Bartleet Captain (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Bartleet, Robert (illustrator). 2nd Edition. First British Popular edition, 1938 (first edition was 1935). No jacket. With a foreword by Countess Fortescue. Illustrated with pen sketches by Robert Bartleet. Orange boards are very good with just a little fading to spine, few minor marks, little rubbing/pushing to head/tail of spine and very minor pushing/bumping to corners. The binding is tight. Top of pages little dusty. Odd small mark to page edges, tops and bottoms. Occasional mark to pages. No other faults. Numerous illustrations. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Statement "First published 1935" to the copyright page. Generously illustrated in pen-and-ink with captioned, well-depicted horse action scenes by Robert Bartleet. A charming guide with a novel approach that takes the reader through detailed experiences and lessons of a horse rider's social life, caring for horses and ponies, and learning how to ride, jump, and advance. In the SCARCE original dust jacket. Minutely bumped to the upper corner tips, tiny brown dot-stain to the outer page fore-edges, else nearly fine in gray linen with deep-blue embossed rules to the front cover and to the spine; in a very good dust jacket with tanning to the spine panel, some short edge tears, very small chips and short tears to the upper and lower spine ends, a small hole to the spine panel, with black and orange art by Robert Bartleet to the front panel; original printed 7s. 6d. NET price still intact to the front inner flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Robert Bartleet. (illustrator). NO JACKET. Hardback 1935. A little foxing. Clean and tight. No inscriptions. NO JACKET. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref o660.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original grey cloth covers, blue title and author lettering to the spine. Quarto 10'' x 8''. Contains 128 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. Age darkened spine with rubs, minimal foxing to the closed page edges and throughout. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. HUNTS & GAME SHOOTING.

Cornish Brothers Ltd., Birmingham. 1934. First edition. Hardback NO DW. Large 8vo. Illustrated and with b/w frontis. Red cloth gilt boards are slightly marked and rubbed and spine is sunned. Foxing to end papers and page edges. Ownership signature to front end paper. A nice copy.