![Item #14876 Reglamento de Trabajos Hipicos (R.T. Hip.) [Regulations for Equestrian Competitions]....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14876.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1631313063)
Buenos Aires: Talleres Graficos del Instituto Geografico Militar, 1932. No stated edition. Soft cover. 63p, no ills. Ink gift notation from a cavalry captain, 1993. In Spanish. Rules and conditions for various Argentine military equestrian competitions--dressage tests, jumping, championship polo cups, etc. Small; can be sent outside the U.S. for..... More
New York: James Cummins Bookseller, n.d. [ca. 2015]. Brown, Paul. First edition. Soft cover. Elegant, well-illustrated, and detailed sale catalogue of 200 rare sporting books and prints. Emphasis is on shooting and angling, but polo, hunting, racing, and other equestrian pastimes are represented. With many Derrydale Press items, including "American..... More
Bombay: Thacker & Company, 1913. Second edition (1st pub. 1907). Hardcover. 286p, many diagrams + 13 photos. Overall sound, clean, sturdy. No d.j. (if issued?). Learning and playing tournament polo, schooling ponies, some veterinary care, famous players of the past, Hurlingham rules, etc. Detailed advice, with special reference to India..... More
New York: Arco, 1972. Reprint edition (1st pub. 1945, 1959). Hardcover. 340p, several photos. Jacket is lightly foxed on the inside. An introduction to riding and training horses for various uses, including western work, polo, and jumping, but almost entirely about 3- and 5-gaited Saddlebred show horses. Includes advice on..... More
New York: Leslie-Judge, June 12, 1913. Fellows, Laurence. First edition. Soft cover. The complete issue. Pp. 615-638, many ills. Ca. 10 1/2 x 16 inches. Ex-lib., with stamp on cover. The top ca. 2 inches are torn throughout, but all the content is readable, and the tear doesn't extend to..... More
[New York]: Judge Pub. Co., [July 24, 1915]. Fellows, L. First edition. Unbound sheet. One sheet removed from The Judge, a literary and humor magazine. The first two pages of a romantic short story with a polo background. Fellows (1885-1964) was a precocious young illustrator, whose original proto-Art Deco linear..... More
New York: Outing Pub. Co., February 1914. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. 515-640 + 48p of ads, many ills. Ordway's article is on pp. 583-589, with 5 photos of players and games. Overview of "the men who organized the sport and the opportunities it offers for winter play" in San..... More
London: Country Life, 1949. Edwards, Lionel. Revised reprint edition (1st pub. 1927). Hardcover. 162p, many line ills., photos + 26 plates by Lionel Edwards, 1 in color (same as jacket). Jacket is torn at the edges. On schooling and handling hunters and polo ponies, based on training them to be..... More
London: W. Thacker, 1891. Third edition (1st pub. 1881). Hardcover, stamped in black and gilt. 285p+ 40p of publisher's ads, ca. 80 text ills. + many line plates by J.H. Oswald Brown, John Sturgess, and Stanley Berkeley. No jacket, probably as issued. The final edition of this comprehensive Victorian guide..... More
N.p. [Buffalo?]: Privately printed, n.d. [1972?]. First edition. Soft cover. 180, 140 pp., many photos. Vol. 1 is inscribed by Knox to "Charlie and Gloria." Knox's memoirs of a lifetime of polo with his beloved Aurora club, plus chapters on shooting, skiing, farming, showing horses and dogs, and Aiken. Printed..... More
Weston, CT: Author, 1992. Limited edition. Hardcover. [Ca. 400p], 16 color photos. No. 9 of 15 copies, signed by Laffaye. In Spanish. The first edition of the first dictionary devoted to polo. The late Horace Laffaye continued to publish several histories and dictionaries of polo, including this one in English..... More
![Item #31412 Washington Squires Polo Club [cover title]. Lee Mauck](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31412.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1678806603)
Unpublished, ca. mid-1950s-1963. Various bindings and loose sheets. Three-ring binder, notebooks, loose sheets, etc. Mostly handwritten in mostly the same hand, a few typed. The activities of the Washington Squires Polo Club (a youth club) are only one of the topics here. Photo of cover is cropped. Appealing documentation of..... 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
![Item #16810 Manuel elementaire du jeu de la balle a cheval [polo]. Direction de la Cavalerie...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16810.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1631977138)
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1922. First edition. Soft cover. 55p, 22 line ills. Old regimental library stamp on cover and half-title. In French. There are very few French books on polo, and this cavalry manual was printed only in this one edition. Covers training, rules, tactics, etc. Very scarce: one location..... More
South Hamilton, MA: Polo Productions and others, 1983-1992. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged and illustrated, many photos and luxury ads in color. Most are 100+ pages. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Profiles of the players, historical and other articles, description of the game, etc. Lots of information and photos..... More
![Item #30871 Pologround Hall Mount Aboo [mailed postcard]. No named photographer](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30871.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1649106010)
N.p. [India]: No stated publisher, n.d. [mailed in 1915]. No stated edition. Unbound postcard. Printed photo postcard, no. 242 of an unidentified publisher's series. Condition as shown.. Scrape in middle of building's roof. Mailed to England from Abu (Rajasthan hill station), July 3, 1915, postmarked over 2 half-anna stamps. It..... More
New York: Life Pub. Co., September 11, 1924. Peters, C.F. First edition. Soft cover. 32p, many ills. and ads, covers in color. Removed from a bound volume; old address label. A determined young woman rides off her opponent. The entire issue of this humor magazine, full of Roaring Twenties topical..... More
New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2021. First edition. Soft cover. 287p + 4p of photos, most in color. Inspiring true story of how the author and other inner-city Philadelphia kids found their passion in polo. Rosser went on to captain Colorado State University's all-Black polo team to a national championship..... More
New York: Country Life-American Home Corp. 1936. First edition. Soft cover. 124p,, many photos and line ills., some in color. With a short article on the Rolling Rock Hunt, long article on "The History of the California Golden Palomino," "California Gentlemen Ranchers Prefer Blondes" (Dwight Murphy Palominos), the home of..... More
New York: American Sports Publishing Co., 1923. No stated edition. Soft cover. 209p + 11p of ads for Spalding's riding equipment and clothing, many photos. Spalding "Red Cover" Series of Athletic Handbooks, No. 31R. Old bookstore stamp on front endpaper. Skewed from poor storage; covers are worn, soiled, chipped. Sewn..... More
