Thoroughbred Racing Stock and its Ancestors. The Authentic Origin of Pure Blood
by Lady Wentworth
- Used
- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.. 1960. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket in a Good slipcase. DJ spine a little faded and some rubbing t and marking to the solid slipcase. Illustrated with 368 black and white plates, 24 full colour plates and in-text diagrams. Fold-out map to rear. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. This is a heavy book and will cost more to ship internationally. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. xxii, 556 pages. Subtitle - 'Many voices concerning the horses of the world with additional chapters from the notes of the late lady Anne Blunt (16th Baroness Wentworth) and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, on the Arabian breed, collected, edited, and enlarged with a history of the thoroughbred racehorse and the horses of the East and West. Foreword by Sir Theodore Cook and by HH Aga Khan. . 2nd Edition Revised. Hardback.
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- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB313242
- Title
- Thoroughbred Racing Stock and its Ancestors. The Authentic Origin of Pure Blood
- Author
- Lady Wentworth
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- 2nd Edition Revised
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1960
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sport;
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