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  • BREAK IN

  • Author: Dick FRANCIS
  • Publisher: Pan
  • Comments:

    Originally published in 1987 this is a much later printing. Some tanning to pages. Minor crease across the bottom left-hand corner of the rear cover. SYNOPSIS: “Family ties mean trouble, chains and fatal obligations. And when steeplechase jockey Kit Fielding comes to the aid of his twin sister and her husband, Bobby Allardeck, even death threatens. A vicious newspaper campaign jeopa....

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  • THE CAT WHO TAILED A THIEF

  • Author: Lilian Jackson BRAUN
  • Publisher: Headline
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    First UK edition with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. In very good condition for its age. Tanning to pages and reading creases to spine. A Jim Qwilleran feline whodunit. SYNOPSIS: “A spate of petty thefts threatens the holiday spirit in Pickax. First it’s just a pair of sunglasses and gloves that disappear – but then the entire charity collect....

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  • GRAY MATTERS

  • Author: Andy GRAY
  • Publisher: Pan
  • Comments:

    UK paperback with a 2-9 number sequence indicating a second printing. Light tanning to pages. Unread. The autobiography of Andy Gray. SYNOPSIS: “From a fanatical footballing household in Glasgow, Andy Gray worked his way to become a teenage prodigy at Dundee United. But it was in England that his name was cemented as one of Europe’s top strikers. At Aston Villa he scored sixty....

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  • COME TO GRIEF

  • Author: Dick FRANCIS
  • Publisher: Pan
  • Comments:

    Originally published in 1996, this is a later printing. Some tanning to pages. Reading creases to spine. SYNOPSIS: “Sid Halley, the ex-champion jockey turned investigator who appears in Odds Against and Whip Hand, is back. Sid has uncovered an obnoxious crime committed by a friend whom he – and everyone else – has held in deep affection. On the morning set for the openin....

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  • A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S GENE

  • Author: Andrew HARMAN
  • Publisher: Legend
  • Comments:

    First UK edition paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. In very good condition for its age. Light tanning to pages. Faint crease across the bottom right-hand corner of the front cover. SYNOPSIS: “At Splice of Life Patentable Biosciences Ltd the excitement of discovery is rising by the minute. Professor Crickson has seen the future – and it t....

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  • RAT RACE

  • Author: Dick FRANCIS
  • Publisher: Pan
  • Comments:

    Originally published in 1972, this is a much later printing. Unread. Some tanning to pages. SYNOPSIS: “Matt Shore was an experienced pilot. He’d done it all. From big jets to flying in supplies to war zones. So when he gets a job ferrying high class punters around England’s race courses he might be forgiven for expecting the quiet life. But then his plane explodes in a....

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  • TIME TO MURDER AND CREATE

  • Author: Lawrence BLOCK
  • Publisher: Orion
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    First printing of the Orion edition. Tanning to pages. Reading crease to spine. A Matt Scudder Mystery. SYNOPSIS: “The Spinner was a petty crook and a blackmailer, picking up information in New York’s sleazier bars, but that didn’t give someone the right to bash his head in, thrown him in the river and walk away. At least not according to Matt Scudder’s code of hon....

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  • BACK TO THE DIVIDE (Inscribed)

  • Author: Elizabeth KAY
  • Publisher: Chicken House
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    First UK edition hardback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. Divided front board – published without a dust jacket.  Some foxing to top edges and leading edges of pages.

    Inscribed ” To Zoe. Elizabeth Kay.”

    SYNOPSIS: “After his amazing adventures in The Divide, Felix is once again living quietly with his parents in the real wor....

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  • THE SHINING GIRLS

  • Author: Lauren BEUKES
  • Publisher: Harper
  • Comments:

    First UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback which comes complete with the publisher’s press release. Single #1 as the number sequence indicating a first printing. Unread but there is some slight signs of storage (some discolouration to about one inch of the bottom edges of the pages not affecting text).

    SYNOPSIS: “It is 1931 and Harper, a violent down-and-out is living....

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  • SCOTLAND’S BIRDS OF PREY

  • Author: Des THOMPSON
  • Publisher: Lomond Books
  • Comments:

    This is a magazine-sized slim volume (32 pages) – 117mm x 268 mm.  Unread.

    Compiled by Professor Des Thompson, Dr Helen Riley and Brian Etheridge.

    SYNOPSIS:  “A fascinating look at some of Scotland’s most charismatic birds. Full of facts and up-to-date descriptions of all the popular species, there are also tips on the best locations of where to see them in the....

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  • MAJESTIC

  • Author: Whitley STRIEBER
  • Publisher: Futura
  • Comments:

    In very good condition for its age. Tanning to pages. Minor crease across the bottom right hand corner of front cover. SYNOPSIS: “In 1947 something totally unusual crashed into the New Mexico desert, scattering debris unlike anything previously found on earth – oddly marked scraps of a substance thinner than silk and utterly indestructible. Claiming it was a new kind of weather....

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  • THE POWER AND THE PROPHET

  • Author: Robert Don HUGHES
  • Publisher: Fontana
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    First UK edition paperback. In very good+ condition. Appears unread. Comes complete with a review slip laid in. Quite heavily tanned but eminently readable. Some minor creasing to rear cover. Pelmen The Powershaper book 3. SYNOPSIS: “Pelmen the powershaper was over his head in trouble. Trouble was nothing new to him, but this time it was too much. His beloved Serphimera had lef....

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