An Academy for Grown Horsemen
by Gambado, Geoffrey
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and chipped at spine extremities, lacks original slipcase, pages toned at edges and rippl
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
Mount Vernon, NY: William Edwin Rudge. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and chipped at spine extremities, lacks original slipcase, pages toned at edges and rippled at bottom edges.. 1929. Reprint. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of this 1787 humorous horse riding book. One of 400 numbered copies, of which this is number 326. Boards are covered in paper patterned to look like the aged copy that served as the master for reproduction, so it looks worn. Appears to have post 1929 ink stains on front boards. Marbled endpapers. According to the introduction by Owen Culbertson, Geoffrey Gambado was the pen name of William Henry Bunbury, Baronet, of Barton, Suffolk. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53910
- Title
- An Academy for Grown Horsemen
- Author
- Gambado, Geoffrey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and chipped at spine extremities, lacks original slipcase, pages toned at edges and rippl
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- William Edwin Rudge
- Place of Publication
- Mount Vernon, NY
- Date Published
- 1929
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- HORSES, Riding
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History; Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
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About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Reprint
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- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...