Blacker Monkey (15 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dustjacket has wear and tear. With possible toning, or mild soiling. Pages have toning, but are unmarked. If you have any questions, or would like images, please let me know.

Condition: Good. 1960. First Edition. 192 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Clipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Gift quality first edition hardcover in red paper covered boards with one bumped lower tip. No names, tears or soil in the tight, crisp 192pp text. Original, color illustrated, price-clipped dust wrapper is otherwise complete showing light color loss at tips and spine ends but displays beautifully in new mylar. "This is a most entertaining and true story of a great horse." writes Miss Pat Smythe in her Foreword to this book. As a team Brigadier Blacker and Workboy represented Great Britain in Spain and Portugal and won the Imperial Cup at the White City in 1959. In 1960 they were second in both the Imperial Cup and the King George V Gold Cup. But before he rose to the top as a show jumper Workboy was one of the finest two mile steeple-chasers in the country - being placed twenty-nine out of the forty-six races in which he ran. Brigadier Blacker is as versatile as his mount: he has been an international athlete, a leading amateur jockey, Military Assistant to the C.I.G.S. and now an author describing Workboy's battles, victories and disasters. An enthralling read.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 1st ed 1963. Large tear top of front of dj, large chip from bottom spine end of dj, chip from spine top of dj, shelf wear and creasing on dj, other wear and tears dj edges, light cloth wear on extremities, page sides lightly tanned, otherwise vg. 400 grams.

1st edn signed by author on title page. 8vo. Original blue cloth (poor - spine daded and corners bumped), no dustwrapper. Pp. 192, illus with b&w frontispiece and drawings in text (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good + Hardback. No Jacket. Joan Wanklyn (illustrator). First Published.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Wanklyn, Joan (illustrator). Hardcover in good condition. Unclipped jacket with edgewear, a few marks and some tears to the edges; chipped portion to the front lower edge. Light foxing on the page block and some pages. The binding is sound, all text and illustrations are clear. CM. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 12mo. Modern Men of Action Series. Full red cloth. 191 pp. Light bumping to spine ends and corners, else fine. Dust jacket is price clipped, chipped at head, short tears to head and foot of rear, small perforation to spine. This is the story of a man who came out of the Second World War with a longing to combine his life as a solider with the activities of which he had dreamed and had been deprived during the war years. "Monkey" Blacker has won many of the highest awards which the show-jumping world has to offer and has achieved great success as a top-ranking horseman. Thus, a famous rider became an athlete, a painter, and a journalist by turns, and in each role he succeeded by dint of hard work and determination - and more than a little genius - in acquitting himself as well as he had already done in the military and equestrian spheres.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 191 pages; A volume from the Modern Men of Action series. A comprehensive account of the soldier and top-rank horseman, illustrated with excellent photographs. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Crown8vo, 191 pp. Eight plates. Original red boards, lettered red on a white ground on the backstrip. A few faint spots of foxing on the prelims otherwise near fine copy in a price clipped and chipped with slight loss dust jacket. Modern Men of Action series. Postage will be reduced to cost.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. This copy is in fine, unmarked condition, bright, white, tight and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is innear fine condition. General Sir Cecil Hugh Blacker GCB, OBE, MC (4 June 1916 - 18 October 2002) was a senior British Army officer and a former Adjutant-General to the Forces. Educated at Wellington College and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Cecil Blacker was commissioned into the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards in 1936. He was adjutant of the Regiment during the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940. He later transferred to the 23rd Hussars which then formed part of 11th Armoured Division. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1944 following Operation Goodwood and went on to become Commanding Officer of the 23rd Hussars in 1945. Blacker was an Amateur Steeplechaser and International Showjumper. He rode in the 1948 Grand National. He rode Pointsman to win the Grand Military Gold Cup at Cheltenham in 1954. He represented Great Britain in Showjumping from 1959 to 1961. He was President both of the British Showjumping Association from 1976 to 1980 and of the British Equestrian Federation from 1980 to 1984. He was a member of the Horse Race Betting Levy Board from 1980 to 1983. Ref TT6.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 191 pages; A volume from the Modern Men of Action series. A comprehensive account of the soldier and top-rank horseman, illustrated with excellent photographs. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good DJ in Protector. Joan Wanklyn (illustrator). First Edition. A fairly sacrce book about a famous horse & rider. Dj just slightly edge worn.

Showjumping autobiography by the champion rider, whose horse Workboy had been one of the finest steeple-chasers in the country before becoming his mount in the Great Britain team during the 1950s, with line illustrations. 8vo. 192pp. Dust-wrapper. Creases and tears to wrapper, otherwise good condition.