The Arab and His Horse (Signed by the author)
by Raswan, Carl
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
(Oakland, California; 1955): Published By Author. Small Octavo. 2nd edition. Limited to 1000 copies, this is no. 469. Signed by the author in Arabic and English on a tipped in bookplate. xii, 148 pages, illustrations and with an introduction by Jane Llewellyn Ott. The Second Edition has added a 12 page introduction by Jane Llewellyn Ott (who is best known for her Blue Arabian Horse Book). This is the best edition for those who wish to know what Jane Ott wrote in conjunction with Carl Raswan. Includes the fold-out pages of Carl Raswan's "How the various strains and substrains of Arabian Horses are related to each other". The frontispiece is an image of Ott's painting of Fa Serr of the Babson Arabian Farm tipped in. Bound in tan pictorial cloth depicting a horse's head in blue, lettering tan, spine lettering blue. A very good copy.
Reviews
On Dec 19 2021, a reader said:
This is an amazingly informative book on the arabian horse. It has beautiful photographs of the desert Bedouins and their amazing culture, fold outs of original bloodlines throughout the ages, picture after picture of famous arabian horses, the purest in the world and how their bloodlines tie in with modern day. If you have an arabian horse, you need this book in your collection
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025499
- Title
- The Arab and His Horse (Signed by the author)
- Author
- Raswan, Carl
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Published By Author
- Place of Publication
- (Oakland, California; 1955)
- Keywords
- Arabian Horses;
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Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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Scottsdale, Arizona
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