New York: The Grolier Club, 1975. Limited edition. Soft cover. 40p, no ills. One of 1000 copies. Annotated exhibition catalogue of 100 books, manuscripts, prints, and drawings from the renowed fox hunting collection of the late Mr. Andrews. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping..... More
![Paul Brown Calendar 1946 [signed, with 4 pencil sketches]. Brooks Brothers](/pictures/thumb/14828.jpg?v=1633973421)
1945. Brown, Paul. Brooks Brothers. Paul Brown Calendar 1946. [NY 1945]. [13 leaves], 12 ills. Ca. 11 x 15 inches, vertical. Original board covers printed in red and black, plastic comb bound, original cloth ties. Covers lightly shelfworn; occasional penciling to calendar dates, occasional marginal stains. No. 901 of 1000..... More
![3 Rings; A Circus Book [with original drawing]. Paul Brown](/pictures/thumb/30253.jpg?v=1633973537)
New York: Scribner, 1938. Brown, Paul. First edition. Hardcover. [76]p, many ills. by Brown, including several in color. Pictorial color boards (edges rubbed, corners bumped), cloth spine. Marginal handling smudges on several pages. Unclipped dust jacket (soiled, spine tips torn, penciling on back cover). Title page printed in red, blue..... More
Washington DC: Arabian Horse Club of America, 1918. Revised edition. Hardcover (full leather). 207p + several contemporary photos of horses (one by George Ford Morris). Presentation from W.R. Brown to Maj. Gen. Leonard A. Wood, Jan. 1st, 1919. Parts of backstrip missing; front cover loose but holding, one plate partly..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, n.d. [1949]. First edition. Unbound plates in portfolio. [16]p + 14 loose plates, all in original portfolio. Ca. 12 x 16 inches. Corners lightly bumped; folder soiled, rubbed, chipped. No. 434 of 500 copies. Large richly printed facsimile reproductions of horses portrayed in The American..... More
London: London and Counties Press Association, 1915. Limited edition. Hardcover (half leather). xii, 345p + 58 pls., 6 in color. No. 98 of 150 copies in the Subscriber's Edition (no subscriber's name noted). Covers rubbed; marginal and fore-edge foxing; rear endpapers dampstained. (There was also a full-vellum deluxe edition of..... More
![Manege et equitation [and] Marechal ferrant. Diderot and d'Alembert](/pictures/thumb/30920.jpg?v=1652736182)
[Paris]: [1751-1772]. No stated edition. Hardcover (rebound in boards, quarter vellum). Two suites of captions and engraved plates from the Encyclopedie: 6p + many ills. on 33 pls., and 2p + many ills. on 7 pls. (1 double page). In French. From the collection of dressage master Dr.H.L.M. Van Schaik..... More
![Horses of Destiny [author and artist presentations, with drawing]. Fairfax Downey](/pictures/thumb/14652.jpg?v=1650374281)
New York: Scribner's, 1949. Brown, Paul. First edition. Hardcover. 186p, many ills. by Paul Brown. Lacks d.j. Author's and artist's pencil presentations and drawing on front endpaper: "To 'Lady Emma' Fairfax Downey New York, 1949" [and] "For Milady Hamilton Lots of luck Paul". Between the inscriptions Brown has drawn a...... More
![Statutes and General Regulations . . . .for the Olympic Games [1936]. F E. I](/pictures/thumb/16934.jpg?v=1633973450)
London: Institute of the Horse & Pony Club, 1939. Sixth edition (1st pub. 1936). Soft cover. 126p, a few line ills. From the library of horseman Charles Harris, with his ink name on cover and title page. Translated from French by Capt. G.F. Fressanges. Covers dressage, jumping, and cross country..... More
![An Academy for Grown Horsemen [1 of 235; presentation to Harriet Wadsworth]. Geoffrey Gambado,...](/pictures/thumb/12923.jpg?v=1633973409)
Westport, CT: Richard W. Ellis (The Georgian Press), 1930. Rowlandson, Thomas. Later printing. Hardcover. Ca. 64p, 12 color pls. (reproductions of the Thomas Rowlandson illustrations in the London 1809 edition). No jacket or slipcase, if issued. An appealing association copy, with a long inscription from Ellis to Harriet [Wadsworth, of..... More
Mount Vernon, NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1929. Bunbury, H.; Ross, Gordon. Facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1787. Hardcover (imitation leather, gilt-stamped). xx, 38p + 12 pls. by Bunbury and 2 additional pls. by Gordon Ross, 1 in color and signed in pencil. One of 100 deluxe copies (out..... More
![The Sportsman's Library [association copy; 1 of 600]; Being a Descriptive List of the Most...](/pictures/thumb/15938.jpg?v=1633973432)
New York: R.R. Bowker, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 158p + 8 pls. Lacks original slipcase. One of 600 copies. Lists many hundred titles on hunting, racing and steeplechasing, horse breeding and stud books, horsemanship, polo, big game, dogs and shooting, angling, yachting, coaching, sporting poetry and fiction, and miscellaneous. This..... More
![Gee's Hunting Diary [Derrydale Press]; To record the sport of the season arranged for the...](/pictures/thumb/26595.jpg?v=1639435929)
New York: Ernest R. Gee, n.d. [1937]. Limited edition. Hardcover (thin paper over boards). [54]p, no ills. Internally fine. On the last page: "Printed by Eugene V. Connett at The Derrydale Press." No d.j., as issued. Without the drop box called for by Biscotti. Unused ruled diary for recording details..... More
Concord, CA: Pinto Horse Society, 1943. First edition. Soft cover. 67p, many photos (2 tinted, of Sun Cloud and Flash). Ink inscription from Glendening, 1945. Two corrections inked in. On breed standards, difference between tobiano and overo, breeding guidelines, and judging, followed by the photo section. Also lists of owners..... More
![Hell for Leather! [1 of 350]. Edward Goulburn, Martin Hawke](/pictures/thumb/13878.jpg?v=1633973412)
New York: Derrydale Press, 1928. Limited edition. Hardcover (paper-covered boards, vellum spine). 36p + 3 hand-colored pls. (old hunting scenes). No. 229 of 350 numbered copies. Bookplate of Irving Eugene Loveland. Fine printing of three early 19th-century British hunting poems: "The Epwell Hunt" by Edward Goulburn, "The Melton Hunt," and..... More
New York: Derrydale Press, 1935. Brown, Paul. Limited edition (1 of 1350 copies). Hardcover. 209p, several pls. and line ills. by Paul Brown. Gilt stamping on covers dull with age, as usual. Owner's pencil name, 1937. No jacket or slipcase, as issued. Hunting humor: Col. Weatherford's loyal groom, Eddie Walsh..... More
![The Horse: A Bibliography of British Books 1851-1976 [1 of 1000]. Anne Grimshaw](/pictures/thumb/30839.jpg?v=1647897962)
London: Library Asociation, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 474p, several ills. One of 1000 copies (unnumbered). Annotated list of over 3200 books, interwoven with insightful commentary on what they tell us about the horse in British daily life, the cavalry, riding and training, care, and foxhunting and other sports (excluding racing)..... More
Richmond, VA: Privately Printed by Old Dominion Press, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 244p + 14 pls. Errata slip laid in. No jacket (as issued?). Comprehensive record of John Randolph’s Roanoke Stud in Virginia, based on many original documents, which are often quoted. One of Harrison’s series of well-researched histories of..... More
New York: Grolier Club, 1937. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 134p, several pls. One of 400 copies, in scarce original glassine jacket (torn at edges and spine). Introd. by Harry T. Peters. Lists hundreds of books and periodicals on racing, hunting, taming, riding, farriery, and veterinary medicine, plus other non-equestrian sports. The..... More
London: Heinemann, [1928]; spine reads 1929. First edition. Hardcover. xxix, 368p + many photos, several folding maps. Pages partly unopened Without the jacket and slipcase. Title page printed in red and black. From the collection of the Duke of Gloucester, with his armorial bookplate. A beautiful copy of this detailed..... More
![The Horse Pennings of Assateague Island [1 of 122 copies]. T. Holmes](/pictures/thumb/30012.jpg?v=1633973486)
Richmond, VA: The Attic Press, 1951. Limited edition (first pub. 1835). Paperbound, sewn with light cord. [16]p + 1 line ill. (frontispiece, printed in green). Christmas inscription, 1951, on inside back cover. Covers are a softer grey-green than photo shows. "This booklet was composed, printed on dampened sheets and bound..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1944. Brown, Paul. First edition (wartime edition). Hardcover. 280p, many ills. + jacket by Paul Brown. Harry Worcester Smith's review copy, with many interesting related pieces. "Autobiography of this Irish veterinarian and foxhunter, with many anecdotes of the horses, hounds and people he encountered in..... 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
![We Go Foxhunting Abroad [and] More Foxhunting in England. Charles D. Lanier](/pictures/thumb/9749.jpg?v=1652746700)
Rahway, NJ [and] New York: Privately printed "for friends to whom hunting, hounds and horses are what they are to us" 1924, 1927. First editions. Hardcover (boards, cloth spines). 158 and 204p, no ills. Subtitled A First Venture with Irish Banks and English Downs and A Further Venture with British..... More
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. ix, 307p + 16p of publisher's ads, no ills. Erratum slip tipped in. Title-page printed dedication to the Duke of Beaufort, President, and the Members of The Coaching Club. From the collection of carriage historian Hugh McCausland, with his bookplate. "General information..... More
