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Creator:
Alcorn, Robert Hayden, 1909-
Title(s):

Riding high / by Robert Hayden Alcorn ; illustrated by Michael Lyne.

Published/Created:
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1953.
Physical Description:
254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
SF301 .A43 1953
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's blue-green cloth. With author's presentation inscription to Bunny & Paul Mellon.
"Robert Alcorn's enthusiam, from early boyhood onwards, has been horses. In Riding High, he tells us about his life so far with the horses and ponies he has owned, ridden and hunted, and the people connected with them."--Dust jacket.
Subject Terms:
Alcorn, Bob -- Presentation inscription to Bunny and Paul Mellon.
Horse racing -- United States.
Horsemen and horsewomen -- Biography.
Horsemen and horsewomen -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc.
Horses -- Training.
Mellon, Bunny -- Presentation inscription from Robert Hayden Alcorn.
Mellon, Paul -- Presentation inscription from Robert Hayden Alcorn.
Form/Genre:
Photomechanical prints -- 1953.
Contributors:
Lyne, Michael, 1912-1989, illustrator.
G.P. Putnam's Sons, publisher.
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