[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 blindstamp. Translation of the 1999 edition of Anspannen und Fahren, ed. by Sandy Lerner. Reprints ads from the original 1922 German edition..... More
N.p. [Friends of Greer Allen], 2005. Privately Printed. Soft cover. 32p, many photos, some in color. Greer Allen was a legendary book designer and University Printer to Yale University. As a young man he worked on the racetrack and rode steeplechasers for 5 years until his printing firm-employer ordered him..... More
N.p. n.d. [1930s?]. Anderson, C.W. Limited edition. Unbound. Original drypoint etching. Image is ca. 13 1/2 x 10 inches, on sheet ca. 19 x 15 inches. Titled, numbered, and signed in pencil by Anderson. A farrier waits in his deserted forge for customers who no longer come. An evocative and..... More
London: W.H. Allen, 1881. First edition. Hardcover. 95p + 52p of publisher's ads, no ills. No jacket, probably as issued. With the armorial bookplate of Archibald Rogers. The only edition of Anderson's first horsemanship book. He advocates manege work, as taught to him by Joseph Merklen of the French Cavalry..... More
N.p. N.d. [ca. 1910?]. Unique. Unbound sheet, seemingly removed from a sketchbook. Ca. 6 1/2 x 8 inches. Signed by Victor Perard, E.M. Ashe, and an unidentfied name. Perard wrote many how-to-draw books, including one on horses. Ashe was an American illustrator and watercolorist, and an early member of the..... More
N.p. n.d. [ca. 1920s]. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. Original etching. Matted in shrinkwrap (not examined under the mat). Overall ca. 19 x 17 inches, image ca. 12 1/2 x 11 inches. Titled and signed in pencil by the artist. This spirited etching captures a traditional North American winter activity..... More
![Item #31715 Photographic Archive]. Banning Stagecoach Company](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31715.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1698427631)
[Los Angeles/Catalina Island: n.d., mid-1920s]. Unpublished. Loose photos; some bound on stubs in imitation leather album. A total of 19 original and copy photographs documenting the stagecoaches that William Banning (Phineas's son) operated on Catalina Island, California. Some of the photos, and the vehicles, were presented by William to Los..... More
![Item #33188 Croquis de Dressage / Sketches of the Equestrian Art [signed]. Dominique Barbier,...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33188.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1787669401)
Paris: Belin, 1992. Sauvat, Jean-Louis. First edition. Hardcover. 96p, many color drawings in chalk or pastel by Sauvat. Signed presentation "to Joyce" from Barbier on front endpaper. In French and English. Photo is cropped. In the publisher's words, "This book is the result of the encounter...between two horsemen of the..... More
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1933. Lida Lacey Bloodgood, Ned King. Limited edition. Hardcover. 131p, many line ills. by Lida Lacey Bloodgood (Princess Dominique Radziwill) + 15 plates by Ned King and others. No. 359 of 985 copies, signed by the author. Fwd. by A. Henry Higginson. Lacks the slipcase..... More
![Item #30253 3 Rings; A Circus Book [with original drawing]. Paul Brown](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30253.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1627563023)
New York: Scribner's, 1938. Brown, Paul. First edition. Hardcover. [76]p, many ills. by Brown, including several in color. Pictorial color boards (edges rubbed, corners bumped), cloth spine. Marginal handling smudges on several pages. Unclipped jacket (soiled, spine tips torn, penciling on back cover). Title page printed in red, blue, and..... More
New York: Derrydale Press, 1930. Brown, Paul. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 191p, 60 ills. by Brown, 70 photos. Erratum slip tipped in at second half-title page. Title page printed in red and black. One of 850 copies (the regular edition). Without the jacket. Bookplate of Frederic C.Thomas. Ink presentation on half-title..... 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
![Item #14828 Paul Brown Calendar 1946 [signed, with 4 pencil sketches]. Paul Brown](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14828.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692044179)
[New York]: [Brooks Brothers], [1945]. Brown, Paul. First edition. Original boards with original cloth ties, comb bound. [13 leaves], 12 ills. Ca. 11 x 15 inches. Covers lightly shelfworn; occasional penciling to calendar dates, occasional marginal stains. No. 901 of 1000 numbered and signed copies. Skiing, golf, a dog show..... More
New York: Derrydale Press, 1929. Morris, George Ford. Limited edition. Hardcover. 218p, many photos and other ills. (some by George Ford Morris), 4 plates in color. Lacks the jacket. One of 750 copies of the regular edition. Introd. by James G. Harbord and Henry Fairfield Osborn. Classic account of the..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, n.d. [1949]. Troye, De Lattre. Limited 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..... More
![Item #32953 My Revelation [limited-edition reprint]. Loula Long Combs](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32953.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1765292598)
Lee's Summit, MO: Longview Pub. Co., 1991. Facsimile reprint (1st pub. 1947). Hardcover. 351p, many photos (with some loss of quality). No. 466 of 1000 numbered copies. Closed tears to jacket, as shown; with original wrap-around "belly band." Memoirs of "the first lady of the show ring" and her roadster..... More
![Item #30920 Manege et equitation [and] Marechal ferrant. Diderot and d'Alembert](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30920.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1652736156)
[Paris]: [1751-1772]. No stated edition. Hardcover (rebound in boards, quarter vellum). Two suites of captions and engraved plates from the Encyclopedie: 6p + many ills. on 33 pls., and 2p + many ills. on 7 pls. (1 double page). In French. From the collection of dressage master Dr.H.L.M. Van Schaik..... More
![Item #14652 Horses of Destiny [author and artist presentations, with drawing]. Fairfax Downey](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14652.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1650374224)
New York: Scribner's, 1949. Brown, Paul. First edition. Hardcover. 186p, many ills. by Paul Brown. Lacks d.j. Author's and artist's pencil presentations and drawing on front endpaper: "To 'Lady Emma' Fairfax Downey New York, 1949" [and] "For Milady Hamilton Lots of luck Paul". Between the inscriptions Brown has drawn a...... More
Mount Vernon, NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1929. Bunbury, H.; Ross, Gordon. Facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1787. Hardcover (imitation leather, gilt-stamped). xx, 38p + 12 pls. by Bunbury and 2 additional pls. by Gordon Ross, 1 in color and signed in pencil. One of 100 deluxe copies (unnumbered;..... More
New York: R.R. Bowker, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 158p + 8 pls. Lacks original slipcase but with most of original glassine jacket. One of 600 copies. Presentation from Gee to Alfred B. Maclay, November 1940. Lists many hundred titles on hunting, racing and steeplechasing, horse breeding and stud books, horsemanship..... More
![Item #26595 Gee's Hunting Diary [Derrydale Press]; To record the sport of the season...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26595.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1615215950)
New York: Ernest R. Gee, n.d. [1937]. Limited edition. Hardcover (thin paper over boards). [54]p, no ills. On the last page: "Printed by Eugene V. Connett at The Derrydale Press." No d.j., as issued. Without the drop box called for by Biscotti. Unused ruled diary for recording details of hunts..... More
Richmond, VA: Privately Printed by Old Dominion Press, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 244p + 14 pls. Errata slip laid in. No jacket (as issued?). Comprehensive record of John Randolph’s Roanoke Stud in Virginia, based on many original documents, which are often quoted. One of Harrison’s series of well-researched histories of..... More
N.p. Paddock Press, 1931. Helvenston, Harold. Limited edition. Hardcover (boards, half cloth). 297p, many ills. No. 82 of 350 copies. This copy was owned by one of the horsewomen featured in the book--Florence Dibble, with her signature. She was a renowned four-in-hand whip, who set a speed record for coaching..... More
![Item #32860 Racing in America 1665-1865 [2 vols.]. John Hervey](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32860.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771359183)
New York: The Jockey Club, 1944. Limited edition. Hardcover (boards, cloth spine). Ca. 750p total + over 130 ills. total from old photos, paintings, and prints, 1 in color. No. 437 of 800 sets. Printed in red and black by letterpress, with tissue guardsheets over the frontispieces. The first two..... More
N.p. [Buffalo?]: Privately printed, n.d. [1972?]. First edition. Soft cover. 180, 140 pp., many photos. Vol. 1 is inscribed by Knox to "Charlie and Gloria." Knox's memoirs of a lifetime of polo with his beloved Aurora club, plus chapters on shooting, skiing, farming, showing horses and dogs, and Aiken. Printed..... More
