Siegfried Sassoon; Lionel Edwards; A. F. Tschiffely; Cynthia Asquith; Laurian Jones; Vic Oliver — My First Horse

London, Peter Lunn, 1947. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated first edition of this collection of reminiscences from many authors. First edition. Illustrated with coloured frontispiece and nineteen in-text drawings and sketches. Thoughts on Horses and Hunting by Siegfried Sassoon, an English war poet, writer and soldier. 'A Gaucho in the Pampa' by Aime Felix Tschiffely, a Swiss-born Argentine professor, author, and adventurer. 'Granny's Story' by Cynthia Asquith, an English writer and socialite known for her ghost stories and diaries. 'An Artist and his Horse', by Lionel Edwards, a British artist who specialized in painting horses and British country life. 'My Welsh Pony' by Laurian Jones, a British author and artist. 'I Become a Racehorse Owner' by Vic Oliver, an Austrian-born British musician, entertainer, comedian, and actor. Illustrated by Lionel Edwards. In the original yellow cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and bumping to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper also very smart with light shelf wear only. Illustrated pastedown and endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: Lionel Edwards. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.