![Scherenschnitt of Racehorse and Jockey]. Anonymous](/pictures/thumb/30919.jpg?v=1652735825)
N.p. [Pennsylvania?]: n.d. [1820s-40s?]. Unbound sheet. Large scissor-cut silhouette showing a racehorse and jockey walking over turf marked with hoofprints and tufts of grass. Very good, cut from paper that is blacker than appears in the photo. Scattered foxing overall to backing paper. Matted and shrinkwrapped. Size within mat is..... More
London: London and Counties Press Association, 1915. Limited edition. Hardcover (half leather). xii, 345p + 58 pls., 6 in color. No. 98 of 150 copies in the Subscriber's Edition (no subscriber's name noted). Covers rubbed; marginal and fore-edge foxing; rear endpapers dampstained. (There was also a full-vellum deluxe edition of..... More
Vienna: Hartleben, 1884. First (only) edition. Hardcover (original gilt- and blind-stamped cloth, slightly rubbed). 272p (including 3p of publisher's ads), 77 line ills. (8 of them full page plates). In German. Comprehensive guide for owners and breeders of saddle, carriage, and draft horses--their selection, care and management, leg and hoof..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977-79. Steffen, Randy. First edition. Hardcover. 4 vols., totaling over 800p and probably ca. 1000 line drawings by Steffen (numbered to 468, but very often one number includes more than one illustration). Jacket spines faded. Out of print in hardcover. Detailed descriptions and illustrations..... More
![Complete Pictures of the Eight Noble Steeds [Hachisuma Zenzu]. No named author](/pictures/thumb/30810.jpg?v=1652736038)
[China]: n.d. [ca. 1895-1915]. No stated edition. Hardcover. Folding accordion album, 10 plates on silk mounted on boards, each with facing text. Original paintings in ink, heightened with color. Folded, ca. 6 x 8 inches. Unfolded, ca. 10 feet long. Covers rubbed and faded, front cover detached, white scratch at..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, n.d. [1949]. First edition. Unbound plates in portfolio. [16]p + 14 loose plates, all in original portfolio. Ca. 12 x 16 inches. Corners lightly bumped; folder soiled, rubbed, chipped. No. 434 of 500 copies. Large richly printed facsimile reproductions of horses portrayed in The American..... More
N.p. Author, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. 599p, many pedigrees and photos (some in color). Detailed analysis of successful Thoroughbred bloodlines, with a focus on crosses to use or avoid (going back to the 19th century). To date there is no volume 2. Heavy; shipping/handling may be extra. Please keep this..... More
Paris: Charles Eitel, 1902. First edition. Hardcover (original pictorial boards). 224p, 12 photos. Covers scraped, stained; skewed from reading; scattered foxing. In French. Memoirs of this renowned circus equestrienne. Originally from Germany, she performed throughout Europe in various venues (Busch Circus, Folies Bergere, her own circuses, and more). She was..... More
N.p. Equinart, 2010. Stone, Fred. First edition. Hardcover. 108p, dozens of ills., over 60 in color. Signed by Stone on front endpaper. With Stone’s thoughts on his career and “Fred Stone: A Passion for Horses and People” by Eclipse Award-winner Don Clippinger. Here is a wealth of Stone's dramatic paintings..... More
Grenoble: Editions des 4 Seigneurs, 1073. Facsimile reprint of the 1733 first edition. Hardcover (gilt-stamped leather). 284p + many pls. by Parrocel. Ca. 11 x 17 inches. One of 1500 copies, out of series. In French. Sumptuous full-size facsimile of this landmark of horsemanship. The binding is elaborately stamped in..... More
London: Heinemann, [1928]; spine reads 1929. First edition. Hardcover. xxix, 368p + many photos, several folding maps. Pages partly unopened Without the jacket and slipcase. Title page printed in red and black. From the collection of the Duke of Gloucester, with his armorial bookplate. A beautiful copy of this detailed..... More
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1937. Hargens, Charles. Fourth printing (1st pub. 1933). Hardcover (textured green cloth). 302p + 4 pls. and color jacket by Charles Hargens. Bookseller label of Newbegin's, San Francisco. Jacket is torn. A lively tale of Frog, at first "an outlaw who can only be ridden by..... More
Sacramento: News Publishing Co., 1948. Napoletano, Al Martin. First edition. Hardcover (leatherette). 131p, 20 line ills. by Al Martin Napoletano and 109 photos. No jacket (as issued?). Making, tying, and caring for the rope or horsehair hackamore, and introducing it to foals and green horses. Includes throwing in a breaking..... More
![The Official Horse Show Blue Book [vol. 9, 1915]; Vanderbilt Memorial and Coaching Number. J. W....](/pictures/thumb/30709.jpg?v=1652735824)
New York: J.W. Waring, 1915. First edition. Hardcover (original suede). 272p, many photos and ads for luxury goods. Skewed and warped from poor storage; gilt has worn off the cover lettering. Internally clean and sturdy. "Containing complete summaries of all recognized horse shows held in the United States and Canada;..... More
New York: Ernest R. Gee, 1927. Reprint edition (1st pub. 1830). Hardcover (boards). 47p, 2 mounted plates and title-page vignette. A typical copy: covers discolored, spine tips worn; some foxing to endpapers and text. No. 294 of 375 copies "printed by Eugene V. Connett at The Derrydale Press." Reprint of..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1941. Dennis, Wesley. First edition. Hardcover. 64p, many ills. by the author. Unclipped jacket. is wrinkled with several mostly closed tears. Bookseller's old price sticker inside back cover. First edition of this favorite picture book: the foal Flip discovers he doesn't need wings to jump over..... More
New York: American Sports Publishing Co., 1923. No stated edition. Soft cover. 209p + 11p of ads for Spalding's riding equipment and clothing, many photos. Spalding "Red Cover" Series of Athletic Handbooks, No. 31R. Old bookstore stamp on front endpaper. Skewed from poor storage; covers are worn, soiled, chipped. Sewn..... More
London: T. Waller, 1766. Third edition, "with large additions" (1st pub. 1759). Hardcover (full contemporary leather). 284p, no ills. Some age browning, front cover starting. Old ink name on title page. The title page continues: “In which is laid down a proper method of shoeing (in general) and treating the..... More
Richmond, VA: Privately Printed by Old Dominion Press, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 244p + 14 pls. Errata slip laid in. No jacket (as issued?). Comprehensive record of John Randolph’s Roanoke Stud in Virginia, based on many original documents, which are often quoted. One of Harrison’s series of well-researched histories of..... More
New York: Scribner's, 1933. Edwards, Lionel. First edition. Hardcover. 396p + 32 color pls. by Lionel Edwards. The jacket is home-made: hand-lettered with a sweet watercolor and pencil hunting scene. Collects the verses from Galloping Shoes, Scattered Scarlet, Over the Grass, and A Handful of Leather, plus“sixteen poems never before..... More
London: Robert Hardwicke, 1859. First (only) edition. Hardcover (original gilt-stamped green cloth). 70p + several line ills on 3 lithographed plates plus pictorial title page (lightly dampstained at bottom). “Abridged and revised from ‘Waite’s Equestrian Manual’ [1850].” On the “character and management of the horse,” handling the reins, the various..... More
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke, 1875. Second edition, revised and enlarged (1st pub. 1872). Hardcover. liii, 411p, no ills. Rebound: original leather (scuffed and cracking); new leather spine, label, and endpapers. Light browning to opening pages. A volume of case law, presenting 750 cases, "embracing the law of bargain, sale, and warranty..... More
![We Go Foxhunting Abroad [and] More Foxhunting in England. Charles D. Lanier](/pictures/thumb/9749.jpg?v=1652746700)
Rahway, NJ [and] New York: Privately printed "for friends to whom hunting, hounds and horses are what they are to us" 1924, 1927. First editions. Hardcover (boards, cloth spines). 158 and 204p, no ills. Subtitled A First Venture with Irish Banks and English Downs and A Further Venture with British..... More
![Official Catalogue First Annual Exhibition of Horses [cover reads: Catalogue Newport Horse Show]....](/pictures/thumb/12910.jpg?v=1652736603)
New York: Frederick M. Crossett, 1896. First edition. Soft cover. [50]p, several photos and line ills. in the ads (no pictures of the entries). Very occasional pencil notes. Lists entries for a wide range of classes--four-in-hands, tandems, harness horses, carriage and appointments, ponies in harness, heavy draught horses, cabs, horses..... More
![Six 19th-Century Japanese Gesaku (Gokan) Booklets]. Ryukatei Tanekazu, Ryukatei Senka](/pictures/thumb/30915.jpg?v=1651511643)
N.d. [originally mid- to late 1800s]. Soft cover, in original stab binding with thread. Variously paged and illustrated in black and white and color. Cover soil; old worming to two covers. These vernacular woodblock books were cheap popular editions of Japanese fables, legends, epics, romances, etc., told through a mixture..... More
