Portland, ME: James Bailey Company, 1909. No stated edition. Soft cover. 176p, hundreds of line ills. Covers loose. First page dampstained red from inside cover. An interesting assortment of goods from the "largest stock of general saddlery goods in New England." The firm (established 1846) had two shops in Portland..... More
New York: James Cummins, 2016. First edition. Soft cover. 46p, many color ills. Antiquarian bookseller's lavish catalogue of 80 rare books, prints, and manuscripts about foxhunting, racing, coaching, and other equestrian sport; also angling, field sports. sailing, etc.. Includes Derrydale Presss archival material. Can be sent outside the US for..... More
San Francisco: California Horse Lovers' Association, February-March 1946. James, Will; T. Edgar Johnston. First edition of magazine. Soft cover. One ill. by James in the story. 36p in the magazine, many ills. and ads, with a Western focus. Covers are chipped, torn, and lightly stained, as shown. Cover art shows..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1828. 3rd ed. (1st pub. 1827). Hardcover (new full leather, gilt stamped). 316p + 4p of publisher's ads, no ills. Owner's blind stamp on half title page. Volume 2 of Kitchiner's 2-volume Traveller's Oracle, complete in itself. Volume 1 covered hints to travelers--what to take with you..... More
![Item #31106 Special Lines of Harness, Supplied by John Jardine, Nottingham; [Catalogue] No. 31....](/pictures/thumb/31106.jpg?v=1663071724)
Nottingham: John Jardine, n.d. [1906 from printer's code]. No stated edition. Stapled soft cover. 16p, many ills. Covers detached; foxed; creased; old stain on several pages. Complete. Saddle and harness maker Jardine was a "contractor to H.M. Government." This trade catalogue describes and prices several styles of harness for gig..... More
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. First edition. Soft cover. 436p, some ills. The first truly global history of veterinary medicine and animal healing, and how these practices have both shaped and been shaped by the social, cultural, and economic roles of animals from antiquity on. It ranges from Ayurvedic..... More
![Item #31128 Combined Driving [1 of 1000]. Emil-Bernhard Jung](/pictures/thumb/31128.jpg?v=1664279284)
Millwood, VA: Author, 1981. Limited signed edition. Hardcover. 134p, many line ills. and photos, many in color. Owner's blindstamp on front endpaper. Worn jacket. No. 86 of 1000 copies, signed by Jung. Jacket photo is cropped on the right. Lessons from the international driving champion on selecting horses; breaking singles..... More
London: Crane Kalman Gallery, n.d. [probably early 1970s]. Revised edition [1st pub. probably late 1960s]. Soft cover. [28]p, 27 ills. (most in color). Laid in: sheet identifying the changes and corrections made to this edition, which was printed "some five or six years" after the first edition. Ex-university library, with..... More
Littleton, NH: B.W. Kilburn, 1905. Kilburn, B.W. Unstated edition. Photograph. Stereo card. No. 16329 in an unnamed series, captioned "Don't detain us long. The dainty little Shetlands, La. Purchase Exposition." Also printed on front: James M. Davis, New York City, and St. Louis, Mo. Image is very good and sharp..... More
![Item #16958 Exercising a Thoroughbred, State Fair, Pueblo, Colorado [1907 stereo card]. B. W....](/pictures/thumb/16958.jpg?v=1633973451)
1907. Kilburn, B.W., publisher. Exercising a Thoroughbred, State Fair, Pueblo, Colorado. Stereo card, copyright 1907 by B.W. Kilburn, Littleton, NH. No. 17025 of an unidentified series. Very good (light handling soil to card). Image background is printed a little light. Two ink names on back, dated 1910. ** Young man..... More
Saint-Michel-sur-Orge: Editions Piccolia, 2011. Parsons, Garry. First French edition. Hardcover. [24]p, many color ills. In French. Children's picture book about Doctor Hoof, who learns to treat all animals, not just horses. Translated from English; great for a youngster who's beginning to learn French. More
Cincinnati: C.T. Woodrow & Co., printer, 1880. First edition. Soft cover. 16p, no ills. Lists 23 stallions, mares, and young horses, all with family information. The stallions were Solicitor (with 7-generation pedigree), Lord Coke, and Barrister. The stallions and young horses were for sale. Can be sent outside the US..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 271p, no ills. Covers dampstained and wrinkled, as shown. Ex-lending library. Occasional staining to the gutters, else Internally clean and complete. Western romance set in the Arizona desert, by an author more remembered today for his cowboy poetry. "Miss Percival, a pretty girl..... More
London: George Bell, 1894. White, G.H.A. First edition. Hardcover, stamped in black. 180p, 34 line ills. by G.H.A. White. Endpapers foxed, covers worn and stained; internally very good; binding is tight. Blindstamp of recent owner on front endpaper. Old bookseller label on rear endpaper. First edition of this classic guide..... More
N.p. [Buffalo?]: Privately printed, n.d. [1972?]. First edition. Soft cover. 180, 140 pp., many photos. Vol. 1 is inscribed by Knox to "Charlie and Gloria." Knox's memoirs of a lifetime of polo with his beloved Aurora club, plus chapters on shooting, skiing, farming, showing horses and dogs, and Aiken. Printed..... More
Vienna: Friese & Lang, 1924. Koch, Ludwig. First edition. Hardcover (covers lightly soiled and splayed as usual with this large book, which is bound horizontally). 127p, 60 ills. by Koch, 30 of them full-page color plates. In German. Lacks jacket. A nostalgic look at old Vienna, which in the 1920s..... More
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp. 1927. Brown, Paul. First edition. Hardcover. 344p + 4 pls. by C. Leroy Baldridge and many small ills. by Paul Brown. Lacks jacket (not by Brown). Novel set in World War I, told in the voice of "a cowboy's horse who served in France with..... More
Weston, CT: Author, 1992. Limited edition. Hardcover. [Ca. 400p], 16 color photos. No. 9 of 15 copies, signed by Laffaye. In Spanish. The first edition of the first dictionary devoted to polo. The late Horace Laffaye continued to publish several histories and dictionaries of polo, including this one in English..... More
Janze, France: Charles Herissey, 2009. First edition. Hardcover (plasticized boards). 222p, dozens of ills. from many sources, many in color. No jacket, as issued. In French. Cover is cropped top and bottom in the photo. A fabulous pictorial survey of women equestrians in all fields across the ages--war, hunting, racing..... More
![Item #31162 [Chromolithographed advertising card]. N. H. Lancaster, Agricultural Fair](/pictures/thumb/31162.jpg?v=1666095662)
Cincinnati: Strobridge Lith. Co., 1893. No stated edition. Unbound card. Card no. 1 in an unidentified series. Ca. 5 x 3 inches. Advertises the Twenty-Fourth Annual Fair of the Coos and Essex Agricultural Society, Lancaster, N.H. Front shows 3 trotting horses put to high-wheeled sulkies. Back lists the fair events--9..... More
London: Sportsman's Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 200p, 110 ills. + 16 color pls. Jacket spine is faded. History of British racing during those years, artists' biographies, and a long catalogue of prints (engravings, lithographs, etc.) arranged by artist. An excellent survey, originally published at $65.00. More
Amesbury, MA: T.W. Lane, 1909. First edition. Soft cover. One sheet, folded into 5 panels, printed on both sides. Mounted onto a sheet that folds up to make an envelope. Average age wear and soil. Ca. 4 x 6 inches, folded. Promotional mailing piece for the firm's sleighs: photos and..... More
![Item #9749 We Go Foxhunting Abroad [and] More Foxhunting in England. Charles D. Lanier](/pictures/thumb/9749.jpg?v=1652746700)
Rahway, NJ [and] New York: Privately printed "for friends to whom hunting, hounds and horses are what they are to us" 1924, 1927. First editions. Hardcover (boards, cloth spines). 158 and 204p, no ills. Subtitled A First Venture with Irish Banks and English Downs and A Further Venture with British..... More
Houston: Loshadt, 1999. Revised edition. Soft cover, comb-bound. N.p., a few old photos. This excellent reference compiles 172 6-generation pedigrees of Thoroughbred stallions foaled before 1940 that are found in Quarter Horse bloodlines. Many pedigrees go back to the early 1800s, and many foreign horses are included. There is also..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1982. First edition. Hardcover (reinforced binding). 65p, many black-and-white photos and old ills. Wide-ranging history of mules and their uses--as draft animals, in the army, as endurance mounts, in entertainment (Francis the Talking Mule), etc., for children ca. ages 10 and up. Can be sent outside..... More
