Brooke geoffrey todd (12 risultati)

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd., London, 1930. Hardcover. First edition, first impression. Waxed light brown cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Gilt publisher's device to spine and to upper board. Brown decorative staining to top edges. With over ninety illustrations. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates. The Lonsdale Library publicity leaflet loosely inserted. No dustjacket. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Spine faded. Decorative staining dulled. Front hinge cracked but upper board sturdy. Some light foxing to pastedowns, to endpapers, to first few and to last few pages. Foxing to extreme fore edges. Overall, the book is in a good to very good condition.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Revised Edition. New and revised edition 1959 (1st published 1929) hardcover in beige cloth with Lonsdale L in gilt on cover, quarter-bound with mustard buckram cloth with gilt spine title. Book lightly bumped and slightly marked. Original, un-clipped DJ shows tiny chips at tips, now in new mylar and displays beautifully. 316pp text is tight, clean and crisp. B/w photo frontis + 85 other b/w photo plates. Described as the most complete treatise on horses, ponies and horsemanship yet published with chapters on The Horse, Stable knowledge & Routine, Riding, Jumping lessons, Riding to hounds, Riding school training, Bits and spurs, Schooling over fences, Racing over fences, Show Jumping, Polo Ponies, Pig Sticking etc.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Horsemanship: The Way of a Man with a Horse is the first volume of the celebrated Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games and Pastimes and is widely regarded as one of the finest practical books on riding and horse management published in the twentieth century. Written by Major-General Geoffrey Brooke, an accomplished cavalry officer, Olympic rider, polo player, steeplechaser, and horseman, the book covers every aspect of horsemanship, from selecting and caring for horses to riding, jumping, hunting, schooling, and stable management. Combining practical instruction with decades of experience, Brooke writes in a clear, authoritative style that made the book a standard reference for riders of all levels. Veterinary notes by Colonel A. G. Todd and a chapter on pig-sticking by Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Brooke further enhance its value as a comprehensive equestrian manual.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Later printing. Very good with a stain along the top edges of the boards, in a very good dustwrapper with some wrinkling.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. 288 pp. Scattered light foxing. Mostly clean.

Condizione: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original terracotta buckram covers, gilt title lettering to the spine, small gilt 'Lonsdale' insignia to the front cover. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains [vi] 288 printed pages of text with 95 monochrome illustrations throughout. Without any ownership markings, small foxing to the edges of the early papers, corners sharp and pointed, spine not faded and in Very Good clean and sharp condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. EQUINE & EQUESTRIANISM.…

1947, London, Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, pp367, four colour plates, black and white illustrations, tan cloth spine over beige boards in dustwrapper. Small damp mark on front cover, top of spine of dustwrapper slightly pulled, otherwise good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Signed limited first edition, in all 375 this being number 7 of the first ten not offered for sale, signed by the editor on the Publisher's Note and the coloured tipped in frontis piece signed by Lionel Edwards, octavo, full blue leather, light wear to corners, two small bruises on front sunning to spine, gilt decoration on front and titles across spine, top edges gilt, toning to untrimmed edges otherwise internally clean and bright, illustrated with 61 tipped in plates of which four in full colour, 368 pages. a very handsome beautifully produced volume. Heavy item (1.5kg net weight) may require additional for shipping. [QH] [QP]. EDWARDS, Lionel et alia. (illustratore). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A Near Fine and wonderfully clean and tight copy (hardly opened) of the first volume of The Lonsdale Library on Horsemanship with over ninety illustrations (b/w plates). Dust jacket is complete, price unclipped, and in protective cover. Just a small loss at base of spine and a very small chip at top. Tan boards are immaculate. 288pp.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. . EDWARDS, Lionel et al. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed limited first edition, in all 375 this being number 162 , signed by the editor on the Publisher's Note and the coloured tipped in frontis piece signed by Lionel Edwards, octavo, full blue leather, slightly faded, pp368.…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A profusely illustrated five-volume collection from The Lonsdale Library, offering authoritative guides on horsemanship, hunting, shooting, and fishing, with contributions from leading sporting experts of the era. In the publisher's original brown cloth bindings.These volumes are the first trade editions.This collection comprises four volumes from The Lonsdale Library series, published by Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd. between 1929 and 1930, bringing together practical guides on horsemanship, hunting, shooting, and fishing. Richly illustrated with colour and monochrome plates, frontispieces, and in-text images.This collection consists of:Two copies of The Way of a Man with a Horse: A Practical Book on Horsemanship by Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Broke, Veterinary notes by Colonel Todd, and a chapter on Pig-sticking by Lieutenant colonel Arthur Brooke (1929). These copies include over ninety illustrations across 27 double sided monochrome plates and two single monochrome plates, with a frontispiece. Collated, complete. Fox-Hunting (1930) by Sir Charles Frederick, Cecil Aldin, James Andrews, et al. This copy is illustrated with four colour plates, including a colour frontispiece, and 49 monochrome plates with eighteen reproductions of hunting pictures. Collated, complete. Shooting by Moor, Field and Shore: A practical guide to modern methods, by Eric Parker, Lesie Sprake, Major Portal, et al. (1929). This copy features one hundred and fifty illustrations across nineteen double sided monochrome plates and thirteen single sided plates, including a frontispiece. Collated, complete. Trout Fishing from All Angles: A Complete guide to modern methods by Eric Taverner, with a chapter on Trout scales by G. Herbert Nall, and The Legal Aspect of Fishing by Alban Bacon (1929). With two hundred and fifty illustrations, with thirty four monochrome plates including a frontispiece, sixteen of which are double sided, with two plates in colour. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, very smart. Slight damp staining across front board and front joint of spine to one of the copies of "The Way of a Man with a Horse". Previous owner"s inscription to front free endpapers, with the previous bookseller"s discreet label to front paste down, on all copies aside from one copy of "The Way of a Man With a Horse," in which the bookseller's label appears to the rear paste down. Spines slightly faded. The odd slight handling mark to boards and spines. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Hinges slightly strained in places, but holding firm. Pages bright and clean with one or two pots and handling marks, heavier to the fore edges and first and last few leaves. Very Good Indeed. Various (illustratore). book.…