Soldier Saddle by Blacker Monkey (6 results)

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.…

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.…

Hardcover. Condition: F/F/VG++. y First Revised Edition, 1st. Imp. HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint/Revised. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1963* Publisher: Burke Publishing.* Binding and cover condition: Red cloth, red title to white spine panel. No bumps or rubs, very lightly used, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper in clear film jacket. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 15/- net. Slight marks, minmal shelf wear. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: 8 pp. b/w photos within text throughout.* Pages: 189 pp. text. iv pp. epilogue and blank pages at rear.* Description: "Most of my story, though not all, centres round the horse. I have so often blessed my parents for a gift which I did not appreciate fully at the time." Autobiography of Monkey Blacker's life in the saddle and his jumping experiences. This is number 2 in the series ?Modern Men of Action.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st. edition with only minor faults reducing it to VG++* 1963-01-01.…

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: 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.…

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.…