![Item #14144 The Field the Fox Hunt and the Farm [1880s]. Anonymous, Laura Valentine](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14144.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973413)
London: Frederick Warne, n.d. [1880]. Grey, Frank. No stated edition. Hardcover (pictorial cloth, gilt stamped). N.p., many color ills. by Frank Grey on 36 plates. Rebacked, new endpapers. There is a torn blank leaf within the last poem, but this is a binding error; nothing is missing. Most pages stained..... More
London: Warne, 1956. Rose, Sheila. First edition. Hardcover. 178p, many ills. + 1 color pl. by Sheila Rose. No jacket. In this English pony novel three children unexpectedly take over the running of a riding school near the sea. Reading copy. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than..... More
![Item #30436 Two Merit Badge handbooks: Animal Industry [and] Horsemanship. Boy Scouts of America](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30436.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973587)
New York; North Brunswick, NJ: Boy Scouts of America, 1936, 1970. No stated edition. Soft cover. Animal Industry: 66p, many photos and line ills. Horsemanship: 56p, several photos and line ills. Introductions to breeds (horses, cattle, sheep, swine), care and handling, the livestock industry, and riding. Sold as a group..... More
![Item #30253 3 Rings; A Circus Book [with original drawing]. Paul Brown](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30253.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973537)
New York: Scribner's, 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 jacket (soiled, spine tips torn, penciling on back cover). Title page printed in red, blue, and..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1977. Kennedy, Richard. Second edition (1st pub. 1950). Hardcover. 151p, frontispiece and color d.j. by Richard Kennedy. Unclipped d.j. is lightly chipped. Owner's neat ink name on front endpaper. "Alison decides to write a pony book--and has to school a pony to get first-hand experience." Children's..... More
New York: A.S. Barnes, 1955. Dennis, Wesley. First edition. Illustration by Wesley Dennis. Price is clipped. JACKET ONLY for this children's trotting horse story. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
London: British Horse Society, n.d. [1950s?]. First edition. Soft cover (limp boards, spiral bound). 14p + many photos on 2 folding plates. Covers age soiled, pages lightly age browned. In the days before You Tube, Pony Club members could learn from instructional films produced by the British Horse Society. This..... More
London and New York: Heinemann and Comet Books, 1939 and 1949. Brown, Paul. UK edition is probably first; US edition is stated first paperback printing. Hardcover and soft cover. UK edition: 273p, many line ills. US edition: 243p, many line ills., now with green overlays. All ills. by Paul Brown..... More
New York: Printed and Sold by Mahlon Day, at the New-Juvenile Book-Store, 1833. No stated edition (first published in 1831?). Soft cover. 16p, 14 small ills. + cover ill. Covers and pages browned; some handling wear. Tied with thread (as issued?). A small chapbook for young children, with one-page descriptions..... More
Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 132p, 115 photos, several line ills. D.j. is stained, chipped. Photos and commentary of good, bad, and indifferent riders and mounts, including a young Joe Fargis. Treats the rider's form during the takeoff, flight, and landing phases, though not the strategy of..... More
![Item #14652 Horses of Destiny [author and artist presentations, with drawing]. Fairfax Downey](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14652.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1948. Paul Brown. First and only U.S. edition. Hardcover. 230p, many line ills. by Paul Brown (chapter heads and double-page spreads). also music for trumpet calls. No jacket. Young adult novel about a young trumpeter and one of General Custer's staghounds at the Battle of the..... More
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1950. Edwards, Lionel. Second printing (1st pub. 1948). Hardcover. 145p + 5 pls. by Lionel Edwards, 1 in color. Jacket quite torn. An interesting point of issue is that the jacket was printed on the other side of color proofs illustrating Bible stories--perhaps due to..... More
![Item #31738 The Shaggy Pony [with velvety "fuzz"]. Helen Hoke](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31738.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694461639)
New York: Julian Messner, 1944. Hart, Dick. First edition. Hardcover. [16]p, many ills. by Dick Hart in red, black, white, and yellow. Lacks the jacket. One of Hoke's four You-Can-Feel-the Animals books. A cute cautionary tale for beginning readers. At the reins of his pony cart Paul carelessly drives Shaggy..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1982. First edition. Hardcover (reinforced binding). 65p, many black-and-white photos and old ills. Wide-ranging history of mules and their uses--as draft animals, in the army, as endurance mounts, in entertainment (Francis the Talking Mule), etc., for children ca. ages 10 and up. Can be sent outside..... More
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
New York: Franklin Watts, 1951. Dillon, Corinne Boyd. First edition. Hardcover (green cloth). 229p, several ills. + color jacket by Corinne Boyd Dillon. Jacket is unclipped. The true first edition, NOT the Junior Literary Guild edition. Ban-Joe earns a dream job--taking care of Grey Eagle and riding him in the..... More
![Item #9764 The First Book of Horses [signed]. McLennan McMeekin, pseud, Isabel McLennan McMeekin](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9764.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973613)
New York: Franklin Watts, 1949. Crowell, Pers. First edition. Hardcover. 45p, many small ills. by Pers Crowell, some in color. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Still a good introduction for young to middle readers, with lively illustrations by one of America's best equestrian illustrators. Color in photo..... 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
London: British Horse Society, 1961. Fifth edition (1st pub. 1950). Hardcover. 211p, many line ills. Lacks back cover, ca. last 30 pages dampstained. Faint musty odor. Some related clippings tipped in. No jacket, as issued. Horseman/writer Charles Harris takes his red pen and tears savagely into the riding section of..... More
![Item #31319 Roy Rogers' Trigger to the Rescue [cover title]. No named author](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31319.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1676377295)
Racine, WI: Whitman Pub. Co., 1950. Higgs, John. No stated edition. Hardcover (plasticized boards). [24]p, many lively color ills. by John Higgs. Cozy-Corner Book 203 8-25. A family farm floods, and wonder horse Trigger drives its horses, chickens, and pigs to safety. In especially nice condition considering its age and..... More
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1903. Fotheringill, George A. First edition. Hardcover. xii, 254p, several line ills. + 4 color pls. Pictorial cloth, gilt stamped and with illustration signed "GAF" (George A. Fothergill). Light marginal wear; overall a nice bright copy. No jacket (as issued?). With bookseller ticket of..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, n.d. [1960s?]. McCann, Gerald. Later printing (1st pub. 1958). Hardcover. 224p, many ills. by Gerald McCann. No jacket. Juvenile/young adult novel, set in the Australian bush. First title in the popular Brumby series. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate... More
![Item #31059 Blind Beauty [advance reading copy]. K. M. Peyton](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31059.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660653423)
New York: Dutton, 2001. Advance reading copy of the first American edition. Soft cover. 360p, no ills. Owner's neat ink stamp on two bottom margins. One of the best novels by this masterful author of many fine novels, including the Flambards series. Technically young adult (with some adult themes), but..... More
New York: Philomel, 1982. First US edition (1st pub. 1981 in UK). Hardcover. 272p, no ills. Color jacket by Kinuko Craft (price-clipped; small tear at bottom edge). Teen novel, sequel to the beloved Flambards trilogy. World War I is now almost over, and English country life is changed forever. Life..... More
