Prof Pratt (8 results)

Cloth Spine/Card Cover. Condition: Near Fine (NEAR NEW). No Jacket. This is the FIRST EDITION. VOLUME V ONLY! This book is part of a large purchase from a Public Sector Library and except where mentioned are for the most part LIKE NEW! MOSTLY the ONLY flaws are the blacked out (they insisted) Library stamps which show many of them to be UNUSED! This copy is Near Fine (NEAR NEW). FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. FROM A DEALER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. EX PUBLIC SECTOR LIBRARY BLACK.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A fascinating book including everything you ever needed to know about a horse, from How to educate a colt not to be afraid of his heels, to How to educate a horse to walk on its hind feet, some handy information about cows and dogs, and more! Includes section o the intelligence of animals, and another at the rear on The rules and regulations of the National Association of the American Trotting Turf. All 140+ engravings present, including frontis of the author, and a portrait of his wife. Soiling to texture blue boards with gilt ring, closed tear across head of spine, beginnings of starting hinge at front exposing 5cm of netting, but binding remains firm, toning to end papers, pencil notation of ffep, sporadic light foxing/toning, no printing data but stated Tenth Thousand copy printed. Grading commensurate with age of book. Grading commensurate with age of book. Dispatched from the UK same or next working day. NB: Due to the utter stupidity of Brexit, parcels sent to the EU may incur customs charges.

DECORATIVE BUCKRAM. Condition: Good. Presumed FIRST EDITION. EMBOSSED & STAMPED GREEN BUCKRAM BOARDS WITH CIRCULAR GOLD GILT FRAME CONTAINING PASTEON OF HORSE. WEAR TO CORNERS & EDGES. MISSING TITLE PAGE. FRONTIS PAGE WITH ILLUS OF PRATT & TISSUE GUARD IS LOOSE AND THERE IS ANOTHER LOOSE PAGE., HEAD OF SPINE HAS FRAYING . 541 PAGES. A MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND WELL ILLUSTRATTED HORSE BOOK. HAS IT ALL; REMEDIES, RECORDS, HORSESHOEING, FEEDING and FITTING, ETC. A LARGE NUMBER OF FULL PAGE VINTAGE, CIRCA 1870'S HORSE PICTURES. NO DATE, CIRCA 1870'S. DIRECT INQUIRIES ALWAYS WELCOMED. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

Cloth Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Boards have some moderate rubbing to edges, spine worn. Period plate and ink inscrip to f-fep, PP and illus clean and tidy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. 8vo, 21cm, 10th thousand, 541p., wood-engraved frontis portrait & c.140 illustrations from engravings, original fine grain elaborately gilt and blind decorated, oval colour horse illustration laid in on the upper cover, gilt block titles and bands, bevelled boards, expertly restored, very good to fine copy. (sgc) The author was born in Darien, Genesee County, New York state, 1835.

3. New York, MacMillan, 1928, in-8°, 758 pp, publisher's cloth, bibliography in the notes, index, ex-library, some pencil underlinings, but a good copy.

8vo, 21cm, 18th thousand, Canadian Edition, 541p., wood-engraved frontis portrait & title page vignette & c.140 plates and illustrations from engravings, original middle brown cloth, elaborately gilt and black stamped pictorial decorated on the spine and cover, repeated in blind on the bottom board, oval colour horse illustration laid in on the upper cover, gilt block titles and bands, bevelled boards, middle brown endpapers, small oval private library label on the front paste down endpaper, Binder' Ticket on the back endpaper "Dawson Bro's BINDERS Montreal", a fine bright copy .(sgc). The author was born in Darien, Genesee County, New York state, 1835.