Abilene, TX: Hardin-Simmons University Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 263p, several photos. Owner's neat ink stamp on front endpaper and one page margin. Jacket is smudged; long narrow strip torn out of back panel. Memoirs of "Doc" Beazley, and his leadership of Hardin-Simmon University's popular six-horsewomen White Horse Team, which..... More
Santa Ynez, CA: Santa Ynez Valley Historical Society, 1982. First edition. Soft cover. 36p, many black-and-white photos. Presents the wide variety of vehicles in the historical society's collection, described as "one of the finest collections of horse-drawn vehicles and accessories to be found in the entire West." Can be sent..... More
New York: Scribner's, 1936. Brown, Paul. First edition. Hardcover. [96]p, many ills. by Brown, all printed against a light yellow background. Without the jacket. Pencil drawing of an Indian pony head and presentation "To Constance may she score many coups. Very sincerely Paul 36." Adventures of a Plains Indian pony..... More
New York: Knopf, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 384p, many old photos and ills. Jacket spine faded. Comprehensive history of the ways of life in the various American cowboy cultures--Spanish roots, Californio, Texian, northern and open ranges, effect of the Civil War, trailing to railheads, end of open-range culture, bunkhouse and..... More
Austin: Texas Folk-Lore Society, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 429p, several line ills. No jacket (as issued?). Classic collection of 40 firsthand accounts about the range horse from the 19th-century on--"the most extensive and informative compilation on mustangs and mustangers ever printed." The texts are by a wide variety of writers--historians..... More
Los Angeles: UCLA Library, 1967. First edition. Soft cover. 20p, several ills. Annotated checklist of books, magazines, and a few objects in this exhibition of a "sampling of the works that lie somewhere in the spectrum between fact and myth." Works by Andy Adams, Henry Allen, "Max Brand," Zane Grey..... More
New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1969. Jackson, Harry. First edition. Hardcover. 98p, many ills. (some folding), many in color. Photographed through removable acetate jacket. Published to accompany a major exhibition of Jackson's popoular bronzes, paintings, and drawings of cowboy life in the American West. Despite the subtitle, this isn't a catalogue..... More
N.p. Privately Printed, [1954]. First edition. Hardcover. 43p + large folding tipped-in map. No jacket, as issued. Bookplate removed, so possibly ex-lib.? Anniversary publication of runs, lists of hounds and members, rules, etc., of this coyote-hunting club south of Denver, Colorado. Map is fine. Can be sent outside the U.S...... More
Sonora, CA: Pony Express and Pioneer Trails Association, 1959. First edition. Soft cover. 16p, several ills., many ads. Browned but overall sturdy newsprint. Old printed mailing address. Monthly magazine devoted to distance riding, the Pony Express, early California, and other western topics. This issue focuses on the life and feats..... More
Las Vegas, NM: Hutchins, 1997. First edition. Soft cover. 35p, ca. 40 black-and-white photos. First annual edition of this price list of over 650 western items that sold at auction in 1996 (High Noon, Engel, Payne, Old West Show, etc.). Divided into spurs, bits, saddles, chaps, saddlebags, cuffs, books and..... More
New York: Scribner's, February 1930. James, Will. Library Edition (1st pub. 1926). Hardcover (white, printed in grey to imitate leather; title and horse head stamped in black). 310, many ills. by the author. Unclipped jacket (price $2.00) is soiled, chipped. Back jacket repeats the title plus an illustration. Back flap..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 271p, no ills. Covers dampstained and wrinkled, as shown. Ex-lending library. Occasional staining to the gutters, else Internally clean and complete. Western romance set in the Arizona desert, by an author more remembered today for his cowboy poetry. "Miss Percival, a pretty girl..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, 1957. Lea, Tom. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vols., totaling 838p, 43 ills. by the author, maps, and documents. No jackets, as issued. Without the slipcase. Classic history of this fabled Texas ranch--its Santa Gertrudis cattle, Quarter Horses, oil, etc. Out of print (last in print at $125.00)..... More
Ogdensburg, NY: Northern New York Publishing Company [printer], 1961. Remington, Frederic. "Limited edition" published for Canton's Remington Centennial Observance. Soft cover. 47p, many ills. + color ill. on cover. Recollections of Remington's early years in Canton, New York, taken from recollections, letters, diaries, etc. Most of the illustrations are photos..... 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
Billings, MT: Thomas Minckler Gallery, 1993. James, Will. First edition. Soft cover. 71p, many ills. by Will James. Second photo (one of his rare stagecoach scenes) is cropped. This catalogue, from a dealer in Western art, offered dozens of Will James items--art, books, book galleys, unpublished short stories, autographed letters..... More
Palouse, WA: Nelson Pub. Co., 1995. Fourth edition (1st pub. 1992). Soft cover (plastic comb binding). 98p, no ills. Not a traditional bibliography, but a list of hundreds of "makers of cowboy leather: gun belts, chaps, holsters, saddles, saddlebags, scabbards, wrist cuffs" with summary information and references to where the..... More
Boston: No stated publisher, 1937. First edition. Soft cover. 36p, many photos and other ills. in local ads. Covers faded and worn as shown, but the colors are brighter than in the photo here. Front cover loosening. Ca. 8 x 11 inches. Internally clean, complete. Souvenir program for the 7th..... More
N.p. [Tucson]: Arizona Historical Society, N.d. [1980]. No stated edition. Soft cover. 16p, several line ills. Published to accompany an exhibition of 17 Western saddles, with a description of each type but alas no illustrations of most of them. Spanish, Indian, Whitman, sidesaddle, McClellan, Grimsley dragoon, experimental Grimsley type (one..... 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&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
Santa Barbara: Wallace Hebberd, 1927. Borein, Edward. First edition. Hardcover (boards). 76p, many ills. by Edward Borein, frontispiece in color. Jacket (with original $2.50 price) is smudged; a few closed tears at the edges. The jacket illustration repeats the frontispiece. Endpapers slightly soiled from handling; boards a little splayed as..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 153p, 18 ills. (old photos, ads). Endpaper map. Jacket chipped, rubbed. In the Stanford Transportation Series. History of the great Western stage lines run by Russell, Waddell, and Majors in the mid-19th century. "Theirs was a military freighting monopoly that developed..... More
Fort Worth, TX: Bunker Press, n.d. [1930s?]. Shope, Irvin. No stated edition. Soft cover (light handling wear and soil). 36p + 4 ills. by the author. Two upper margins lightly rubbed from where they were once stuck together. Promotional booklet issued with compliments of H.J. Justin & Sons, "makers of..... More
![Item #31480 The Western Horseman 1959 [complete]. Dick Spencer, ed, III](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31480.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1681210445)
Colorado Springs: The Western Horseman, 1959. First edition. Soft cover. Full year (12 issues) of "the magazine for admirers of stock horses." Variously paged (ca. 100p each), hundreds of photos and ads. Clean, complete. Lots of good old-time reading and history here! Articles by Randy Steffen (hints, part of the..... More
Denver: H.H. Tannen Co., n.d. [ca. 1912]. No stated edition. Accordion fold within pocket. Twenty postcard-sized views printed in color on long folding sheets, fastened within mailing envelope. The pictures show cowboys at ranch work, bulldogging, bronc riding, chicken running, horse breaking, and buffalo riding. Two cowgirls are pictured, “The..... More
