M O'malley Knott (12 results)

Condition: Good. Boards have some wear, fading, oiling marks. Content has light toning. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Stated First. Would be very good if not for light moisture stain to spine and front cover. Very good to near fine inside. Dust jacket poor with wear, tear and sun. See pictures for further description.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Illustrated by Paul Brown. 280pp. Owner name on the front free endpaper and a stain on the spine foot else near fine, lacking the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. inked price on front pastedown, rebound? library pocket and date slip. Brown, Paul (illustrator).

hardcover. first edition. 8vo 280pp. with Page Cooper. #02673. Book VG-: age/soil to boards and spine, spine sunned, text clean, binding tight. Paul Brown (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated first edition hardcover in red cloth boards with browned backstrip with dulled gilt titles showing bumped ends, board tips still sharp. No names tears or soil in the 280 page text has top edge dyed red and is tight and bright w/lovely red/white endpapers and dust jacket illustrated by Paul Brown, along with a myriad of black and white line drawings throughout. Professionally photo-reproduced dust jacket in new mylar shows sunned spine and a 1/2 inch chip at head of rear gutter area, some light color loss at spine but no other chips. Book displays well in new mylar. Seventy Years with Horses, Hounds & People. At the tender age of ten, Middleton O'Malley Knott was so thrilled by a horse race that he there and then determined to become the greatest gentleman jockey in Ireland. He never did, but his first love has been his constant love, and riding, racing, horses and horsemen have remained the dominant interest in his life. In this engaging autobiography, shot through with Irish humor and full of sportsman's lore, O'Malley tells how he built a colorful career in America on the strength of his first love. He established himself in New Jersey as a veterinarian and took to riding to hounds and later he had a hand in founding most of the great eastern hunts.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Good copy with very worn dustjacket, pp183.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, red cloth, gilt titling to spine, 280 pp, original dust jacket. Illustrated by Paul Brown. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper, fading to covers along edges, fading/offsetting, mild chipping, and staining to jacket, which has corners of flaps trimmed, good. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hard cover book in good- condition with dust jacket in fair condition. Creasing and numerous tears, chips and losses to all edges of tatty jacket which is faded to spine. Extensive fading and mottling to all edges of boards. Spotting to edges of text block. Pages lightly tanned. 8vo. 183pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, stated. Red cloth with gilt lettering and design on the spine; illustrated endpapers; red top page edges. The book is square; pages are lightweight due to wartime regs but still fairly bright; "Merry Christmas -- Mom '44" in ink on inside rear endpaper, else unmarked; corners sharp, spine ends bumped with some discoloration. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $3.00); spine is faded to a tan color; corners chipped; a 2-by-1-inch piece missing at head of spine, smaller piece at tail of spine. Brodart protected. Paul Brown (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Stated First Edition. Inscribed by Author Inside Front Cover; Endpaper and In-Text Illustrations by Paul Brown; Tight, Clean, Unmarked Copy w/ Wall Street, NYC Address Inside Front Cover; Bright Covers w/ Sharp Corners; Attractive Copy! ! ! ; 280 pages; Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. KNOTT, M. O'Malley [280] pp. Doubleday, Doran And Company, Inc. 1946 First Edition 8 1/2" x 5 3/4" Illustrated by Paul Brown Seventy Years with Horses, Hounds & People. At the tender age of ten, Middleton O'Malley Knott was so thrilled by a horse race that he there and then determined to become the greatest gentleman jockey in Ireland. He never did, but his first love has been his constant love, and riding, racing, horses and horsemen have remained the dominant interest in his life. In this engaging autobiography, shot through with Irish humor and full of sportsman's lore, O'Malley tells how he built a colorful career in America on the strength of his first love. He established himself in New Jersey as a veterinarian and took to riding to hounds and later he had a hand in founding most of the great eastern hunts.…