![Gertrude Lamont, Daughter of Secretary of Commerce Robert P. Lamont]. International News, news...](/pictures/thumb/30739.jpg?v=1643661548)
N.p. International News Press, n.d. [1929-1932]. No stated edition. Unbound photograph. Original glossy photo, ca. 6 x 8 inches. Grease-pencil crop marks on front. Newspaper tear sheet with caption mounted on back; back also has partial International News Photos stamp, pencil notes, and a torn form that hints the photo..... More
Chicago: Regan Printing House, 1893. First edition. Soft cover. 29p + 2 photos. Descriptions of the Orloff Trotter, Orloff Saddle Horse, Russian-Arab Horse, and Russian Light Draft Horse (Bitiug). Followed by descriptions and pedigrees of the 19 horses of these breeds exhibited by Russia at the Chicago World's Fair (chiefly..... More
![K Vershinam Sportivnogo Olimpa [The Top Russian Olympic Equestrians]. M. Ivanov](/pictures/thumb/16384.jpg?v=1633973436)
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
Leipzig: Grunow, 1872. First edition. Hardcover (marbled boards; original wrappers bound in). 2 vols., totaling over 900p. No ills. Owner's ink name. Old German library ink stamp. In German. First edition of this very detailed scholarly "cultural history" of the horse in German life, language, legend, and history. (Wells 4028)..... More
Portland, ME: James Bailey Company, 1909. No stated edition. Soft cover. 176p, hundreds of line ills. Covers loose. First page dampstained red from inside cover. An interesting assortment of goods from the "largest stock of general saddlery goods in New England." The firm (established 1846) had two shops in Portland..... More
Littleton, NH: B.W. Kilburn, 1905. Kilburn, B.W. Unstated edition. Photograph. Stereo card. No. 16329 in an unnamed series, captioned "Don't detain us long. The dainty little Shetlands, La. Purchase Exposition." Also printed on front: James M. Davis, New York City, and St. Louis, Mo. Image is very good and sharp..... More
![Exercising a Thoroughbred, State Fair, Pueblo, Colorado [1907 stereo card]. B. W. Kilburn, publisher](/pictures/thumb/16958.jpg?v=1633973451)
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
Saint-Michel-sur-Orge: Editions Piccolia, 2011. Parsons, Garry. First French edition. Hardcover. [24]p, many color ills. In French. Children's picture book about Doctor Hoof, who learns to treat all animals, not just horses. Translated from English; great for a youngster who's beginning to learn French. More
Boston: Pucker Gallery, 2008. King, B.A. First edition. Soft cover. 26p, many photos, some in color. Exhibition catalogue. The late King was a popular Massachusetts photographer. Here he recalls his childhood in Canada with horses and his later experiences on western ranches. The photos range from suburban horses to western..... More
Cincinnati: C.T. Woodrow & Co., printer, 1880. First edition. Soft cover. 16p, no ills. Lists 23 stallions, mares, and young horses, all with family information. The stallions were Solicitor (with 7-generation pedigree), Lord Coke, and Barrister. The stallions and young horses were for sale. Can be sent outside the US..... More
Lexington: Printed by Britton Printing Co., Cleveland, 1904. First edition. Hardcover (original pebbled cloth, gilt stamped). 200p, many photos. Top of spine torn; slightly shaken due to size; cover edges and some margins rubbed. Text by Greene, photos by Knight. Opens with a history of the Bluegrass region and its..... 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
N.p. [Buffalo?]: Privately printed, n.d. [1972?]. First edition. Soft cover. 180, 140 pp., many photos. Vol. 1 is inscribed by Knox to "Charlie and Gloria." Knox's memoirs of a lifetime of polo with his beloved Aurora club, plus chapters on shooting, skiing, farming, showing horses and dogs, and Aiken. Printed..... More
Vienna: Friese & Lang, 1924. Koch, Ludwig. First edition. Hardcover (covers lightly soiled and splayed as usual with this large book, which is bound horizontally). 127p, 60 ills. by Koch, 30 of them full-page color plates. In German. Lacks jacket. A nostalgic look at old Vienna, which in the 1920s..... More
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp. 1927. Brown, Paul. First edition. Hardcover. 344p + 4 pls. by C. Leroy Baldridge and many small ills. by Paul Brown. Lacks jacket (not by Brown). Novel set in World War I, told in the voice of "a cowboy's horse who served in France with..... 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
London: Sportsman's Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 200p, 110 ills. + 16 color pls. Jacket spine is faded. History of British racing during those years, artists' biographies, and a long catalogue of prints (engravings, lithographs, etc.) arranged by artist. An excellent survey, originally published at $65.00. More
Amesbury, MA: T.W. Lane, 1909. First edition. Soft cover. One sheet, folded into 5 panels, printed on both sides. Mounted onto a sheet that folds up to make an envelope. Average age wear and soil. Ca. 4 x 6 inches, folded. Promotional mailing piece for the firm's sleighs: photos and..... More
![We Go Foxhunting Abroad [and] More Foxhunting in England. Charles D. Lanier](/pictures/thumb/9749.jpg?v=1652746700)
Rahway, NJ [and] New York: Privately printed "for friends to whom hunting, hounds and horses are what they are to us" 1924, 1927. First editions. Hardcover (boards, cloth spines). 158 and 204p, no ills. Subtitled A First Venture with Irish Banks and English Downs and A Further Venture with British..... 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
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. 440p, many photos and charts. Scholarly study of the horse's neuro-physiology, covering intelligence, cognition, and various perceptions--sight, hearing, smell, and touch. Emphasizes research into visual perception (color, objects, movement, etc.), with summaries of recent studies. Trans. from French. More
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. ix, 307p + 16p of publisher's ads, no ills. Erratum slip tipped in. Title-page printed dedication to the Duke of Beaufort, President, and the Members of The Coaching Club. From the collection of carriage historian Hugh McCausland, with his bookplate. "General information..... More
1930. Licart, Lieutenant [Jean]. "The Barb." PHOTOCOPY of a long article in an unidentified 1930s issue of The Cavalry Journal, pp. 559-579, several ills. Very good, loose sheets. ** Translation of part of Le Cheval Barbe et Son Redressage (1930). On "the Barb as he is found, and as he..... 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
