New York: Julian Messner, 1954. Fourth printing (1st pub. 1950). Hardcover. 230p + 29 photos. Introduction by popular journalist of the day Bob Considine. Jacket rather torn. The first full-length life of Man o' War and still one of the best racehorse biographies. Several appendixes, including his race charts and..... 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
![Item #15152 Krik's Guide to the Turf 1882-1883, 1883-1884 [2 vols.]. H. G. Crickmore](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15152.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973423)
New York: Crickmore, "The New York World" 1883. First edition. Hardcover (leather). 2 vols., totaling over 1000p, no ills. Ca. 4 x 6 inches. Part 1 gives the results of "races run in 1882 in the United States, Dominion of Canada, and by American-bred Horses in England, Ireland, France, etc."..... More
![Item #16606 The Blood-Horse [1932 complete]. Thomas B. Cromwell, ed](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16606.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973445)
Lexington, KY: The Blood-Horse, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 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). Covers soiled and rubbed (especially one corner); magazine covers occasionally faded. Two pages in vol..... More
![Item #30214 The Blood-Horse [1933 complete]. Thomas B. Cromwell, ed](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30214.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
London: British Horse Society, n.d. [1950s?]. First edition. Soft cover (limp boards, spiral bound). 14p + many photos on 2 folding plates. Covers age soiled, pages lightly age browned. In the days before You Tube, Pony Club members could learn from instructional films produced by the British Horse Society. This..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press for Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, 1980. Leigh, William Robinson. First edition. Hardcover. 204p, many ills., 30 color pls. Fwd. by Fred A. Myers. Authoritative study of the life and work of the artist-author of The Western Pony and other..... More
[Paris]: [Author], [1840]. No stated edition. Unbound sheets. [16]p of music. According to Hilda Nelson, Partisan was one of the difficult or misused horses that Baucher often worked with. Here is the music to which he performed on Partisan, originally printed at the end of Baucher's book Passe-Temps Equestres. Composer..... More
London: London and Counties Press Association, 1915. Limited edition. Hardcover (half leather). xii, 345p + 58 pls., 6 in color. No. 98 of 150 copies in the Subscriber's Edition (no subscriber's name noted). Covers rubbed; marginal and fore-edge foxing; rear endpapers dampstained. (There was also a full-vellum deluxe edition of..... More
Boston: Charles A. Stone, 1913. Limited edition, privately printed. Hardcover (boards). 52p + reproductions of 26 photos. No jacket (if issued?). Printed in letterpress on deckled paper by the Pinkham Press, Boston; title page partly in red. Presentation copy from Stone to one Nathaniel Bowditch (a descendant of the famous..... More
New York: Knopf, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 384p, many old photos and ills. Jacket spine faded. Comprehensive history of the ways of life in the various American cowboy cultures--Spanish roots, Californio, Texian, northern and open ranges, effect of the Civil War, trailing to railheads, end of open-range culture, bunkhouse and..... More
London and New York: Heinemann and Comet Books, 1939 and 1949. Brown, Paul. UK edition is probably first; US edition is stated first paperback printing. Hardcover and soft cover. UK edition: 273p, many line ills. US edition: 243p, many line ills., now with green overlays. All ills. by Paul Brown..... More
New York: Printed and Sold by Mahlon Day, at the New-Juvenile Book-Store, 1833. No stated edition (first published in 1831?). Soft cover. 16p, 14 small ills. + cover ill. Covers and pages browned; some handling wear. Tied with thread (as issued?). A small chapbook for young children, with one-page descriptions..... More
Paris: Le Goupy, 1925. Vernet, Carle. First edition. Soft cover. 204p, many ills. (mostly small). The binding is sewn but is quite loose. Scrappy remains of original glassine jacket. In French. Monograph on this 19th-century French painter and printmaker, best known for his many equestrian themes--hunting, the circus, the cavalry..... More
![Item #31130 The English Mail Coach [and] Joan of Arc. Thomas De Quincey](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31130.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1664279285)
New York: Henry Holt, 1893. No stated edition. Hardcover. 138p, no ills. In the publisher's series, Reading for Students. Edited with introduction and notes by J.M. Hart. Spine frayed, ghost of old sticker on front cover, first two pages loosening. Previous owners' ink stamp and blindstamp on front endpaper. Student..... More
Bombay: Thacker & Company, 1913. Second edition (1st pub. 1907). Hardcover. 286p, many diagrams + 13 photos. Overall sound, clean, sturdy. No d.j. (if issued?). Learning and playing tournament polo, schooling ponies, some veterinary care, famous players of the past, Hurlingham rules, etc. Detailed advice, with special reference to India..... More
Devon, PA: 1955. First edition. Soft cover. 64p, several diagrams of hunter and jumper classes, on the outside course and in the ring. This was the 59th annual Devon show. Conditions and awards for dozens of classes--gaited, driving, pony, hunter-jumper, conformation, Arabian, junior, etc. etc. Previous winners are listed for..... More
London: William Kidd, 1831. G.W. Bonner; Robert Cruikshank. First edition. Hardcover. 36p, 10-wood-engravings by G.W. Bonner after Robert Cruikshank. Handsomely rebound in plain boards, leather spine; original wrappers bound in. Two old bookplates removed; outer pages lightly foxed. The trajectory of a racehorse's life in verse, followed by accounts of..... More
London: William Kidd, 1831. G.W. Bonner; Robert Cruikshank. First edition. Soft cover. 36p, 10-wood-engravings by G.W. Bonner after Robert Cruikshank. An older rebinding in marbled soft covers. Lacks half-title page and frontispiece. The trajectory of a racehorse's life in verse, followed by accounts of famous Thoroughbreds and other material. Without..... More
![Item #30920 Manege et equitation [and] Marechal ferrant. Diderot and d'Alembert](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30920.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1652736182)
[Paris]: [1751-1772]. No stated edition. Hardcover (rebound in boards, quarter vellum). Two suites of captions and engraved plates from the Encyclopedie: 6p + many ills. on 33 pls., and 2p + many ills. on 7 pls. (1 double page). In French. From the collection of dressage master Dr.H.L.M. Van Schaik..... More
Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 132p, 115 photos, several line ills. D.j. is stained, chipped. Photos and commentary of good, bad, and indifferent riders and mounts, including a young Joe Fargis. Treats the rider's form during the takeoff, flight, and landing phases, though not the strategy of..... More
Austin: Texas Folk-Lore Society, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 429p, several line ills. No jacket (as issued?). Classic collection of 40 firsthand accounts about the range horse from the 19th-century on--"the most extensive and informative compilation on mustangs and mustangers ever printed." The texts are by a wide variety of writers--historians..... More
Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2006. Eakins, Thomas. First edition. Soft cover. 66p, many ills. (bronzes and plaster models). The first exhibition and publication to focus on Eakins's small output of sculpture (figures, horses, anatomical studies). Includes a bronze study of horses for the painting The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand..... More
