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Dayton, TX: Saddlerock Corporation, 1960. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. B/W Photographs & Illustrations. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" VG in boards [light edgewear, some writing to text] 8vo 159pp.

Houston: Saddlerock Corporation, 1958. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.

SADDLEROCK CORPORATION. Hardcover. USED Fair.

Dayton, TX: The Saddlerock Corporation, 1969. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan leatherette, pictorial dust jacket. 159pp. Illustrations, tables, pictorial endpapers. Very good/good plus. Jacket spine sunned and several lengthy jacket tears expertly and archivally closed (on verso). Later printing (5th printing of the second edition), tight and attractive, of this "first comprehensive book on 'the horse of the West'.

Dayton: Saddlerock Corporation, 1964. Fourth. G, No Dust Jacket, White Marking on Front Cover . Photos. Dayton: G, No Dust Jacket, White Marking on Front Cover. 1964.

Houston: Saddlerock Corp, 1958. First edition.. Hard cover. Very Good. 0 Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. hb, signed, vg bk/ no dj, clean and tight, spine bumped.

Houston: Saddlerock Corporation, 1958. First Edition. Octavo. 158 pages, 56 photographs, illustrations. Signed by L.N. Sikes and Bob Grey. Laid in is a photograph of L.N. Sikes taken by Bob Grey and signed on the back: "L.N. Sikes, DeQueen, Ark." Also laid in is a two page advance description of the book. It was issued as the first complete book on the history, training and use of the quarter horse. The books shows the history then talks about buying, raising, training colts, cutting, roping, reining horses and barrel racers. It also deals with halter shows, bulldogging and straightaway racing. Besides his experience as a veteran rodeo roper, he became a major judge while managing his large ranch near DeQueen, Arkansas. What makes this book a pleasure to those raised in the ranch atmosphere is it was recorded and then transcribed so it sounds like the west not an eastern writer who tried to sound authentic though his only experience with a horse was a photograph taken on pony as a small child. Bound… Read More