Littauer Captain (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Fair: The book may have considerable folding, marks or wear to covers or other defects but is in good readable condition. hardcover 75 pafes.

Jumping the Horse by Captain V.S Littauer, edited by Phyllis French, brown cloth with gilt design on front, 1st edition. Limited print run of 950 copies. Published by The Derrydale Press, New York, 1931. A guide to get your horse jumping , described in word, photo and drawing. "very good, light cloth wear, inscription inside, a few minor marks and spots, some foxing spots, otherwise clean and tight".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. First edition. Record of life in the Russian Imperial Cavalry from 1911 to 1920, before escape from the Revolution to the United States via Siberia and Japan. pp295(1) with monochrome photo & other plates, maps, and index. Blue cloth, backstrip title and front cover Sumski Hussars insignia in gilt. Fore-edge of rear board with two very minor snags associated with open tear along uppermost 5cm of dust jacket fold between rear panel and flap. Top edge of text-block lightly speckled. VERY GOOD copy in GOOD unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Gift quality hardcover in brown cloth covered boards with sharp tips and bumped spine ends, only fault is light sunning along lower edge of frt board. No names, tears or soil in the 95pp text illustrated with b/w photos and line drawings. Original photo illustrated jacket in cream, green and sepia/brown is complete w/light handling soil on cream background fore-edges (watermark on rear board flap fold without harm to cloth, board or text. Lower frt flap corner clipped but price remains.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, a good copy in the publisher's cloth, limited to 950 copies. The boards are a bit dulled and stained with the inner lower part of the text block stained. A good reference copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition. Size: 9 5/8" x 6 1/2". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Gilt-stamped brown cloth over boards, fore and bottom text block edges untrimmed,125 pages, illustrated in black and white with diagrams and photographic reproductions of horses at different phases of jumping. This book is one of a limited edition of 950. Corners and spine ends lightly worn, covers have a few minor scuffs, top edge of text block is foxed, previous owner's name in ink on front free end paper. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 5 oz. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 016097.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. ] Hardback, 8vo, xiv + 177 pages, VG+ in VG+ dj (dj in new protective mylar). "A simple up-to-date method of schooling hunters, jumpers, and hacks." Very clean book and dj. Small "Beth & Suzie" in ballpoint to upper corner of FFEP. DJ has three or four short, closed edge tears. Numerous photos. Index. RWR5 Horses Riding Training Horsemanship Jumping.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing hardcover in butternut cloth covered boards with black spine title. Formerly published under the title 'Riding Forward'. Spine ends bumped, tips still sharp. Former owner's name/date at head of fep. Author's dedication on half title page 'To Mary Wilde With best wishes V. Littauer June 6, 1946'. Endpapers bright, hinge papers fine, 166pp text is crisp and clean w/several b/w photographs. Un-clipped, original dj has 1/8" chips at sunned spine ends and a 1" closed tear at foot of frt panel. Rub at head of spine took the upper half of the word 'Riding', jacket now in new mylar and displays well. A classic work that belongs in every hunt seat rider's library. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited First Edition. Brown hardcover shows edgewear wqith light insect damage. This is one of 950 copies by Derrydale Press. 125 pages are lightly tanned with more tanning at edges. They are clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is soiled with a .75"x.75" chip at top cornet of front, and small chips /tears at other corners and spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. good+ medium hardcover / no DJ /deckel edged / light wear to edges, corner and spine tips / stain and two scratches on front / book plate in front and stamp / date page removal scar and tearing of first page / ex library of a pony club / title page has soiling and staining and also page opposite / main text appears clean and unmarked / back hinge cracked but holding / staining on back end paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. LITTAUER, Captain V.S. [125] pp. The Derrydale Press 1931 9.75" x 6.75" Nine hundred and fifty copies have been printed by Eugene V. Connett.

LIMITED FIRST EDITION. One of 950 copies. With 125 black and white illustrations mostly from photographs. 8vo, in the publisher's original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, and pictorially decorated with a jumping horse in gilt in the center of the upper cover. xii, 125 pp. A very nice copy, solid and clean, internally fine and fresh and with little evidence of use or age, the brown cloth also in fine condition. FIRST EDITION AND A COMPLETE BOOK ON MODERN THEORIES OF JUMPING ON HORSEBACK. Subjects include: The Evolution of Riding and Jumping, The Trajectories of the Jump, and Construction of Jumps.