![Item #32951 Annual Exhibition of English Sporting Paintings [1986]. Arthur Ackermann, Son](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32951.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1765292598)
London: Ackermann, 1986. Sartorius, Ferneley, Herring, de Dreux, Judith Lewis. First edition. Soft cover. 102p (50 items), 50 large ills., many in color. Price list laid in. Scan is too yellow. Catalogue of 18th- and 19th-century paintings by Sartorius, Ferneley, Herring, de Dreux, Pollard, Alken, and more, including a wonderful..... More
![Item #31979 Annual Exhibition of English Sporting Paintings [1988]. Arthur Ackermann, Son](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31979.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1710799789)
London: Ackermann, 1988. Sartorius, Pollard, Aldin, Alken, Marshall, Cooper. First edition. Soft cover. 91p (51 items), 51 color ills., 2 folding. Price list laid in. Two small ills. by Alfred Wheeler have been cut out (three foxhounds and a Norwich terrier), not affecting the other side of the page. Exhibition..... More
![Item #32952 An Exhibition of Fine English Sporting Paintings and Engravings [1979]. Arthur...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32952.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1765292598)
London: Ackermann, 1979. Sartorius, Ferneley, Herring, de Dreux, Judith Lewis. First edition. Soft cover. 72p (73 entries), many ills., a few in color. Laid in: pencil list of some prices, perhaps what the writer intended to bid. Introd. by Stella A. Walker. Catalogue of 18th- and 19th-century paintings by Henderson..... 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
![Item #32001 [Chevaux de Courses, No. 5]. Charles Ancelin](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32001.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1716236283)
[Paris: Galerie Lutetia], n.d. [ca. 1925-30]. Ancelin, Charles. First edition. Unbound sheet, matted in shrinkwrap. Color pochoir (screenprint). Overall ca. 23 x 16 inches, image ca. 19 x 12 1/2 inches. Matted in shrinkwrap (not examined under the mat). Signed in the plate. Reflection and shadow on right side of..... More
London: Badminton Magazine, 1904. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. [501]-507, 1 photo. Removed from the Badminton Magazine, volume 28, 1904, and stapled within paper covers. Tears to inside margins but still soundly stapled. A humorous account of a lady's (mis)adventures with wagering. Presented in the guise of an amateur letter..... More
![Item #30919 [Scherenschnitt of Racehorse and Jockey]. Anonymous](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30919.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1652735812)
N.p. [Pennsylvania?]: n.d. [1820s-40s?]. Unique. Unbound sheet. Large scissor-cut silhouette showing a racehorse and jockey walking over turf marked with hoofprints and tufts of grass. Very good, cut from paper that is blacker than appears in the photo. Scattered foxing overall to backing paper. Matted in shrinkwrap (not examined under..... More
N.p. Author, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. 599p, many pedigrees and photos (some in color). Detailed analysis of successful Thoroughbred bloodlines, with a focus on crosses to use or avoid (going back to the 19th century). To date there is no volume 2. Heavy; shipping/handling may be extra. Please keep this..... More
Kerrville, TX: State House Press, 2025. First edition. Soft cover. 304p, many old photos and ills. History of the sometimes wild and woolly Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse racing in Texas until on-track gambling became illegal in 1903; with a follow-up chapter summarizing Texas racing since then. Meticulously researched, with lots..... More
Hamburg: F.W. Rademacher, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Rebacked: original cloth laid down on boards, new cloth backstrip. 112p + 3p errata + 32p index, no ills. Last few bottom corners damp-rubbed but no loss of content. Outer pages lightly foxed. Title page upper corner creased. Cover edges shelf-rubbed. In English..... More
Blankenese, Germany: Friedrich Becker, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Rebacked: original cloth laid down on boards, new cloth backstrip. xii + 173p (including 38p index), no ills. Cover edges shelf-rubbed. In English and German. No jacket, as issued. Very sturdy; a much better copy than is often found. The second and..... More
London: Beenham House, n.d. [1987]. First edition. Soft cover. 48p, several photos and line ills. Published in aid of The Spinal Injuries Association. Verse, sayings, limericks, and other snippets about British racing, from the viewpoints of jockeys, trainers, bettors, etc. Fair warning: some are a little offensive. Sprinkled throughout are..... More
Konigsberg: Voigt u. Fernitz, 1835. Bils, J. No stated edition. Unbound sheet, matted and shrinkwrapped. Matted in shrinkwrap (not examined under the mat). Overall ca. 22 1/2 x 18 inches, image within rules ca. 16 x 11 inches. The scene shows an early instance of organized racing in the German-speaking..... More
London: New Sporting Magazine, December 1833. First edition. Soft cover. Blake's article runs on pp. 97-103 and Nimrod's on pp. 108-120. The magazine comprises pp. 73-144 + The Racing Calendar and ads. Two engraved plates from paintings by A. Cooper: "Rabbit Shooting" and "Carp," which are lightly dampstained. Part of..... More
London; New York: J.A. Allen (supplements); Jockey Club (addenda), 1954, 1955, 1964. First edition. Soft cover. 12, 20, and 51p, no ills. Errata slip tipped in the Addenda. Lists thousands of horses, their offspring, families, etc., following the same groupings and format as in volumes 1 and 2. Large; shipping/handling..... More
Lexington, KY: Blood-Horse, 1994. Reeves, Richard Stone. First edition. Hardcover in slipcase. 287p, many ills. by Reeves, including 50 color plates. Many of the plates are reproduced here for the first time. No jacket, as issued. Introd. by August Belmont IV. Profiles of 50 great racehorses and sires by Bolus..... 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
[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
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
Paris: Jouve & Boyer, 1900. First edition. Soft cover. 210p, no ills. In French. Doctoral thesis. Historical survey and analysis of the civil and penal codes governing pari mutuel wagering on horse racing in France. The author was an attorney. Uncommon. As is: reference copy... 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
London: Christie's, 2003. Munnings, Stubbs, Skeaping, Landseer, Edwards. First edition. Soft cover. 96p, over 100 ills., most in color (1 folding). Prices realized laid in. Auction catalogue of 18th- to 20th-century British hunting and racing paintings, also some hounds, game, and landscapes. Much the highest prices were paid for a...... 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
New York: Julian Messner, 1954. Fourth printing (1st pub. 1950). Hardcover. 230p + 29 photos. Introduction by popular journalist of the day Bob Considine. Jacket rather torn. The first full-length life of Man o' War and still one of the best racehorse biographies. Several appendixes, including his race charts and..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1946. Brown, Paul. Stated first edition. Hardcover. 366p, many ills. by Paul Brown; title page printed in red. Without the jacket. Selection of 25 writings about horses--fact, fiction, and poetry. The authors include Will James, Somerville and Ross, Rudyard Kipling, Felix Salten, Bret Harte. Paul Brown..... More
