Search Results: Equestrian from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(Cape Town, The Form Organisation, no date c. 1980). Folio; pictorial boards, somewhat rubbed and worn; pp. 208 (including index); black-and-white photographs. Very good condition. Top South African racehorses of the generations 1968 through 1976. .

(London: Seeley, Service & Co, no date, printed 1945). A Practical Book on Horsemanship by Brigadier Geoffrey Brooke, D.S.O., M.C., author of "Horse Sense & Horsemanship of To-day"; Veterinary Notes by Col. Todd, D.S.G., R.A.V.C., & a chapter on Pig-Sticking by Lieut.-Col. Arthur Brooke, D.S.O., M.C. With over ninety illustrations. The Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games and Pastimes Volume 1. 8vo; original brown cloth; price-clipped dustwrapper; pp. 288 (including index). Dustwrapper slightly rubbed and edgeworn; name of previous owner on front free endpaper; some light browning. .

(London, Putnam & Co., 1945). Illustrated by Lionel Edwards, R.I.; introduction by Adair Dighton. Quarto, pictorial dustwrapper, somewhat soiled, frayed with some loss, original green cloth, slightly worn, pp. xvi + 108 + (1), plates, including colour. Inscription on the front free endpaper, small marks on the endpapers, very slight browning, slight foxing on the preliminary pages and edges.'From the day when King James I. "did hunt the hare with his own hounds," in the neighbourhood, Newmarket has ever been the playground of the King and his people. In "Royal newmarket" the racy pen of the late Captain Lyle, famous racing correspondent of the Times and B.B.C. commentator on the Classics, combines with the vivid brush of Lionel Edwards to bring to life as they pass across the heath the famous and notorious of every age.' .

(London, Country Life Limited, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930). Illustrated by Charles Simpson. Small quarto, original cloth half-binding, boards slightly scarred, pp. (x) + 202 + (1), illustrations. Edges a little foxed. Owner's name on the recto of the frontispiece, bottom edge only slightly ink-spotted. .