![Prince Alert, a King among Light Harness Horses [1903 stereo card]. William H. Rau, stereo card...](/pictures/thumb/16989.jpg?v=1633973455)
Philadelphia: Sold by Universal View Co., Philadelphia and Lawrence, KS, 1903. No stated edition. Very good stereo card, printed in rich sharp tones. The back is plain. The title continues, "Mile Pacing Record made in 1903, 1 min. 57 seconds." Prince Alert made racing history when he became the first..... More
![Foxhunting Formalities [1 of 990]. J. Stanley Reeve](/pictures/thumb/30535.jpg?v=1634763902)
New York: Derrydale Press, 1930. Brown, Paul. Limited edition. Hardcover. 54p, several ills. by Paul Brown. Introd. by Henry G. Vaughan. Ink presentation to "Oscar and Betty" by an unidentified M.F.H. One of 990 unnumbered copies of the regular edition. Title page printed in red and black. Lacks scarce original..... More
Akron, OH: Rempel Riding Toys, 1958. First edition. Four-page color flyer advertising Rempel Riding Toys--three springed models, a tricycle "pony," a racing sulky, and a merry-go-round. All described and priced. Light handling wear and soil. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
![All about Horse Brasses; A Collectors' Complete [Guide]. H. S. Richards](/pictures/thumb/16515.jpg?v=1633973444)
Birmingham, UK: Author, 1970. Later edition (1st pub. 1943). Soft cover. 51p, over 300 brasses illustrated in photos (mostly small). Subtitle reads "Guild" instead of "Guide." Chiefly pictures and captions; short text. Incorporates the author's earlier books, Horse Brasses and More Horse Brasses. Pp. 23-26 are repeated due to binding..... More
London: J.A. Allen, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 274p, many photos and ills. from old sources. Fwd. by Monty Roberts. Bookplate. Excellent wide-ranging history of taming and training to ride and drive from antiquity on, with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes chapters on New Thinking (early dressage)..... More
![Constitution, By-Laws and List of Members: 3 vols. [1902, 1904, 1905]. Riding Club of New York](/pictures/thumb/14934.jpg?v=1633973422)
New York: Knickerbocker Press (G.P. Putnam's Sons), 1902, 1904, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Each ca. 56p, no ills. The Riding Club (founded as The Gentlemen's Riding Club in 1881) was located at 7 East 58 Street. New York Gilded Age society is amply represented in the lists of members. From..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. 165p + 4 pls. by F. Walter Taylor. Original printed boards (worn, spine reinforced with tape, but binding is sturdy). Neat ink stamp of former owner on front endpaper and one margin. Some internal staining. Novel set in Virginia about Trix..... More
[Leeds]: Printed for Private Circulation, 1949. First edition. Hardcover (full vellum; smudged, stain to front cover). 203p + several folding pls. Original edition of this documentary history of the Company from 1674, based on its charter, regulations, minutes, instructions to apprentices, lists of officers, etc. From the legeneary coaching library..... More
N.p. [London?]: War Office, 1931. No stated edition. Soft cover. 6p, no ills. War Office Publication 5435. Small pamphlet outlining the basics of breeding and foaling, written for those "who are thinking of making use of the Premium Horses." Brigadier Rome was the Assistant Director of Remounts [Britain]. Minor, but..... More
![The Horseman's Word [1895 novel about a Scottish horse whisperer]. Neil Roy](/images/noimage.png)
Roy, Neil. The Horseman's Word. London: Macmillan 1895. (Macmillan's Colonial Library, 227) 438p + 8p of publisher's ads. Covers shelf-rubbed; endpapers browned. ** Unusual novel set in Scotland, featuring a tormented Kelpy (a horse whisperer who practiced the highly secretive Horseman's Word), and his troubled place in society. Many varied..... More
Toronto: Royal York Hotel, 1937. First edition. Soft cover. 4 pp. within paper covers. The menu occupies the center 2 pages. All printed in brown on off-white paper. Light handling wear and soil; small piece torn from top edge of front cover. Ca. 9 x 11 inches. Table d'hote menu..... More
Crows Nest, Australia: Allen and Unwin, 2019. Second edition. Soft cover. 504p + many color photos. Updated edition to cover the entire racing career of this immortal Australian race mare--33 consecutive wins, including 4 Cox Plates and a world-record 25 Group Ones. With full race statistics. More
![The Hand-Book to Veterinary Homoeopathy [etc.]. John Rush](/pictures/thumb/16804.jpg?v=1633973446)
N.p. [probably Philadelphia]: publisher's name missing, 1854. Probably first edition. Hardcover (original cloth). 144p, no ills. From the date of "1869" written several times on the front pastedown, this would seem to be the 1854 first American edition. All the later editions were published after 1869. First published in England..... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 218p, 280 photos and line ills. + 30p of color photos. Owner's neat ink stamp on front endpaper. Still the only social and architectural history of American stables, from the everyday to the grandest of the grand. The authors criss-crossed America..... More
![The Horse and Dog; Not as They Are But as They Should Be [etc.]. H. Sample](/pictures/thumb/2938.jpg?v=1633973485)
N.p. [San Francisco?]: [Author], n.d. [1882?]. First edition. Hardcover (original cloth, gilt stamped). 280, vii p, over 100 line ills. Subtitle continues: "Old and erroneous theories relative to the management of the horse brought face to face with the facts of the nineteenth century. Together with an elaborate and scientific..... More
1917. Sanders, Alvin Howard, with Wayne Dinsmore. Name Index to A History of the Percheron Horse. Chicago: Breeder's Gazette 1917. 22p. Very good, loose sheets. ** PHOTOCOPY of the long index to people and horses named in the book. It was issued separately from most editions of the book. Can..... More
![Breeders' Trotting Stud Book: Vol. 1 [1881]; Comprising the Pedigrees of the Standard-Bred...](/pictures/thumb/30363.jpg?v=1633973566)
Chicago: J.H. Sanders, 1881. First edition. Hardcover (original half-leather). 464p + engraved frontispiece of Maude S. by E. Forbes. Covers scuffed; internally very good, clean, sturdy, complete. A pioneering compilation of 2:30 horses and their relatives, based on extensive research in printed sources and from firsthand accounts. The first edition..... More
London: Country Life, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. 161p, 34 line ills. + many photos. Jacket edges torn. Owner's neat ink name. The third title in Santini's trilogy of books on horsemanship based on the Italian cavalry tradition as interpreted by Caprilli. Written especially for beginners; with a long section on..... More
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, 1957. Sasse, Fred A. First edition. Hardcover. 172p, several ills. by the author. All parts of the jacket are present, but it's torn and scrappy. Life and times of the champion pacer and his owner/promoter, M.W. Savage. They died within 24 hours of each other in 1916..... More
Charleston, SC: [Author], 2013. First edition. Soft cover. 167p, many ills. by the author and photos. Story of the UConn Morgan horses from the 1930s on, with profiles of the leading sires and much firsthand information about the horses in the breeding and riding programs. Can be sent outside the..... More
Mount Morris, IL: Brethren's Pub. Co., 1893. Moore, A.F., Jr. First edition. Hardcover. 127p, 28 pls. by A.F. Moore, Jr. (some aftrer photos). Covers shelf-rubbed, edges rubbed; hinges cracked but binding sturdy. A little light marginal staining. On early training, bitting, training to drive and ride, and correcting vices, all..... More
![Goethe und die Reitkunst [Goethe and Horsemanship]. Berthold Schirg, fwd](/pictures/thumb/7153.jpg?v=1633973609)
Hildesheim: Olms Presse, 1982. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged, several ills. In German. In the publisher's series, Documenta Hippologica. Reissues three writings on Goethe as a horseman, each taken from a larger work: "Goethe und die Reitkunst" by Herrmann B. Muller (1921, in fraktur), "Der Reiter" by Carl Diem..... More
![Vore Husdyr [Our Domestic Animals]; Praktisk Dyrloaegebog [Practical Veterinary Book]. Dryloaege...](/pictures/thumb/30020.jpg?v=1633973489)
Chicago: John Anderson Pub. Co., 1902. No stated edition. Hardcover. 247p, many line ills. Pictorial boards, cloth spine (rubbed, old insect damage to spine). Internally nice and clean. Veterinary handbook in Norwegian for Midwest and Upper Midwest farmers. Author Bernhard was one "animal doctor Schjoll" from Red Wing, Minnesota. Covers..... More
Paris: Anselin, 1828. French edition. Soft cover (original wrappers, untrimmed, partly uncut). cccxxxiii, 84p + 8 folding engraved pls.; 30p of publisher's ads. In French. Translated from German by General Armand-Celeste de Durfort, who wrote and translated other works on the military arts of Prussia and Russia. His long historical..... More
[Honolulu?]: Nippu Jiji Print [printer], 1933. First edition. Stapled softcover. 64p, over 100 photos, mostly made by the 3rd Engineer Photographers. Program for the annual horse show held at the U.S. Army's Schofield Barracks in the years between World Wars I and II. Description of the barracks and its facilities..... More
