J a allen uk (17 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 94pp, inc. 16 black and white full page illustrations. Pictorial laminated card covers. 8vo. Light rubbing to corners and edges. Internally; neat, clean, bright and tight volume. A useful guide with advice and suggestions to help overcome the problem horse. Board, John (illustrator).…

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 1st Edition. 92pp. Laminated printed light card covers. Sun faded spine. Pages tanning. Internally neat, clean and tight. 8vo. Covers such topics as basic horsemanship, riding exercise, the flat racing seat, race tactics, the use of the whip, riding a finish, and gamesmanship. Laid-in chart for a guide to Stewards to follow: interference, definitions and procedure.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good condition hard cover, some wear to cover and spine, no dust jacket, internally clean and tidy, in a good readable condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Very good condition hard cover, with good condition jacket, some wear to jacket, internally clean and tidy, in a good readable condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Good condition hard cover, rubbing to cover edges, internally clean and tidy, in a good readable condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. xii, 516pp, various in-text black and white photographic and illustrations. Green cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Lightly rubbed spine ends. Top text block edge dust damaged. Crease and some soiling to front free endpaper, volume a little shaken. Otherwise, internally neat, clean and bright. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear, 5cm closed tear on front at joint, price clipped.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good -. Very Good + book in a Good - Dustjacket. (see picture) 224 pages including index.All clean,tight and bright.Dustjacket has wear and aging marks,especially on the back.Small piece out of the back bottom cover.

Softcover. Zustand: Acceptable. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. Reprint. 48pp, with black and white illustrations. Laminated stiff card covers, illustrated. 12mo. Covers are heavily shelf worn and faded all around the spine, rubbed at edges and bumped along rear lower edge. Small label inside front covers else internally generally neat, clean, bright and tight but there are some minor signs of handling and lower edge of pages a little bumped. An interesting perspective on the old school ways of showing ponies but perhaps the real interest for this volume is the author. Anne Bullen (1913-1963) was the co-owner of Catherston Stud and an illustrator of children's pony books. She was also the mother of Jennie Loriston-Clarke, the British equestrian rider who represented Great Britain at the Olympics in 1972, 1976, 1984 and 1988 and Jane Holderness-Roddam, who competed in the Mexico Olympics in 1968 and won both Badminton and Burghley Horse Trails. The ideal pony that Anne Bullen breed for merged with her illustrations: Cascade, in Monica Edwards' Wish for a Pony is the pony that many young girls dream of. Bullen made only venture into writing pony stories herself - Darkie, the Life of Pony - co-written with Rosemary Oldfield but she published two non-fiction books on ponies. Ponycraft was a short book on the basics of caring for and riding an pony. And Showing Ponies, first published after her death.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Good condition. Hard cover. Originally published 1967. Edges very slightly dust darkened. Pages sound. Cover good with only very slight bumping to edges, corners and spine ends. Jacket marked/slightly tanned with some creasing and wear and tear to edges, corners and spine ends. 98 pages.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 96pp. Red cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Slightly cocked. Top text block edge foxing, fore edge starting to fox. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has loss to top edge, soiling, not price clipped.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. N/A. 360pp. Red vinyl-covered boards, gilt titles on front and spine. 8vo. Very lightly rubbed spine ends; minor tear bottom front corner. Text block edges tanning; affecting page margins. Endpapers just starting to fox and tan, security device on verso of rear free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Reprint. viii, 188pp, with monochrome plate frontispiece and occasional black and white illustrations in text. Brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. 12mo. Boards gently rounded at corners and spine ends. Upper text block edge a little dust darkened. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring a large ownership stamp on the rear paste down. In its original illustrated dust wrapper, a little shelf worn, gently rubbed at extreme edges. Dust jacket now protected in an archival quality Mylar wrapper fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. The earliest known work on the horse and how to ride him, written some 24 centuries ago, it still provides the modern day rider with an informative and easy to read treatise, with chapters on the Greek Riding Horse and Horsemanship.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 200 pages. tidy copy.

Zustand: Fine. First UK edition hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, burgundy end papers. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 113 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0851314945 EQUINE & EQUESTRIANISM.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 108 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 198 pages. tidy copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. xvi, 288pp, some in-text illustrations and photographic plates all in black and white. Burgundy cloth-covered boards with gilt titles one spine and front. Rubbed spine ends and gently bumped front corners. Paper dust jacket aged and torn in a few places, small pieces missing from spine ends, unclipped. Evidence of previous label on front free end paper. Historical survey of some 200 north country race meetings which have from one cause or another dropped out of the list of fixtures.…