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LYLE, Robert Charles.

The Aga Khan's horses.

The Aga Khan's horses.

Stock Code 116689

London, Putnam, 1938

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Signed by the Aga Khan. The rare, limited edition, signed by the Aga Khan, of the first book on his horses. A beautiful production with fine colour plates by Lionel Edwards.

First edition, one of 140 copies (only 125 for sale), numbered & signed by author, artist, and the Aga Khan; 4to (26.5 x 20 cm); colour frontispiece, 7 colour plates, 23 pencil sketches by Lionel Edwards, 16 photographic illustrations, printed at the Westminster Press on thick paper; original olive green vellum backed cloth boards, top edge gilt, others uncut, touch of fading and mottling to vellum with small puncture to lower joint, a very good copy; xvi, 234, [2]pp.

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