HORSEMAN: MEMOIRS OF CAPTAIN J.H. MARSHALL. Edited by George Millar.
1970 1st edition. 8vo (143 x 223mm). Pp336. B/w photograph plates. Green cloth, gilt titles on red panel to spine.
This is the autobiography of cavalryman and horse-coper, John Marshall. The son of a farmer, Marshall was born near Melton Mowbray "towards the end of the heyday of the sporting print". His background led him into the 16th Lancers. Circumstances and Marshall's ability with horses had him transferred to a remount depot and then work with army procurement. This set him up for his later return to the horse trade. "A polished horseman, sensitive, percipient, he could buy what he called 'dogs' and turn them into millionaires' conveyances, or at least decent hunters. Despite the increasing problems of such a trade, he continued it, and lived off it, now well, now frugally, for sixty years."
This is the autobiography of cavalryman and horse-coper, John Marshall. The son of a farmer, Marshall was born near Melton Mowbray "towards the end of the heyday of the sporting print". His background led him into the 16th Lancers. Circumstances and Marshall's ability with horses had him transferred to a remount depot and then work with army procurement. This set him up for his later return to the horse trade. "A polished horseman, sensitive, percipient, he could buy what he called 'dogs' and turn them into millionaires' conveyances, or at least decent hunters. Despite the increasing problems of such a trade, he continued it, and lived off it, now well, now frugally, for sixty years."
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| Author | Marshall, J. H. (John Howard). (1888-1968). |
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| Book Code | 61752 |
| ISBN | 0370013271 / 0370013271. |
| Book Description | Slight browning, igft inscription, else very good in slightly spine-tanned, price-clipped dust-wrapper. |
| Book Cover | Hardcover |
| Published Date | 1970 |
| Publisher | The Bodley Head. |
| Place | London. |