Book #160583

Odds Against First Edition

Dick Francis

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: London: Michael Joseph LTD, 1965.
Illustrator: Illustrated by Broom Lynne

Price: $460.00

A first printing of the first edition in fine condition, with foxing on the edges. A previous owner's bookplate is affixed to the front flyleaf. The dust-jacket has some slight fraying on the spine and foxing to the rear.
"Sid Halley is the sleuth of Odds Against, the first novel in Sid Halley Series. "Former hotshot jockey Sid Halley landed a postition with a detective agency, only to catch a bullet from some penny-ante thug. Now, he has to go up against a field of thoroughbred criminals- and th eodds are against him that he'll even survive"
; Sid Halley Series; Vol. 1; Cover Art; 8vo ; 256 pages.