'Saddle Up'

A Guide to Equitation and Stable Management

Including Hints to Instructors

Written & Illustrated by

Colonel F.C. Hitchcock

Stanley Paul

London

1959

Antique, nearly a century old hardcover equestrian book, formerly owned by the Duke of Windsor with the Sotheby's Duke & Duchess of Windsor September 11 to 19, 1997 auction bookplate on the front endpaper. Book is in overall very good condition with dust jacket. Jacket shows rubbiing and tatter at its as well as tear to lower end of the back jacket. Jacket is overall clean with some minor shelf wear or soiling. Book itself is externally very clean with some rubbing or bumps to the lower and upper ends of the spine and outer corner edges of the boards. Interior of the book is very clean with pencil notation at upper margin of the back endpaper and with the blank endpaper at the front apparently cut out; besides this book is complete. Book's binding is tight and book has no loose or detaching pages. 

Book totals 325 pages, measures approximately 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 x 1 inches and weighs about 1 1/2 pounds.