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Welcome

Robin Bledsoe, Bookseller, has specialized in horse books and art books since starting out in 1973 as Blue Rider Books. We sell books from our shop near Harvard Square, at occasional shows, by catalogue (horse books), and online.

We have many reasonably priced books in our shop that aren't listed here, so please contact us if you don't see what you're looking for, within our subject areas. When you're in the Boston area, we hope you'll visit our two book-filled rooms and find the book you want--or the one you didn't know you needed.

Our redesigned website celebrates 40 years of bookselling and the 30th anniversary of our shop. Please explore it to order a book, plan a visit, ask for a catalogue, buy a gift certificate, or discuss selling or appraising your books.

Art and Other Books

With our shop colleague H.L. Mendelsohn we sell out-of-print scholarly books and catalogues in the fine and applied arts, especially art history, architecture, graphic design, gardens, archaeology, photography, books about books, and related fields. From time to time we carry books on other subjects, such the history of philosophy; please inquire.

more about our art and other books

Horse Books

We sell new, used, antiquarian, and rare books about horses and all equestrian subjects (except handicapping).  Our inventory is very large. We love to seek out the obscure, the uncommon, and the overlooked in all fields, from all periods, and in all languages.

more about our horse books

Featured Items

Curtis, Simon, ed. Corrective Farriery: A Textbook of Remedial Horseshoeing: Vol. 1 (complete in itself). Newmarket: Newmarket Farrier Consultancy 2002. 342p, over 400 color photos. Very good hardcover; no d.j., as issued. Signed by Curtis and several other contributors to the book. ** Brings together "traditional farrier skills, veterinary knowledge and advanced techniques of repair and shoeing." Sixteen chapters on the equine hoof and leg by expert farriers, veterinarians, and technicians, covering anatomy, diagnosis of lameness, foot balance, bar shoes, shoeing for tendon lesions, laminitis, limb deformities, and much more. An excellent reference for farriers, vets, and owners. Corrective Farriery: Textbook of Remedial Horseshoeing, vol. 1, signed
Curtis, Simon, ed.
Curtis, Simon, ed. Corrective Farriery: A Textbook of Remedial Horseshoeing: Vol. 1 (complete in itself). Newmarket: Newmarket Farrier Consultancy 2002... more
Price: $150.00
Smith, Harry Worcester. Life and Sport in Aiken and Those Who Made It. NY: Derrydale Press 1935. xi, 237p + 40 pls., 1 in color, 1 folding. Good hardcover (spine damp-spotted) in fair d.j. (torn). More condition details on request. One of 950 copies. ** Equestrian sport in this South Carolina community, and a tribute to its developers Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, Sr. Covers hunting (drag and beagles), polo, showing, steeplechasing, etc. A 1934 memorial tribute to Louise Eustis Hitchcock is laid in, clipped from one of the sporting magazines such as Country Life in America or The Spur. Scarce in jacket. Life and Sport in Aiken [in jacket]
Smith, Harry Worcester
Smith, Harry Worcester. Life and Sport in Aiken and Those Who Made It. NY: Derrydale Press 1935. xi, 237p +.. more
Price: $525.00
Hibberd, Shirley. Clever Dogs, Horses, Etc.: With Anecdotes of Other Animals. London: S.W. Partridge, n.d. [ca. 1867 from date in illustrations]. 128p + 8p of publisher's ads, many pls. by Robert Weir. Fair to good hardcover (spine mended, rear hinge exposed but binding tight, some light foxing). Cover elaborately stamped in gilt and blind, with a mounted color illustration. ** True tales of all kinds of tame and wild animals and birds (many owned by the author), and how their behavior shows traits of intelligence, loyalty, compassion, etc. Intended for children, to instill in them a love and understanding of the natural world. Several accounts of horses, and reference to horse tamer John Rarey. Clever Dogs, Horses, Etc.: With Anecdotes of Other Animals
Hibberd, Shirley
Hibberd, Shirley. Clever Dogs, Horses, Etc.: With Anecdotes of Other Animals. London: S.W. Partridge, n.d. [ca. 1867 from date in.. more
Price: $65.00
PM magazine: Vol. 2 complete [12 issues, 1935-36]
PM Publishing Co.
PM Publishing Co. (Percy Seitlin and Robert Leslie, editors). PM magazine: Vol. 2 complete [12 issues, 1935-36]. A wonderful run.. more
Price: $350.00
California Redwood Association. Redwood News [Fall 1955]. San Francisco. [8]p, many photos. Good stapled paperbound (lightly foxed). Creased, probably as intended to be mailed or shelved since each half-page has its own page number (16 thus). ** Texts on a "single level home in the San Francisco Bay Region" by Ward Thomas, "a dramatic sunscreen of glass and redwood" (Pennsylvania home by Jules Gregory), and "home for a city's music" (music pavilion by William B. Harvard in St. Petersburg, Florida). A promotional piece from the heyday of California modernism. Can be sent outside the U.S. for $20 or less. Redwood News [Fall 1955]
California Redwood Association
California Redwood Association. Redwood News [Fall 1955]. San Francisco. [8]p, many photos. Good stapled paperbound (lightly foxed). Creased, probably as.. more
Price: $40.00
Merrylegs: The Rocking Pony [with presentation drawing]
Brown, Paul
Brown, Paul. Merrylegs: The Rocking Pony. Scribner 1946 (early but not 1st ptg.). [64]p, many ills. by Brown. Overall poor.. more
Price: $500.00
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