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
![Item #15539 Trabajando de a Caballo [Working with a Rope from Horseback]. Roberto C. Dowdall](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15539.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1633973426)
Buenos Aires: Editorial Hemisferio Sur, 1977. No stated edition. Soft cover. 119p, many line ills. on over 50 pls. In Spanish. On handling horses with ropes (haltering, throwing, catching) and roping calves and steers. Presented chiefly as ranch work, but there is a section on rodeo. More
![Item #14652 Horses of Destiny [author and artist presentations, with drawing]. Fairfax Downey](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14652.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1650374281)
New York: Scribner's, 1949. Brown, Paul. First edition. Hardcover. 186p, many ills. by Paul Brown. Lacks d.j. Author's and artist's pencil presentations and drawing on front endpaper: "To 'Lady Emma' Fairfax Downey New York, 1949" [and] "For Milady Hamilton Lots of luck Paul". Between the inscriptions Brown has drawn a...... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1948. Paul Brown. First and only U.S. edition. Hardcover. 230p, many line ills. by Paul Brown (chapter heads and double-page spreads). also music for trumpet calls. No jacket. Young adult novel about a young trumpeter and one of General Custer's staghounds at the Battle of the..... More
Staten Island, NY: Carriage Association of America, 1969-1971. First edition. Hardcover (red buckram; some white spotting to front cover). Eight issues of this superb quarterly journal, Summer 1969-Spring 1971. Variously paged, hundreds of line ills. and photos, many in color. Bound in one volume. A treasury of information by many..... More
Portland, ME: Carriage Association of America, Summer 1966. Penfield, Nicholson. First edition. Soft cover. 52p, many photos and line ills. Vol. 4, no. 1. An early and especially rich issue of this fine journal. Includes excerpts from four vintage sources--the very scarce issue of Architectural Review on stable planning (1902)..... More
Dublin: Browne and Nolan [printers], 1930. First edition. Unbound sheet of card stock. Folded twice to make three panels. A few results inked in; one crease torn ca. 2 inches. Apparently removed from a scrapbook, affecting but not really obscuring the content in three small places. Lists the entries for..... More
[Dubuque, IA]: No stated publisher, 1940. First edition. Soft cover. 20p, a few ills. in ads (no horses are pictured). Damp-rippled but not stained and there is no odor. Pencil notes on front and back cover, unrelated to the show. Ca. 6 ½ x 10 inches. Lists entries for over..... More
London: Percy Young, 1896. First English-language edition. Hardcover. 128p, many line ills. No jacket, probably as issued. Trans. from French. Detailed, informative study of the interaction of the horse's anatomy and conformation with the mechanics of its movement. One of the best of many such studies by the French military..... More
Los Angeles: UCLA Library, 1967. First edition. Soft cover. 20p, several ills. Annotated checklist of books, magazines, and a few objects in this exhibition of a "sampling of the works that lie somewhere in the spectrum between fact and myth." Works by Andy Adams, Henry Allen, "Max Brand," Zane Grey..... More
London: Tate Gallery for the Yale Center for British Art, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. xv, 126p, 142 ills. (21 in color). Elegantly produced scholarly catalogue of the more than 2000 drawings then in the Mellon collection, now at Yale. Chiefly equestrian sport, by Rowlandson, Seymour, Stubbs, Gilpin, etc. Heavy; shipping/handling..... More
London: Pickering, 1879. No stated edition. Hardcover. 35p + 16p of publisher's ads. No ills. Poems about fox hunting, the death of Whyte-Melville, a visit from the Empress of Austria, etc. "Bought and Sold" refers to Rarey's work. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping..... More
![Item #30032 The Arabian Stud Book: Vol. II [annotated]. Animal Breeding Section Egyptian...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30032.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1633973492)
Cairo: E.A.O. of Egypt, 1967? First edition. Hardcover (leather spine rubbed). Ca. 350p, printed on one side; many photos. Some closed tears here and there, not affecting content. Fore-edges lightly foxed. Very sturdy. Some corrections or additions in purple ink by the former owner, an Arabian breeder who traveled to..... More
[Cairo?]: No stated publisher, n..d. [1970s?]. No stated edition. Paperbound (self wrappers). [20]p, many photos and a few line ills. Small pamphlet, chiefly in Arabic, with a little English. The overall printing quality is poor, typical of the time and place. Small introduction to the Egypt's state Arabian horse stud..... More
![Item #15541 Bits & Pieces [and] Stirrups, Spurs & Status Symbols; Saddlery Catalogue, vols. 1 and...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15541.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1633973427)
Horsham, UK: Horsham Museum, 2001, 2002. First edition. Comb and spiral bound. 2 vols., each ca. [60-70]p, with many photos. All photocopied, as issued. Catalogues of the museum's extensive William Albery Collection of Horse Lorinery, featuring bridle bits, stirrups, spurs, and horse decorations (brasses, ciphers, insignia, rosettes, etc.). The photos..... More
Durango, CO: Barbara Engel Therapy Services, 1988. First edition. Soft cover (comb binding). 201p, no ills. Photocopied typescript, as issued. Hundreds of book and journal titles on therapeutic riding, with short summaries of the content, compiled by an expert in the field. Arranged by subject and author. Includes many German..... More
![Item #31160 [Original Lithograph]. Hans Erni, artist](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31160.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1665488464)
Lausanne: Andre and Pierre Gonin, 1966. Erni, Hans. Limited edition. Unbound lithograph. Mare and foal, lithographed in black, grey, and white. Ca. 6 inches square. Chevaux was a portfolio of 30 original lithographs by Erni, accompanied by texts about the horse by various writers. It was published in Lausanne, Switzerland..... More
![Item #30330 The Blood-Horse: May 8 and December 18, 1954 [Determine on covers]. J. A. Estes, ed](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30330.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1633973555)
Lexington, KY: American Thoroughbred Breeders Association, 1954. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged and illustrated. Many photos and ads. Normal light handling wear; small scrape to cover of May 8 issue. May 8 covers tiny Determine's Kentucky Derby win (second Californa-bred and first grey horse to win). December 18 pictures..... More
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1874. Faber, Hamon; Jeremiah Rea. First edition. Hardcover. 30p + 5 line pls. Original purple pictorial cloth, gilt-stamped. Front cover faded to brown. Long poem set in Chester County, Pennsylvania, by a Chester County author. Illustrated by H[armon] Faber, engraved by [Jeremiah] Rea. A relatively early..... More
![Item #16934 Statutes and General Regulations . . . . for the Olympic Games [1936]. Federation...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16934.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1633973450)
London: Institute of the Horse & Pony Club, 1939. Sixth edition (1st pub. 1936). Soft cover. 126p, a few line ills. From the library of horseman Charles Harris, with his ink name on cover and title page. Translated from French by Capt. G.F. Fressanges. Covers dressage, jumping, and cross country..... More
![Item #12167 Concorso Ippico Internazionale [1931/IX]. Federazione Nationale degli Sports Equestri](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/12167.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1633973407)
[Florence?]: No stated publisher, 1931. First edition. Soft cover. Official program of this several-part international jumping contest held in Florence, May 14-24, 1931 (Fascist year IX). Ca. 44p, several photos, many ads. In Italian. The program summarizes all the prizes for the entire show, and lists the entrants for the..... More
London: Macmillan, 1932. Aldin, Cecil. No stated edition. Hardcover. 93p, many ills. + several color plates by Cecil Aldin. Without the jacket. Pencil gift inscription. Aldin's name is misspelled "Alden" on the cover label. 25 long poems about hunting, hounds and terriers, ploughing, country ways, a huntsman's alphabet, etc. "A..... More
Warrenton, VA: Fifth Street Gallery of Sport, n.d. [ca. 1978]. Lyne, Aldin, Munnings, Lloyd, Ramsay, etc. First edition. Paperbound. [40]p, many black-and-white ills. Old mailing label and sticker removed. Covers lightly soiled. Catalogue of several dozen sporting paintings and prints for sale (some original, some reproduction), all illustrated. Some are..... More
![Item #30930 Catalogue of Maple Park [Standardbreds]. A. C. Fisk, proprietor](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30930.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1653390604)
Coldwater, MI: Michigan Horse News, 1892. First edition. Stapled soft cover. 24 pp, 4 plates showing the stallions Latitude 4870, Judean 5154, Great Heart 11172, and Highlawn Prince 15456. Ca. 6 x 8 inches. .Advertises 5 stallions plus several other trotters, pacers, mares, and young horses for sale. Family and..... More
