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My Kingdom for a Horse: The Story of a Journey on Horseback from the Cornish Moors to the Scottish Border
by Leigh, Margaret
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Kirkwall, Orkney, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Macmillan, 1939. Ex library copy re-bound in dark red faux-morocco style boards and with new endpapers resulting in the loss of the endpaper map. Slight bumping to spine ends, card pocket, label and ink stamp inside front board, ink stamp and barcode label on f/ep, ink stamp on rev of title page. Otherwise a good clean tight copy of this not-so-common hard-cover book, dealing with the author's journey by horse from Bodmin to Riddings on the Scottish border in September-October 1938. She spent many years crofting in parts of the Highlands and wrote several books on her experiences, including "A Spade among the Rushes". 276pp, b&w frontispiece, no map.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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- Seller
- JimsOldBooks
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 012901
- Title
- My Kingdom for a Horse: The Story of a Journey on Horseback from the Cornish Moors to the Scottish Border
- Author
- Leigh, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- journey-through-England, Journeys-On-horseback
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; British Isles;
Terms of Sale
JimsOldBooks
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About the Seller
JimsOldBooks
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Kirkwall, Orkney
About JimsOldBooks
Based in Kirkwall, Orkney off the north coast of Scotland. No shop, internet sales only..
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- 12mo
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- Title Page
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