South Woodstock, VT: GMHA, 1960, 1964. First edition. Soft cover. Three issues. Each ca. 40p, many photos and ads. News of horses, personalities, and activities mostly in and around Woodstock, Vermont--Margaret Ferguson on collecting vehicles, coverage and results of the 1964 100- and 50-mile rides, show results, Pony Club doings..... More
Unionville, PA: Sevynmor Press, 2020. First edition. Soft cover. 311p, several pages of color photos. Presentation copy from the author to "Betsy." Mohr's account of overseeing the publicity and fundraising for the creation and installation of the giant bronze Leonardo da Vinci horse in Milan. The book describes these complicated..... More
New York: Scribner's, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 268p + 16 plates (some with unpleasant images). Short closed tear to back of jacket. Good general history of the intertwined lives of humans and animals, with an emphasis on humane and anti-cruelty movements in 19th- and 20th-century Britain and America (check-rein, hunting..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1952. Wilson, Charles Banks. First edition. Hardcover. 376p, many ills. + 1 color plate by Charles Banks Wilson. Lacks jacket. Ex-library, minimally marked: trace of removed spine label, one small ink stamp on front endpaper, pocket on rear endpaper. Cover edges rubbed. Classic history of..... More
Whitewater, WI: Heart Prairie Press, 1989 (1st pub. 1983). Second edition (the first softcover edition). Soft cover. 251p, many old photos and other ills. Detailed look, in text and many vintage photos, at the the horses, men, and baggage wagons that kept the American circus on the road, by American's..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1938. First edition. Soft cover. 108p, a few line ills. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 608 lots. Besides the Dunbar "Tamarlane," they include "Civil War autographs & letters by Lincoln, Grant, Lee, & others, property of the Estate of John Wanamaker, Philadelphia..... More
![Item #31020 Sales 4221 and 4242: The Library of Abel Cary Thomas [cover title]. American Art...](/pictures/thumb/31020.jpg?v=1658836809)
New York: American Art Association, 1936. First edition. Soft cover. 2 parts, complete: 132, 121p, a few line ills. Unused bid sheets bound in. Auction catalogues of over 1100 lots: "first editions and autograph letters and manuscripts," including Washington's signed copy of Jeffries on two aeronautical voyages, and an "apparently..... More
London: Maggs Bros. Summer 1932. First edition. Soft cover. 120p, a few plates. Bookseller catalogue of more than 400 annotated items handwritten by royal and noble women, actresses, novelists and dramatists, artists, women in religious orders, and others from throughout Britain and Europe, of the 16th-19th centuries. The item numbering..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1936. First edition. Soft cover. 118p, no ills. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 540 lots: books and manuscripts chiefly of the 18th-20th centuries from America, Britain, and Europe. Lots 154-171 are "beautiful books printed at the Doves Press." Can be sent outside..... More
New York: Anderson Galleries, 1928. First edition. Soft cover. 34p, a few line ills. Laid in: Anderson Galleries sale catalogue 2233 offering the "Manuscript Horae together with the only perfect copy in America of Nicolaus de Lyra's 'Postillae super Bibliam' [Strassburg, ca. 1472], the property of Professor Paul Soubeiran de..... More
![Item #31014 Catalogue 571: Atlases and Maps from the 15th to 20th Century [cover title]. Francis...](/pictures/thumb/31014.jpg?v=1658836804)
London: Francis Edwards, 1934. First edition. Soft cover. 103p + 3 pls. (maps by Ptolemy, Ortelius, Speed). Bookseller catalogue of 1453 items: "rare atlases, old maps and charts, original manuscript maps, facsimiles of early maps, road books [including the first known such], books of geographical interest. Single sheet and decorated..... More
New York: Anderson Galleries, 1924. First edition. Soft cover. 38p, 3 ills. of title pages. Covers worn and soiled; internally clean and complete. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 266 lots: "source books: books by and about Shakespeare, English literature of the Elizabethan period, etchings, engravings, etc. pertinent..... More
London: Maggs Bros. June 1936. First edition. Soft cover. 90p, several line ills. Back cover dusty. Fwd. by Philip Gosse, author of "History of Piracy." Bookseller catalogue of 363 items: books and ephemera of the 17th-20th centuries dealing with "highwaymen, murderers, pirates, plotters, robbers, smugglers, witches, etc." Chiefly non-fiction. Indexed..... More
New York: M.T. Richardson, 1885. Second edition (1st pub. 1883). Hardcover (pictorial cloth). 177p, many line ills. Owner's neat ink name. A popular guide; early editions like this one are scarce. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate. More
![Item #31008 [Two Original Studio Portrait Photos of Unidentified 1950s Jockey in Racing Silks]....](/pictures/thumb/31008.jpg?v=1657991087)
N.p. 1957. Unbound. Printed on textured matte paper. The smiling photo is creased across the middle; the other one is very good. Ca. 7 x 9 1/2 inches within mats. Not examined under mats. The tan mat is torn and stained; the other mat is nice. Who is this handsome..... More
New York: Appleton, 1891. First edition. Hardcover (stamped in silver; covers rubbed, stained). 139p, 142 line ills. Owner's ink name. A wealth of drill formations and instructions, chiefly for teams of 12 and 16 riders. (Wells 7313) Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate..... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 218p, 280 photos and line ills. + 30p of color photos. Owner's neat ink stamp on front endpaper. Still the only social and architectural history of American stables, from the everyday to the grandest of the grand. The authors criss-crossed America..... More
New York: William Farquhar Payson, 1931. First edition thus. Hardcover (boards, cloth spine). Introd. by Owen Culbertson. xi, 64p + several pls. by Edward P. Buyck. Pages uncut; lacks the d.j. Laid in: undated 2-page handwritten note to Mrs. Dibble from "Celeste," headed by a watercolor head portrait of Celeste's..... More
Geneva and Paris: Droz, 1966. First edition. Soft cover. 473p + a few plates and tables. Vol. 5, no. 2, in the series Hautes Etudes Medievales et Modernes published by the Centre de Recherches d'Histoire et de Philologie of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris. Laid in: offprint of..... More
New York: Pomegranate, 1994, 1996, 1997. Arthus-Bertrand, Yann. First edition. Spiral soft bound. Each 12 months, each ca. 18 x 14 inches. Wonderful studio photos of mostly French farm animals and their handlers--horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, ponies, mules, and donkeys. These unique portraits are both humorous and dignified. Taken from..... More
[Davenport, IA]: [J.H. Whitaker], n.d. [ca. 1889]. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. Advertising flyer, printed by or for the inventor, J.H. Whitaker. Ca. 9 x 16 inches, on newsprint. Torn at creases, most of which are neatly taped closed on the back. Photo shows top two-thirds of the sheet. The..... More
Cairo: Royal Agricultural Society, 1948. First edition. Soft cover. 136p + many photos. Some foxing to the newsprint-like pages. Historical text, followed by a list of all the stallions and mares that had by then stood at the RAS stud in Egypt, grouped by the major strains. Very useful for..... More
![Item #31000 [Program--July 3, 1948]. Goshen Raceway](/pictures/thumb/31000.jpg?v=1657990954)
N.p. [Goshen Historic Track], 1948. First edition. Unbound sheet. One sheet of duplicated typescript. Ca. 8 1/2 x 14 inches. Folded and slightly wrinkled. Some results penciled in. Photo shows top half of the program. Lists 11 races (all with heats), including entries for the 2 elimination heats of the..... More
![Item #30999 The Flying Parson and Dick Christian [with extensive annotations]. Guy Paget, Lionel...](/pictures/thumb/30999.jpg?v=1657990953)
Leicester: Edgar Backus, 1934. Simpson, Charles. First edition. Hardcover. xiii, 292 + 40 pls., including 25 in black, white, and red by Charles Simpson. Lacks d.j. The 19th-century hunting lives of the Rev. John Empson of Lincoln ("the flying parson") and the famed Meltonian Dick Christian. Includes material from books..... More
Boulder, CO: Equine Network, 2011. First edition. Soft cover. 110p, many color photos. With half-hour DVD. Twenty-six lessons, based on the author's column in Practical Horseman. Getting started, horse and rider fitness, preparing for competition, "secrets of galloping and jumping well (and safely)," working on your own, and how to..... More
