Rat Race
by Francis, Dick
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good condition./VG DJ (price clipped)
- ISBN 10
- 0060113227
- ISBN 13
- 9780060113223
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London:: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971. A clean, square, tight copy. The Dust Jacket has 1 short closed tear (less than an inch long). The Jacket is bright, shiny, and protected by a removable Brodart. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are clean and crisp. Bound in the original black boards and red cloth spine. Sharp corners. Red endpapers feature a repeating pattern of "harpernovelofsuspense" in white letters. First American printing, with "71 72 73 74 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" on the last page, and NO top stain. Lee. p. 65.. First U.S. Edition (so stated). Hard Cover. Very Good condition./VG DJ (price clipped). 8vo..
Synopsis
Hired to fly four racing buffs to the track, pilot Matt Shore expects it will be the kind of job he likes: quick and easy. Until, that is, he’s forced to make an emergency landing just minutes before the plane explodes. Luckily, no one is hurt, but it isn’t long before Matt realizes that he’s caught up in the rat race of violent criminals who are dead-set on putting anyone who stands in their way on the wrong side of the odds…
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- Bookseller
- About Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004367
- Title
- Rat Race
- Author
- Francis, Dick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good condition.
- Jacket Condition
- VG DJ (price clipped)
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition (so stated)
- ISBN 10
- 0060113227
- ISBN 13
- 9780060113223
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London:
- Date Published
- 1971
- Bookseller catalogs
- Horses / Horsemanship / Equestrian Sports;
- Size
- 8vo.
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