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Cloth. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Lionel Edwards (illustratore). 1st Edition. Oblong octavo. 80pp. Colour frontispiece, 16 full-page drawings. Essays of reminiscences. Cover damp-stained, but pages are clean.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. This is the blurb from the dustwrapper: " MY FIRST HORSE contains the hitherto unpublished reminiscences and stories of six well known men and women who need no special introduction. SIEGFRIED SASSOON, the author of Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, writes on Horses and Hunting. A. F. TSCHIFFELY, in A Gaucho in the Pampa, tells of his first horse 'a lovely chap, a golden-red and snow-white skewbald with a bristly mane, proud fiery eyes and a long flowing tail,' and of Luna, the piebald, whom he bought in South America. CYNTHIA ASQUITH speaks of High Horse, the pony whom Granny rode when she was a little girl. LIONEL EDWARDS remembers the days when he was a poor student in London and bought his first horse for the sake of his health. LAURIAN JONES introduces Jim, her chestnut Welsh pony, with a strong will of his own, and VIC OLIVER confides how he became a racehorse owner when he bought Heart, a bay gelding, who, to quote his proud owner, 'had the meekness of a lamb, and the courage of a lion.' MY FIRST HORSE has been illustrated by LIONEL EDWARDS, the acknow-ledged first draughtsman of horses and the hunting field." Yellow cloth with huntsman on his mount in gilt on the front, in dustwrapper with colour illustrations by Lionel Edwards on the front and rear.The book has 80 pages, with illustrated endpapers, colour frontispiece, and illustrated throughout with drawings, all illustrations are by Lonel Edwards.10 X 7.5 inches.Very good book with foxing and browning along the edge of the boards, and page edges. The dustwrapper is quite good with wear to corners and spine ends, with a little loss to the spine ends, a few very short edge tears, and edge creasing. original "9s 6d net" price inrtact on the corner of the front flap.

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Lionel Edwards (illustratore). First edition. A beautifully illustrated first edition of this collection of reminiscences from many authors. First edition. Illustrated with coloured frontispiece and nineteen in-text drawings and sketches. Thoughts on Horses and Hunting by Siegfried Sassoon, an English war poet, writer and soldier. 'A Gaucho in the Pampa' by Aime Felix Tschiffely, a Swiss-born Argentine professor, author, and adventurer. 'Granny's Story' by Cynthia Asquith, an English writer and socialite known for her ghost stories and diaries. 'An Artist and his Horse', by Lionel Edwards, a British artist who specialized in painting horses and British country life. 'My Welsh Pony' by Laurian Jones, a British author and artist. 'I Become a Racehorse Owner' by Vic Oliver, an Austrian-born British musician, entertainer, comedian, and actor. Illustrated by Lionel Edwards. In the original yellow cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and bumping to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper also very smart with light shelf wear only. Illustrated pastedown and endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine. book.