![Item #33281 [Trade Card] Compliments of Galena Axle Grease Co. No stated author or](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33281.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1793115482)
N.p. Galena Axle Grease Co. [Illinois], n.d. [1880s-90s]. No stated edition. Unbound card stock. Chromolithographed card. Bottom left marked with a B inside a diamond and the number 1013. One in a series of the company's trotting cards. A top-hatted gentleman drives a matched team of trotters, accompanied by a...... More
Devon, PA: Devon Horse Show Association, 1911-1915. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged and illustrated with photos. 5 items: 1911 Prize List (the seventh annual show), 1911 Catalogue, 1914 Prize List, 1914 Press Clippings and Headlines (reproductions of press coverage), and 1915 Prize Winners. Here are windows on a vanished..... More
Derby, CT: Charlton Comics Group, July 1965. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., many color ills. Vol. 1, no. 53, of this action-packed comic book series. Contains 4 stories: Black Fury in the Fugitives, Black Fury Silvertip Killer, Black Fury An Oath to Kill, and The Masterful Man. Can be sent..... More
New York: Dell Publishing Co., Jan.-March 1960. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., many color ills. Vol. 1, no. 33, of this action-packed comic book series. Contains 3 stories: Silver and the Mud Trap, Silver and the Pine Tree Prison, and Midnight and the Old Prospector. Can be sent outside the..... More
Beverly, MA: Commonwealth Editions, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. 249p, many photos and other ills. The cover shows a charcoal portrait by John Singer Sargent. Sears may have been the best all-round woman American athlete of the 20th century. She excelled in tennis, golf, squash, long-distance walking, skating, and of course..... More
Rocklin, CA: Forum, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 380p, several photos and old ills. Short closed tears to jacket. The definitive history of what "may be the most fascinating untold sports story in American history" (Charles Osgood). No longer untold, thanks to Hotaling's fascinating story of the jockeys whose "extraordinary skills..... More
N.p. Storm Ridge Press, 1990. Second printing. Soft cover. 290p, many photos and other ills. from old sources. Longview Farm in Kansas was the showplace home and farm of Loula Long Combs, "the first lady of the show ring." Here many longtime employees, relatives, neighbors, visitors, and horse show friends..... More
[London]: British Horse Society, n.d. [1957?]. First edition. Soft cover. 39p + several plates of photos. Laid in: erratum slip for Champion Hunters list. "This is the story of the International Horse Show. It is also to some extent the story of England's horse world during the first half of..... More
Richmond, VA: Whittet and Shepperson, for The Masters of Foxhounds Association of America, 1980. Limited edition. Hardcover. 216p, many photos, several in color. No jacket, as issued. No. 313 of 750 copies; the author's signature is a reproduction, as called for. Photo is slightly cropped on the right. Profiles of..... More
New York: No stated publisher, October 16, 1978. First edition. Unbound folded newsprint sheets. 24p total, many photos. During the 1978 New York newspaper strike, Christopher Cerf, Tony Hendra, and others created this parody issue, offering "All the News Not Fit to Print." Many writers contributed under various transparent pseudonyms..... More
Austinburg, OH: Sunrise Pub. Co., 1995. Brown, Paul. Limited edition. Hardcover. 60p, no ills. No. 70 of 200 copies, signed by the author. No jacket, as issued. Identifies and describes all the Derrydale sporting prints, including those by Paul Brown (polo, hunting, steeplechasing), Edward King (racing, hunting), Martin Stainforth (William..... More
Washington DC: GPO, 1921. Reprint (1st pub. 1916). Soft cover. 24p, many charts, 1 cover photo. United States Department of Agriculture Farmers' Bulletin 1030. How to evaluate feedstuffs, and the rations needed for light, medium, or heavy work in the waning days of the working horse. Can be sent outside..... More
New York: National Horse Show Association of America, 1927. First edition. Soft cover. 240p, many ills. in the ads. List of exhibitors and their addresses--all the big names are here. Thick catalogue, listing entries for 176 classes in many disciplines--hunter-jumper, gaited, harness, polo, draft, military, etc. etc. No results are..... More
Binghamton, NY: Troy Chemical Co., 1920. 11th ed. (copyright 1911). Soft cover. 96p, many small line ills., a few photos. Promotional pamphlet for Troy's ointments, powders, leg washes, drops, and an unspecified treatment (supposedly not a blister) for all kinds of lameness. With instructions for treating ailments, and many testimonials..... More
![Item #33222 Das Tier in der Antike [The Animal in Antiquity]. Hansjorg Bloesch](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33222.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1789408622)
Zurich: Archaeologisches Institut der Universitat Zurich, 1974. First edition. Soft cover. 71p + hundreds of photos on 64 pls. In German. Catalogue of an enormous loan exhibition of 400 works depicting animals in ancient art--Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Small and large sculptures, vase paintings, vessels, metalwork, etc. Birds, cats..... More
Boise, ID: [Author], 1948. Wallace, James. First edition. Soft cover (comb bound). 62p, many line ills. by James Wallace. Signed by Williamson on the title page. Starting the colt ("barn-raised" or "wild range"), suppling, teaching basic gaits, turns, rope work, "lofty action for a parade," etc. The several later editions..... More
Leeds: Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, December 1959. First edition. Soft cover. 12p + 13 ills. Published as the Society's Proceedings, Vol. 9, Part 1. A fascinating look at the terms for saddlery, colors, breeds, gaits, noises, etc., used by Chaucer in describing the Canterbury riders and their horses. It..... More
London: J.A. Allen, 1976. First English-language edition. Hardcover (plasticized boards). 118p, 16 photos. No jacket, as issued. If you're new to Oliveria and his meditations on classical dressage, this is the book to start out with. It has been reissued in another more expensive format. Trans. from French by Phyllis..... More
![Item #33188 Croquis de Dressage / Sketches of the Equestrian Art [signed]. Dominique Barbier,...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33188.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1787669401)
Paris: Belin, 1992. Sauvat, Jean-Louis. First edition. Hardcover. 96p, many color drawings in chalk or pastel by Sauvat. Signed presentation "to Joyce" from Barbier on front endpaper. In French and English. Photo is cropped. In the publisher's words, "This book is the result of the encounter...between two horsemen of the..... More
Paris: Belin, 1990. Sauvat, Jean-Louis. First edition. Hardcover. 108p, many ills. by Sauvat, many in color. No jacket (as issued?). In French and English. This "final leave-taking," published shortly after Oliveira's death, captures his art in his own words and in the evocative drawings by Sauvat in black, red, and..... More
New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2007. Stubbs, George. First edition. Hardcover in slipcase. 655p, hundreds of color ills., mostly large. This massive book is the definitive work on Stubbs's paintings. The text on his life and art..... More
Tancook Island, Nova Scotia: Little Daisy Press, 1994. First English-language edition (1st pub. in German in 1925). Soft cover. 77p, several photos and other ills. Unrelated gift inscription on title page. Translation of Aus einem bunten Leben. Leo Weste (1845-1926) was a German animal trainer and equestrian for various European..... More
Mena, AR: Ansata Publications [Author], 1990. First edition. Hardcover (plasticized boards). 424p, many photos and pedigrees. No jacket, as issued. A detailed reference, with historical articles about Arabians in the Middle East, various strains and families, photos and pedigrees of horses, performance and racing Arabians, etc. Most of the texts..... More
London: Country Life, 1949. Edwards, Lionel. Revised reprint edition (1st pub. 1927). Hardcover. 162p, many line ills., photos + 26 plates by Lionel Edwards, 1 in color (same as jacket). Jacket is torn at the edges. On schooling and handling hunters and polo ponies, based on training them to be..... More
New York: Ex Libris, 1990. Bragaglia, Trisno, Tato. First edition. Unbound sheet (outside printed in orange and black). One folded sheet, reproducing 3 photos by Futurist photographers Trisno, Tato, and Anton Bragaglia. Invitation laid in. Exhibition announcement, with invitation card laid in: "Ex Libris and Elaine Lustig Cohen cordially invite..... More
