Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970. First edition. Soft cover. 38p. Running across the top margins are photos of the spines of 833 HUP books, "a number that represents 35 percent of our books in print." Booklet for authors describing the stages of publishing at HUP--from submission and preparation of..... More
Charleston, SC: History Press, 2019. First edition. Soft cover. 269p, many photos. Survey of racing in Montana, its highs and lows, from the early races staged by the Nez Perce to the present. Includes Quarter Horse racing (Bob Wade set the long-standing quarter mile record in Butte in 1890), Thoroughbred..... More
Janze, France: Charles Herissey, 2009. First edition. Hardcover (plasticized boards). 222p, dozens of ills. from many sources, many in color. No jacket, as issued. In French. Cover is cropped top and bottom in the photo. A fabulous pictorial survey of women equestrians in all fields across the ages--war, hunting, racing..... More
Louisville, KY: Harbison & Gathright, n.d. [1939]. First edition. Soft cover. 20p, many photos and line ills., printed in sepia. With an errata slip (dated 1931) glued to the first page. The catalogue itself is from 1939 because the firm was established in 1866 and it was celebrating its 73rd..... More
Austin: Texas Folk-Lore Society, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 429p, several line ills. No jacket (as issued?). Classic collection of 40 firsthand accounts about the range horse from the 19th-century on--"the most extensive and informative compilation on mustangs and mustangers ever printed." The texts are by a wide variety of writers--historians..... More
[Jackson, MS]: Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1981. First edition. Soft cover. 64p, many photos and other ills. covers shelfsoiled and shelfworn; residue of old price sticker on back. Ink gift inscription. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Mississippi State Historical Museum--"a tribute to the mule and a...... More
![Item #31223 The Horse and Dog Lover [later The Horse Lover]: 7 issues. John J. Hartford, ed](/pictures/thumb/31223.jpg?v=1670934426)
San Francisco: John J. Hartford, 1946-1947. Johnston, T. Edgar. First edition. Soft cover. Issues of August-September 1946 (vol. 11, no. 2), October-November 1946, December 1946-January 1947, February-March 1947, April-May 1947, June-July 1947, and October-November 1947 (vol. 12, no. 3). Each ca. 40p, many photos and other ills. All internally clean..... More
![Item #31222 Every Man His Own Farrier; Or, the Whole Art of Farriery Laid Open [etc.]. Francis...](/pictures/thumb/31222.jpg?v=1670934426)
London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817. 23rd edition (1st pub. 1783). Hardcover (contemporary boards, reinforced leather spine). xvi, 360p + 1 plate. Handwritten notes on front endpaper. Covers rubbed, endpapers browned; overall very clean and sturdy for its age. Describes "the causes, symptoms, and most approved methods of cure, for..... More
![Item #31219 Ten Things to Read and Remember [on spine]. Milton Glaser](/pictures/thumb/31219.jpg?v=1670330103)
Zagreb, Croatia: Igepa [printed by Cerovski Print Boutique, Zagreb], N.d. [after 2001]. Privately printed, not for sale. Hardcover. N.p.,many ills., most in color; some folding. No jacket (as issued?). Various graphic artists interpret Milton Glaser's "Ten Things I Have Learned," from his 2001 AIGA talk. Inspired by Glaser though not..... More
Frankfurt / New York: Museum fur Angewandte Kunst / Museum of Arts & Design, 2003. First edition. Soft cover. 344p, many large ills., most in color. All text in English and German. Catalogue of the 9th Triennial for Form and Content, with a variety of chiefly three-dimensional works in many..... More
Cologne: Albertina Graphische Sammlung, 1998. Roth, Dieter. First edition. Soft cover. Also subtitled Printed Pressed Bound / Gedrucktes Gespresstes Gebundenes. All text in English and German. 200p, over 200 ills., many in color. Catalogue of an extensive exhibition at the Albertina and the Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia..... More
Tokyo: John Weatherhill, for the Bufano Society of the Arts (San Francisco), N.d. [1968]. Bufano, Benjamin. First edition. Hardcover (silver cloth, stamped in gilt). 20p + 123 ills., most of them large color photos. In original acetate jacket (slightly chipped). The scans show reflected light and shadows. Tribute to the..... More
Manchester, UK: Manchester City Art Gallery, 1975. Wood, Edgar; Sellers, James Henry. First edition. Soft cover. 96p, ca. 30 photos and line ills. Covers rather soiled from handling; internally nice and clean. From the library of architect James Stirling, with his bookplate. Exhibition catalogue of the buildings and furnishings by..... More
Berkeley: Arts & Crafts Press, 1999. Dow, Arthur Wesley. Limited edition. Sewn soft cover in self wrappers. Two pamphlets, laid in tri-fold cloth portfolio, which is lined with blue paper and closed with a ribbon and wood button. 26, 30p, each with many ills., a few color plates tipped in..... More
![Item #31213 Directory of Automobile Trouble [cover reads: Directory of Automobile Information];...](/pictures/thumb/31213.jpg?v=1670329743)
Chicago: Co-Operative Publicity Company, 1909. First edition. Soft cover. 60p, several ills. in the ads. Covers printed in red and black. Front cover corner chipped off; bottom corners dogeared. A practical, easy-to-follow guide for early automotive troubleshooting. With related ads--lighting, steam or gasoline cars, carburetors, batteries, etc. The publisher stated..... More
Hanover, NH: Ripley Publishing Co., 1947. First edition. Soft cover. 87p, several maps and ads. There are no ills. of the college buildings or students. Covers dampstained inside and out; content very good. New York Herald Tribune mention of the book mounted within. Signed by all three authors. Three Dartmouth..... More
Boston: C. Kimball, n.d. [ca. 1890-1900?]. Kimball (photographer). No stated edition. Mounted albumen print. With the photographer's monogram CK on back. Kimball, "Instantaneous Photographs," was located at 140 Court Street, Boston. Studio portrait of a young lady in her finest finery--elaborate lace collar, fitted jacket, embroidered diamond-shaped lappets, box-pleated skirt..... More
![Item #31210 Flora of Naushon [1 of 420 sets]; Vol. 1: Wildflowers. Vol. 2: Ferns, Grasses,...](/pictures/thumb/31210.jpg?v=1670329743)
N.p. Paul Elias, 1998. Limited edition. Hardcover. Signed by Cherau on title page of volume 1. 746p, hundreds of line ills., some in color. Guide to 610 species of vascular plants found on Naushon, Monohansett, Veckatimest, Nonamesset, and Uncatena islands off Cape Cod, 160 of them recorded here for the..... More
Lowell, MA: N.M. Hill Press, 1946. First edition. Soft cover. 186p, a few ills. Covers faded, backstrip mended, binding sound. "No. 889" is written in ink on the title page. Novel spoofing the art world and the art market, as experienced by the painter Fra Angelo Bomberto (a stand-in for..... More
Revnice, Czech Republic: Arbor Vitae, 2011. Witkin, Joel-Peter. First edition. Soft cover. 164p, many photos, some in color. Text by Urban plus statements by Witkin, all in both English and Czech. Overview of Witkin's career and his disturbing and controversial photographs, published to accompany a substantial retrospective exhibition in Brno. ..... More
![Item #31207 Riding [advance reading copy]. Benjamin Lewis](/pictures/thumb/31207.jpg?v=1669723986)
New York: Derrydale Press, 1936. Limited edition. Soft cover. 141p, many photos by Eugene Friduss. In fair jacket; skewed from storage; two ink names on front endpaper; else nice and clean. This innovative photographic guide to riding on the flat and over jumps was the first such manual to use..... More
![Item #31206 The Anatomy of the Horse [formerly titled The Artistic Anatomy of the Horse]. R....](/pictures/thumb/31206.jpg?v=1669723985)
London: Winsor & Newton, n.d. [1880s-90s?]. Hawkins, R. Waterhouse. Fourteenth thousand (1st pub. 1865). Soft cover (limp cloth). 84p, 24 wood-engraved ills. by the author + 54p of publisher's ads for artists' paints and supplies. Covers shelfsoiled, a little dogeared. Binding sound. Description and detailed illustrations of the musculature and..... More
Cleveland Heights, OH: Xenophon Press, 1994. First thus. Soft cover. 125p, 76 photos and line ills. Excellent introduction to the French mode of "riding in lightness" in the tradition of Baucher and Oliveira. Includes haute ecole (high school) and other advanced work. (In print at $29.95) Can be sent outside..... More
Washington, DC: American Remount Association, 1925-1928. First edition. Hardcover. 21 issues of this journal, which was published every other month. Contains March, September, and November 1925, and complete years for 1926, 1927, and 1928. Bound in library buckram, without the covers. Ex-library (New England Historic Genealogical Society, with their bookplate)..... More
![Item #31203 The Western Horseman 1952 [11 of 12 issues]. Dick Spencer, ed](/pictures/thumb/31203.jpg?v=1669723983)
Colorado Springs: Western Horseman, 1952. First edition. Soft cover. Each 64p, many photos and ads. Lacks the June issue. Average light handling wear and age soil; internally overall very good, clean, complete. Almost complete year of "the magazine for admirers of stock horses," full of old-time information and photos. Articles..... More
