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 #31267 [Real photo postcard of Della Adelaide Brigham Follette riding astride]. Anonymous](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31267.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673961744)
N.p. [United States]: No stated publisher, n.d. [ca. 1913]. No stated edition. Postcard. The subject's name and the year 1913 are written in ink on the back. RPPC on CYKO paper. A curious image. Della Follette wears a tight-fitting jacket and riding hat and what seem to be trousers that..... More
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
Pleasant Hill, OH: Jesse Beery, 1934 (Book One) and 1944 (Book Five). No stated edition. Stapled soft cover. [46]p (Book One) and pp. 131-164 (Book Five), each with a few photos. Opening pages of Book One foxed. Book One introduces gaited riding and showing; the showing section is by Mrs..... More
N.p. Author, 1963. Hall, Marilynn. First edition. Soft cover. 40p, many photos and line ills. by Marilynn Hall. Sensible guide to slow, step-by-step training from first handling of the foal to longeing and backing. The author relates her own experiences with Allen's Bloomer Girl 560907 (by David Copperfield out of..... More
Springton, S.A. Side-Saddle Association of South Australia, 1990. Limited edition. Hardcover. 333p, many photos, a few in color. A must for anyone interested in Australia, horse(wo)manship, or social history. Brief lives of dozens of women riders and drivers, from the settlement of Australia to the 1980s. A wealth of information..... More
New York: Durland Company, 1908. First edition. Soft cover. 51p, many small ills. in the ads; no pictures of horses or exhibitors. Covers soiled, chipped, marginal tears and mended holes in back cover. Program of 27 classes held at the Durland Riding Academy on April 21-23, 1908. Index of exhibitors..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1905. Kemp-Welch, Lucy. First edition. Hardcover. 22p + 22 large mounted plates, 4 in color and the rest in grey tones. No jacket (if issued?). The first volume in the publisher's Artists of the Present-Day Series, ed. by W. Shaw Sparrow. This impressive book was published..... More
![Item #30739 [Gertrude Lamont, Daughter of Secretary of Commerce Robert P. Lamont]. International...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30739.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1643661548)
N.p. International News Press, n.d. [1929-1932]. No stated edition. Unbound photograph. Original glossy photo, ca. 6 x 8 inches. Grease-pencil crop marks on front. Newspaper tear sheet with caption mounted on back; back also has partial International News Photos stamp, pencil notes, and a torn form that hints the photo..... More
New York: Derrydale Press, 1940. Morris, George Ford. Limited edition. Hardcover with gilt-stamped leather title label. 56p + 5 photos. No. 186 of 200 copies, signed on behalf of, but perhaps not by, the author (this opinion comes from Frazier, Recognizing Derrydale Press Books). From the library of Richard Saltonstall..... More
[New York]: New York Women's League for Animals, 1921. First edition. Soft cover. 76p, several photos (chiefly dogs, also a photo of the new horse ambulance). The League operated a free hospital and dispensary at 350 Lafayette Street, New York, which in 1920 handled ca. 9,500 cases and surgeries on..... More
Unbound card. Card has been cut down on the right side of the photo, cutting off part of one postmark and a bit of the address. Two postmarks: Marblehead, Massachusetts, Sept. 10(?), 1906, and Wianno, Mass., Sept. 15, 1906 [part of Barnstable]. Addressed to Miss Priscilla Perry, Marblehead. Below her..... More
Goshen, NY: Orange County Driving Park Association, n.d. [1954]. First edition. Soft cover. 45p, many photos of races, horses, and personalities. Summary of the meeting, giving one page to each featured race—photo, description, and heat results. The 100th anniversary of Historic Track was celebrated with a pageant of horses, riders..... 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
Paris: Charles Eitel, 1902. First edition. Hardcover (original pictorial boards). 224p, 12 photos. Covers scraped, stained; skewed from reading; scattered foxing. In French. Memoirs of this renowned circus equestrienne. Originally from Germany, she performed throughout Europe in various venues (Busch Circus, Folies Bergere, her own circuses, and more). She was..... More
![Item #14934 Constitution, By-Laws and List of Members: 3 vols. [1902, 1904, 1905]. Riding Club of...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14934.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973422)
New York: Knickerbocker Press (G.P. Putnam's Sons), 1902, 1904, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Each ca. 56p, no ills. The Riding Club (founded as The Gentlemen's Riding Club in 1881) was located at 7 East 58 Street. New York Gilded Age society is amply represented in the lists of members. From..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. 165p + 4 pls. by F. Walter Taylor. Original printed boards (worn, spine reinforced with tape, but binding is sturdy). Neat ink stamp of former owner on front endpaper and one margin. Some internal staining. Novel set in Virginia about Trix..... More
Louisville, KY: Louisville Color Gravure Co. [printer], 1931. First edition. Soft cover. 23p, many photos and ads. Printed in sepia gravure. Several closed tears, hole torn out of one page, affecting an ad and a photo (as pictured in photo 3). Covers loosening. Ca. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches..... More
N.p. unpublished, n.d. [probably second half of 20th century]. Stupp, Erika. hardcover. [20]p, 3 drawings by the author. Hand lettered in black ink with decorative touches in color. Ca. 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. A small homemade tribute to a horse named Brownie, written and illustrated by a young..... 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
Roxbury, VT: Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Roys, camp directors, 1931. First edition. Soft cover (suede, tied with cord). 48p, many photos of happy girls, happy horses ("forty beautiful Virginia saddle horses"), and healthful activities. Prospectus for the 1931-32 junior and senior camps for girls under 18 years of age, with..... More
![Item #31529 The Rodeo: Souvenir Program for Mailing [Opening Day, March 9, 1912]. " J. H. Gwinn...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31529.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1684238735)
Los Angeles: "The Rodeo" 1912. First edition. Unbound sheet. One folded self-mailer of card stock, ca. 6 x 10 1/2 inches folded. Printed in red and black. Half of one page is pictured. Program for opening day, March 9, 1912. Lists 13 events, their prize money, conditions, and the March..... More
![Item #30868 Harper's Bazar [Bazaar]: September 9, 1889; Bar Harbor -- Southampton Horse Show....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30868.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1649106106)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. 754-771, lacking pp. 757-78. Ca. 11 x 15 inches. Worn; pages are loosening. Dogeared, creased from folding. Incomplete issue, lacking one leaf of`18 total. The missing page may include information on fashions and/or women journalists. The equestrian material is..... More
![Item #31437 The Official Horse Show Blue Book [vol. 12, 1918]; Containing Complete Summaries of...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31437.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1679953686)
New York: J.W. Waring, 1919. First edition. Limp leather (rubbed, spine tips chipped). 153p, many photos and ads for luxury goods. Chiefly Hackney and Saddlebred showing, also some hunter-jumper classes. Includes a chapter on "Half-Bred Horses for Army Purposes." Photos of champion Morgan stallion Reynard and champion Morgan mare Evelyn..... More
New York: J.W. Waring, 1916. First edition. Hardcover (original leather-covered boards, gilt-stamped). 393p, many photos of gaited saddle and harness horses, jumpers, and horsemen and women. Some photos are by Haas or Schreiber. Also many ads for luxury and equestrian goods. Suffers from the "red rot" that is typical of..... More
