Shrewsbury, NJ: Forcacre Studios, 1952. Morris, George Ford. First edition. Hardcover (leatherette). 280p, over 500 ills., 21p in color. Without the jacket. One of the great 20th-century American horse books. Hundreds of art works large and small in oil, pencil, charcoal, posters, etc. Morris writes about his life from his..... More
Walsall, England: No stated publisher, n.d. [1940s-60s]. No stated edition. Soft cover. Ca. 24p, many photos. Fastened with brads in paper covers. Old dampstaining to bottom margins throughout, and with a very faint musty smell. Priced accordingly. Catalogue of riding, racing, hunting crops and thongs; whips for trotting, dressage, polo..... More
N.p. No stated publisher, n.d. [1991]. Limited edition. Hardcover. Corrected and revised edition (1st pub. 1969). No d.j., as issued. 314p, many photos. No. 59 of 150 copies, signed by Mulder. With publisher's blind stamp on title page and "Deluxe Edition" printed on front cover. Pedigrees, histories, descriptions, progeny, influence..... More
![Imported Foundation Stock of North American Arabian Horses: Vol. 2 [revised edition];...](/pictures/thumb/7286.jpg?v=1633973610)
Los Angeles: Borden, 1993. Revised edition (1st pub. 1972). Hardcover. 431p, 183 photos. No d.j., as issued. Pedigrees, histories, descriptions, progeny, influence, and contemporary photos of these early imports. An exceptional piece of research; very informative. (Wells 5279 cites first edition). More
Mulford, H.K. Co. Veterinary Price-List of Pharmaceutical and Biological Products 1912-1913. Philadelphia 1912. 144p, several ills. Limp leatherette. Fair due to cover wear but internally complete and clean (condition details on request). ** Lists hundreds of veterinary products: tablets, extracts and tinctures, syringes and other equipment, sera and vaccines, powders..... More
![Album [including carriage collection]; Lujan. Museo Colonial e. Historico de la Provincia de...](/pictures/thumb/30031.jpg?v=1633973492)
Buenos Aires: Tallieres Graficos "San Pablo" 1955. Later printing. Soft cover. 56p, many photos (rather grainy) Foxed. Pictorial visitor's guide to this regional museum in Lujan, Argentina. Views of the rooms and grounds, furniture, decorative arts, paintings, etc. With small photos and short captions of ca. 40 carriages and wagons..... More
Troy, NY: Journal Pub. Co., 1892. First edition. Soft cover. Vol. 3, no. 2. 74p, many line ills. (several printed in blue, 2 printed with red). Official organ of this trade association, "devoted to the interests of retail dealers." Many ads for all kinds of vehicles and makers, articles with..... More
London: National Gallery, 2005. Stubbs, George. First edition. DVD. DVD, narrated by Clare Balding, about the life, times, and art of George Stubbs. About 40 minutes. Issued in connection with the big retrospectrive exhibition of Stubbs's work, which also traveled to the U.S. Can be sent outside the US for..... More
New York: No stated publisher, 1913. First edition. Soft cover. 20p, 9 pls. printed in light brown. An evening of display by the artillery's Rough Riding Class (commanded by Captain Stokes) and the Mounted Carriage Drill (commanded by Major Matlock), with musical interludes. Also a mounted basketball game, with a...... More
Hartford: National Trotting Association, n.d. [ca. 1890s]. First edition. Pamphlet. 12p, no ills. Covers lightly soiled, staples rusted. Overall crisp and clean. Ca. 4 x 5 1/2 inches. Prepared by W.H. Gocher as a handy guide for harness racing officials—a summary of rules for entries, identification, purses, protests, suspensions, starting..... More
Anduz, France: Parc Naturel Regional de Camargue, 1977. First edition. Soft cover. Over 210p, many line ills. and old photos. In French. Detailed land definitive ook at the Camargue way of life by a leading French folklorist, with much on the white horses of southern France, the horsemen, and their..... More
Palouse, WA: Nelson Pub. Co., 1995. Fourth edition (1st pub. 1992). Soft cover (plastic comb binding). 98p, no ills. Not a traditional bibliography, but a list of hundreds of "makers of cowboy leather: gun belts, chaps, holsters, saddles, saddlebags, scabbards, wrist cuffs" with summary information and references to where the..... More
![The Chace [presentation copy to Florence Dibble]. pseud Nimrod, Charles James Apperley](/pictures/thumb/30478.jpg?v=1633973596)
New York: William Farquhar Payson, 1931. First edition thus. Hardcover (boards, cloth spine). Introd. by Owen Culbertson. xi, 64p + several pls. by Edward P. Buyck. Pages uncut; lacks the d.j. The first separate publication of this 1832 essay, of which Surtees wrote, "It...will stand its ground to the end..... More
N.p. [Amesbury?]: No stated publisher, n.d. [1893]. First edition. Soft cover. 40p, many line ills. Handling wear and soil; minor old insect damage to 3 margins. Ca. 4 x 8 inches horizontal. Catalogue of “Amesbury’s World Columbian Exhibit,” as stated in the page headings. Each spread features vehicles exhibited at..... More
Augusta, ME: Drew's Rural Intelligencer, 1855. First edition. Soft cover. Front-page article in Drew's Rural Intelligencer for August 18, 1855, with a wood-engraved portrait of the horse, "from life." Photo shows top half of the page. Tartar was sired by Imaum, a stallion presented by the Sultan of Muscat to..... More
![Black Hawk Trotting Stallion Anglo-Saxon [broadside]. No named author](/pictures/thumb/30496.jpg?v=1633973601)
North Andover, MA: No stated publisher, 1857. First edition. Unbound sheet. One sheet, ca. 8 x 10 1/2 inches. No ills. Advertises the services of this black part-Morgan stallion, grandson of the original Vermont Black Hawk. Bred by William Peters of North Andover; current proprietors S.G. Bean and S.N. Johnson..... More
Boston: No stated publisher, 1937. First edition. Soft cover. 36p, many photos and other ills. in local ads. Covers faded and worn as shown, but the colors are brighter than in the photo here. Front cover loosening. Ca. 8 x 11 inches. Internally clean, complete. Souvenir program for the 7th..... More
Unpublished: April 1930. Photocopy of a carbon copy of this typewritten list. Unpaged; lists 269 items. Very readable. This inventory was probably prepared by a member of Hutton's staff or an outside art cataloguer. It is divided into Oil Paintings, Water Colours, Coloured Engravings, Cock Fighting, Boxers. In Black [uncolored..... More
![The General Stud Book [1834, 1st U.S. ed.]; Containing Pedigrees of English Race Horses, &.&c....](/pictures/thumb/11906.jpg?v=1633973406)
Baltimore: J.S. Skinner, 1834. First American edition. Hardcover (full contemporary leather, rather scraped). "First American from the second London edition." viii,1076p, no ills. Owner's ink name: Jas. Grant, Davenport, Iowa, 1866. Title page reads "Three volumes in two," but here complete in a single volume. Also adds "an appendix, giving..... More
Walsall, England: Office of "Saddlery and Harness" 1900. No stated edition. Stapled soft cover. 60p (including 2p of ads), several line ills. Despite its condition, the content is complete. Subtitled "Containing the lengths for cutting and making harness, bridle work, straps, &c., shewing the cost of manufacture." Consists of tables..... More
Clitheroe, England: Sold by H. Whalley, printed at the "Advertiser" Office, n.d. [ca. 1820s-40s]. No stated edition. Soft cover. 8p, 1 line ill. on cover. Subttitle continues, "which was honoured with the presence of the Duke of Norfolk and his noble brothers, and his kinsman--Talbot; [etc.]." A 24-stanza poem recounting..... More
![The Lone Ranger and the Story of Silver [Cheerios Cereal Premium]. No named author](/pictures/thumb/30547.jpg?v=1635353261)
N.p. Western Printing and Lithographing Co., 1954. No stated edition. Soft cover. 16p, all illustrated in full color. One of The Lone Ranger and Silver comic strips that were originally issued as premiums in specially marked Cheerios boxes. This one relates how The Lone Ranger captured and tamed Silver, with..... More
London: "Ruff's Gude" (cover reads The Sportsman Office), 1887. First edition. Hardcover. 408p, a few small ills. in ads. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt. Shelf wear. Outer pages browned; small clipping pasted to title page. Contains nominations for 1888; results of 1887 flat races and steeplechases in Great Britain..... More
Brazil: Imprensa Nacional [printer], n.d. [ca. early 1940s]. No stated edition. Hardcover. [30]p, 7 plates and title page printed in flat colors: blue, red, green, brown. Text printed in blue and red. "Organizados sob a Orientacao do Exm. Snr. General Odilio Denys Comandante Geral da Policia Militar do Distrito Federal."..... More
Goshen, IN: Spohn Medical Co., 1935. No stated edition. Stapled soft cover. 20p, photos throughout. Slight handling wear. Ca. 6 x 9 inches. A pamphlet distributed with compliments of Spohn. The lessons cover gentling, bitting, long lining, voice commands, desensitizing to such frights as a rattling road roller, truck with..... More
