Las Vegas, NM: Hutchins, 1997. First edition. Soft cover. 35p, ca. 40 black-and-white photos. First annual edition of this price list of over 650 western items that sold at auction in 1996 (High Noon, Engel, Payne, Old West Show, etc.). Divided into spurs, bits, saddles, chaps, saddlebags, cuffs, books and..... More

New York: Fitzpatrick & Wissler Printers, 1891. First edition. Soft cover. [8]p, no ills. Occasional prices penciled in. One of the firm's regular auctions of horses and vehicles, held at its Horse and Carriage Emporium on East 13th Street. 65 lots, including a grandson of Rysdyk's Hambletonian and a grandson..... More

Tallin, Estonia: Eesti Raamat, 1968. First edition. Soft cover. 46p, several drawings + ca. 18 photos of Russian Olympic jumping and dressage riders. In Russian. History of Soviet participation in the equestrian Olympics, published under the auspices of the Union of Sports Organizations of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. The..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. Brown, Paul. First edition. Hardcover. 156p, many ills. + jacket by Paul Brown. Jacket is unclipped; some edge tears. Children's biography of the inventor of the mechanical reaper (now International Harvester Company). An excellent copy of one of Brown's lesser-known books. Can be sent outside the..... More

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

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1944. Brown, Paul. First edition (wartime edition). Hardcover. 280p, many ills. + jacket by Paul Brown. Harry Worcester Smith's review copy, with many interesting related pieces. "Autobiography of this Irish veterinarian and foxhunter, with many anecdotes of the horses, hounds and people he encountered in..... More

Vienna: Campagne-Reitergesellschaft, n.d. [1928]. Koch, Ludwig. First edition. Hardcover. 95p, many line ills. by the author. No d.j. (if issued). In German. Text and illustrations of basic principles of the horse's balance, movement, and use of the back, on the flat and over jumps. Published as a supplement to the..... 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

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

London: Hurst and Blackett, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. ix, 307p + 16p of publisher's ads, no ills. Photocopy of erratum slip laid in. From the library of artist Lynwood Palmer, with his ink name. "General information on English road coaching, from its early days to the mid-nineteenth century. Has data..... More

N.p. [Belgium]: [Author], 2011. Soft cover. Ca. 240p, many color photos. Excellent handbook on "the French system" of modern endurance riding, by the many-times Belgian champion endurance rider. Covers training and conditioning, feeding, feet and shoeing, stretching and massage, all aspects of racing (the crew, vet checks, problems and solutions..... More

Boston: Atlantic Printing Co., 1914. First edition. Hardcover. 291p + 9p of ads, many photos. Speedway and matinee driving in Greater Boston--histories, memberships, and yearly results from 1899 on of the Dorchester, Metropolitan, Fellsway, Old Colony, Quannapowitt, and Lynn driving clubs; several articles about "prominent events of the turf"; profiles..... More

London: J.A. Allen, 1978. First edition. Hardcover (leatherette). 360p, no ills. No d.j., as issued. Annotated checklist, arranged by subject, of over 1800 editions. With author and title index. Very useful for the racing book collector, and still the only such bibliography. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less..... More