![Item #16652 Annual Exhibition of English Sporting Paintings [1986]. Arthur Ackermann, Son](/pictures/thumb/16652.jpg?v=1633973445)
London: Ackermann, 1986. Sartorius, Ferneley, Herring, de Dreux, Judith Lewis. First edition. Soft cover. 102p (50 items), 50 large ills., many in color. Catalogue of 18th- and 19th-century hunting and racing paintings by Sartorius, Ferneley, Herring, de Dreux, and more, including a wonderful 18th-century hunting party by Judith Lewis. Also..... More
Richmond, VA: Allen & Ginter, n.d. [ca. 1890]. No stated edition. Unbound cards. Nine chromolithographed cards of Thoroughbreds and jockeys. Glued to index cards, with some damage and staining. The horses are named—Terra Cotta, The Lion, Geraldine, Little Minch, The Tray, Geo. Oyster, Connemara, Firenze, and Favor, who all raced..... More
N.p. [Friends of Greer Allen], 2005. Privately Printed. Soft cover. 32p, many photos, some in color. Greer Allen was a legendary book designer and University Printer to Yale University. As a young man he worked on the racetrack and rode steeplechasers for 5 years until his then printing firm-employer ordered..... More
Washington, DC: American Remount Association, 1925-1928. First edition. Hardcover. 21 issues of this journal, which was published every other month. Contains March, September, and November 1925, and complete years for 1926, 1927, and 1928. Bound in library buckram, without the covers. Ex-library (New England Historic Genealogical Society, with their bookplate)..... More
London: Badminton Magazine, 1904. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. [501]-507, 1 photo. Removed from the Badminton Magazine, volume 28, 1904, and stapled within paper covers. Tears to inside margins but still soundly stapled. A humorous account of a lady's (mis)adventures with wagering. Presented in the guise of an amateur letter..... More
![Item #30919 [Scherenschnitt of Racehorse and Jockey]. Anonymous](/pictures/thumb/30919.jpg?v=1652735825)
N.p. [Pennsylvania?]: n.d. [1820s-40s?]. Unbound sheet. Large scissor-cut silhouette showing a racehorse and jockey walking over turf marked with hoofprints and tufts of grass. Very good, cut from paper that is blacker than appears in the photo. Scattered foxing overall to backing paper. Matted and shrinkwrapped. Size within mat is..... More
N.p. Author, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. 599p, many pedigrees and photos (some in color). Detailed analysis of successful Thoroughbred bloodlines, with a focus on crosses to use or avoid (going back to the 19th century). To date there is no volume 2. Heavy; shipping/handling may be extra. Please keep this..... More
Hamburg: F.W. Rademacher, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Rebacked: original cloth laid down on boards, new cloth backstrip. 112p + 3p errata + 32p index, no ills. Last few bottom corners damp-rubbed but no loss of content. Outer pages lightly foxed. Title page upper corner creased. Cover edges shelf-rubbed. In English..... More
Blankenese, Germany: Friedrich Becker, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Rebacked: original cloth laid down on boards, new cloth backstrip. xii + 173p (including 38p index), no ills. Cover edges shelf-rubbed. In English and German. No jacket, as issued. Very sturdy; a much better copy than is often found. The second and..... More
London: Beenham House, n.d. [1987]. First edition. Soft cover. 48p, several photos and line ills. Published in aid of The Spinal Injuries Association. Verse, sayings, limericks, and other snippets about British racing, from the viewpoints of jockeys, trainers, bettors, etc. Fair warning: some are a little offensive. Sprinkled throughout are..... More
London: New Sporting Magazine, December 1833. First edition. Soft cover. The articles run on pp. 97-103 and 108-120. The magazine comprises pp. 73-144 + The Racing Calendar and ads. Two engraved plates from paintings by A. Cooper: "Rabbit Shooting" and "Carp," which are lightly dampstained. Part of the first advertising..... More
London; New York: J.A. Allen (supplements); Jockey Club (addenda), 1954, 1955, 1964. First edition. Soft cover. 12, 20, and 51p, no ills. Errata slip tipped in the Addenda. Lists thousands of horses, their offspring, families, etc., following the same groupings and format as in volumes 1 and 2. Large; shipping/handling..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962. Stated first edition. Hardcover. 238p + 18 photos. Lacks jacket. Inspiring life of the legendary trainer of Gallant Fox, Nashua, Bold Ruler, and so many more, for whom "life [began] at seventy-seven." "For Mr. Fitz, who is old and bent over, the mornings are the..... More
New York: Derrydale Press, 1930. Brown, Paul. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 191p, 60 ills. by Brown, 70 photos. Erratum slip tipped in at second half-title page. Title page printed in red and black. One of 850 copies (the regular edition). Without the jacket. Bookplate of Frederic C.Thomas. Ink presentation on half-title..... More
New York: Scribner's, 1928. Brown, Paul. One sheet, ca. 9 1/2 x 12 inches (photo is slightly cropped). The paper is age browned but not as dark as in the photo. The edges are chipped and creased; long crease along left side as shown. Matting and framing would hide these..... More
New York: Sanders D. Bruce, 1884. Revised edition (1st pub. 1873). Hardcover. 640p, no ills. Original half leather, marbled boards. Spine, opening pages, and part of another page reinforced with tape; back cover tender. At least one handwritten correction. From the library of the National Quarter Horse Registry, with its..... More
[Newark, NJ]: n.d. [ca. 1810s-20s]. Unbound sheet. One sheet containing 9 lines, handwritten in ink. One tear but content clear; last line missing. Photo is cropped. Terms of a $500 bet between E. Butterworth and Joshua Buck (or Brik?) for a race between the horse Mahomet and an unnamed mare..... More
Racine, WI: Whitman, n.d. [1920s?]. Later printing. Hardcover. 125p, no ills.; color d.j. Publisher's number on jacket: W-808. Six Nick Carter novels, including this one, listed on back of jacket. Dated from owners' names, 1931. Paper-covered boards (spine tips chipped). Torn jacket reinforced with lined writing paper. Pages age browned..... More
Compiled in Newmarket: Tindall & Co. (printer), [1909 and later]. Not published. Full leather (scuffed). A handwritten pedigree book, consisting of half-sheets for recording matings and other information. About 3 dozen half-sheets are filled out in various hands, in ink and pencil. The rest of the book (most of it)..... 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
New York: Julian Messner, 1954. Fourth printing (1st pub. 1950). Hardcover. 230p + 29 photos. Introduction by popular journalist of the day Bob Considine. Jacket rather torn. The first full-length life of Man o' War and still one of the best racehorse biographies. Several appendixes, including his race charts and..... More
London: William Collins, 2021. First paperback edition. Soft cover. 354p + many color photos. Life of the undefeated classic winner of all 14 of his starts, 2010-12. With race statistics at the end. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping/handling rate. (We also have the..... More
Paris: Plon, Nourrit, 1899. Crafty. First edition. Hardcover. 400p, ca. 200 line ills. by the author (chiefly small, some full-page plates). Back cover lightly soiled; spine lightly sunned; outer pages foxed. Handsomely rebound in three-quarter leather (brown and cream). Original rear wrapper and spine bound in at rear. Bookplate of..... More
![Item #15152 Krik's Guide to the Turf 1882-1883, 1883-1884 [2 vols.]. H. G. Crickmore](/pictures/thumb/15152.jpg?v=1633973423)
New York: Crickmore, "The New York World" 1883. First edition. Hardcover (leather). 2 vols., totaling over 1000p, no ills. Ca. 4 x 6 inches. Part 1 gives the results of "races run in 1882 in the United States, Dominion of Canada, and by American-bred Horses in England, Ireland, France, etc."..... More
![Item #16606 The Blood-Horse [1932 complete]. Thomas B. Cromwell, ed](/pictures/thumb/16606.jpg?v=1633973445)
1932. Cromwell, Thomas B., ed. The Blood-Horse [1932 complete]. Lexington, KY, 1932. 2 volumes containing all 53 issues, with original covers bound in. Over 1600p total, photo on every front cover and occasional photos inside (chiefly stallions at stud). Very good hardcover: hardcovers soiled and rubbed (especially one corner); magazine..... More
