London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1937. Armour, G.D. First edition. Hardcover. xiv, 384p, 127 ills. + 4 color pls., chiefly by the author. In remnants of original glassine jacket. Hunting, racing, polo, World War I, etc., as recalled by the popular Scottish illustrator of many sporting books. 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
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
Carlisle, UK: Cumbria Weekly Digest, n.d. [1976]. First edition. Soft cover. 88p, several old ills., many local ads. Life of the huntsman who inspired the song "D'ye Ken John Peel?", published to celebrate his bicentenary. With several short articles by various writers on hunting in Cumbria, the village of Caldbeck..... More
New York: Pegasus Books, 2023. First edition. Hardcover. 248p, no ills. Covers Anna Sewell's family and literary acquaintances, her life, the animal humane movement of the day, how she came to write Black Beauty, and the book's phenomenal success once it was published and publicized in the U.S. by George..... More
Augsburg, Germany: Stadtische Kunstsammlungen, 1967. Ridinger. First edition. Soft cover. 32p + 15 plates. In German. Small exhibition catalogue of 83 etchings and other prints--biblical scenes, stag hunting, forest life, horses and horsemanship, etc. Two plates show prints from Ridinger's well-known riding school albums. Can be sent outside the US..... 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
Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2002. First American edition (1st pub. 1983). Soft cover. 222p, many vintage photos. Horses, mules, donkeys, dogs, pigeons, elephants, camels in World War I and II. With a little about earlier wars. The photos are very interesting though not well reproduced. Can be sent outside the..... 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
London: William Collins, 2021. First paperback edition. Soft cover. 354p + many color photos. Life of the undefeated classic winner of all 14 of his starts, 2010-12. With race statistics at the end. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping/handling rate. (We also have the..... More
Springton, S.A. Side-Saddle Association of South Australia, 1990. Limited edition. Hardcover. 333p, many photos, a few in color. A must for anyone interested in Australia, horse(wo)manship, or social history. Brief lives of dozens of women riders and drivers, from the settlement of Australia to the 1980s. A wealth of information..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press for Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, 1980. Leigh, William Robinson. First edition. Hardcover. 204p, many ills., 30 color pls. Fwd. by Fred A. Myers. Jacket chipped. Authoritative study of the life and work of the artist-author of The Western Pony..... More
Paris: Le Goupy, 1925. Vernet, Carle. First edition. Soft cover. 204p, many ills. (mostly small). The binding is sewn but is quite loose. Scrappy remains of original glassine jacket. In French. Monograph on this 19th-century French painter and printmaker, best known for his many equestrian themes--hunting, the circus, the cavalry..... More
Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2006. Eakins, Thomas. First edition. Soft cover. 66p, many ills. (bronzes and plaster models). The first exhibition and publication to focus on Eakins's small output of sculpture (figures, horses, anatomical studies). Includes a bronze study of horses for the painting The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand..... 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
London: Tate Gallery, 1984. Stubbs. First edition. Hardcover. 248p, over 200 large ills., many in color. Published in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art. Photographed through removable acetate jacket. This monumental exhibition catalogue went out of print before the show even closed. The first scholarly catalogue of his..... More
Essex, CT: Lyons Press, 2026. First edition. Hardcover. 258p, several photos. "The story of more than a dozen trick ropers, bronc busters, and bulldoggers turned actresses [who] performed their own stunts [and] received top billing above the cowboy and his horse in hundreds of films," into the 1940s. An engaging..... More
Buffalo: State Unversity College, 1983. Rumsey, Charles Cary. First edition (1 of 2000 copies). Soft cover. 73p, over 100 photos. The "perfect" glued binding is giving way, so some pages are loose or may loosen. The definitive work on sculptor Rumsey, issued on the occasion of an exhibition organized by..... More
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1984. Edwards, James. First edition. Hardcover (printed boards). 241p, many ills. by James Edwards (mostly from old photos) + endpaper maps of Berlin and Vienna. No jacket (as issued?). Signed by author on the copyright page, under a large ink stamp "Compliments of the Author..... More
Millwood, VA: Millwood House for the Norfolk Hunt Club, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 212p, many photos and other ills. (23 in color). Color endpapers showing a map of the hunt territory. Jacket is chipped and foxed. An engaging history of this Massachusetts hunt (one of the oldest in the US)..... More
London: Michael Joseph, 1974. Ward, James. First edition. Hardcover. 179p + 12 pls. Pages age browned; jacket faded. Still one of the few studies of this renowned British painter and engraver of prize livestock and horses. Fussell was an agricultural historian, so there is much on the rural context of..... More
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1976. Garbutt, Bernard. First edition. Hardcover. 81p, many ills. by the author, 1 plate in color. The trade edition; there was also a very limited deluxe edition. Jacket is chipped, faded. Blindstamp of former owner on front endpaper. Descriptions and sketches of everyday life with horses..... More
London: Pelham Books, 1967. Third printing (1st pub. 1966). Hardcover. 187p, many photos (1 in color); folding 7-generation pedigree. Lacks jacket. Life of the great Irish steeplechaser (3-time winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup and many other cups), by a veteran racing writer. Rated by The Racing Post in 2005..... More
Exeter, UK: Webb & Bower, 1981. Aldin, Cecil. First edition. Hardcover. 208p, many ills., many in color. Jacket spine faded. An essential book on Aldin's life and work, a must for every enthusiast. The author's sources included people who had known Aldin. More
New York: Random House, 2003 (1st pub. 2001). Special Illustrated Collector's Edition. Hardcover. 378p, over 100 photos from Seabiscuit's day. Light shelfwear to jacket; bookseller label on back. Handsome large-format gift edition of the bestselling tale of Seabiscuit and the three men with whom he made racing history--rider Red Pollard..... More
