SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2000 (1976)* Publisher: John Murray.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers with French flaps. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly-used if at all. Price clipped & showing no shelf price. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: One block of 12pp. b & w photos.* Pages: 154 pp. text. xxii pp. appendices, racing records, & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Park Top, who raced between 1967 and 1970, was arguably the best English-bred race mare of the 20th century. When she retired she was the second highest stakes-winning mare in European racing history. In this volume the Duke of Devonshire describes Park Top's 24 races. He recalls her failures as well as her triumphs, his attempt to sell her in mid-career, and the tactics of her jockeys, Lestor Piggott and Geoff Lewis. He also pays tribute to her trainer Bernard van Cutsen and his staff.* This is a FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with absolutely minimal shelf wear & price clipped French flaps reducing it to VG++.*

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An immensely moving, powerfully romantic novel about the vagaries of love and the legacy of war, The Visible World is narrated by the American-born son of Czech immigrants. His New York childhood, lived in a boisterous community of the displaced, is suffused with stories: fragments of European history, Czech fairy tales, and family secrets gleaned from overheard conversations. Central in his young imagination is the heroic account of the seven Czech parachutists who, in 1942, assassinated a high-ranking Nazi. Yet one essential story has always evaded him: his mother's. He suspects she had a great wartime love, the loss of which bred a sadness that slowly engulfed her. As an adult, the narrator travels to Prague, hoping to piece together her hidden past.

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2785
Title: A Romance of the Turf: Park Top
Author: Devonshire, The Duke Of
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - F/VG++/ND
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
ISBN 10: 0719554829
ISBN 13: 9780719554827
Publisher: John Murray
Place of Publication: London UK 176
Date Published: 2000-05-11
Size: 14 x 21.7 x 1.3 cm

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