Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1980. First edition. Soft cover. 148p, ca. 200 ills., 1 in color. Scholarly chapters by James S. Hutchins, John C. Ewers, Ann Nelson, et al., on the development of the western stock saddle. The topics include historical prototypes, Mexican origins, post-Civil War cowboy development, related Plains..... 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 #31715 Photographic Archive]. Banning Stagecoach Company](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31715.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1698427631)
[Los Angeles/Catalina Island: n.d., mid-1920s]. Unpublished. Loose photos; some bound on stubs in imitation leather album. A total of 19 original and copy photographs documenting the stagecoaches that William Banning (Phineas's son) operated on Catalina Island, California. Some of the photos, and the vehicles, were presented by William to Los..... More
New York: Fless & Ridge Printing Co., 1898. Henckel, Charles. No stated edition. Soft cover. 64p + several pages of ads, many photos and line ills. by Charles Henckel and others. Covers worn and stained; dogeared; one advertising page loose; corner of one page torn off and taped back on..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster / Callaway Editions, 1993. Mauskopf, Allard. First edition. Hardcover. 128p, many color photos. Jacket spine faded. Collection of cowboy poetry old and new, with photographs by master western photographers (Norman Mauskopf, Albert Allard, etc.). Includes a CD of 17 tracks of poems, stories, and music..... More
[New York]: [The Aldine: The Art Journal of America], [June 1873]. Cary, W.M. First edition. Unbound sheet, blank on back. Wood engraving, removed from the magazine. Overall ca. 16 x 11 inches. Back is blank. A dramatic image of terrified mustangs fleeing a lightning storm. Starting in the 1870s, Cary..... 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
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
New York: A.L. Burt, 1920. No stated edition. Pictorial hardcover, stamped in black and gilt. 308p + many pages of publisher's ads + frontispiece (same image as cover). Western adventure romance, dedicated to "the red-heads of the world and their admirers." Gloriana struggles between traditional feminine and hardy cowgirl identities..... 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
![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
New York: Harper's Weekly, November 11, 1876. Frenzeny, P. First edition. Unbound sheet. Wood engraving, removed from the magazine. Published as a Harper's Weekly Supplement; the accompanying article is not present. Ca. 16 x 11 inches. Frenzeny was a popular illustrator of western scenes as well as a sometime rider..... More
N.p. Privately Printed, [1954]. First edition. Hardcover. 43p + large folding tipped-in map. No jacket, as issued. Bookplate removed, so possibly ex-lib.? Anniversary publication of runs, lists of hounds and members, rules, etc., of this coyote-hunting club south of Denver, Colorado. Map is fine. Can be sent outside the U.S...... More
Manitou Springs, CO: Ute Iron Springs Photo. Gallery, n.d. [ca. 1900]. Hiestand, J.G. No stated edition. Unbound. Mounted original photo (cabinet card), printed in sepia. Mount is ca. 8 x 4 1/2 inches. The caption, hand-lettered within the negative, appears at the lower left. This put-upon and soulful burro is..... More
Las Vegas, NM: Hutchins, 1997. First edition. Soft cover. 35p, ca. 40 black-and-white photos. First annual edition of this price list of over 650 western items that sold at auction in 1996 (High Noon, Engel, Payne, Old West Show, etc.). Divided into spurs, bits, saddles, chaps, saddlebags, cuffs, books and..... More
New York: Scribner's, 1936. James, Will. First edition, with Scribner "A" Hardcover. 312p, 45 full-page line ills. + color frontispiece, all by James. Lacks the jacket. Endpapers browned from binding glue, covers faded and scuffed, some marginal foxing and other page stains. "Scorpion, as the cowboy who started to break..... More
New York: Scribner's, August 1928. James Will. 17th printing (1st pub. 1926). Hardcover (cloth, printed to resemble leather). 310p, many ills. by James. Jacket is browned and torn at edges and split along back flap. Ink presentation to Winifed Newcomb from Lena Badger, Christmas 1928. The Library Edition, of which..... More
Mineola, NY: Dover, 1999. Facsimile reprint (1st pub. 1938). Soft cover. 130p, many ills. Introd. by Peter B. Kyne, as published in the original. Previous owner's label on front endpaper and back cover. Tooled saddles, spurs, boots, chaps, bits, etc. Linoff's introduction gives an informative history of the Visalia firm..... More
![Item #30340 The Cowboy Book [movable book]; All about Cowboys, Cowgirls, Guns, Broncos, Cattle,...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30340.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1629411144)
New York: Will Roberts, n.d. [1950]. First edition. Hardcover (shaped boards), intact comb binding. 20p on card stock, many color ills. by Richard N. Osborne. The horse on the cover swivels on a grommet, so as to "make the bronco buck." Horse's ears are chipped off, cover edges rubbed, binding..... More
Tehachapi, CA: Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue, 2008. Third edition (1st pub. 2005). Soft cover. N.p., many photos, most in color. Great donkey pictures! Presentation from the author on the title page. Heartfelt account of "the Burroman's" donkey sanctuary and rescue program, also with much about his family and ideals. Can..... More
El Paso, TX: S.D. Myres, 1944. First edition. Soft cover. 28p, many photos. Unused order form bound in. Catalogue of dozens of holsters and belts (for border patrol, police, and other users), clip cases, rifle scabbards, cartridge belts, silver buckles, silver and gold mounted belts, hand carved belts, etc. All..... More
N.p. [Tucson]: Arizona Historical Society, N.d. [1980]. No stated edition. Soft cover. 16p, several line ills. Published to accompany an exhibition of 17 Western saddles, with a description of each type but alas no illustrations of most of them. Spanish, Indian, Whitman, sidesaddle, McClellan, Grimsley dragoon, experimental Grimsley type (one..... More
![Item #32070 [Cowboy on Range with Native American Tepees]. No named photographer](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32070.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1715080025)
N.p. Unpublished, n.d. [ca. late 1800s]. Unbound. Original albumen photo on cardboard mount with decorative back. In cabinet card format, but smaller than usual (ca. 5 1/4 x 4 inches). Fully equipped with lasso and cartridge belt, this fellow poses in shirt and tie atop his sturdy horse, who seems..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1976. 5th ptg. (1st pub. (1963). Soft cover. 382p, a few ills. and maps. Unlike most histories of the Indian Wars (1866-91), this one is based not on officers' and historians' writings but on interviews with over 300 veterans about their army experiences on..... More
