Yates Bruce Blunt (5 results)

Condition: Fair. 1924. No Edition Remarks. 278 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Binding is weakened. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Heavier tanning and foxing to some pages. Plate facing page 234 loosened but attached. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is slightly dulled. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition hardcover in butternut cloth covered boards with sharp tips and spine ends. No names, tears or writing in the 278pp text. Includes 10 photographs within this vintage autobiography that has foxing on title pages and endpapers, interior is tight, bright, crisp and clean. Horse Racing, Steeplechasing, and much more. …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A very smart first edition of trainer and Gentleman rider, Arthur Yates' autobiography, adorned with monochrome plates. The first edition.In the publisher's original cloth binding.This autobiography, written in collaboration with English poet and journalist Bruce Blunt, contains the memoirs and reminiscences of steeplechase rider, Arthur Yates.With anecdotes of fellow riders such as Charles Boyce, and all famous Nationals that he had attended.Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine monochrome plates. Collated, complete. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with light bumping to the extremities. With handling marks to the cloth and the bookplate of Richard Green to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with occasional scattered spots. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Illustrated autobiography by the Victorian horseracing figure. 8vo. 278pp. Cloth-covered boards. Boards rubbed. Lightly foxed in places. Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Woth 10 plates, covers little soiled, pp. 278.