Montpelier : the recollections of Marion duPont Scott / as told to Gerald Strine.
Published / Created:
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, c1976.
Physical Description:
219 p. : ill. ; 28 x 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BAC: British Art Center copy bound is no. 144 of 500 of the de-luxe edition. Bound in publisher's original brown leather; in original clam-shell box.
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Jump across the ocean -- 2. Fun in 'Coney Island' -- 3. Growing up with Grisette -- 4. Trouble at the seventeenth -- 5. Breeding: the ins and outs -- 6. One man on four horses -- 7. Moving up with Downie -- 8. How to train a mystic -- 9. 'The complete Christian' -- 10. Aintree's chestnut ears -- A half-century of achievements.
Subject Terms:
Scott, Marion du Pont, 1894-1983. | Horsemen and horsewomen -- Virginia -- Orange Co. -- Biography. | Montpelier Station (Va.) -- History.