Bonn: Freizeit im Sattel, n.d. [ca. 1990]. First edition. Soft cover. 136p, many photos and line ills. In German. Collection of wide-ranging articles on recreational riding of many kinds, training horses for many disciplines, etc. Includes riding Icelandic horses, how to pony a horse, practicing on a wooden horse, teaching..... More
Upper Hermitage, South Australia: Falcon Print, 1986. First edition. Soft cover. 68p, many old and new photos. Covers scuffed; label partly removed from front cover with residual stain. History of working donkey teams in the outback and elsewhere in Australia from the 1830s on, based on interviews with oldtimers and..... More
N.p. No stated publisher, n.d. [ca.1930?]. Mrs. Burn. No stated edition. Soft cover. [8]p, 12 ills. Unusual and scarce catalogue of 12 painted zinc weather vanes, "suitable for hunting, polo, and racing stables." There are 10 hunting subjects (including a fox, hound, and stag), one polo, one racing. With a...... More
Butterworth and Brik, bettors. Match Race Wager Agreement. [New Jersey, ca. 1810s-20s]. One sheet containing 9 lines, handwritten in ink. One tear but content clear; last line missing. ** Terms of a $500 bet between E. Butterworth and Joshua Brik [or Buck?] for a race between the horse Mahomet and..... More
N.p. No stated publisher, 1959. No stated edition. Hardcover (boards, tied with cord). [16]p, many cartoons in black and fluorescent orange. Photos are too pale, and the orange shows up as pink. Humorous interpretations of dressage terms and movements. Who was the author?--Richard Watjen?? Very scarce; not in Wells, 1..... More
Chicago: James B. Campbell, Copyrighted 1891 but later. Second edition. Soft cover. 48p, many line ills. Preface to the second edition printed on inside front cover. Users' testimonials at the end, one of which is dated June 1892. Ink stamp of C.G. Manning, Dunkirk, N.Y. on back cover (probably a...... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1977. Kennedy, Richard. Second edition (1st pub. 1950). Hardcover. 151p, frontispiece and color d.j. by Richard Kennedy. Unclipped d.j. is lightly chipped. Owner's neat ink name on front endpaper. "Alison decides to write a pony book--and has to school a pony to get first-hand experience." Children's..... More
New York: Scribner's, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 268p + 16 plates (some with unpleasant images). Short closed tear to back of jacket. Good general history of the intertwined lives of humans and animals, with an emphasis on humane and anti-cruelty movements in 19th- and 20th-century Britain and America (check-rein, hunting..... More
Racine, WI: Whitman, n.d. [1920s?]. Later printing. Hardcover. 125p, no ills.; color d.j. Publisher's number on jacket: W-808. Six Nick Carter novels, including this one, listed on back of jacket. Dated from owners' names, 1931. Paper-covered boards (spine tips chipped). Torn jacket reinforced with lined writing paper. Pages age browned..... More
Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis, 1826. Second edition, "much enlarged and embellished with three engravings" (1st pub. 1818). Hardcover (contemporary full leather). 251p + 3 pls., showing the points of the horse, the intestines (after Ruini), and the stages of teeth. Heavily foxed, but sturdy. Focuses on conditions as Carver found..... More
Bologna: Tipografia Compositori, 1953. Morris, George Ford; Dickey, Robert. First edition. Hardcover (skewed from size but sturdy). 28p + 72 genealogical tables of leading American and French Standardbred stallions; 5 mounted pls. Skewed; covers rather stained and rippled; some pages damp-stained but overall internally good, clean, and sturdy. Further condition..... More
New York: A.S. Barnes, 1955. Dennis, Wesley. First edition. Illustration by Wesley Dennis. Price is clipped. JACKET ONLY for this children's trotting horse story. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
Compiled in Newmarket: Tindall & Co. (printer), [1909 and later]. Not published. Full leather (scuffed). A handwritten pedigree book, consisting of half-sheets for recording matings and other information. About 3 dozen half-sheets are filled out in various hands, in ink and pencil. The rest of the book (most of it)..... More
London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1829. Hardcover (old quarter leather, marbled boards). Vol. 2, nos. 13-35 (complete). 392p + index, several line ills. Covers rubbed; front cover tender and may eventually come off. Binding otherwise sound and content very good. Old ink owner's name. An early veterinary journal, with much on..... More
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Bothwell [Ontario]: "Saturday Review" 1870. No stated edition. Broadside. Ca. 8 x 13 inches. Unfolded, matted, shrinkwrapped. There are some small random marks that may be printing or writing on the other side, or they may be due to old offsetting. With two handwritten changes. Not inspected outside of the..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, n.d. [1949]. First edition. Unbound plates in portfolio. [16]p + 14 loose plates, all in original portfolio. Ca. 12 x 16 inches. Corners lightly bumped; folder soiled, rubbed, chipped. No. 434 of 500 copies. Large richly printed facsimile reproductions of horses portrayed in The American..... More
Paris: Plon-Nourrit, 1907. Confex-Lachambre, A. First edition. Half leather, marbled boards (original wrappers bound in). 283p, 32 line ills. by the author and photos. In French. Introduction to horses: breeds, buying, management, care, riding including dressage, driving, etc. With a short chapter on sidesaddle. Written for the new or amateur..... More
Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Reprecht, 1982. First edition. Soft cover. 414p + 4 pls. In German. Scholarly study of riding academies in early modern Europe (16th-17th centuries). Chiefly German schools (especially Tubingen), with much on the influence of La Noue and other French masters. Some reference to Italian, Belgian, and other..... More
![Item #2293 Riders [large-format paperback]. Jilly Cooper](/pictures/thumb/2293.jpg?v=1650374282)
1986. Cooper, Jilly. Riders. NY: Ballantine 1986. 632p, no ills. Good large-format paperbound, with the oval die-cut on the front cover. Light shelfwear, front cover partly reinforced with tape, but sturdy--perhaps not even read. Pages age browned, as normal. ** In this novel you'll find everything you always wanted to..... More
London: William Collins, 2021. First paperback edition. Soft cover. 354p + many color photos. Life of the undefeated classic winner of all 14 of his starts, 2010-12. With race statistics at the end. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping/handling rate. (We also have the..... More
Springton, S.A. Side-Saddle Association of South Australia, 1990. Limited edition. Hardcover. 333p, many photos, a few in color. A must for anyone interested in Australia, horse(wo)manship, or social history. Brief lives of dozens of women riders and drivers, from the settlement of Australia to the 1980s. A wealth of information..... More
London: Edward Jeffrey and Son, 1820. Scott, J. Third edition (1st pub. 1733). Hardcover (cloth and half leather, spine gilt stamped). 92p + 1 pl. (engraved frontispiece). Opening pages foxed. Contemporary ink inscription at head of title page. We know this of the author, in his own words: "My Work..... More
Paris: Plon, Nourrit, 1899. Crafty. First edition. Hardcover. 400p, ca. 200 line ills. by the author (chiefly small, some full-page plates). Back cover lightly soiled; spine lightly sunned; outer pages foxed. Handsomely rebound in three-quarter leather (brown and cream). Original rear wrapper and spine bound in at rear. Bookplate of..... More
![Item #16606 The Blood-Horse [1932 complete]. Thomas B. Cromwell, ed](/pictures/thumb/16606.jpg?v=1633973445)
1932. Cromwell, Thomas B., ed. The Blood-Horse [1932 complete]. Lexington, KY, 1932. 2 volumes containing all 53 issues, with original covers bound in. Over 1600p total, photo on every front cover and occasional photos inside (chiefly stallions at stud). Very good hardcover: hardcovers soiled and rubbed (especially one corner); magazine..... More
![Item #30214 The Blood-Horse [1933 complete]. Thomas B. Cromwell, ed](/pictures/thumb/30214.jpg?v=1634817783)
Lexington, KY: Thomas B. Cromwell [The Blood-Horse], 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Two sturdy volumes containing all 52 weekly issues of volume 19, with original covers bound in. Over 1300p total, photo on every front cover and occasional photos inside (chiefly stallions at stud). A little old dampstaining to covers. Ink..... More
