Brigadier Monkey Blacker (9 results)

Condition: Good. 1960. First Edition. 192 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Clipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Gift quality first edition hardcover in red paper covered boards with one bumped lower tip. No names, tears or soil in the tight, crisp 192pp text. Original, color illustrated, price-clipped dust wrapper is otherwise complete showing light color loss at tips and spine ends but displays beautifully in new mylar. "This is a most entertaining and true story of a great horse." writes Miss Pat Smythe in her Foreword to this book. As a team Brigadier Blacker and Workboy represented Great Britain in Spain and Portugal and won the Imperial Cup at the White City in 1959. In 1960 they were second in both the Imperial Cup and the King George V Gold Cup. But before he rose to the top as a show jumper Workboy was one of the finest two mile steeple-chasers in the country - being placed twenty-nine out of the forty-six races in which he ran. Brigadier Blacker is as versatile as his mount: he has been an international athlete, a leading amateur jockey, Military Assistant to the C.I.G.S. and now an author describing Workboy's battles, victories and disasters. An enthralling read.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 1st ed 1963. Large tear top of front of dj, large chip from bottom spine end of dj, chip from spine top of dj, shelf wear and creasing on dj, other wear and tears dj edges, light cloth wear on extremities, page sides lightly tanned, otherwise vg. 400 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Joan Wanklyn (illustrator). 1st Edition. "The true story of a great horse," according to Pat Smythe. A little occasional foxing but in general good order throughout. Light wear only to blue boards. Fair unclipped d/j worn toi edges with closed tears to rear and minor loss. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. 192pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good + Hardback. No Jacket. Joan Wanklyn (illustrator). First Published.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Crown8vo, 191 pp. Eight plates. Original red boards, lettered red on a white ground on the backstrip. A few faint spots of foxing on the prelims otherwise near fine copy in a price clipped and chipped with slight loss dust jacket. Modern Men of Action series. Postage will be reduced to cost.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good DJ in Protector. Joan Wanklyn (illustrator). First Edition. A fairly sacrce book about a famous horse & rider. Dj just slightly edge worn.

Showjumping autobiography by the champion rider, whose horse Workboy had been one of the finest steeple-chasers in the country before becoming his mount in the Great Britain team during the 1950s, with line illustrations. 8vo. 192pp. Dust-wrapper. Creases and tears to wrapper, otherwise good condition.