Sid Barnes Henry Alper (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. 226pp, black and white plate frontispiece and further black and white plate illustrations interleaved in text. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. 8vo. Cloth a little rounded at spine tips. Slight shadowing on endpapers else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original illustrated dust jacket, rubbed and bumped on edges, short cracks at base of spine folds and at base of forward fold, a little shelf worn. The story of Persian War, one the greatest racehorses of all time, three times Champion hurdle, and his struggles against illness, and of the tensions between his his charismatic and colourful owner, Henry Alper, and various trainers that more than once split over to violence and resulted in Persian War changing stables.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Very Good book in Good Dust Jacket. Maroon boards with silver lettering to spine. Binding is tight, page block is in generally very good conditon, upper edge and fore edge have sunning and light foxing. No inscriptions or other notes. DJ has been price clipped, and has edgewear and a few small chips.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. jacket is shelf rubbed, a few tears at the back. contents are clean and soundly bound. good copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This copy is in fine, unmarked condition bound in red cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in mint condition International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Persian War (1963-1984) was a British National Hunt horse and a three-time winner of the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham. He is considered by many to have been the greatest hurdler of all time. He won the Triumph Hurdle in 1967, before progressing to dominate the hurdling ranks for the next three years, including winning the Champion Hurdle three times, until the emergence of dual Champion Hurdle winner Bula. He was rated as the best hurdler since Sir Ken in the 1950s, and described as "the ultimate champion" by trainer Colin Davis, and is considered to have heralded 'a golden age' of two mile hurdling that saw outstanding champions Bula, Comedy Of Errors, Night Nurse, Monksfield and Sea Pigeon.[2] However, many observers felt that Persian War could have accomplished even more if not for the interference of his owner Henry Alper, who employed six trainers to prepare the horse during his career and often targeted unsuitable races. A Scarce book. Ref R 5.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Unclipped dustwrapper has been trimmed at the inner flaps but with no loss to the text, a lot of old sellotape marks to the rev of dustwrapper, some of the marking visible on the front, also some creasing and small tears to edges. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of red boards, sellotape marks to front board, marks inside front and back boards where sellotape has been removed, half-title has been clipped with pinking shears, but otherwise internally a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with the British racehorse Persian War, three-times winner of the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham. Signed on f/ep by the joint authors Sid Barnes (Racing Editor of London Evening News) and Henry Alper (owner of Persian War) and also by the jockey Jimmy Uttley (who rode Persian War to victory). 227pp, 19pp b&w illustrations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

The story of the 3-time winner of the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham. Henry Alper was the horse's owner. First edition. 8vo. 227pp. Dust-wrapper, lightly rubbed. Good condition. Signed and dedicated by Henry Alper (and Persian War) to front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Published by Pelham, UK. 1971. 1st edition. Original cloth. Dustwrapper. Size: 14.8cm x 22.3cm. Pp. 227. ISBN: 720704863. Illustrated throughout with photographs. The biography of one of the horse considered to be one of the greatest hurdlers of all time. With Jimmy Uttley up, Persian War would win the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham three times. Signed by Jim Uttley and Henry Alper to the front blank endpaper. A very near fine, tight, clean copy in very good indeed, bright, clean dustwrapper which is very slightly rubbed and faded to the spine. Scarce signed by the jockey. Signed by Author(s).