Blair Calvert (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. First edition, first printing. Hard cover and dust jacket published by Prentis Publishing in 1990. Blue-green covers with gilt lettering. Verso of front endpaper and the next page have some finger smudges Book is in very good condition. Dust jacket is in very good condition. Included with this book is an addendum, with the Library of Congress Catalog Card Number (CIP), and an errata with 10 corrections in the book. 9-10 inches, 260 pages, 1.4 lb.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 260 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Signed and inscribed by Cecil Smith on front endpaper. First edition, first printing. Hard cover and dust jacket published by Prentis Publishing in 1990. Blue-green covers with gilt lettering. Spine is slightly cocked. Book is in very good condition. Dust jacket has slight creasing along top edges, has a small nick at bottom in front and is in very good condition. Also included are three photocopied articles about polo in Texas, featuring the person to whom the book is inscribed. Large 8vo, 260 pages, 1.4 lb.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 260 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. CALVERT, Blair [260] pp. Prentis Publishing Company 9 3/8" x 6 3/4" Inscribed: I hope you will enjoy this book best regards Cecil Smith Cecil Smith (1904 1999) was an American rancher and polo player. In 1924, he started playing polo while working for George Miller, a horse trader in Austin, Texas. He also played alongside Albert Buckman Wharton Jr. at his El Ranchito Polo Club on his Waggoner Ranch. He later played polo with Will Rogers, Darryl Zanuck, Walt Disney and Reginald Denny. He was a ten-goal player from 1938 to 1962 -which makes him the American with the longest record to hold the ten-goal status. He often competed at the Meadow Brook Polo Club in Westbury, New York. He won the Monty Waterbury Cup in 1930 and the U.S. Open Polo Championship five times. He played with the U.S.A. team against Mexico three times. Then, starting in 1938, he began a string of 26 years, 25 consecutively (1938-62), in which he was a 10-goal player. He owned a 100-acre ranch in Boerne, Texas, where he rode and trained horses. Inscribed by Author(s).