Hance Captain J E (8 results)

Condition: Good. 1935. First Edition. 128 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Ex libris plate at front. Black and white illustrations throughout by Robert Bartleet. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning. Book has slight forward lean.

Condition: Good. 1938. First Edition. 128 pages. Orange pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth. Prize plate to front endpaper. Page are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are slightly bowed. Slight forward lean to text block. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Considerable loss to jacket edges and corners.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition earlier dated book. First edition. No dust jacket. Light shelf wear. Contents have a smattering of foxing and are otherwise clean and sound.

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.

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.

Condition: Very Good. On offer is a superb archive of fourteen [14] handwritten manuscript letters by the famed author of many books on equitation and equestrian pursuits, Captain J.E. Hance, who after he left the Army, continued to spend his time solely to the subject of horses and riding. He developed the theories on the training of riders and their mounts, they are the result of his many years' practical experience. The simple way of his teaching system has been put together with his simple language he used. Nearly half of this beautiful lot shows us the relations with the publisher he works with (Mr. Martin Phillips) where he indicates how to work out his books as well as where to put the pictures and the plates. Super addition to any collection of equestrian items. 11cm x 16cm. VG+ Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Manuscript.