Horses

First Edition. Very Good +/Fair. 1982. 1st printing, NEW YORK GRAPHIC SOCIETY. Photographs by William Albert Allard. Foreword by Thomas McGuane Little Brown & Co: Boston, (1982). Oblong quarto, blue denim cloth, in a dust wrapper, price cut, with one tear and a little worn. 144 pages, beautifully illustrated in full colour. A very good plus copy with the extra photographic process colour print laid in as issued. POSTAGE WITH TRACKING via French Post DELIVENGO

Monterey, Kentucky:: Larkspur Press,, 2005.. Special Edition of 45. 6.5 x 9.75"; 100 pages. Handset in Garamond type designed by Morris Benton for ATF after the work of Jean Jannon, a master printer in 17th-century Paris. Ratdolt type, designed by Victor Hammer, was used for display. Printed on a hand-fed C & P. Printed on Magnani Velata paper. Handbound by Carolyn Whitesel. Design, composition, and printing by Leslie Shane and Gray Zeitz. Signed by the artist and poet. Numbered. Poetry by Susan Starr Richards accompanied by Richard Wooten's drawings. Prospectus: "The drawings, by Richard H. Wooten, are based on a Chinese jade horse's head from the Han Dynasty, and a cave painting for Lascaux, France, ca. 17,000 - 12,000 B.C. Richard Wooten is a native of Harrison County with an avid interest in ancient art. He now lives in Maine. "Susan Starr Richards's short stories have been anthologized in Prize Stories, The O. Henry Awards, and in New Stories from… Read More

An overview of Swiss military horse dressage

This is a scarce, bound volume of POLO magazine ("The Magazine for Horsemen") that contains 8 issues from September, 1931 to April, 1932 with wonderfully illustrated color covers. "Volume VI" is printed on the spine. Red, hardcover cloth binding with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine (and the name "J.L. Lundean" in gilt at the base of the spine). Published by Quigley Publishing Company in the United States. The magazine was "obtainable by subscription only." Oversized - the volume measures 14 1/8" tall x 10 1/4" wide. "Hunting ~ Horseshows ~ Racing" - contents include general horsemanship, horse show results, sailing, steeplechase, polo and foxhunting, with many illustrations from photographs and drawings. The issues include great illustrated advertisements (some in color) for companies such as Saks-Fifth Avenue, Abercrombie & Fitch, Duesenberg, Johnston & Murphy Shoe, A.G. Spalding & Bros., Anheuser-Busch, Camel Cigarettes, and many more. The following 8 issues are included:VOLUME 6No. 4… Read More

This is a scarce, bound volume of POLO magazine ("The Magazine for Horsemen") that contains 8 issues from January to August, 1931 with wonderfully illustrated color covers. "Volume V" is printed on the spine. Red, hardcover cloth binding with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine (and the name "J.L. Lundean" in gilt at the base of the spine). Published by Quigley Publishing Company in the United States. The magazine was "obtainable by subscription only." Oversized - the volume measures 14 1/8" tall x 10 1/4" wide. "Hunting ~ Steeplechasing ~ Horseshows" - contents include general horsemanship, horse show results, sailing, steeplechase, polo and foxhunting, with many illustrations from photographs and drawings. The issues include great illustrated advertisements (some in color) for companies such as Brooks Brothers Clothing, Duesenberg, Abercrombie & Fitch, Izod, A.G. Spalding & Bros., Johnston & Murphy Shoe, Firestone, Fortune Magazine, and many more.The following 8 issues are included:VOLUME… Read More

Freddy And The Clockwork Twin. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Copyright 1937. A Borzoi Book. Doesn't state 1st. USED. From private owner. Bright Yellow Gibraltar Binding. Good+ Condition/ No DJ included. A clean, bright solid copy.

The Viking Press, New York, 1945. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Illustrated Edition. Book of the Month Club with the publisher's slipcase. A beautiful copy. The book is in excellent shape and is bound in the publisher's cloth. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. It has one neat original bookplate of the previous owner. Otherwise the pages and book overall is clean with no writing or marks. An uncommonly nice-looking copy of a justifiably famous collection of four stories, illustrated profusely, including at endpapers, by Wesley Dennis in a four-color offset lithography process. The Panoramic, sweeping illustration at endpapers is breathtaking. Housed in a clean, Good condition cardboard slipcase, illustrated paper label complete and neatly affixed. Edges of pages are dark green. Tan linen cloth covers with green-ruled border to front cover, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. The Red Pony can be traced back to the fact that Steinbeck's father, John… Read More

Please see photographs. There are some slight marks on the DJ. One slight tear bottom right all pieces there.Original DJ. The book is nice and clean Please email for more information.

George Routledge & co.London. 1892. Fourteenth Edition. Large 8vo. Illustrated throughout with 170 woodcut engravings by Harrison Weir, Zwecker, and others. A very good copy in early leather binding of half red morocco, raised bands, compartments lettered and decorated in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Armorial bookplate to the front paste down endpaper. Binding a little rubbed but overall a very attractive copy.

BIANCO, Margery Williams. The Skin Horse. Illustrated by Pamela Bianco. NY: George H. Doran [1927]. 8vo, 42pp. Beige cloth with color pictorial labels affixed to front and back. Color pictorial endpapers; 5 color plates and numerous smaller b&w illustrations. Slight rubbing to spine ends and lower corners, pages lightly aged, else a clean bright copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (4" closed tear at bottom of where the front cover meets the spine panel, ¾" x ¼" chip at top of front panel, 3 small closed tears at top of rear panel with some light creasing). Signed by the artist, Pamela Bianco.
First edition. A wonderfully charming sequel to the author's beloved classic, The Velveteen Rabbit, illustrated by her daughter, artist Pamela Bianco. The Skin Horse, a toy from the same house as the Velveteen Rabbit, finds new life in the hands of a young, sick child in the hospital.

Lithogr. title within decorative Art noveau frame, 3 unnumb. ll. introduction and dedication, 66 collotype plates with horses mostly against a landscape or architectural backdrop, after paintings and photographs, each with printed captions in French, Russian, English and German, printed on thick glazed paper sheets, 30 unnumb. ll. with letterpress text on verso of thin tissue guard-like sheets in four languages. One errata leaf printed on red paper stock bound in. Cont. dark green morocco, gilt stamped Russian title to front cover, all edges gilt. Endpapers lined with white glazed paper with a moiree pattern. Oblong folio (495 x 400 mm). Extremeties worn and rubbed, front cover discoloured, spine evenly sunned and spine-ends bumped. Rare large-format work with magnificent depictions of horses with KVK and OCKC showing only four copies (ÖNB, Madrid, NYPL, and Chicago) with 31 plates only (?). A number of the thin letterpress leaves with short tears else fine. The author was a master of the guard.

Mulford,Clarence Edward: Bar-20, 1907 First Edition, The Outing Publishing Company, New York. Title page states MCMVII. HOPALONG CASSIDY #1. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth and F.E. Schoonover. Used. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Red boards with Large gilt titles. Black titling on spine. Hinges cracked. N.C. Wyeth Illustration at center front shows Hopalong "Hoppy" Cassidy sitting on a barn wall. Plot summary: "In Bar-20, the first Hopalong Cassidy novel by Clarence E. Mulford, Cassidy could fan a gun like a Billy the Kid... Six rounds in three seconds was his slowest time. No one in the state of Texas could beat him. Until he met Slim Travennes, head of the Sandy Creek Vigilante Committee. Slim was snake-fast. No man could go up against him and live. No man. Hoppy could stand or die. He had no other choice. None at all".

Wilder Laura Ingalls: The Long Winter. 1953 Harper & Brothers Uniform Edition. Pictures by Garth Williams. BIOGRAPHY. Used. VG/Acceptable $2.95 Original Snowball fight Dust Jacket. Back panel of jacket is water- stained. The story of the hard winter of 1880-1881 in the Dakota Territory with the pioneer Ingalls Family. Little House on the Prairie series. 335 pages. 6 X 8 ¼.

Hayward, Rachel The Hippodrome , 1913 George H. Doran Company, New York. American First Edition. Red boards with gilt titling and ornamentation. Gilt still fairly bright. EXLIB Good condition. / No DJ Included. Early noir detective novel set in Paris in the 1860's- 70's, and the Story of Arithelli, the beautiful English equestrienne. 295 PAGES. 5 1/8 X 7 ¾. 295 pages. QUITE RARE. We are pleased to consider offers.

Complete series of 6 prospective copperplates engravings (each plate measures ca. mm 200x165) with strictly contemporary hand colouring. Very nice condition.
They scenery-like sheets create a perspective image if arranged one behind the other.
Appreciated by spectators attending from balconies, the view exhibits an extraordinary street circus with various animals: an elephant, bears, savants dogs playing comedies, acrobatic monkeys, etc.; trainers wear sumptuous oriental costumes.
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A. Milano-W. Seitz, Numerazione dei diorami teatrali di Martin Engelbrecht, in La camera dei sortilegi. Autoritratto di una società nei diorami teatrali del '700, Mostra diretta da G. Strehler, Milano 1987, p. 61.