRIDE. New York: Harper & Row, (1973.) dj, 1973.
Price: US$29.50 + shipping
Description: Hardcover first edition - First US printing. Mystery set in Norway, where a steeplechase racer has disappeared. 219 pp Very good in fine dustjacket (spine slightly cocked.)
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. SLAYRIDE. Harper & Row, New York, 1973.
Price: US$29.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An early novel in Francis' widely-praised and bestselling mystery series set in the world of horseracing; upper corners of boards and jacket bumped, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, with a very slight spine lean; dustjacket shows minor edgewear at top of spine. Scarce.
Seller: H. W. Gumaer, Bookseller, Canandaigua, NY, U.S.A.
Francis, dick. TWO BY FRANCIS; FORFEIT & SLAYRIDE. harper & row, 1973.
Price: US$41.00 + shipping
Description: fine book, very good - fine jacket, edge slits, bumping
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Slayride. Harper & Row, New York, 1973.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. David Cleveland, the official investigator for the English Jockey Club, is sent to Norway to help investiagte the disappearance of an English steeplchase jockey. Sunning to top edge of boards, light wear to spine ends of dj, two short-closed tears to bottom edge of rear flap, light wear to spine ends, slight spine slant, dj price-clipped, light sunning to fore-edge.
Seller: Nothing Like a Good Book, Miller Place, NY, U.S.A.
FRANCIS, DICK. SLAYRIDE. NEW YORK NY HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS PUB 1973., 1973.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: FINE IN A NEAR FINE D.J. FIRST IMPRESSION WITH COMPLETE NUMBER ROW ON TERMINAL LEAF THAT INCLUDES THE NUMBER "1" BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR TEXT BLOCK. D.J. IS ABOUT FINE WITH JUST A TRACE OF WEAR AT THE SPINE ENDS, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN, TIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Slayride. Harper, 1973.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Publisher: Harper & Row, New York, 1973.FINE hardcover book in NEAR FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. Light wear at the head of DJ's spine and at the front panel's upper right corner. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. First US Edition, First Printing.
Seller: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.
FRANCIS, Dick. Slayride. Harper & Row, New York, 1973.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: d.w. New York: Harper & Row, (1973). First American Edition. Presentation copy, 1995: "Rich O, Very best wishes". Fine, in a price-clipped dust wrapper.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: A first American edition/first printing in practically new condition with no blemishes or shelfwear, housed in an fine dust jacket with a few slight blemishes ; In Slayride, Francis and Dick take readers on a wild ride as they explore the dark side of motorcycle riding. The book is filled with action, adventure, and suspense. It is sure to keep readers on the edge of their seats.; Cover Art; 8vo; 219 pages
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Francis, Dick. Slayride - signed without inscription. Harper & Row, New York, 1973.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Harper & Row, 1973. First American Edition, signed without inscription by Francis. Octavo, 219 pp. Jacket design by Irving Freeman, green cloth-backed blue paper covered boards, blue spine imprinting. NF/NF. Near Fine book shows only slight fading at top and bottom of boards; jacket has small area of tiny chips at spine top, is otherwise Near Fine. First American edition, signed by Dick Francis on the half-title without inscription. In mylar. Handsome copy in an unclipped jacket. An increasingly scarce signed First American Edition of an earlier Francis horse racing mystery, the 1973 Slayride, set in Norway, where English Jockey Club investigator David Cleveland starts out with a cold splash in a fjord, then meets the lovely Emma, wife of. Collectible copy. L-26
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.