Search Results: Thoroughbred Racing Stock and Its Ancestors by Lady Wentworth

Charles Scribner's Sons. Good+. 1938. Hardcover. 1135767165 . Large oversized red hardback covers. Shelf wear and rubbing to the spine edges and corners. 338 plates in half-tone and 21 plates in color. Because of weight, no international shipping, and priority mail would require additional postage cost. .

London : George Allen & Unwin, 1938. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 112 by 8.5". Not Stated. An extensive and richly illustrated history of the horse, in its first edition with colour plates. A first edition copy of this comprehensive volume on horseracing stock. This volume explores the authentic origin of pure blood thoroughbred racing stock. The history of the horse is scattered amongst various documents and records and is a complex ground of geography, history, and science. This volume is a monumental attempt to collect all the true facts of the history of the thoroughbred horse.  Lady Wentworth was a British peer, Arabian horse breeder and real tennis player.Extensively illustrated with twenty one plates in colour and a further 388 plate in half tone and many diagrams in the text and a folding map of Arabia to the rear. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally excellent with some fading to the spine and light bumping to the head and tail… Read More

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1938 . First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 11.5" by 9.5". Not Stated. The first edition of Lady Wentworth's detailed history of thoroughbred racing blood, in the very scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the very scarce publisher's original dust wrapper, price clipped.This volume explores the authentic origin of pure blood thoroughbred racing stock. This volume attempts to collect all the true facts of the history of the thoroughbred horse, gathering information from documents, records, and works of geography, history, and science.Lady Wentworth was a British peer, Arabian horse breeder and tennis player.Extensively illustrated with twenty one plates in colour and a further three-hundred and eighty-eight half tone plates, and many diagrams in the text, and with a large folding map of Arabia to the rear. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped dust wrapper. Light shelf wear to… Read More

London: George Allen, 1938. hardcover. fine. 388 plates in half-tone and 21 paltes in color and many diagrams throughout the text and a large black & white folding map of Iran. Very thick 4to, handsomely rebound in full burgundy morocco, decoratively gilt spine, all edges gilt. Includes errata slips. London: George Allen, (1938). Fine.<br/> <br/>