![Item #31875 [Announcement Card for a Jerez Horse Show]. Anonymous](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31875.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1705362596)
[Jerez, Spain]: No stated publisher, [1929]. No stated edition. Unbound card. Chromolithographed card showing a spirited Arabian horse. Ca. 5 1/2 x 4 inches. The back of the card reads: "En Jerez de la Frontera se celebrara el Concurso Equino de la Exposicion Ibero-Americana en Abril de 1929." Jerez is..... More
Chicago: Arabian Horse Club Registry of America, n.d. [1960]. First edition. Soft cover (covers sunned). "Created by J.G. Barnard, Rolling Hills, California." Ca. 40p, several photos, color charts. Not a detailed history of the registry, but a tribute to its 52nd anniversary and the "growth and progress" of the breed..... More
London: Gay and Bird, 1905. First edition. Hardcover (full tooled leather, gilt-stamped spine). 249p + 8 photos and other ills. (including 3 photos of the stallion Rafyk). Preface by Sir Walter Gilbey. Large rubber-stamp bookplate of John A. Cockburn, with rooster and thistles. On the deterioration of English and Australian..... 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
Cairo: E.A.O. of Egypt, 1972. First edition. Hardcover (leather spine; rebacked with original circular motif laid on). 271p, a few faint photos that don't show any horses in detail. The stud book lists horses 541-661. The next part lists "Inshass" horses, ancestors of the E.A.O. (nos. 662-708). The third part..... More
![Item #30032 The Arabian Stud Book: Vol. II [annotated]. Animal Breeding Section Egyptian...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30032.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1631475351)
Cairo: E.A.O. of Egypt, 1967? First edition. Hardcover (leather spine rubbed). Ca. 350p, printed on one side; many photos. Some closed tears here and there, not affecting content. Fore-edges lightly foxed. Very sturdy. Some corrections or additions in purple ink by the former owner, an Arabian breeder who traveled to..... More
[Cairo?]: No stated publisher, n..d. [1970s?]. No stated edition. Paperbound (self wrappers). [20]p, many photos and a few line ills. Small pamphlet, chiefly in Arabic, with a little English. The overall printing quality is poor, typical of the time and place. Small introduction to the Egypt's state Arabian horse stud..... More
![Item #31895 The Horse in the Southwest [in El Palacio, vol. 81, no. 3]. George Ewing](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31895.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1707224168)
Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico, Fall 1975. First edition. Stapled soft cover. 44p, many photos and old ills. Eight articles by various writers on the dawn horse, the horse in rock art, the Spanish Barb, the herds of Onate, cruciform stirrups, colonial horse gear, coinage, and "the hazards of..... More
Mena, AR: Ansata Publications [Author], 1990. First edition. Hardcover (plasticized boards). 424p, many photos and pedigrees. No jacket, as issued. A detailed reference, with historical articles about Arabians in the Middle East, various strains and families, photos and pedigrees of horses, performance and racing Arabians, etc. Most of the texts..... More
Unpublished, 1886. Unbound sheet. One sheet, written on both sides on the letterhead of The Halfpenny Road Cart, Pontiac, MI, plus envelope. Dated February 9, 1886. Halfpenny requests a copy of Huntington's history of Clay horses, describes a local Clay stallion and some of his get, and asks if Huntington..... More
[Washington, DC]: Cavalry Journal, N.d. [1930s]. Photocopy. Loose sheets (11 x 15 inches). PHOTOCOPY of a long article in an unidentified 1930s issue of The Cavalry Journal, pp. 559-579, several ills. Translation of part of Le Cheval Barbe et Son Redressage (1930). On "the Barb as he is found, and..... More
New York: Arabian Horse Club of America (printed by Smith-Poley Press, Berlin, NH), n.d. [1920s]. Morris, George Ford. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. One folded sheet, ca. 17 x 23 inches unfolded. 8 ills. Torn creases are now expertly stabilized with Japanese tissue. Broadside promoting the qualities of the Arabian..... More
Pretoria, South Africa: State Library, 1973. First edition. Soft cover. 36p, no ills. In English; title and preliminary matter also in Afrikaans. No. 17 in the library's series of bibliographies. Duplicated typescript, as issued. Occasional additions in pencil. Several hundred short entries for reference sources, books, periodical articles, and periodicals..... More
Mountain View, NJ: Willow Brook Farm, 1956. First edition. Soft cover. 60p, 4 ills. Ca. 6 x 9 inches. Lists conditions and most entries for 70 classes for gaited saddle horses, harness, hunter-jumper, Arabian, Morgan, stock, pony, etc. With an index of ca. 150 exhibitors and the classes they were..... More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2025. Troye. First edition. Hardcover. 379p, several ills. by Troye and others. A fresh history of an overlooked era of American racing, during the waning of the long heat-race era and the coming of the Civil War. Convinced that Arabian blood would improve Thoroughbred..... More
San Luis Obispo, CA: Pacific Coast Equestrian Research Farm, n.d. [ca. 1972]. Unbound stapled sheets. 23p, several charts and maps. PHOTOCOPY of the original pamphlet. Considers the movement from a closed market to an open market economy in Arabian horses, the breed's assets and liabilities, periods of growth, and "conclusions..... More
![Item #32082 Reference Handbook of Straight Egyptian Horses: Volume IV [4]. The Pyramid Society,...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32082.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1715642468)
Lexington, KY: The Pyramid Society, 1983. First edition. Soft cover, comb bound. 548p, many color photos of the featured horses. Ads for US Straight Egyptian stallions then active at stud, each with a photo and 3-generation pedigree; short texts by Judith Forbis. Lovely photos. More
Madrid: Ministerio de Fomento, n.d. [1858]. Urrabieta. First edition. Unbound sheets. These plates were removed long ago from an economic report published by the Spanish government, Boletin Oficial del Ministerio de Fomento (Official Report of the Ministry for Development), vol. 25. Old sewing holes and traces of dry glue in..... More
