Louisville KY: The Standard Printing Company, 1933. Green hardcover binding has gilt tile and black silhouette of a trotting horse is clean and tight, spine slightly cocked, some rubbing along edges, green endpapers, hinges good, slightly yellowing pages, clean interior. 280 pages with index to important horses mentioned in the text. Hinge crack between pages 146 and 147. Pullout pedigree chart intact. Part One is the evolution, origin, history and type of saddle horse; Part Two is Training of these from early colt training to gaiting along with caretaking, shoeing, etc. Glossy photos of important horses of the type. Book traces the evolution, origin, history, derivation and development of the saddle-bred horse, with a treatise on breeding principles and a section devoted to the training of gaited animals. 1933 on copyright and title page - stated Sixth Printing.. Illus. by Photographs. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good/No Jacket.

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Bookseller: Deja Vu Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 013788
Title: THE AMERICAN SADDLE HORSE
Author: Farshler, Earl
Illustrator: Photographs
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: The Standard Printing Company
Place of Publication: Louisville KY
Date Published: 1933
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Bookseller catalogs: Horses - Nonfiction, Children and Adult;

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