Amarillo, TX: AQHA, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 549 pp., no ills. Covers lightly shelf-scuffed, outer pages lightly browned; overall very good and sturdy. No jacket, as issued. Index of all the Quarter Horses registered in the Official Stud Books 1 through 16 (1941 through 1962), registration numbers 1 through 210,000..... More
Amarillo, TX: AQHA, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Ca. 500p, many photos within the registry and in the ads. No jacket, as issued. Permanent and tentative registration numbers 12,001 to 27,000, listed by horse's name and by number. With corrections to previous volumes. Many photos of foundation and other old-time Quarter..... More
![Item #14502 The Davis or Richmond Hill Black Hawk Morgan! [original broadside]. O. A. Coates,...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14502_2.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973417)
Bothwell [Ontario]: "Saturday Review" 1870. No stated edition. Broadside. Ca. 8 x 13 inches. Unfolded, matted, shrinkwrapped. There are some small random marks that may be printing or writing on the other side, or they may be due to old offsetting. With two handwritten changes. Not inspected under the mat..... More
Fort Riley, KS: Press of the Mounted Services School, 1915. First edition. Soft cover, placed by former owner into a photograph album. Ca. 50p, no ills. but many family tables. Presentation from Danford to army surgeon Major D.W. McEnery. The front cover reads "Photographs." This the only book I know..... More
Orwell, VT: No stated publisher, April 1858. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. Broadside. One folded sheet, 1 wood-engraved ill. First and last pages blank, letterpress text printed on two inside pages. Folded, ca. 7 1/2 x 10 inches. Advertisement for the services of Morgan stallion Black Hawk: description, family details..... More
Unpublished, 1886. Unbound sheet. One sheet, written on both sides on the letterhead of The Halfpenny Road Cart, Pontiac, MI, plus envelope. Dated February 9, 1886. Halfpenny requests a copy of Huntington's history of Clay horses, describes a local Clay stallion and some of his get, and asks if Huntington..... More
![Item #31223 The Horse and Dog Lover [later The Horse Lover]: 7 issues. John J. Hartford, ed](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31223.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1670934426)
San Francisco: John J. Hartford, 1946-1947. Johnston, T. Edgar. First edition. Soft cover. Issues of August-September 1946 (vol. 11, no. 2), October-November 1946, December 1946-January 1947, February-March 1947, April-May 1947, June-July 1947, and October-November 1947 (vol. 12, no. 3). Each ca. 40p, many photos and other ills. All internally clean..... More
N.p. Author, 2023. First edition. Hardcover (plasticized boards). 429p, many old ills. No jacket, as issued. The author identifies what she calls the American Running Horse as the very versatile "base of our light horse breeds, and [also] the genetic source of their excellent sport abilities." She presents documentary, anecdotal..... More
Houston: Loshadt, 1999. Revised edition. Soft cover, comb-bound. N.p., a few old photos. This excellent reference compiles 172 6-generation pedigrees of Thoroughbred stallions foaled before 1940 that are found in Quarter Horse bloodlines. Many pedigrees go back to the early 1800s, and many foreign horses are included. There is also..... More
Fort Worth: Texas Christian University, 1966. First edition. Soft cover. 153p, several ills. (mostly old ads). (Texas Christian University Monographs in History and Culture, 1). Valuable compilation of many facts about ca. 500 Texas-related running horses from the first mention of a "fine horse" in a Texas newspaper up to..... More
Eagle Pass, TX: American Quarter Horse Association, 1945. First edition. Soft cover. 216p, many old photos and ads. Tentative listings 12-19 and 1302-2745, listed both alphabetically and numerically. With line pedigrees of Shiloh, Steel Dust, Old Billy, and Lock's Rondo. Errata to earlier volumes, breeders directory, and other material. (Wells..... More
![Item #30496 Black Hawk Trotting Stallion Anglo-Saxon [broadside]. No named author](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30496.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973601)
North Andover, MA: No stated publisher, 1857. First edition. Unbound sheet. One sheet, ca. 8 x 10 1/2 inches. No ills. Advertises the services of this black part-Morgan stallion, grandson of the original Vermont Black Hawk. Bred by William Peters of North Andover; current proprietors S.G. Bean and S.N. Johnson..... More
N.p. [Wyoming]: [Diamond Ranch], n.d. [ca. 1920]. First edition. Soft cover. [8]p, 1 ill. on cover. List of ca. 30 horses with summary breeding for some of them. Starting in the 1880s, architect George D. Rainsford developed Diamond Ranche in Chugwater, WY (near Cheyenne), and assembled a breeding and sales..... More
![Item #31411 Letter to Mr [Randolph] Huntington + Clay Pilot stallion card. Byron Rowe](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31411.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1678806655)
Unpublished, 1885. Unbound sheet. Note with envelope sent from Brookfield, WI, on letterhead of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. Dated May 24 (27?), 1885. Together with a stallion card. In blue pencil on back of letter: "Confidential & please return to R. Huntington." Rowe asks Huntington how "the..... More
Charleston, SC: [Author], 2013. First edition. Soft cover. 167p, many ills. by the author and photos. Story of the UConn Morgan horses from the 1930s on, with profiles of the leading sires and much firsthand information about the horses in the breeding and riding programs. Can be sent outside the..... More
Randolph, VT: Author (Cantieglen Morgans), n.d. [1988 or later]. Later printing. Soft cover. 467p, many photos, 7-generation pedigrees, and charts. Here the author presents and analyzes the results of his extensive research into the ancestry of the Morgan horse, based on scrutiny of printed sources (in which he points out..... More
Washington DC: GPO, 1862. First edition. Hardcover (original blind-stamped brown cloth; stamped "U.S. Government Bindery" on spine). 656p, many line ills.(chiefly insects), several charts. A nice sturdy copy of this fat book. Includes "The Horses of New England" by C.L. Flint and "A Few Words on Horses" by Ruth Hall..... More
![Item #31293 Wallace's Monthly: Vol. 4 [1878-79, complete]. John H. Wallace, ed](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31293.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1675171907)
New York: John H. Wallace, 1878. First edition. Hardcover. Nos. 1-12, February 1878-January 1879. 997p, several wood-engraved portraits of horses and some livestock (very light penciling on one or two plates). Rebound in contemporary cloth, three-quarter leather. Leather quite rubbed. Without the original paper covers. Not a handsome copy, but..... More
