Whip Hand

First edition, first printing. 234pp. In black cloth-covered boards with silver titles on spine (cloth very slightly bruised at spine ends, hint of toning on text block edges). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (very slightly bumped on corners). 8vo. Whip Hand was a departure for Dick Francis in that it was the first of his novels to give new life to one of the chief characters of a previous work, former jockey – Sid Halley.