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=1673961628)
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
Detroit: Calvert Lith. Co., n.d. [1890s?]. No stated edition. Unbound. Trade card, ca. 3 x 5 inches. Front shows a horse safely tied using the rein holder, and then what might happen without a rein holder, all in a decorative surround. Back describes the advantages of various models of rein..... 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
New York: Ladies Home Journal, July 1909. Fisher, Harrison. First edition. Unbound sheet. Original magazine ad, the third in a series advertising Fisher's illustrated book The American Girl Abroad. Ca. 11 x 16 inches, removed from the magazine. One spirited girl drives the jaunting cart, while her male passenger admires..... More
New York: Century Co., 1903. First book edition. Hardcover (pictorial cloth). 255p + 1 plate. No jacket (as issued?). Owner's old ink name. In better condition than often found. Seven short stories of hunting, showing, and romance, first published in magazine form in 1900-1903. The stories seem to be based..... 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=1643661522)
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
N.p. [Havana?]: La Prenda, n.d. [ca. 1900?]. No stated edition. Unbound label. Cigar label from this Cuban tobacco company. Printed at bottom: Dep. 6273. Ca. 3 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches. Photo-mechanically printed. A cigar-smoking equestrienne is seen through a rustic frame garlanded with roses. Riding sidesaddle and accompanied by..... More
N.p. n.d. [ca. 1910s-30s?]. No stated edition. Unposted. No stamp block; divided back. There is a small margin at the top, which is cut off in the photo. Identifying number A15 in negative. A curious setting. The lathe wall seems to be braced against falling by the diagonal piece of..... More
![Item #31836 A Rider of Valencia with His Girl [real photo postcard]. No named photographer](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31836.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1702337708)
Valencia, Spain: JDP, n.d. [1960s?]. No stated edition. Unbound card. Deckle-edged postcard, unused. Identified as "177-Alencia." An elaborately costumed Spanish horse and riders, ready for a festival. The horse's front legs, where they hide the leg of handler, seem to have been retouched in the negative. Can be sent outside..... More
![Item #31878 [Real Photo Postcard--Terre Haute Girl on Donkey]. No stated photographer](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31878.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1705362596)
N.p. N.p., n.d. [1911?]. No stated edition. Unbound card. Unmailed postcard, ca. 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Written in ink on back: "In Terre Haute Ind. May 1911." Sweet image of a shy girl in her spring frock, straw hat, and open-work leather shoes, posing astride a donkey in..... 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
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024. First edition. Hardcover (plasticized boards). 187p, many photos. No jacket, as issued. Ever heard of her? Here's the life story of a woman jockey who "thrived in the gritty world of no-holds-barred 'bush track' racing, ultimately competing in an estimated 10,000 races over almost..... 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=1633015798)
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
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
