Charles Smythe (80 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good++. This is Vol 1. Book is in VG++ condition, very clean tight and bright. Inscription to prev owner name inside cover. Green cloth hardcover is clean and bright.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG Price Clipped. Rep. pp.123.DW has a crease and small closed tear ( now protected ) Neat inscr. fep.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

LEATHER SPINE BROWN. Condition: Fair. this edition limited to 500 copies (stated in rear), some pages uncut, shelf worn, corners bumped, black and white illustrations DATE PUBLISHED: 1933 EDITION: 169. ERNEST SMYTHE (illustrator).

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. 566 pp. Green boards decorated in gilt on the spine; brown endpapers. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; small ink mark on the upper right of the front free endpaper. Wraparound dustjacket painting, Mares and Foals, by Sawrey Gilpin. The Chapters are: The Horse in History and Legend; Equestrian Lore; Famous Horses and Horsemen; Great Races; Horse and Hound; The Horse in Fiction; and The Horse in Verse. This contains far too many stories and articles to list them all but some of the highlights are: The Origin of the Horse by Walter Prescott Webb; The General Tournament by Sir Walter Scott; The Mustang Wild and Free by J. Frank Dobie; The Last Great Cavalry Charge by Winston S. Churchill; The English Gentleman and His Horse by Barbara W. Tuchman; Hints for the Rider by Xenophon; Buying a Horse by Jack Leach; The Make-up of a Racehorse by R. C. Kidd; Eclipse by Stella A. Walker; The Pacing Mustang by Ernest Thompson Seton; Jumping for Joy by Pat Smythe; The Legend of Skittles by H. L. Gibson; The First National by Con O'Leary; Snowstorm Derby by Henry Blyth; Devon Loch's National by Dick Francis; The Huntsman by Peter Beckford; The Man Who Hunts and Never Jumps by Anthony Trollope; The First Day by Siegfried Sassoon; Lost by R. S. Surtees; Squire Western in Pursuit by Henry Fielding; The First Ride by George Borrow; The Dover Road by Charles Dickens; The Highwayman's Mare by R. D. Blackmore; The White Knight by Lewis Carroll; The Fire by Anna Sewell; The Brogue by Saki; Velvet Up by Enid Bagnold; The Horse Fair by Daphne du Maurier; Old Em's Kentucky Home by Damon Runyon; Agony and Ecstasy by Dick Francis; War Cloud by Ernest Hemingway; The Gent from London Way by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; and many, many more. Size: 8vo. Sawrey Gilpin; (illustrator). Book.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New. In English.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Half-Leather. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. In half brown leather over tan boards, 8vo, 169pp. One of 500 copies printed by James I. Haynes from a design by Ward Ritchie. (light rubbing and chipping at tips, boards slightly darkened with minor wear, browning to page edges). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Decorations By Ernest Smythe (illustrator). Book. …

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Leather and Boards. Condition: Almost Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a compilation of poetry with regards to various sports, MOST PAGES UNOPENED (So has probably never been read), 169 pages followed by a limitation page that states "OF THIS EDITION FIVE HUNDRED COPIES WERE PRINTED BY JAMES I. HAYNES FROM A DESIGN BY WARD RITCHIE AND BOUND BY EUNICE MURRAY", paper split to inside front and rear seams, otherwise binding is very tight, inscription on the front end paper reads "For the President when hunting from (its hard to determine the name which was signed), at the bottom of the page it states New York-Christmas-1933, very minor and small edge stain to the top left rear cover, leather spine shows minor wear and a bit of chipping to the top of spine, otherwise book is clean, complete, and tight, and most likely never read since most of the pages have been unopened. Ernest Smythe (illustrator).…

Hardcover. 590p. A pale teal-grey cloth hardcover book in good condition. No dustjacket. Spine lightly tanned. Newspaper clipping pasted to a blank front endpaper. Former owner's private library stamps on endpapers and title page. Inscription on 1/2 title page. Otherwise clean and tight. A LIVING AGE Annual. A month-by-month, nation-by-nation chronology of events on the eve of World War II.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. B.C.E. A solid spine with very light edge rubbings. The dustjaccket has no edge rubbings. No store stamp.Stories by :John Burke, Anthony Burton, Michael & Mollie Hardwick,Ian Fellows-Gordon, Frank Usher, C.E.Maine, Clare Smythe, Charles Chilton, Ronald Seth, Doddie Hay. Jennis, Paul (illustrator). …