Item #120928 The Authentic Arabian Horse and his Descendants. Three Voices concerning the Horses of Arabia: Tradition (Nejd, Inner East); Romantic Fable (Islam); The Outside World of the West. Horses, Lady WENTWORTH.

The Authentic Arabian Horse and his Descendants. Three Voices concerning the Horses of Arabia: Tradition (Nejd, Inner East); Romantic Fable (Islam); The Outside World of the West

Canaan, Sporting Book Center, 1979 (third edition)/ 1945.

Large quarto, 352 pages with numerous illustrations plus '213 plates in half-tone and 39 plates in colour' and a large folding map of Arabia tipped in on the rear pastedown.

Cloth lightly marked on the front cover; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little scuffed, with a tiny tear and light creases near the ehad of the rear hinge.

The prospectus, and two typed letters signed by the London dealer J.A. Allen ('The Horseman's Bookshop'), are loosely inserted; the original purchase receipt is mounted on the front pastedown. 'For this third edition, purely factual information which has gone out of date has been most carefully revised to take account of modern developments'.

Item #120928

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