Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1985. Bonnot, Agnes. First edition. Soft cover. 72p, ca. 40 black-and-white photos by Bonnot. Short text in French by Caujolle. Old bookstore price sticker on back of lightly shelfsoiled vellum jacket. Evocative photos of horses in many guises--harness racing, in training at Saumur, close-up details in the..... More
![Item #31059 Blind Beauty [advance reading copy]. K. M. Peyton](/pictures/thumb/31059.jpg?v=1660653423)
New York: Dutton, 2001. Advance reading copy of the first American edition. Soft cover. 360p, no ills. Owner's neat ink stamp on two bottom margins. One of the best novels by this masterful author of many fine novels, including the Flambards series. Technically young adult (with some adult themes), but..... 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
Warrenton, VA: Virginia Horseman's Association, 1951. First edition. Unbound sheets. Vol. 5, nos. 1 and 2 of the Virginia Horsemen's News. 24p, no ills.; several pedigrees. This is a PHOTOCOPY of this issue of a very scarce magazine. Hewitt discusses some current breeding theories and leading European stud farms. His..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 245p + several photos. How a group of British aristocrats sought to make their fortunes in the American cattle business in Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, and Texas, in the late 19th century. For instance, one of them, the Earl of Dunraven, bought the whole..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (Belknap Press), 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 553p, 180 ills. from many sources. One-inch closed tear to top of back jacket. Landmark "panoramic history of exhibitions 1600-1862" in London--a detailed account of the display of relics, waxworks, pleasure domes, dioramas, theatrical spectacles, museums, freak shows, mechanical..... More
![Item #31049 Fine Standard Sets and Gift Books Mostly in Fine Bindings [cover title]. Himebaugh,...](/pictures/thumb/31049.jpg?v=1660043444)
New York: Himebaugh & Browne Book Stores, n.d. [ca. 1940?]. First edition. Soft cover. 52p + several plates, mostly fine bindings. Catalogue of 367 books and a few paintings. Some of the categories are: Napoleon, presidential autographs, inexpensive single books, small standard and gift sets, Oxford poets and classics, Limited..... More
Philadelphia and New York: Rosenbach Company, n.d. [1920]. First edition. Soft cover. [10]p, no ills. Pages age browned. Published to promote Rosenbach's offering of these books. With contemporary penciling, often noting buyer and price. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate... More
Brattleborough, VT: Ken Leach, 1983. First edition. Stapled sheets. 46p, no ills. Duplicated typescript, as issued. Light handling wear. Bookseller's catalogue of "odd volumes of American books, published in two or more volume sets prior to 1850, in original bindings." 805 items, including titles by Jane Austen, James Fenimore Cooper..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1934. d'Aulaire. Stated first edition. Hardcover (pictorial boards). [32]p, many line ills. and color plates enhanced with gold. Without the jacket. Children's picture book, using scenes of nature and children's daily life to interpret the Protestant version of The Lord's Prayer. (There was also a...... More
Sausalito, CA: Windgate Press, 1985. Moulin, Gabriel. First edition. Hardcover. 208p, 171 large photos. Cover edges sunned, outer pages slightly foxed; bottom fore-edges stained. Moulin (1872-1945) was a prominent society and architectural photographer, who documented the lavish private estates and gardens of wealthy San Francisco Bay Area families--first with glass-plate..... More
London: The Women's Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 242p, 40 ills. Examines "the aspirations and expectations of Victorian women artists [painters and sculptors], their struggle for proper training, for exhibition and for unqualified recognition in the male-dominated art world." With case histories of Henrietta (Mrs. E.M.) Ward, Joanna Mary Boyce..... More
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1938. Blake, William. First edition. Soft cover. 85p, many ills. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue: 233 lots. For Clemens, they include "manuscripts, autographs, first editions including the manuscript of 'Tom Sawyer' from which the London 1876 edition was printed." Also various "autograph letters, first..... More
New York: Viking Penguin, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 216p, many ills. + 8 color pls. Pioneering survey of prominent women artists and designers in many fields, "ranging over the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain, the Glasgow School of Art, the Russian Constructivists, the Bauhaus, the Wiener Werkstatte, the great..... More
New York: Norton, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. 311p, many photos, plans, elevations, and other line ills. (many previously unpublished). "By tracing the powerful flux of ideas at Harvard's Graduate School of Design in the 1930s and 1940s, Anthony Alofsin reveals a radically novel picture of how American modernism emerged, struggled..... More
Indianapolis: Horseman and Fair World, 1942-1944. First edition. Soft cover. Three year-end Christmas issues of this "national trotting turf & fair weekly" for 1942, 1943, and 1944. Variously paged, many photos. Somewhat worn, some old dampstaining, but complete. Lots of photos of leading trotting and pacing horses of the day..... More
Colorado Springs: Western Horseman, 1950. First edition. Soft cover. Issues of January, September, and December. Each 48 to 52p, many photos, line ills., and ads. With a Ross Santee story "Santa Claus Rides to the Pot Hook," Western Colorado saddles, Albinism and Palomino breeding, "The So-Called Arabian Families (There Are..... More
South Woodstock, VT: GMHA, 1960, 1964. First edition. Soft cover. Three issues. Each ca. 40p, many photos and ads. News of horses, personalities, and activities mostly in and around Woodstock, Vermont--Margaret Ferguson on collecting vehicles, coverage and results of the 1964 100- and 50-mile rides, show results, Pony Club doings..... More
Unionville, PA: Sevynmor Press, 2020. First edition. Soft cover. 311p, several pages of color photos. Presentation copy from the author to "Betsy." Mohr's account of overseeing the publicity and fundraising for the creation and installation of the giant bronze Leonardo da Vinci horse in Milan. The book describes these complicated..... More
New York: Scribner's, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 268p + 16 plates (some with unpleasant images). Short closed tear to back of jacket. Good general history of the intertwined lives of humans and animals, with an emphasis on humane and anti-cruelty movements in 19th- and 20th-century Britain and America (check-rein, hunting..... More
New York: Scribner's, 1926. James, Will. Second printing. Hardcover (quarter cloth, boards). 241p, many ills. by James. No jacket. Cloth around spine stained; gilt lettering abraded as usual. Faint musty odor. Collects seven lively stories of ranch life, and even movie making, that were first published in various magazines; with..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1952. Wilson, Charles Banks. First edition. Hardcover. 376p, many ills. + 1 color plate by Charles Banks Wilson. Lacks jacket. Ex-library, minimally marked: trace of removed spine label, one small ink stamp on front endpaper, pocket on rear endpaper. Cover edges rubbed. Classic history of..... More
Whitewater, WI: Heart Prairie Press, 1989 (1st pub. 1983). Second edition (the first softcover edition). Soft cover. 251p, many old photos and other ills. Detailed look, in text and many vintage photos, at the the horses, men, and baggage wagons that kept the American circus on the road, by American's..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1938. First edition. Soft cover. 108p, a few line ills. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 608 lots. Besides the Dunbar "Tamarlane," they include "Civil War autographs & letters by Lincoln, Grant, Lee, & others, property of the Estate of John Wanamaker, Philadelphia..... More
![Item #31020 Sales 4221 and 4242: The Library of Abel Cary Thomas [cover title]. American Art...](/pictures/thumb/31020.jpg?v=1658836809)
New York: American Art Association, 1936. First edition. Soft cover. 2 parts, complete: 132, 121p, a few line ills. Unused bid sheets bound in. Auction catalogues of over 1100 lots: "first editions and autograph letters and manuscripts," including Washington's signed copy of Jeffries on two aeronautical voyages, and an "apparently..... More
