![Item #31740 Pampa Argentina: July 1955 [on Argentina's traditional national sport, pato]. writers](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31740.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694461639)
Buenos Aires: Editorial Bell, 1955. First edition. Soft cover. 52p, many photos and ads. In Spanish. Monthly magazine covering agricultural and general interest topics. Three illustrated pages + color cover on "Realidad Presente del Pato, el Deporte Nacional" by Roberto Torreiro. For the game of pato, a combination of polo..... More
N.p. Author, 1963. Hall, Marilynn. First edition. Soft cover. 40p, many photos and line ills. by Marilynn Hall. Sensible guide to slow, step-by-step training from first handling of the foal to longeing and backing. The author relates her own experiences with Allen's Bloomer Girl 560907 (by David Copperfield out of..... More
![Item #31738 The Shaggy Pony [with velvety "fuzz"]. Helen Hoke](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31738.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694461639)
New York: Julian Messner, 1944. Hart, Dick. First edition. Hardcover. [16]p, many ills. by Dick Hart in red, black, white, and yellow. Lacks the jacket. One of Hoke's four You-Can-Feel-the Animals books. A cute cautionary tale for beginning readers. At the reins of his pony cart Paul carelessly drives Shaggy..... More
[Pomona, CA?]: W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Ranch, n.d. [ca. 1950]. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. One large sheet, folded once. Folded, ca. 9 x 12 inches. Photo shows the outside of the unfolded sheet. Pictorial souvenir promoting the Kellogg Ranch and celebrating its 25th anniversary (founded in 1925). Chiefly photos..... More
Portland, ME: Carriage Association of America, Spring 1967. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. 141-196, many photos and line ills. Vol. 4, no. 4. The cover shows John M. Seabrook, G. Mossman, and Sanders Watney during their Irish coaching trip, August 1966. An early and rich issue of this fine journal..... More
N.p. [Soquel, CA?]: U.S. Equestrian Team, n.d. [early 1950s]. No stated edition. Stapled soft cover. 11p, no ills. Rules and suggestions for holding various jumping classes, dressage, and combined events. Importance of the announcer, "have you considered team competitions?," announcement of a Zone 10 Horse and Rider of the Year..... More
Florence: Giunti Barbera, 1984. Leonardo da Vinci. First edition. Soft cover. 135p, many ills. Catalogue of a large traveling exhibition at the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. With scholarly descriptions and notes on all the drawings and their place in Leonardo's oeuvre. More
![Item #31733 Cart Horse [Dumpling]; Suffolk Horses in the Back-ground. Ben Marhsall, artist](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31733.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694461636)
[London]: Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, 1820. Marshall, Ben. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. Engraved illustration. Overall ca. 11 x 8 inches; image is ca. 8 x 6 inches. Foxed back and front. Margins are torn but only one just touches the image. An appealing image of a cart horse, his..... More
Garden City, NY: Junior De Luxe Editions, for World Pub. Co., 1946. Dennis, Wesley. Reprint edition. Hardcover (boards). 315p, 49 ills. + 1 color plate by Wesley Dennis. Lacks the jacket. This is a version of the Rainbow Classics edition published by World. A good choice for the intermediate reader..... More
London: J.A. Allen, 1997. First edition. Hardcover (plasticized boards). 134p, many photos. In the Allen Breed Series. No jacket, as issued. Good overview of the history of the Shetland Pony, its many uses at work and in the show ring, great breeders and the stud book, miniature Shetlands, owning and..... More
New York: Morrow, 1961. Brown, Paul. 10th printing of this edition (1st pub. 1949; originally pub. 1935)). Hardcover. 306p + 10 plates by Paul Brown. Color jacket also by Brown (worn). Owner's neat ink name. To my mind, just about the best juvenile horse story of all. Much more than..... More
Eagle Pass, TX: American Quarter Horse Association, 1945. First edition. Soft cover. 216p, many old photos and ads. Tentative listings 12-19 and 1302-2745, listed both alphabetically and numerically. With line pedigrees of Shiloh, Steel Dust, Old Billy, and Lock's Rondo. Errata to earlier volumes, breeders directory, and other material. (Wells..... More
Krefeld: Scherpe, n.d. [1961]. First edition. Sturdy soft cover. 342p, hundreds of ills., some in color. In German. Presents the collection of over 800 turn-of-the-20th-century posters in the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld--Art Nouveau, Jugendstil, Secession, etc. The posters are from many European countries, Britain, America, and Russia. With short descriptions..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1943. Ward, Lynd. Stated first edition. Hardcover. 107p; jacket, binding, and endpapers by Lynd Ward, as well as 1 plate (which repeats the jacket), and presumably the title page (printed in black and slate blue). A wartime production: as the jacket flap says, "It is a...... More
New York: Rizzoli, 1982. First American edition. Hardcover. 216p, 347 ills. (85 in color). Trans. from French. Wide-ranging survey from the late 19th century on, divided into sections on the factories, artists, potters, and techniques. Emphasis on Europe, Britain, and America, but works by artists from several other countries are..... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1980. Burkert, Nancy Ekholm. Stated first edition. Hardcover. 165p, many line ills. printed in brown + 10 color plates. Designed by Lance Hidy; typeset in Dante and Centaur by Michael & Winifred Bixler. Jacket is age yellowed, as usual. Eighty poems by Dickinson, sensitively illustrated..... More
Zurich: L'Art Ancien, n.d. [1970s]. Hollar, Wenzel. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., many line ills. In German. Substantial auction catalogue of 464 lots of prints, albums, books etc., of late Mannerism, Baroque, early Rococo, and the 17th century, including over 40 works by Wenzel Hollar. Architecture, emblems, festivals, calligraphy, ornament..... More
Leipzig: Rowohlt, 1911. First edition thus. Hardcover. viii, 282p, no ills. Printed with light green headings. No jacket, if issued. An elegant presentation, typeset and printed by the Leipzig firm of Drugulin in one of its handsome typefaces. The colophon reads "Ce livre . . . est le neuvieme Drugulin..... More
Calabasas, CA: Profiles in History, 2017. First edition. Soft cover. 94p, hundreds of color ills. A spectacular collection of 293 lots of Sherlockiana in many media, manuscripts, Doyle material, detective fiction, objects, ephemera, reference books, etc. etc. Richly illustrated. Highlighted by a pirated copy of The Sign of the Four..... More
Montreal: Editions Fides, [1949]. Bellot, Paul. First edition. Soft cover. 128p + 16 plates. Partly unopened. Collects the lectures on architecture that Bellot gave in Canada in 1934; published posthumously. The plates illustrate some of his European brick and concrete churches, monasteries, and abbeys. The Cahiers d'Arca series was aimed..... More
Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art, 1999. Leuthold, Marc. First edition. Soft cover. [Ca. 36]p, many color plates. Larsen's text is a short appreciation. Other texts by Mario Cutajar and Thomas Piche, Jr. Exhibition catalogue of Marc Leuthold's intricately carved porcelain wheels and other cylindrical forms. Can be sent outside..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1964. First edition. Soft cover. 96p, many ills., a few in color. Cover shows a Luis Barragan garden. A pioneering survey of mid-century outdoor rooms, parks and plazas, flower gardens, constructed landscapes, and more. Works by Barragan, Burle Marx, Le Corbusier, Noguchi, SOM, Wright..... More
![Item #31710 [Trade Catalogue]. U S. Buggy, Cart Co](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31710.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692652930)
Cincinnati: U.S. Buggy and Cart Co., n.d. [ca. 1880s-90s]. No stated edition. Soft cover. Pp. 3-27, lacking the front cover with title, which was probably pp. 1-2. Back cover detached. Tears to outer pages, but rarely with loss. A flawed but very informative catalogue, filled with details of vehicles, "extras,"..... More
![Item #31708 The Blood-Horse: February 4, 1974 [Memories of Men and Horses at Santa Anita]. writers](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31708.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692652929)
Lexington, KY: The Blood-Horse, 1974. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. 475-550, many photos and ads. Feature articles on Ancient Title's San Fernando Stakes win by Robert Herbert, "The Ghosts of the San Gabriels" by Robert Herbert (Seabiscuit, Silky Sullivan, Longden's last race on George Royal, etc., at Santa Anita). Also..... More
Dayton, OH: Author, 1983. First edition. Soft cover. 92p, many photos. Reproduced typescript, as issued. History of the Shetland show pony, with details of many early ponies, important shows and sales, etc. Several chapters on individual ponies, including King Larigo, Silver Crescent, Colonel Cody, and others. A book that has..... More
