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The Way of a Man with a Horse - A Practical Book on Horsemanship
by Geoffrey Brooke
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Seeley, 1929. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1929. Limited Edition. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Fully bound in red leather with gilt lettering. Colour illustrated frontispiece and plates throughout. This is copy 213 from 375 copies of this edition. Book has been rebound. Flat signed by author and artist to publishers' note page and frontispiece. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages and plates with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Top textblock edge dyed gilt. Rough cut pages. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Minor wear marks to boards.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1646984843MHA
- Title
- The Way of a Man with a Horse - A Practical Book on Horsemanship
- Author
- Geoffrey Brooke
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Seeley
- Date Published
- 1929
Terms of Sale
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
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