GREAT HORSES AND GALLANT HORSEMEN. Inspiring poems collected by Mary Vaughan and illustrated by John King.

1988 1st edition. 8vo (152 x 215mm). Ppviii,88. B/w photograph, b/w illustrations by John King. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt.

A collection of poetry concerning horses and hounds, hunting and racing. Poems include:- At Galway races by W.B. Yeats; The clipper that stands in the stall at the top by G.J. Whyte-Melville; The galloping squire by G.J. Whyte-Melville; The leap of the Roushan beg by Longfellow; The lord of the valley by G.J. Whyte-Melville; The Arabs farewell to his favourite steed by Mrs Norton; Right royal by John Masefield; The knights leap by Charles Kingsley; How we beat the favourite by Adam Lindsey Gordon; A rum one to follow, a bad one to beat by G.J. Whyte-Melville; By flood and field by Adam Lindsay Gordon; Bolts, Anonymous; The good grey mare by G.J. Whyte-Melville; The old brown horse by W.F. Holmes; The butty little one by Patrick Hore-Ruthven; The place where the old horse died by G.J. Whyte-Melville; Two gentlemen by R.R. Egerton Warburton; Lorraine, Lorraine, Loree by Charles Kingsley; The Captains by W.H. Ogilvie; Nicholas Nye by Walter de la Mare; The donkey by G.K. Chesterton; Hard-riding Dick by R.R. Egerton Warburton; The ballad of the foxhunter by W.B. Yeats; The little horse by A.F.D. ; The amateur rider by 'Banjo' Paterson; Steeplechasers by W.H. Ogilvie; The spare ride by M.U.G. ; Father Riley's horse by 'Banjo' Paterson; The fox meditates by Rudyard Kipling, O.M. ; The bean by Dalesman; We have no wish to exaggerate by Adam Lindsay Gordon; Red Rum by Mary Vaughan; For Dawn Run and Jonjo O'Neill by Mary Vaughan; Lester Piggott is going to gaol by Mary Vaughan; Arkle by Mary Vaughan.