Guide to Dressage
by Louise Mills Wilde
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0498024407
- ISBN 13
- 9780498024405
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
La Jolla, CA: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1982 A. S. Barnes and Company, La Jolla, CA. 1982. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light wear to head, tail, and rear lower tip from shelving. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($14.95 label pasted over published price); closed tears to head and top of front panel; toning to top edge. Tan grained leatherette boards and spine with bright gilt lettering to spine and front board. 291 pp 8vo. Dressage is a system of training the horse. It employs a series of exercises sometimes called "schoolwork". Like other kinds of schoolwork, there are tests to determine learning progress- in this case, a progressive series of program rides performed individually by each horse at dressage competitions. This book discusses the objectives and explains the techniques of this fascinating and intricate training process. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008741
- Title
- Guide to Dressage
- Author
- Louise Mills Wilde
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0498024407
- ISBN 13
- 9780498024405
- Publisher
- A. S. Barnes and Company
- Place of Publication
- La Jolla, CA
- Date Published
- 1982
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- dressage, judging, horses, training horses, horse shows, horse judging, judging performance, objectives, training methods, horse and rider,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animal Stories;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Gilt
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- Brodart
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- Jacket
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