Stockton, California; (1967): Jim Breen Books. Quarto. 68 pages. While the Haras De France is rare (OCLC records only the copy at Bibliothèque nationale), this copy is unrecorded in OCLC or NUC. This list of broodmares, and supplements of stallions here includes the name, the year of foaling, sire and..... More
Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 1977. First Edition. Octavo. 156pp. Text. Illustrated by Craig Sheppard. The author traces the wild mustangs from their inception, dispelling many myths about their blood line and history. Nevada was one of the last refuges of the wild horse today. Bound in green cloth..... More
Hildesheim/Zurich and New York: George Olms. Thick Quarto. 923p. Text in English, German, Arabic. Bibliographic References (p. 917-923) and indexes. Illustrated with with over 500 color and black & white illustrations and photographs. A Superb copy of an essential reference for those who study or wish to acquire Arabians. A...... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1923. Octavo. Revised edition. Published for the Senate and the House of Representatives for distribution. illustrated with 49 illustrations in color and in black & white, with 24 textual illustrations. Contains how to administer medications, pregnancy, diseases of the digestive and other organs, diseases of the..... More
Hollywood, California: Hat Brands, Inc., 1995. Octavo. This catalog was produced in celebrating and continuing the life work of the saddle maker and silversmith to the stars. Edward H. Bohlin, May 12, 1895-May 28, 1980. 332pp., 8 pages of color illustrations, including photo of Tom Selleck wearing the " Joe..... More
(Vivendi Publishing, France, 2000). Quarto. 2nd edition revised and corrected. Adaptation and revision Carole Ferret, photography by Igor Dmitrievitch Nikolayev. 175pp. beautifully illustrated in color depicting early paintings of magnificent horses. Each painting is numbered to correspond with a matching black and white photograph with the painting's history found in..... More
Great Falls, Va: Sport Horse World, 1995. First Edition. Quarto. 160p. Inscribed by author. These are the stallions featured in the two hour film Video Studbooks. Here each horse featured is provided a photograph of the horse, its name, bloodline, owner, achievements, pedigrees and production.It also gives details of stud..... More
London; (nd): L. Upcott Gill. Octavo. 132pp., color pictorial frontispiece depicting a St. Bernard with tissue guard along with another "chromolithographic" illustration of a St. Bernard laid in from another work, bound in green pictorial cloth decorated in black, lettering gilt, corners lightly bumped with minor wear to spine ends..... More
Manchester; (1937): "Our Dogs" Publishing Co./Percy Brothers Limited (printers). Octavo. 85(1)pp., bound in flexible red cloth printed and framed in black, spine lettering black, illustrated with six photographs of various animals excluding dogs, an occasional spot of foxing otherwise near fine in very good red printed dust jacket showing only..... More
(Western Horseman Magazine, Colorado Springs, CO: 2007). First Edition. Quarto. First printing. 239(1)pp. illustrated by photograph, Few ranches have survived as viable ranching operation into the 21st century. This book targets these outfits, featuring not only their histories and daring people, but also the problems they continue to experience as..... More
Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1979. 10 of her limited edition prints (blue on white) intaglio prints each signed and numbered #31 (limited to 50 copies). More
London: Printed for John Osborn and Tho/ Longman, at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, 1731. Small Octavo. Third edition. iv, iv-[viii], 236 pages, vi (index). page 181misnumbered 180. An interesting 18th Century look at the care and the various kinds of nourishment were given horses. Gibson notes that the barley in..... More
Austin, Texas; (1963): Published for the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art By the University of Texas. First Edition. Quarto. 103 pages, bibliography. A review copy with card laid in dated 1/24/63. This work is an exciting pictorial record of the spotted horse in many cultures and through many centuries..... More
(Lexington, KY, 1975): Thoroughbrd Owners and Breeders Assoc. Thick Quarto. The present issue, recapping major auctions of 1974, is the first of an annual foursome published. The remaining three are sire of runners, detailing records of stallions represented in 1974, to be published Feb. 3; Principal winners abroad, reviewing horse..... More
Chino Valley: Boldheart Publications, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Beautiful color photographs. More
London: George Bell & Sons, 1891. First Edition. Small Octavo. 222pp. Illustrated text on horse riding with drawings and photographs. From a series of British sports books; hockey, tennis, boxing, fencing and several others. Bound in orange pictorial cloth lettered and decorated in black, staining and soiling to covers, text..... More
Fort Worth; (1966): Texas Christian University Press. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 153 pp. Inscribed by author. TCU Monographs in History and Culture #1. The roll of the horse in the settlement of the American West is a popular theme in American history. There have been many studies of the..... More
Middlebury, Vermont; (1985): P.S. Eriksson. First Edition. Octavo. x, 248 pages, 7 pages of plates. Inscribed: "To Hugh Downs, who inspired me to achieve greatness as a practical joker. One of my more modest accomplishments in this area is described on pages 15-17. It followed the great holdup.--Bob Miller". As..... More
Alhambra, California; (1969 and 1972): Borden Publishing Company. First Editions. Oblong Quartos. One of the finest sources on the Arabian horse. The authors spent twenty years in research before issuing volume I in 1969 (with registration numbers 1-232) and three years later volume II (which had registration numberss 233-485). With..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1949. Octavo. 240pp. Text. Photographs. Appendices. Index. Bound in blue cloth boards (light wear to spine and extremeties; upper right corner bumped & chewed). More
Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. . 345 pages, index. Photographs of some of the finest thoroughbreds. Joe Palmer was the leading turf writer in the late 1930's and here viewed the careers of major Thoroughbred stallions from 1860 to 1839. When this book was reprinted by..... More
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.(1963): Prentice Hall, Inc. First Edition. Octavo. 112pp. Illustrated by James Pearsall. The story of a cat from birth to adulthood. Bound in brown cloth, spine lettering black, near fine in unclipped near fine pictorial dust jacket. More
Boston: American Horse Breeder Publishing Co., 1905. First Edition. Octavo. 319pp., with a preface by Peter C. Kellogg. Portrait frontispiece of author and several full page illustrations of horses. The author was the editor of the American Horse Breeder. Here is his work in book form. He writes about the..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1923. Octavo. revised edition. Illustrated with 42 plates in color and in black & white, 18 textual illustrations. This work was produced for the Senate and the House of Representatives for distribution. The book covers everything from examination of a sick horse, how to administer drugs..... More
Berlin: Druck und Verlag Von Georg Reimer, 1896. First Edition. Quarto. The history of horse bridles and harnesses which were usually dedicated to Poseidon by their lucky victor at the isthmian games. Everything used for the horse's training and care, as well as all the ornaments it had worn at..... More