London: Printed by M. Ritchie for the Author, October 1799. Sartorius. First edition. Hardcover (old full polished leather, new leather spine label). 196p + 9 line plates (including frontispece portrait and 4 folding plates), some by Sartorius. This one-volume work preceded the 1805 3-volume edition. Chiefly detailed descriptions of manege..... More

Pleasant Hill, OH: Jesse Beery, 1944. Revised editions (1st pub. ca. 1908). Stapled soft cover. Six of eight booklets. Each 32 to 40p, many line ills. Light blue covers; photo is too pale. The books cover Disposition and Subjection, Kicking and Balking, Shying and Running Away, Bad to Shoe and..... More

Durango, CO: Barbara Engel Therapy Services, 1988. First edition. Soft cover (comb binding). 201p, no ills. Photocopied typescript, as issued. Hundreds of book and journal titles on therapeutic riding, with short summaries of the content, compiled by an expert in the field. Arranged by subject and author. Includes many German..... 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

New York: Derrydale Press, 1941. Thayer, Bert Clark; Paul Brown. Limited edition. Hardcover. 251p, 230 photos by Bert Clark Thayer. The drawings of points of the horse and a skeleton look to be by Paul Borwn. One of 1500 copies. Lacks the original glassine jacket. Instruction on the forward seat..... More

London: J. Bailey, n.d. [1819 per WorldCat, 1815 per British Library}. First edition. Hardcover (later plain boards). 28p, LACKS folding frontispiece, which is supplied in photocopy. Front cover reads: "The Art of Horsemanship. Price 6d. [followed by] A List of Books, &c, Sold at J. Bailey's Printing Office," all within..... More

New York: Bramhall House, 1954. Brown, Paul. Reprint. 124p, many line ills. + jacket by Paul Brown. Jacket is smudged, rubbed. Advice on handling and care, equitation, hunter-jumper horsemanship, and showmanship, by a 1940s Maclay trophy winner and later a judge. Includes a chapter on "Outwitting Your Horse." The details..... More

N.p. [Germany]: Noeis, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. N.p., several pls. (photos and art works), a few in color. Small tears to jacket. In German. Handsome large collection of 248 worldwide aphorisms, proverbs, nuggets of wisdom, literary excerpts, etc., on riding, the horse, and the rider. The sources include the Bible..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956. First US edition. Hardcover. 352p + 58 photos. Lacks the jacket. With numerous informed corrections to the translation, including an entirely new paragaph on transitions, all in ink. "This book is really masterful...there really isn't another...in English that can match it"--William Steinkraus at the time..... More

Salem, WV: Salem College, 1987. First edition. Unbound sheets, duplicated typescript as issued. 86p, no ills. but some charts. The photo shows page 1 of the table of contents. PHOTOCOPY of this physical education master's thesis, which served as source material for Struby's later book on teaching riding. She queried..... More