Famous Running Horses: Their Forebears and Descendants

by Colonel John F. Wall

$50 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Washington, D.C. Infantry Journal Press / A Sportsman's Press Book, 1949. First Edition. Quarto 26cm ; burgundy cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine and blocking in black on spine; 313pp; black-and-white photographic halftone illustrations. Light shelf-wear and -soil; Very Good. Sections on horses in the army, development of racing, Byerley Turk, and Darley Arabian.

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