Amarillo, TX: AQHA, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 549 pp., no ills. Covers lightly shelf-scuffed, outer pages lightly browned; overall very good and sturdy. No jacket, as issued. Index of all the Quarter Horses registered in the Official Stud Books 1 through 16 (1941 through 1962), registration numbers 1 through 210,000..... 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
![Item #14502 The Davis or Richmond Hill Black Hawk Morgan! [original broadside]. O. A Coates,...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14502_2.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771438118)
Bothwell [Ontario]: 1870. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. Ca. 8 x 13 inches. Unfolded, matted, shrinkwrapped. There are some small random marks that may be printing or writing on the other side, or they may be due to old offsetting. With two handwritten changes. Not inspected under the mat. Nice..... More
Fort Riley, KS: Press of the Mounted Services School, 1915. First edition. Soft cover, placed by former owner into a photograph album. Ca. 50p, no ills. but many family tables. Presentation from Danford to army surgeon Major D.W. McEnery. The front cover reads "Photographs." This the only book I know..... More
![Item #32732 Barrington, 3766 [cover title]. J. S Darnell](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32732.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1750717306)
Indianapolis: J.S. Darnell, Agent, n.d. [ca. 1888]. Schultz, N. First edition. Soft cover. 16p, 1 plate. Ca. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Catalogue advertising the services of Barrington 3766 (by Harry Clay) and listing ca. 10 colts and broodmares for sale, with their families and histories (some owned by..... 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Unpublished, 1886.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
![Item #31223 The Horse and Dog Lover [later The Horse Lover]: 7 issues. John J. Hartford, ed](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31223.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1670934424)
San Francisco: John J. Hartford, 1946-1947. Johnston, T. Edgar. First edition. Soft cover. Issues of August-September 1946 (vol. 11, no. 2), October-November 1946, December 1946-January 1947, February-March 1947, April-May 1947, June-July 1947, and October-November 1947 (vol. 12, no. 3). Each ca. 40p, many photos and other ills. All internally clean..... More
Houston: Loshadt, 1999. Revised edition. Soft cover, comb-bound. N.p., a few old photos. This excellent reference compiles 172 6-generation pedigrees of Thoroughbred stallions foaled before 1940 that are found in Quarter Horse bloodlines. Many pedigrees go back to the early 1800s, and many foreign horses are included. There is also..... More
[Boston]: [C.S.E. Cassino and E.K. Dunbar], n.d. [1881-1882]. Scott Leighton, N.W. First edition. Unbound. Original chromolithograph from The Celebrated Horses of America, printed by Armstrong & Co. Mounted on old board, with old hand-lettered title. Overall ca. 17 x 14 inches, image ca. 15 x 11 inches. The Celebrated Horses..... More
Fort Worth: Texas Christian University, 1966. First edition. Soft cover. 153p, several ills. (mostly old ads). (Texas Christian University Monographs in History and Culture, 1). Valuable compilation of many facts about ca. 500 Texas-related running horses from the first mention of a "fine horse" in a Texas newspaper up to..... More
Sound Beach, CT: Willowmere Farm, n.d. [1905-1906]. No stated edition. Soft cover. 36p, many photos. Catalogue of the roadsters and St. Bernard dogs at stud or for sale by Miss A.A. Marks of Willowmere Farm. Lead stallion was champion King Alar 26552 (2:26 2/4). Pedigrees of several of the horses..... More
Charleston, SC: [Author], 2013. First edition. Soft cover. 167p, many ills. by the author and photos. Story of the UConn Morgan horses from the 1930s on, with profiles of the leading sires and much firsthand information about the horses in the breeding and riding programs. Can be sent outside the..... More
Washington DC: GPO, 1862. First edition. Hardcover (original blind-stamped brown cloth; stamped "U.S. Government Bindery" on spine). 656p, many line ills.(chiefly insects), several charts. A nice sturdy copy of this fat book. Includes "The Horses of New England" by C.L. Flint and "A Few Words on Horses" by Ruth Hall..... More
