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Horseman: Memoirs of Captain J. H. Marshall
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Horseman: Memoirs of Captain J. H. Marshall
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Bodley Head, 1970
ISBN 10: 0370013271
ISBN 13: 9780370013275
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Seller: HORSE BOOKS PLUS LLC, Boston, VA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 1st edition hardcover in dark green cloth covered boards showing bumped spine ends and sharp tips. Tidy former owner's name on fep. 336pp text is crisp and unmarked with one now unfolded dog ear. Price clipped dj is complete with a touch of wavyness to head of both panels, now in new mylar and displays beautifully with color, wrap-around hunt scene on an overcast autumn day after Heywood Hardy entitled Detail from a Lawn Meet at Aske. Captain Marshall was born near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire towards the end of the heyday of the sporting print, when hunting boxes in the county or villas in the Georgian streets of Melton were competed for each season by the world's richest men and women. Growing on his father's farm, where cattle and sheep ran a poor second to horses, young Marshall became through instinct and circumstance first a cavalryman and then a horse-coper. A polished horseman, sensitive, percipient, he could buy what he called 'dogs' and turn them into millionaires' conveyances, or at least decent hunters. Despite the increasing problems of such a trade, he continued it, and lived off it, now well, now frugally, for sixty years. Here he tells the story of his long life, of the horses and the men and women in it, to his friend, neighbor (and Editor in this case) in Dorset, George Millar. With its humor and lighthearted acceptance of life, this narrative must be of absorbing interest both to the foxhunter and to the uninitiated. Seller Inventory # 47587
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HORSEMAN: MEMOIRS OF CAPTAIN J.H. MARSHALL. Edited by George Millar.
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The Bodley Head. London. 1970, 1970
ISBN 10: 0370013271
ISBN 13: 9780370013275
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Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1970). 1970 1st edition. 8vo (143 x 223mm). Pp336. B/w photograph plates. Green cloth, gilt titles on red panel to spine. Slight browning, igft inscription, else very good in slightly spine-tanned, price-clipped dust-wrapper. This is the autobiography of cavalryman and horse-coper, John Marshall. The son of a farmer, Marshall was born near Melton Mowbray "towards the end of the heyday of the sporting print". His background led him into the 16th Lancers. Circumstances and Marshall's ability with horses had him transferred to a remount depot and then work with army procurement. This set him up for his later return to the horse trade. "A polished horseman, sensitive, percipient, he could buy what he called 'dogs' and turn them into millionaires' conveyances, or at least decent hunters. Despite the increasing problems of such a trade, he continued it, and lived off it, now well, now frugally, for sixty years." . Seller Inventory # 61752
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