New York: Scribner's, 1928. Brown, Paul. One sheet, ca. 9 1/2 x 12 inches (photo is slightly cropped). The paper is age browned but not as dark as in the photo. The edges are chipped and creased; long crease along left side as shown. Matting and framing would hide these..... More
New York: Scribner's, 1939. Brown, Paul. First edition (A). Hardcover (printed boards). [64]p, many ills. by Brown. Fwd. by fellow illustrator Milton C. Weiler. Without the jacket, but complete with the two pages of human anatomical shapes for cutting out and positioning with brads to make mannikins. Signed by Brown..... More
Wimbledon: Hoveglen, 1974 (1st pub. 1949). Reprint edition. 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
New York: Ballantine, 2000. Stated first edition. Hardcover. 409p, no ills. The first edition, first printing, of the first title in the Sister Jane MFH murder mystery series. A prestigious Virginia hunt needs a new Master--but murder interferes. Seems to have been read once, carefully. Good for a gift for..... More
Washington DC: Arabian Horse Club of America, 1918. Revised edition. Hardcover (full leather). 207p + several contemporary photos of horses (one by George Ford Morris). Presentation from W.R. Brown to Maj. Gen. Leonard A. Wood, Jan. 1st, 1919. Parts of backstrip missing; front cover loose but holding; one plate partly..... More
New York: Sanders D. Bruce, 1884. Revised edition (1st pub. 1873). Hardcover. 640p, no ills. Original half leather, marbled boards. Spine, opening pages, and part of another page reinforced with tape; back cover tender. At least one handwritten correction. From the library of the National Quarter Horse Registry, with its..... More
Bonn: Freizeit im Sattel, n.d. [ca. 1990]. First edition. Soft cover. 136p, many photos and line ills. In German. Collection of wide-ranging articles on recreational riding of many kinds, training horses for many disciplines, etc. Includes riding Icelandic horses, how to pony a horse, practicing on a wooden horse, teaching..... More
N.p. Unpublished, [ca. late 1890s]. Soft cover (limp leather). 134p, a few mounted reproductions of photos. Pages from various trotting farm catalogues (chiefly Bryn Mawr Stock Farm) have been mounted on the righthand pages. The descriptions, pedigrees, and records of the horses are often corrected or updated by hand. On..... More
Upper Hermitage, South Australia: Falcon Print, 1986. First edition. Soft cover. 68p, many old and new photos. Covers scuffed; label partly removed from front cover with residual stain. History of working donkey teams in the outback and elsewhere in Australia from the 1830s on, based on interviews with oldtimers and..... More
N.p. No stated publisher, n.d. [ca.1930?]. Mrs. Burn. No stated edition. Soft cover. [8]p, 12 ills. Unusual and scarce catalogue of 12 painted zinc weather vanes, "suitable for hunting, polo, and racing stables." There are 10 hunting subjects (including a fox, hound, and stag), one polo, one racing. With a...... More
[Newark, NJ]: n.d. [ca. 1810s-20s]. Unbound sheet. One sheet containing 9 lines, handwritten in ink. One tear but content clear; last line missing. Photo is cropped. Terms of a $500 bet between E. Butterworth and Joshua Buck (or Brik?) for a race between the horse Mahomet and an unnamed mare..... More
N.p. No stated publisher, 1959. No stated edition. Hardcover (boards, tied with cord). [16]p, many cartoons in black and fluorescent orange. Photos are too pale, and the orange shows up as pink. Humorous interpretations of dressage terms and movements. Who was the author?--Richard Watjen?? Very scarce; not in Wells, 1..... More
Chicago: James B. Campbell, Copyrighted 1891 but later. Second edition. Soft cover. 48p, many line ills. Preface to the second edition printed on inside front cover. Users' testimonials at the end, one of which is dated June 1892. Ink stamp of C.G. Manning, Dunkirk, N.Y. on back cover (probably a...... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1977. Kennedy, Richard. Second edition (1st pub. 1950). Hardcover. 151p, frontispiece and color d.j. by Richard Kennedy. Unclipped d.j. is lightly chipped. Owner's neat ink name on front endpaper. "Alison decides to write a pony book--and has to school a pony to get first-hand experience." Children's..... 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
Racine, WI: Whitman, n.d. [1920s?]. Later printing. Hardcover. 125p, no ills.; color d.j. Publisher's number on jacket: W-808. Six Nick Carter novels, including this one, listed on back of jacket. Dated from owners' names, 1931. Paper-covered boards (spine tips chipped). Torn jacket reinforced with lined writing paper. Pages age browned..... 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
Bologna: Tipografia Compositori, 1953. Morris, George Ford; Dickey, Robert. First edition. Hardcover (skewed from size but sturdy). 28p + 72 genealogical tables of leading American and French Standardbred stallions; 5 mounted pls. Skewed; covers rather stained and rippled; some pages damp-stained but overall internally good, clean, and sturdy. Further condition..... More
New York: A.S. Barnes, 1955. Dennis, Wesley. First edition. Illustration by Wesley Dennis. Price is clipped. JACKET ONLY for this children's trotting horse story. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
Lincoln, MA: DeCordova Museum, 1972. First edition. Soft cover. [48]p, 24 plates. Catalogue of the first exhibition devoted to the theme of the cow in American art. Checklist of the 100+ paintings, prints, and sculpture. Though the show included contemporary works such as Andy Warhol's "Cow," the illustrations are all..... More
Compiled in Newmarket: Tindall & Co. (printer), [1909 and later]. Not published. Full leather (scuffed). A handwritten pedigree book, consisting of half-sheets for recording matings and other information. About 3 dozen half-sheets are filled out in various hands, in ink and pencil. The rest of the book (most of it)..... More
![Item #31222 Every Man His Own Farrier; Or, the Whole Art of Farriery Laid Open [etc.]. Francis...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31222.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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 #14502 The Davis or Richmond Hill Black Hawk Morgan! [original broadside]. O. A. Coates,...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14502_2.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973417)
Bothwell [Ontario]: "Saturday Review" 1870. No stated edition. Broadside. Ca. 8 x 13 inches. Unfolded, matted, shrinkwrapped. There are some small random marks that may be printing or writing on the other side, or they may be due to old offsetting. With two handwritten changes. Not inspected under the mat..... 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
![Item #2293 Riders [large-format paperback]. Jilly Cooper](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2293.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1650374282)
New York: Ballantine, 1986. Stated first American edition. Soft cover (oval die-cut on front cover). 632p, no ills. Light shelfwear, front cover partly reinforced with tape, but sturdy--perhaps never read. Front endpaper coming loose. Pages age browned, as normal. Owner's neat ink stamp on two bottom margins. In this novel..... More
