Chicago: J.H. Sanders, 1881. First edition. Hardcover (original half-leather). 464p + engraved frontispiece of Maude S. by E. Forbes. Covers scuffed; internally very good, clean, sturdy, complete. A pioneering compilation of 2:30 horses and their relatives, based on extensive research in printed sources and from firsthand accounts. The first edition..... More

N.p. [Nashville?]: Tennessee State Department of Agriculture, November 1945. Second edition. Soft cover. 55p, many photos. Covers, some pages and margins foxed. Published "as a deserved contribution to the great and revived horse breeding industry of Tennessee.” Van Cleave was commissioner of agriculture. Chapters on breeds associated with Tennessee--early Thoroughbreds..... More

Indianapolis: Horseman and Fair World, 1942-1944. First edition. Soft cover. Three year-end Christmas issues of this "national trotting turf & fair weekly" for 1942, 1943, and 1944. Variously paged, many photos. Somewhat worn, some old dampstaining, but complete. Lots of photos of leading trotting and pacing horses of the day..... More

New York: John H. Wallace, 1878. First edition. Hardcover. Nos. 1-12, February 1878-January 1879. 997p, several wood-engraved portraits of horses and some livestock (very light penciling on one or two plates). Rebound in contemporary cloth, three-quarter leather. Leather quite rubbed. Without the original paper covers. Not a handsome copy, but..... More

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Libraries, 1994. Limited edition. Soft cover (staples rusted). 18p, several ills. Introd. by Marjorie Kimball. One of 500 copies. Published as a keepsake for the exhibition "Of Horses and Horsemanship," this previously unpublished article looks at 19th-century flat and harness racing in Sacramento. Whitehead was a...... More

New York: George Wilkes, 1859. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. 129-144, a few small ills. Foxed throughout, as shown. Folded. Mostly unopened--the buyer can have the fun of opening the pages that are still uncut. Ca. 11 x 16 inches. The ninth issue of this sporting journal, which began on..... More