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.

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.