Publisher:
London: Country Life, (1930). First Edition.
Seller ID: 51656bd
Octavo, cloth & boards (hardcover), ix, [i blank], 135 pp. Sixteen plates from drawings by G. D. Armour. Near-Fine, with gift inscription, light shelf wear; in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with some perimeter chips and a darkened spine. View More...
Octavo, turquoise cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 431 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: As old as time itself and as fleet as its flying moments, the Arabian horse has remained practically unchanged throughout the more than 3,500 years of the history of the breed. The beauty, grace, and uniformity of these magnificent horses, bred selectively for centuries, are unexcelled, and every Arabian owner will agree that there is a spiritual bond and kinship between the ARabian horse and its master such as exists with no other breed. This is the most comprehensive and authoritiati... View More...
Narrow octavo, red textured boards (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to upper cover, 56 pp. Good+, with edgewear to spine and newspaper clipping pasted to rear endpaper. From Preface: In presenting this book, ÒSystology,Ó to the American turf public, we are confident it fills and completes the cycle of information which has long been a pressing want of turf players. ÒSystologyÓ rounds out the circle, completing the gap between the scientific and accurate data and information supplied by the racing dailies with their charts, past performances, workouts, selections and multiudinous f... View More...
Publisher:
Wein: Verlag Adolf Holzhausens Nfg., (1954).
Seller ID: 335462qs
Royal octavo, hardcover (white cloth & red boards), gilt decorations to upper cover and spine, burgundy spine label, gilt letters, [32] pp + xc plates. Very Good, with foxing to cloth and endpapers; in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: Jedem Osterreicher ist die Spanische Hofreitschule ein Begriff, der sich mit seiner Vorstellung von der Heimat und ihrem kulturellen Besitz verbindet. Aber auch drassen in der Welt, uberall, wo Reitsport betrieben wird und wo Pferde gehalten und geliebt werden, weiss man ebenso, was die Spanische Hofreitschule zu Wien ... View More...
