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
East Lansing, MI: Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, February 1930. First edition. Soft cover. 47p, many photos. Vol. 24, no. 6 of the Bulletin. On judging, breeding, managing, and fitting for show Belgians and Percherons, as practiced by the university (it dispersed its Clydesdale herd, for lack..... 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
New York: Prakapas Gallery, 1980. Feininger, T. Lux. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 47 ills. Ex-museum-lib.: small ink stamp, label on front cover. Feininger's first solo show of photographs. His text is titled "Notes on the Pictures." Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate..... More
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1959. First edition. Soft cover. 12p, no ills. Ex-museum-lib.: small ink stamp, pencil accession note. Reproduced typescript, as issued. Photo 2 shows the start of the paintings checklist. Account of "the most ambitious project so far to implement the East-West cultural exchange agreement..... More
Stockholm: Fotografiska Museet, 1976. Gibson, Ralph. First edition. Soft cover. 16p, many large plates. Text in Swedish and English. Ex-lib.: small unobstrusive ink stamp on inside front cover. Exhibition of 38 photos from The Somnambulist, Deja-Vu, Days at Sea, and Quadrants, with checklist. Text "From Inside and Out--About Raph Gibson's..... More
Manchester, NH: Currier Gallery of Art, 1959. Hopper, Edward. First edition. Soft cover. [20]p, many ills. of the watercolors. Ex-museum-lib.: small ink stamp, label on front cover. With checklists of the 45 watercolors and 18 etchings exhibited. Billed as one of the very few Hopper exhibitions in New England to..... More
Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1930. Grafly, Charles. Final Edition (expanding on the earlier one). Soft cover. 15p + 20 plates. Ex-museum-lib: small ink stamp, ink name on cover. With a checklist of the 88 works exhibited. Sculptor Grafly, who was renowned especially for his portrait busts of..... More
New York: Franklin Parrasch Gallery, n.d. [2001]. Price, Ken. First edition. Soft cover. [16]p, 9 color photos. Ex-museum-lib: small ink stamp on title page, label on cover. Exhibition catalogue of 8 ceramic-and-acrylic pieces. The text consists of the captions and long lists of selected books and articles, exhibitions, and collections..... More
Houston: Hooks-Epstein Galleries, 1996. Dogancay, Burhan. First edition. Soft cover. [8]p, several photos by Dogancay. Ex-museum-lib: ink name on front cover. Hair-raising photos of iron workers perched atop New York structures, including the Brooklyn Bridge and the Citicorp Building. Dogancay photographed alongside them, as he recounts in his text, "How..... More
New York: Scott & Fowles, 1949. John, Augustus. First edition. Soft cover. [24]p, many ills. Ex-museum lib: small ink stamp, cover label. From the collection of Chester Dale, with his bookplate. Exhibition upon the 25th anniversary of John's visit to America, "an electric event which produced not only a new..... More
