Goshen, IN: Spohn Medical Co., 1935. No stated edition. Stapled soft cover. 20p, photos throughout. Slight handling wear. Ca. 6 x 9 inches. A pamphlet distributed with compliments of Spohn. The lessons cover gentling, bitting, long lining, voice commands, desensitizing to such frights as a rattling road roller, truck with..... More
![American Dressage Institute [newsletter]. American Dressage Institute](/pictures/thumb/30236.jpg?v=1624494849)
Saratoga Springs, NY: American Dressage Institute, 1972. First edition. Soft cover. [8]p, many photos. Laid in: June 1972 Dressage Letters (1 page). A wonderful and scarce artifact from the early days of serious dressage in America, fostered almost single-handedly by the ADI during its several years of existence. Reports on..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1948. Paul Brown. First and only U.S. edition. Hardcover. 230p, many line ills. by Paul Brown (chapter heads and double-page spreads). also music for trumpet calls. No jacket. Young adult novel about a young trumpeter and one of General Custer's staghounds at the Battle of the..... More
London: Warne, 1968. Revised Edition (1st pub. 1948). Hardcover. 268p, 95 photos. Jacket is soiled and stained. Revised and enlarged edition of this popular pocket guide to 130 "familiar and unfamiliar breeds and varieties" from around the world. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping..... More
London: Swaine Adeney Brigg & Sons, n.d. [early 2000s]. First edition. Soft cover. 12p, many color photos. Retail catalogue of elegant riding and hunting crops, driving whips, horns, leather accessories such as sandwich cases, shooting sticks, umbrellas, etc. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping..... More
Unpublished: April 1930. Photocopy of a carbon copy of this typewritten list. Unpaged; lists 269 items. Very readable. This inventory was probably prepared by a member of Hutton's staff or an outside art cataloguer. It is divided into Oil Paintings, Water Colours, Coloured Engravings, Cock Fighting, Boxers. In Black [uncolored..... More
Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1972. Facsimile reprint. Unbound sheets. 394p, several ills. Photo-duplicated typescript. PhD. dissertation in Theater, Tufts University. Founded by Charles Dibdin the elder and equestrian Charles Hughes, the Royal Circus was the first one in London to combine acts on the stage and in the riding..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Lampoon, 1928. First edition. Soft cover. Two issues, variously paged and illustrated by student writers and artists. These icons of politically incorrect college humor are filled with topical jokes, cartoons, parodies of student academics and athletics, and the like. The ads feature luxury goods, clothing and tailoring..... More
London: Maggs Bros. 1927. First edition. Soft cover. 208p (311 items), many large pls., 1 in color. Bookseller catalogue of several categories of bindings: Books from the Libraries of Kings, Queens and Famous Men and Women; Chained and Stamped Bindings; Decorative Bindings from various countries and eras; and Books about..... More
No place: United States Pony Clubs, distrib. by J.A. Allen, 1968. First edition. Soft cover. 15p, no ills. Surveys about 30 books on riding suitable for Pony Club use--Chamberlin, McTaggart, Hance, Littauer, Wynmalen, Museler, Podhajsky, etc. Emphasis on general riding and cross-country; a little dressage. Although some of the authors..... More
Culver, IN: Culver Military Academy, 1910 or before. Unstated edition. Soft cover. 24p, many photos. The diecut horseshoe-shaped arch on the front cover reveals the photo on the title page. Ca. 4 x 5 1/2 inches. Booklet introducing Culver Military Academy to prospective students and their parents. It describes the..... More
London: G. Michelmore & Co., n.d. [April 1921 from receipt date]. First edition. Soft cover (yapped). 191p (251 iems) + several pls. of bindings, a few in color and/or folding. Bookseller catalogue, with occasional pencil checkmarks. One large folding color plate shows an elaborate embroidered 18th-century Italian binding made for..... More
New York; Newark, DE: Parke-Bernet Galleries; Oak Knoll Books, 1941; n.d.; 1986. First editions. Various. Variously paged and illustrated. (1) The A. Edward Newton Collection Collected by the Late A. Edward Newton. Prospectus for the 1941 auction, with an introduction by Arthur Swann. 22p, 2 pls. Hardcover (boards lightly faded). (2)..... More
London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1902. Turner. First edition. Soft cover. 11p, no ills. Auction catalogue of 168 prints (92 from the Liber Studiorum). All prices and buyers inked in. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
![Robert Irwin [1968]. John Coplans, fwd. by Kynastone McShine](/images/noimage.png)
New York: Jewish Museum, 1968. First edition. Soft cover. [12]p, 1 plate (photo of Irwin by actor Dennis Hopper). One of the three catalogues from the simultaneous exhibition of "three independent and mature artists"--Irwin, Gene Davis, and Richard Smith. This was Irwin's second one-man New York show. Six works are..... More
Randwick, Australia: Elvent, 1987 (1st pub. 1932). Facsimile reprint. Soft cover. 33p, several photos. Life of Phar Lap, his riders, his race record, a look at other champions, etc. Written "in sorrow" soon after his death. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate... More
Wimbledon: Hoveglen, 1974 (1st pub. 1949). Reprint. Soft cover. 88p, many line ills. and photos. With much on the "symbolic meaning" of the designs; the photos of actual brasses are very small. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate. More
Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 244p, several plates. No jacket (as issued?). Preface by Elmer Belt. With errata slip. Authoritative and meticulous descriptive bibliography of the manuscript copies and printed editions. With much supplementary material, including a study of the treatise's sources and illustrations. Can be sent outside the..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967-1969. Various editions. Hardcover. Hundreds of pages, some ills. Light shelfwear and soil; overall clean and sturdy). No d.j. (if issued?). From Henry Adams to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Vol. 5 is the 1969 first printing; vols. 1-4 are 3rd or 4th printings of 1967 and..... More
![Books [2 catalogues, ca. 1914-15]. Roebuck and Co Sears](/pictures/thumb/30051.jpg?v=1616763243)
Chicago: Sears, Roebuck, n.d. [ca. 1914-1915]. No stated edition. Stapled paperbound. Two catalogues of hundreds of books and magazines for sale by Sears, Roebuck. One is headed, "Greatest of All Bookstores at Your Service." Bestsellers, gift books, home study, practical arts, series books for boys and girls, history and current..... More
![The Breeder's Gazette Farmer and His Wife! [cover title]. Virginia C. Meredith](/pictures/thumb/30042.jpg?v=1616762922)
Chicago: Sanders Pub. Co., n.d. [ca. 1918]. First edition. Paperbound. A lavish promotional brochure soliciting subscribers and advertisers to the weekly Breeder's Gazette, which reached "the very cream of the farming population." The tone is aspirational: "The Gazette is devoted to 'nurture and education' in better thinking about the fine..... More
Paris: Promodis, 1985. First edition. Original cloth. 539p, many ills. + many color ills. on 38 plates. Masterful history of the 19th-century French book, with chapters by various experts. Covers book production, publishing and bookselling, the illustrated press, genres and reading audiences, etc. Large and heavy; shipping/handling will be extra..... More
1989. Schwarz, Dieter. Lawrence Weiner Books 1968-1989: Catalogue Raisonne. Cologne: Walther Konig 1989. 205p, many ills., some in color. Very good hardcover; no d.j. (as issued). Would be fine except the bottom rear cover corner is bumped and the bottom rear cover edge is rubbed for ca. 1 inch. Text..... More
![The Blood-Horse [1933 complete]. Thomas B. Cromwell, ed](/pictures/thumb/30214.jpg?v=1623336781)
Lexington, KY: Thomas B. Cromwell [The Blood-Horse], 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Two sturdy volumes containing all 52 weekly issues of volume 19, with original covers bound in (some plain, some printed against blue-green). Over 1300p total, photo on every front cover and occasional photos inside. A little old dampstaining to..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. 165p + 4 pls. by F. Walter Taylor. Original printed boards (worn, spine reinforced with tape, but binding is sturdy). Neat ink stamp of former owner on front endpaper and one margin. Some internal staining. Novel set in Virginia about Trix..... More
