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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Gift quality First Edition 1932 hardcover in burgundy cloth covered boards with title box embossed into frt board with bright cream text visible. Spine title has lost all color but still fairly legible due to embossed lettering. Very attractive pastoral book plate on peach/grey/cream marbled endpapers showing a horse in a courtyard/field with crest above. It is the former book of Bayard Tuckerman Jr. (April 19, 1889 - April 14, 1974) was an American jockey, businessman, and politician. Hinge papers fine, 119 page block tight & crisp with occasional light foxing and marginal finger soil here and there, nothing offensive. Original b/w photo illustrated, un-clipped dust wrapper from the sixth edition shows four short closed tears at panel edges, handling soil on cream background and red/black lettering. This book is loaded with terrific b/w photos, many of them pertaining to side-saddle riding throughout. A very attractive, readable and informative work on riding aside or astride.…