Published by Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd, 1930
Seller: The Pagan Hare, Tetbury, GLOS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd., London, 1930. Hardcover. First edition, first impression. Waxed light brown cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Gilt publisher's device to spine and to upper board. Brown decorative staining to top edges. With over ninety illustrations. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates. The Lonsdale Library publicity leaflet loosely inserted. No dustjacket. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Spine faded. Decorative staining dulled. Front hinge cracked but upper board sturdy. Some light foxing to pastedowns, to endpapers, to first few and to last few pages. Foxing to extreme fore edges. Overall, the book is in a good to very good condition.
Language: English
Published by Seely, Service & Co. Ltd, 1959
Seller: HORSE BOOKS PLUS LLC, Boston, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Revised Edition. New and revised edition 1959 (1st published 1929) hardcover in beige cloth with Lonsdale L in gilt on cover, quarter-bound with mustard buckram cloth with gilt spine title. Book lightly bumped and slightly marked. Original, un-clipped DJ shows tiny chips at tips, now in new mylar and displays beautifully. 316pp text is tight, clean and crisp. B/w photo frontis + 85 other b/w photo plates. Described as the most complete treatise on horses, ponies and horsemanship yet published with chapters on The Horse, Stable knowledge & Routine, Riding, Jumping lessons, Riding to hounds, Riding school training, Bits and spurs, Schooling over fences, Racing over fences, Show Jumping, Polo Ponies, Pig Sticking etc.
Published by Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd, London, 1930
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. 288 pp. Scattered light foxing. Mostly clean.
Published by Published by Seeley Service & Co. Limited, 196 Shaftesbury Avenue, London . London 1932., 1932
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original terracotta buckram covers, gilt title lettering to the spine, small gilt 'Lonsdale' insignia to the front cover. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains [vi] 288 printed pages of text with 95 monochrome illustrations throughout. Without any ownership markings, small foxing to the edges of the early papers, corners sharp and pointed, spine not faded and in Very Good clean and sharp condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. EQUINE & EQUESTRIANISM.
Published by Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd., 1945
Seller: Millersford Books, Broad Chalke, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A Near Fine and wonderfully clean and tight copy (hardly opened) of the first volume of The Lonsdale Library on Horsemanship with over ninety illustrations (b/w plates). Dust jacket is complete, price unclipped, and in protective cover. Just a small loss at base of spine and a very small chip at top. Tan boards are immaculate. 288pp.