Lexington, KY: The Blood-Horse, 1963. First edition. Soft cover. 40p, many photos + 3 large fold-out charts. Internally very good, clean, complete. Reprints the Blood-Horse articles on the Kentucky Derby (Chateaugay), Preakness (Candy Spots), and Belmont Stakes (Chateaugay)—the races and the winners’ family histories. Most of the articles are by..... More
Toledo, OH: Milburn Wagon Co. (printed by G.H. Dunston, Buffalo), 1893. Later edition. Soft cover, tied with cord. [8]p, 3 ills. to the poem + line ills. of Milburn Wagon Co.'s branch offices. Back cover shows a bird's-eye view of the firm's Toledo factory. Reprints the popular poem (1st published..... More
Marshall, VA: No stated publisher, n.d. [early 1980s]. First edition. Soft cover. [12]p, many photos. Small brochure promoting the French Performance Horse for jumping and eventing. Some pedigrees; photos of leading sires and performers such as Fra Diavolo, Nankin, Aime, Val de Loire, Uriel, etc. Can be sent outside the..... More
London: Badminton Magazine, 1903, 1909, 1911. First edition. Soft cover (removed from the magazine and stapled into paper covers). Each several pages. The articles are: "Grey Racehorses" by Hughes-Onslow (1911, several photos), "The Starting Gate: With Suggestions" by Sievier (1903, no ills., on mechanical gates), and "At the Gate" by..... More
Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. 217p + 32p of publisher's ads, over 160 line ills. and charts. Contemporary ink name of a veterinarian or veterinary student at the University of Pennsylvania. "Being a complete treatise on the dentition of the horse, ox, sheep, hog, and dog, and on..... More
South Bend, IN: South Bend Publishing Co., 1966. Reeves, Draper, Menasco. First edition. Hardcover. 240p, many photos, many in color. Jacket is torn at edges. Photographic survey of tracks past and present, with summaries of their histories. Followed by a section of paintings and drawings by leading artists, including Milton..... More
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
Chicago: 1908. First edition. Soft cover. 46p (86 lots), a few photos. Auction catalogue, December 2, 1908, of "the greatest sale of Shetland Ponies in point of quality and numbers ever held in America," held under the auspices of the American Shetland Pony Club, at the height of the pony..... More
![Item #30739 [Gertrude Lamont, Daughter of Secretary of Commerce Robert P. Lamont]. International...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30739.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
![Item #16384 K Vershinam Sportivnogo Olimpa [The Top Russian Olympic Equestrians]. M. Ivanov](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16384.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
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
London: Henry Colburn, 1828. 3rd ed. (1st pub. 1827). Hardcover (new full leather, gilt stamped). 316p + 4p of publisher's ads, no ills. Owner's blind stamp on half title page. Volume 2 of Kitchiner's 2-volume Traveller's Oracle, complete in itself. Volume 1 covered hints to travelers--what to take with you..... More
![Item #31106 Special Lines of Harness, Supplied by John Jardine, Nottingham; [Catalogue] No. 31....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31106.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1663071724)
Nottingham: John Jardine, n.d. [1906 from printer's code]. No stated edition. Stapled soft cover. 16p, many ills. Covers detached; foxed; creased; old stain on several pages. Complete. Saddle and harness maker Jardine was a "contractor to H.M. Government." This trade catalogue describes and prices several styles of harness for gig..... More
![Item #31128 Combined Driving [1 of 1000]. Emil-Bernhard Jung](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31128.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1664279284)
Millwood, VA: Author, 1981. Limited signed edition. Hardcover. 134p, many line ills. and photos, many in color. Owner's blindstamp on front endpaper. Worn jacket. No. 86 of 1000 copies, signed by Jung. Jacket photo is cropped on the right. Lessons from the international driving champion on selecting horses; breaking singles..... More
London: Crane Kalman Gallery, n.d. [probably early 1970s]. Revised edition [1st pub. probably late 1960s]. Soft cover. [28]p, 27 ills. (most in color). Laid in: sheet identifying the changes and corrections made to this edition, which was printed "some five or six years" after the first edition. Ex-university library, with..... More
New York: Jockey Club, 1960. Limited edition. Hardcover. 264p + many plates (chiefly horses). No.224 of 1000 numbered copies. No jacket (if issued?). Printed with dark red marginal headings. Organized year-by-year by the careers of memorable horses--War Admiral, Seabiscuit, Challedon, Whirlaway, Count Fleet, Assault, Citation, *Noor, Native Dancer, Tom Fool..... 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
![Item #16958 Exercising a Thoroughbred, State Fair, Pueblo, Colorado [1907 stereo card]. B. W....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16958.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
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
![Item #31670 Cavaletti [Charles Harris copy with his notes]; Schooling of Horse & Rider over...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31670.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1691497203)
London: J.A. Allen, 1969. First English-language edition. Hardcover. 128p, many photos and line ills. Trans. from German by Daphne Machin Goodall. Reviews mounted in, also Harris's typed list summarizing his thoughts on the book. Jacket is soiled. Once again horseman/critic Harris takes his red pen to skewer a popular manual..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 271p, no ills. Covers dampstained and wrinkled, as shown. Ex-lending library. Occasional staining to the gutters, else Internally clean and complete. Western romance set in the Arizona desert, by an author more remembered today for his cowboy poetry. "Miss Percival, a pretty girl..... More
London: George Bell, 1894. White, G.H.A. First edition. Hardcover, stamped in black. 180p, 34 line ills. by G.H.A. White. Endpapers foxed, covers worn and stained; internally very good; binding is tight. Blindstamp of recent owner on front endpaper. Old bookseller label on rear endpaper. First edition of this classic guide..... 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
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
