![Item #14144 The Field the Fox Hunt and the Farm [1880s]. Anonymous, Laura Valentine](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14144.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1539197817)
London: Frederick Warne, n.d. [1880]. Grey, Frank. No stated edition. Hardcover (pictorial cloth, gilt stamped). N.p., many color ills. by Frank Grey on 36 plates. Rebacked, new endpapers. There is a torn blank leaf within the last poem, but this is a binding error; nothing is missing. Most pages stained..... More
Stony Brook, NY: Suffolk Museum, 1971. Reprint (1st pub. 1844). Soft cover. 16p, 9 ills., mostly full page. Describes and illustrates vehicles for young readers--state carriage, mail coach, sovereign, cabriolet, pony-chaise, omnibus, railway engine, and tilbury. The pictures were meant to be colored in by children. The original edition is..... 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: 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
London: Putnam, 1946. Edwards, Lionel. 11th edition (1st pub. 1930). Hardcover. 82p + 7 pls. by Lionel Edwards, 1 in color. Introd. by Lord Lonsdale. Without the jacket. Bookplate. An early English pony book, told in the pony's voice. The author's first novel, remarkable in that she wrote it when..... More
![Item #33184 Dog of War [with signed Downey letter]. Fairfax Downey](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33184.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1787669162)
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1943. Brown, Paul. First edition. Hardcover. 153 pp, many ills. + unclipped jacket by Paul Brown. Jacket is rubbed, torn at edges, and shelf soiled. Photographed in removable acetate jacket. Laid in: signed handwritten letter from Downey to a former owner of the book with suggestions..... 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
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1948. Paul Brown. First and only U.S. edition. Hardcover. 230p, many line ills. by Paul Brown (chapter heads and double-page spreads). also music for trumpet calls. No jacket. Young adult novel about a young trumpeter and one of General Custer's staghounds at the Battle of the..... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1901. Klepper, Beard, Drake, Hambidge. First edition. Hardcover. 256p + 16 gravure plates by Max F. Klepper, J. Carter Beard, Dixon (photographer), Will H. Drake, and Jay Hambidge. Owner's ink name, 1904. No jacket (as issued?). Sixteen tales of horses, dogs, cats, a donkey, and an elephant..... More
London: Country Life, 1937. Bullen, Anne. First edition. Hardcover. 34p, 18 plates by Anne Bullen. Jacket is soiled, torn. Two cousins struggle with training half-wild Exmoor ponies, helped by their uncle's helpful tips. By the author of the Moorland Mousie books. More
London: Witherby, 1958. Bullen, Anne. First edition. Hardcover. 96p, many plates by Anne Bullen. Back of jacket soiled and stained. Short stories about 10 different horses--the author's own Thoroughbred, a picador's horse, a French circus pony that ended up in the Russian army, a hackney turned show jumper, a dappled..... More
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. Edwards, Lionel. No stated edition, possibly an early reprint. Hardcover. 184p, 12 plates by Lionel Edwards. Jacket soil. In 1897 13-year-old tomboy Phyllis is sent from Canada to stay with relatives in Exmoor. Ponies, witchcraft, poaching wild red deer, and Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee all..... More
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1935. Edwards, Lionel. First edition. Hardcover. 163p + 10 plates by Lionel Edwards. Lacks the jacket. London family loses its money and must relocate to the country, where they discover the delights of riding and huning in Exmoor. This became a common theme in pony books..... More
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, n.d. [1932]. Aldin, Cecil. No stated edition, probably an early reprint. Hardcover. 172p, 12 plates by Cecil Aldin (1 in 2 colors). Lacks the jacket. Camping, gypsies, and other adventures with ponies in Exmoor--Jerry and his mate Joker. Sequel to Jerry, the Story of an Exmoor..... More
![Item #31738 The Shaggy Pony [with velvety "fuzz"]. Helen Hoke](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31738.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694461641)
New York: Julian Messner, 1944. Hart, Dick. First edition. Hardcover. [16]p, many ills. by Dick Hart in red, black, white, and yellow. Lacks the jacket. One of Hoke's four You-Can-Feel-the Animals books. A cute cautionary tale for beginning readers. At the reins of his pony cart Paul carelessly drives Shaggy..... More
![Item #30340 The Cowboy Book [movable book]; All about Cowboys, Cowgirls, Guns, Broncos, Cattle,...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30340.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1629411144)
New York: Will Roberts, n.d. [1950]. First edition. Hardcover (shaped boards), intact comb binding. 20p on card stock, many color ills. by Richard N. Osborne. The horse on the cover swivels on a grommet, so as to "make the bronco buck." Horse's ears are chipped off, cover edges rubbed, binding..... More
![Item #9764 The First Book of Horses [signed]. McLennan McMeekin, pseud, Isabel McLennan McMeekin](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9764.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1586181261)
New York: Franklin Watts, 1949. Crowell, Pers. First edition. Hardcover. 45p, many small ills. by Pers Crowell, some in color. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Still a good introduction for young to middle readers, with lively illustrations by one of America's best equestrian illustrators. Color in photo..... More
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1937. Hargens, Charles. Fourth printing (1st pub. 1933). Hardcover (textured green cloth). 302p + 4 pls. and color jacket by Charles Hargens. Bookseller label of Newbegin's, San Francisco. Jacket is torn. A lively tale of Frog, at first "an outlaw who can only be ridden by..... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, n.d. [1950s]. Hargens, Charles. Reprint edition (1st pub. 1933). Hardcover. 302p, ills. by Charles Hargens + color jacket. Jacket torn. In the Famous Horse Stories series. Lively story about the outlaw Frog and his adventures in the peace-time Panama Canal Zone under Lieutenant Scott. Frog..... More
New York: Bramhall House, 1954. Brown, Paul. Reprint. 124p, many line ills. + jacket by Paul Brown. Jacket is smudged, rubbed. Advice on handling and care, equitation, hunter-jumper horsemanship, and showmanship, by a 1940s Maclay trophy winner and later a judge. Includes a chapter on "Outwitting Your Horse." The details..... More
London: Frederick Warne, n.d. [ca. 1880]. No stated edition. Soft cover ("patent indestructible" boards and pages). [24]p, 6 full-page chromolithographed plates and many text ills. "Designed in England. Printed in Holland." No. 41 in the publisher's series of Playtime Toy Books. Children's story about young horse-loving Frank who outgrows his..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, n.d. [1960s?]. McCann, Gerald. Later printing (1st pub. 1958). Hardcover. 224p, many ills. by Gerald McCann. No jacket. Juvenile/young adult novel, set in the Australian bush. First title in the popular Brumby series. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate... More
New York: Philomel, 1982. Ambrus, Victor. Reprint edition (1st pub. in UK 1967, US 1968). Hardcover. 206p, many ills. by Victor Ambrus. Unclipped jacket, slight edgewear. Jacket ill. by Kinuko Craft. The first volume in the well-loved Flambards trilogy, popularized in a popular Public Television series. Set in Edwardian England..... More
New York: Philomel, 1982. First US edition (1st pub. 1981 in UK). Hardcover. 272p, no ills. Color jacket by Kinuko Craft (price-clipped; small tear at bottom edge). Teen novel, sequel to the beloved Flambards trilogy. World War I is now almost over, and English country life is changed forever. Life..... More
![Item #32065 Seven Sea Novels: North to Adventure / Stormcock Meets Trouble / Sea Fever [Windfall]...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32065.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1715080025)
London; Cleveland: Collins; World, 1959-1967. Ambrus, Victor G. Mostly first editions. Hardcover. Variously paged and illustrated (most by Victor G. Ambrus). North to Adventure (1959) is an early UK reprint. Stormcock Meets Trouble (1961) is the first UK edition. Sea Fever (UK title Windfall, 1963) is the 6th US printing..... More
