![The Colonial Quarter Race Horse; America's First Breed of Horses [nice association copy]....](/pictures/thumb/30679.jpg?v=1641844939)
Richmond: Whittet & Shepperson, 1983. Limited edition. Hardcover. 328p, many ills. from old sources (paintings, books, ads, etc.), some in color. Fwd. by Quarter Horse historian Robert Moorman Denhardt. One of 1500 copies, this one number XIII, with a warm presentation from Mackay-Smith to Col. W. Randolph Tayloe (author of..... More
Bordeaux: Delmas, 1953, 1956. First edition. Soft cover (soiled). 71p + many photos on 66 pls. Laid in: 4-page supplement (1956) updating and adding to the original inventory. The last few pages were damp stuck and have been separated, with a little loss to two photos, and marginal tears and..... More
Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Avian Press (printer), 1933. First edition. Stapled soft cover (staples rusted). 70p, a few ills. in the many ads. The show was held on September 21, 1933. Premium list for 23 Shire classes and 21 cattle classes (including Shorthorn and Ayrshire), also conditions for various championships and trophies..... More
London: William Kidd, 1831. G.W. Bonner; Robert Cruikshank. First edition. Soft cover. 36p, 10-wood-engravings by G.W. Bonner after Robert Cruikshank. An older rebinding in marbled soft covers. Lacks half-title page and frontispiece. The trajectory of a racehorse's life in verse, followed by accounts of famous Thoroughbreds and other material. Without..... More
![Rysdyk's Hambletonian [real photo postcard]. Anonymous](/pictures/thumb/30673.jpg?v=1641843367)
N.p. No stated publisher, n.d. [ca. 1920s-40s]. No stated edition. Unbound. Reproduces one of the mid-19th-century lithographs showing William Rysdyk and his great trotting sire Hambletonian. Similar to but not the same as the Henry C. Eno or Currier & Ives compositions. Here the hay rack is on the left..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Later printing. Hardcover. 322p, ca. 30 photos. Easily the best recent history of the role of the horse in 19th-century America. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
New Holland, PA: Martin Auctioneers, April 27-28, 2012. First edition. Soft cover, comb bound. 170p, many photos, many in color. Over 1000 lots offering a wide range of vehicles and related items. From the renowned coaching library of Deirdre H. Pirie, with a few ink notes by her, and many..... More
Boston: Mark W. Cross & Co., 1891. First edition. Soft cover. 100p, many line ills., some photos. Ca. 11 x 9 inches. Covers stained, rubbed. Trade catalogue from this fabled horse goods firm, which claimed to be "the largest horse furnishing establishment in the world." Its faded painted sign can..... More
Bakersfield, CA: Hall Letter Shop, 1981. Rudish, Rich. Third printing (1st pub. 1974). Hardcover. 528p, many photos + ills. by Rick Rudish. Corners bumped. Collects the five books by long-time horseman Rojas, "the vaquero's Homer," all long out of print on their own. Includes California Vaquero, Last of the Vaquero..... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society for Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 260p, 314 duotone photos printed by Rapoport Printing Co. Jacket spine faded. With an essay by Therese Thau Heyman. Seminal survey of the nature of western landscape and many aspects of its..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Cooperative Society; printed by The Albertype Company, Brooklyn, n.d. [early 1930s]. No stated edition. Soft cover, bound with original cord. N.p., 24 large gravure plates + cover. No text except for identifying captions. Owner's ink name on cover. Lovely views of an empty, tranquil Harvard Yard and..... More
New York: Staempfli, 1965. Lopez Garcia. First edition. Unbound sheet. One sheet of light card stock, folded twice to make 6 panels; printed on both sides. 4 ills., 1 in color. Folded, ca. 9 x 8 inches. Short text by George W. Staempfli. Exhibition publication, April 13-May 1, 1965. Chronology..... More
New York: Cordier & Ekstrom, 1965. Ossorio. First edition. Soft cover. [12]p, 13 full-page plates + cover, all in black and white. Exhibition catalogue, November 4-December 4, 1965. Checklist of 24 mixed-media works (boxes and sculpture); no other text. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default..... More
New York: Bernard Danenberg Galleries, 1971. Weber, Max. First edition. Soft cover. 24p, 47 ills. (8 of them full-page color pls.). Elaborately die-cut front cover. Exhibition catalogue of 48 cubist-inspired and abstract gouaches, pastels, watercolors, and drawings of 1909-1917. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default..... More
Millau, France: L'Entre Deux, 1968. Braeken, Bernard. Limited edition. Soft cover. 45p + 16 original linocuts (4 in color) + color linocut on cover, all by Braeken. No. 132 of 300 copies (after 50 signed copies). Transparent jacket is chipped with small tears. Short presentation by Daveluy. Poems of memory..... More
Hanover, NH: Dartmouth Publications, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 52p + 16 pls., some folding. Printed in red and black. "The first Hamilton B. Mitchell Lecture on Printing and the Graphic Arts." Jacket shelf-smudged, chipped. It is much more yellow than the pale photo here. In this elegant book Baskin shares..... More
London: Sotheby and Co., 1925. Illustrated edition. Soft cover. 120p (765 lots) + 4 pls. Ink stamp of Bernard Quaritch on cover. Auction held on April 6-8, 1925. Includes The Cardigan Chaucer, a manuscript of the Canterbury Tales; a 13th-century legal manuscript with a portrait of Edward I; The Kilmarnock..... More
![The Way I See It [Broadway columnist Earl Wilson's copy]. Eddie Cantor](/pictures/thumb/30660.jpg?v=1641235983)
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1959. No stated edition. Hardcover. Ed. by Phyllis Rosenteur. 204p, no ills. Line on copyright page reads 94611. With ink stamp, "From The Library of Earl Wilson The New York Post." Jacket torn, as shown. Breezy memoir, full of inspirational life lessons learned by the singer/comedian..... More
![Paul Klee: Sixty-Six Unknown Drawings [Cover reads: Drawings by Paul Klee]. Curt Valentin Gallery](/pictures/thumb/30659.jpg?v=1641235982)
New York: Curt Valentin Gallery, 1955. Klee, Paul. First edition. Soft cover. [12]p, 14 mostly small ills. Exhibition catalogue, April 11-23, 1953. The drawings date from 1914 through 1940. No text except for the list of drawings. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Alberti. First edition. Hardcover. 258p, over 150 line ills. and photos, many in color. Drawing on "new reconstructions of Alberti's buildings and new interpretations of his design intentions," Tavernor examines "the relationship between the architect and his patrons; his writings on the visual arts..... More
N.p. Edgewood Press, n.d. [1980s?]. No stated edition. Soft cover. 51p, several line ills. Drawing on family lore, Mollie Zook recreates the 1933 wagon trip of the Troyer family from Kansas to Oklahoma, after the loss of their farm in the Great Depression. Their farming skills and their Christian faith..... More
Paris: La Compagnie des Librairies, 1769. No stated edition. Hardcover (contemporary leather?). 2 vols.: 317, 299p + several engraved plates (all called for; some folding). Old full leather, worn but expertly rebacked. Old deaccession from the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky/Kentucky Historical Society, with various handwritten numbers and one title-page ink..... More
![The Chronicle: A Sporting Journal [now The Chronicle of the Horse]: November 12, 1954. Alexander...](/pictures/thumb/30652.jpg?v=1640696782)
Middleburg, VA: George L. Ohrstrom, 1954. First edition. Soft cover. 36p, several photos. Covers a little chipped (not visible in photo) and starting to detach at top. Small unobtrusive dampstain to bottom inner margins. The cover shows “Coaching Marathon Winners” (driven by Mrs. Robert C. Winmill), painted by Else Tuckerman..... More
New York: Arabian Horse Club of America, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. 281p, several photos. Contains registrations 1-639 (last one foaled in May 1927). Two texts by W. Robinson Brown: preface and "The Principal Strains of Arabian Thoroughbred Stock." Also "History," a short text by H.K. Bush-Brown. Reference copy; sold as..... More
![Celebrated Stallion "Tippoosaib" [half-brother of Hambletonian 10?]. E. Anthony, H T.,...](/pictures/thumb/30648.jpg?v=1640696282)
New York: E. & H.T. Anthony, n.d. [ca. 1860s]. Anthony, E. & H.T. No stated edition. Stereo card. In the series Beauties of the Hudson River, no. 4188. Published ca. 1864-1868. Dated from the Anthony address on the back (501 Broadway) and from the 2-cent orange tax stamp. Image is..... More
