Goshen, NY: Orange County Driving Park Association, n.d. [1954]. First edition. Soft cover. 45p, many photos of races, horses, and personalities. Summary of the meeting, giving one page to each featured race—photo, description, and heat results. The 100th anniversary of Historic Track was celebrated with a pageant of horses, riders..... More
Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis, 1826. Second edition, "much enlarged and embellished with three engravings" (1st pub. 1818). Hardcover (contemporary full leather). 251p + 3 pls., showing the points of the horse, the intestines (after Ruini), and the stages of teeth. Heavily foxed, but sturdy. Focuses on conditions as Carver found..... More
[New York]: New York Women's League for Animals, 1921. First edition. Soft cover. 76p, several photos (chiefly dogs, also a photo of the new horse ambulance). The League operated a free hospital and dispensary at 350 Lafayette Street, New York, which in 1920 handled ca. 9,500 cases and surgeries on..... More
London: British Horse Society, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. [Ca. 50p], no ills. Rebound in pebbled cloth. Twelve issues + Supplement of this short-lived journal--all published? It contains excerpts from writings by Charles Harris, John Swire, Xenophon, Henry Earl of Pembroke, and others; commentary on BHS standards and guidelines; short book..... More
Salina, KS: [Salina Horse Show Management], 1931. First edition. Soft cover. 48p, a few ills. in the many ads. Owner's ink name on front cover. Light average handling wear and soil. Lists the entries for 59 classes for three- and five-gaited horses, roadsters and heavy harness, Hackneys, ponies, and children..... More
New York: George Wilkes, October 22, 1859. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. 97-112, a few small ills. Foxed throughout, as shown. Folded. Ca. 11 x 16 inches. The photos show the top halves of the first page and a page of race results. The seventh issue of this sporting journal..... More
Paris: No stated publisher [Administration des Monnaies et Medailles?], n.d. [mid-1970s]. No stated edition. Soft cover. 28p, many small black-and-white ills. Laid in: "Tarif Courant des Medailles et Plaquettes, Mai 1977" (12-page pricelist of then available medals for sale). In French. Survey of images of horses and donkeys on Parisian..... More
Orwell, VT: No stated publisher, April 1858. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. Broadside. One folded sheet, 1 wood-engraved ill. First and last pages blank, letterpress text printed on two inside pages. Folded, ca. 7 1/2 x 10 inches. Advertisement for the services of Morgan stallion Black Hawk: description, family details..... More
Bird-in-Hand, PA: Carriage Museum of America, n.d. [2000?]. First edition. Hardcover. 410p, many line ills. No jacket, as issued. Owner's blind-stamp on title page. Hundreds of articles, letters, news notes, records, descriptions of vehicle design, lectures, prize essays, and more, all concerning the Brewster & Co. carriage firm. They were..... More
Portland, ME: Carriage Association of America, Summer 1966. Penfield, Nicholson. First edition. Soft cover. 52p, many photos and line ills. Vol. 4, no. 1. An early and especially rich issue of this fine journal. Includes excerpts from four vintage sources--the very scarce issue of Architectural Review on stable planning (1902)..... More
Boston; Huntington, NY: Boston Public Library in co-operation with Barre Publishers; Black Oak Publishers, 1974; 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Over 400p total, over 300 ills. total (mostly large). Jacket photos are cropped on the sides. Collects all the prints and some drawings of this master lithographer, who specialized in New..... More
Philadelphia: Moore College of Art, 1979. Duckworth, Zeisler. First edition. Stapled soft cover. Two texts bound dos-a-dos, each 36p; over 50 ills. total, 2 in color. Joint exhibition catalogue: 20 ceramic sculptures by Duckworth and 21 fiber works by Zeisler. Foreword by Drutt; texts by McTwigan. With checklists of exhibited..... More
Berlin: Paul Graupe, n.d. [ca. 1928]. First edition. Soft cover. 70p, no ills. In German. Bookseller's catalogue of 450 incunabula from 150 printers, with their Hain numbers given at the end. Unused order form laid in. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate... More
London: Penguin Books, 1942. Second printing (1st pub. 1940). Soft cover. 172p, no ills. Outer pages worn and relined; new covers with hand lettering. Ink name of C. Kerr on front endpaper. The second novel by Oxford don and World War II intelligence officer John C. Masterman. From the library..... More
Philadelphia: Budd Company, February 1950. Privately printed. Stapled soft cover. 12p, 3 ills. A memorial tribute published by Ledwinka's longtime employer. Ledwinka was the pioneering automotive engineer who developed "the first four-wheel brakes, the first indivdual wheel drive, the first car with gas-electric power...That he was the real father of..... More
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1962. First edition. Soft cover. 79p, several plates. Auction catalogue of 231 lots, featuring "The Lost Alice" (London, 1865), The Letter-Book of Eldridge Gerry, and The First Bible in Czech (Prague, 1488). Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate... More
Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine, 2004. First edition. Soft cover. 272p, over 1000 color photos. The landscape designer-authors assembled this book from the more than 1,000 gardens they visited in 21 countries. They discuss how to choose, site, and maintain arbors, birdhouses, beehives, bollards, boot scrapers, bridges, drains, fences, fountains..... More
Amiens: Encrage, 1999. First edition. Soft cover. 147p, no ills. In French. Study of the lives and work of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac (Pierre Ayraud), celebrated authors of psychological suspense fiction and romans policiers. With a bibliography of novels, stories, and serial appearances, and a chronology. The films Vertigo..... More
[Upperville, VA: Ayrshire Farm, 2004]. Privately printed. Hardcover (full tooled leather, blind- and gilt-stamped). 290p, over 160 photos and line ills. Presentation from editor Sandy Lerner, 2009. Owner's blind stamp. Translation of the 1999 edition of Anspannen und Fahren, ed. by Sandy Lerner. Reprints ads from the original 1922 German..... More
New York, Cleveland, and St. Louis: Murphy & Company, 1883. Ferris, Stephen James. No stated edition. Stapled soft cover. 58p + 5 original etchings by Stephen James Ferris. Owner's blind stamp on front endpaper. On the merry pastime of coaching, with chapters on the coachman, the road, the coach, and..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1828. 3rd ed. (1st pub. 1827). Hardcover (new full leather, gilt stamped). 316p + 4p of publisher's ads, no ills. Owner's blind stamp on half title page. Volume 2 of Kitchiner's 2-volume Traveller's Oracle, complete in itself. Volume 1 covered hints to travelers--what to take with you..... More
![Item #31165 My Suffolk Downs [1 of 45 signed copies]. Melissa Shook](/pictures/thumb/31165.jpg?v=1666095663)
Boston and Cambridge, MA: Pressed Wafer and Kat Ran Press, 2012. Shook, Melissa. Limited edition. Hardcover. Ca. 60p, many photos by the author. No jacket, as issued. One of 45 copies, signed by the author and hand-bound by master binder Sarah Creighton. Design and typography by Michael Russem. An evocative..... More
![Item #31164 Advice to Purchasers of Horses [REVISED LISTING]. J. Stewart](/pictures/thumb/31164.jpg?v=1666095663)
Glasgow; London: W.R. McPhun; Simpkin and Marshall, 1834. First edition. Hardcover (contemporary paper-covered boards, gilt title-label stamped in red). 118p, no ills. Defective: lacks last page of preface and probably 2 plates--Wellesly [sic] Arabian and points of the horse. Ca. 4 x 6 inches. "Being a short and familiar treatise..... More
Goshen, NY: [Author], n.d. [1910 or later]. No stated edition. Unbound sheet, accordion folded to make 8 pages. 8p, no ills. Ca. 3 1/4 x 6 inches, folded. In this pamphlet Mills introduces his qualifications to “secretaries, managers, and executive committees of trotting meetings”—as a longtime owner, breeder, trainer, driver..... More
![Item #31162 [Chromolithographed advertising card]. N. H. Lancaster, Agricultural Fair](/pictures/thumb/31162.jpg?v=1666095662)
Cincinnati: Strobridge Lith. Co., 1893. No stated edition. Unbound card. Card no. 1 in an unidentified series. Ca. 5 x 3 inches. Advertises the Twenty-Fourth Annual Fair of the Coos and Essex Agricultural Society, Lancaster, N.H. Front shows 3 trotting horses put to high-wheeled sulkies. Back lists the fair events--9..... More
