LYLE, Robert Charles.

The Aga Khan's horses.

Stock Code 112657

London, Putnam, 1938

£6,500.00 - £6,500.00

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£6,500.00 - £6,500.00

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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; 4to, one of 140 copies (only 125 for sale), numbered & signed by author, artist, and the Aga Khan, xvi, 234 pp., [2], 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, light fade to spine, a very good copy.

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