Boston: Charles A. Stone, 1913. Limited edition, privately printed. Hardcover (boards). 52p + reproductions of 26 photos. No jacket (if issued?). Printed in letterpress on deckled paper by the Pinkham Press, Boston; title page partly in red. Presentation copy from Stone to one Nathaniel Bowditch (a descendant of the famous..... More
![Item #31437 The Official Horse Show Blue Book [vol. 12, 1918]; Containing Complete Summaries of...](/pictures/thumb/31437.jpg?v=1679953686)
New York: J.W. Waring, 1919. First edition. Limp leather (rubbed, spine tips chipped). 153p, many photos and ads for luxury goods. Chiefly Hackney and Saddlebred showing, also some hunter-jumper classes. Includes a chapter on "Half-Bred Horses for Army Purposes." Photos of champion Morgan stallion Reynard and champion Morgan mare Evelyn..... More
Lexington, KY: The Blood-Horse, April 29, 1974. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. 1519-1682, many photos and ads, some in color. Features write-ups of 10 memorable Derbies, photos of the 9 Triple Crown winners to date, “Two Guys Named Ben” about the 1896 Derby, “Sire Lines Part XIX” on Solario by..... More
York, PA: Early American Industries Association and George Shumway, 1964. Eggenhofer, Nick. Limited edition. Hardcover. 206p, many photos and line ills. Jacket and endpapers by Nick Eggenhofer. Jacket shelf-soiled. No. 143 of 250 "specially bound and numbered copies of the first edition" (1500 copies total in the edition). Place-marking ribbon..... More
New York: Julian Messner, 1954. Fourth printing (1st pub. 1950). Hardcover. 230p + 29 photos. Introduction by popular journalist of the day Bob Considine. Jacket rather torn. The first full-length life of Man o' War and still one of the best racehorse biographies. Several appendixes, including his race charts and..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962. Stated first edition. Hardcover. 238p + 18 photos. Lacks jacket. Inspiring life of the legendary trainer of Gallant Fox, Nashua, Bold Ruler, and so many more, for whom "life [began] at seventy-seven." "For Mr. Fitz, who is old and bent over, the mornings are the..... More
London: Pelham Books, 1967. Third printing (1st pub. 1966). Hardcover. 187p, many photos (1 in color); folding 7-generation pedigree. Lacks jacket. Life of the great Irish steeplechaser (3-time winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup and many other cups), by a veteran racing writer. Rated by The Racing Post in 2005..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1895. Remington. No stated edition. Hardcover. 397p, many ills. by Frederic Remington and other illustrators, and also from photos. Lacks jacket. Blue-green cloth (Biscotti cites red cloth issue, which has a map that isn't in this issue). From the library of Francis Peabody Sears, with..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966. No stated edition. Hardcover. 237p + 14 photos. Lacks jacket. Warm presentations from both McIlvaine and Smith to "Barbara and Bunny," 1966. Story of the first Grand National winner to be bred, owned, and ridden by Americans. A great steeplechaser, Jay Trump was also one..... More
No place [San Francisco?]: Privately printed, 1978. Adams, Ansel. First edition. Unbound folded sheet. 9 x 12 inches, folded. Edges worn and soiled. Not yellowed as the photo seems to show. The reproduction is fine. Printed on coated stock by Pacific Lithograph Company, supervised by George Waters (Adams's longtime printer)..... More
London: Paul Breman, 1986. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., ca. 24 ills. 75 items, of the 17th century on. With the bookseller's apology: "this list is, again, 'set' on an Amstrad PCW8256 Word Processor; its dot-matrix may leave a lot to be desired but the result is faster and a...... More
Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1933. First edition. Soft cover. 70p + 48 large plates, some folding. The sale was held on September 7-8 in Lausanne. In original glassine jacket (stained, torn). Large auction catalogue of 200 lots, all described in detail. The plates show many bindings, also woodcut illustrations and miniatures..... More
London: Salamander Bookshop, n.d. [1920s]. First edition. Soft cover. 72p, no ills. 480 items: Agriculture, Gardening, and Natural History; Domestic Economy, including Cookery; English Books, Mostly Scientific; Fish & Marine Fauna, including Whales; Italian Literature; Medical; Printing, 15th to 18th Century; Science, including Optics, Vision, Astronomy, the Microscope, Ophthalmology; Russia..... More
London: Marlborough Rare Books, n.d. [1950s-60s]. First edition. Soft cover (bumped, some handling wear). 44p, several ills. 209 items, described in detail. Opens with George Bernard Shaw's copy of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, with 6 MS leaves in Shaw's hand on the help he gave to Lawrence and other..... More
London: Marks & Co., n.d. [ca. 1938-39]. First edition. Soft cover. 32p + 2 color pls. of the bestiary. 482 items: Agriculture and Husbandry; Botany, Gardening, Horticulture, &c. (items 32-198); Entomology; Geology; Ichthyology; Ornithology and Oology (items 287-424a); Zoology. The firm later gained renown in "84 Charing Cross Road." Can..... More
New York: American Art Association / Anderson Galleries, 1936. First edition. Hardcover (boards). 337p, several line ills. The sale was held on March 11 and 12, 1936. Auction catalogue of 565 lots, featuring Perry's collection of every book completed by the Kelmscott Press (lots 236-302), including all the editions printed..... More
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1940. First edition. Soft cover. 321p, a few ills. Sale was held on January 25, 1940. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 321 lots, including "a small but representative portion of Mr. Lewisohn's collection of Hebrew books." A wide variety of older books, illuminated..... More
Florence: Leo S. Olschki, March 1948. First edition. Soft cover. 32p, 1 cover ill. "Piccolo Catalogo 3." Dozens of primary and secondary works, both antiquarian and more recent. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
Valley Cottage, NY: Aleph-Bet Books, n.d. [1984]. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 22 ills. (somewhat faintly reproduced). A wide variety of titles from this leading specialist, 258 items in all. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
Unpublished, n.d. [ca. 19-teens]. Unbound sheet. One sheet on lined paper, written in pencil. Photo shows top third of the composition. "This is my composition For Friday." A charming step-by-step account of how young Leslie learned to hayrake, even though "the horse I was driving went quite fast which made..... More
![Item #31412 Washington Squires Polo Club [cover title]. Lee Mauck](/pictures/thumb/31412.jpg?v=1678806656)
Unpublished, ca. mid-1950s-1963. Various bindings and loose sheets. Three-ring binder, notebooks, loose sheets, etc. Mostly handwritten in mostly the same hand, a few typed. The activities of the Washington Squires Polo Club (a youth club) are only one of the topics here. Photo of cover is cropped. Appealing documentation of..... More
![Item #31411 Letter to Mr [Randolph] Huntington + Clay Pilot stallion card. Byron Rowe](/pictures/thumb/31411.jpg?v=1678806655)
Unpublished, 1885. Unbound sheet. Note with envelope sent from Brookfield, WI, on letterhead of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. Dated May 24 (27?), 1885. Together with a stallion card. In blue pencil on back of letter: "Confidential & please return to R. Huntington." Rowe asks Huntington how "the..... More
Unpublished, 1879. Unbound sheet. Handwritten letter to "My dear Auntie C." on letterhead of the Rhode Island Horse Shoe Company's London office (proprietor A.Seeley). Dated October 17, 1879. The sender's name is unclear. He describes his daily duties (clerking, running errands, waiting on customers), asks about and reports family news..... More
Unpublished, 1812. Unbound sheet. Handwritten note from Blodget of Tyngsborough [Massachusetts?] to Samuel Chase Esq. of Unity [unknown location], dated January 8, 1812. Torn where the wax seal was removed, with loss of a few words. Chase had stabled a mare with Blodget, and despite "every exertion" she has died..... More
Unpublished, 1886. Unbound sheet. One sheet, written on both sides on the letterhead of The Halfpenny Road Cart, Pontiac, MI, plus envelope. Dated February 9, 1886. Halfpenny requests a copy of Huntington's history of Clay horses, describes a local Clay stallion and some of his get, and asks if Huntington..... More
