School for Riding. A Primer of Modern Horsemanship

Boston: Charles T. Branford Company, 1948. Cloth. Good/Good. Stated second printing. Brown cloth in unclipped jacket. 180 pp., plus several black and white photos in the rear. Photos throughout. A collection of twelve lessons building progressively on each to teach riding horsemanship, incorporating traditional elements of instruction into a different form and method. Sergei Kournakoff was a former tsarist cavalry officer, who immigrated to the US after fighting in the Russian Civil War. He subsequently wrote on military and other subjects in various US communist papers, and was eventually revealed to be an agent for Soviet intelligence in the US (after his death). GOOD condition. Jacket toned, with minor soiling and few small areas of discoloration. Some scuffing and tearing along the extremities. Minor fading and soiling to the book. Previous owner's signature on the first endpaper.