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"Saddle Up": A Guide to Equitation and Stable Management, including Hints to Instructors
by Captain F. C. Hitchcock
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
£125.00£112.50
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About This Item
London: Hurst & Blackett , 1933 . First edition. Cloth. Good/Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Captain F. C. Hitchcock. Captain Hitchcock's guide to equitation, the first edition enclosed in its scarce dust wrapper. The first edition of this work. A complete and useful guide to equestrian, with notes on selecting a horse, saddling and bridling, setting the horse in motion and much more. Written by Captain F. C. Hitchcock, with a foreword by Sir Frederick Hobday. With its scarce dust wrapper, unclipped. Featuring a photographic frontispiece and numerous illustrations in text by the author. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally sound with some shelf wear, light bumping to head and tail of spine, damp mark to front board. Dust wrapper unclipped and smart with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities, spine sunned. Previous owner's gift inscription to front free endpaper dated 1933. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to fore edge affecting only occasional leaf, pages otherwise bright and clean. Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 837A55
- Title
- "Saddle Up": A Guide to Equitation and Stable Management, including Hints to Instructors
- Author
- Captain F. C. Hitchcock
- Illustrator
- Captain F. C. Hitchcock
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hurst & Blackett
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1933
- Size
- 8.5" by 5.5"
- Keywords
- horses equitation guide first editions equitation
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Rooke Books
Biblio member since 2007
BATH, Somerset
About Rooke Books
Welcome to Rooke Books Antiquarian Bookseller
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Sunned
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- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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