The Vanguard Book of Ponies and Riding

318pp. Illustrated. Green cloth boards with gilt titles (square, clean and tight, hint of page darkening), in a pictorial dust jacket (a little marked chapped and rubbed at edges, minor loss on spine price-clipped). An anthology with a difference for the youngster keen to learn more about their equine friends and enjoy themselves at the same time. Contains three full length novels (by Monica Dickens, Joanna Cannan and John Thornburn) as well as other classic and new pony stories, riding instructions from Dorian Williams, once the voice of show-jumping on UK TV. A lovely vintage edition of this collection.