Great Horses of the United States Equestrian Team by Steinkraus, Bill; Savitt, Sam - 1977

Boston: James R. Osgood. Good with no dust jacket; Frontispiece and title page professionally . repaired at margins, gift inscription on front flyleaf, cup ring and white . paint stains on title page, pages toned.. 1882. Hardcover. Nicely rebound in brown cloth with gilt-stamped leather spine labels. Top edges gilt. 127 pages of text and 107 plates, including five heliotypes and 9 color plates illustrating equine anatomy. Preface by Leland Stanford. Photo of book before rebinding laid in. An important book in both the history of photography and equine literature with a fascinating back story about how it was researched and written. Railroad baron, California Governor, and horse racing mogul Leland Stanford (he also bankrolled the founding of Stanford University) had a wager with some of his horse racing buddies about whether all four hooves left the ground at a point during a horse's trot. Stanford hired antiquarian bookseller-turned-photographer Eadweard Muybridge to provide… Read More

An overview of Swiss military horse dressage

Krefeld: Richard Obermann, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. xii, 304 p., 22 leaves of illustrations: in-text illustrations (including 2 small tipped-in illustrations); 22 cm. Dark blue cloth with silver stamped spine title and front cover illustration. Illustrated dust jacket, in mylar cover. Includes index and chronology of horses, riders, and riding equipment. Scarce. Book is in Very Good Condition: edges of pages are slightly soiled; internally clean and bright. Dust jacket is in Good+ Condition: several closed tears of 3 cm. or less; creasing at ends of spine; lightly soiled.

London, The Tate Gallery for the Yale Center for British Art, 1981.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (30 x 23 cm.), publisher's gilt-stamped cloth with dust jacket. As new. xvii pp., (1 l.), 427 pp. Over 400 with black and white photos in text, along with 18 color plates. Extensive analytical index. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Describes in excellent detail 470 books and 43 periodicals.***

NY: Dodd, Mead & Co. Very Good with no dust jacket; Corners rubbed, owner bookplate on rear . pastedown endpaper.. 1977. First Printing. Hardcover. 0396074324 . Written in collaboration with the United States Equestrian Team. Red cloth. Black and white illustrations, index. Breeding, training, and career data on twenty-two horses of the United States Equestrian Team including observations by owners and associates with knowledge of the horses. Inscribed by the author / illustrator Sam Savill on the front free endpaper with hand drawn illustrations on both the front pastedown and front free endpaper with a personalised birthday greeting to previous owner. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 96 pages .

Collins. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0001849077 . Very clean, tightly bound book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is lightly edge rubbed, no tears or loss. Lovely copy of one of this author's scarcer 'Punchbowl Farm' novels .

Boston: James R. Osgood. Good with no dust jacket; Frontispiece and title page professionally . repaired at margins, gift inscription on front flyleaf, cup ring and white . paint stains on title page, pages toned.. 1882. Hardcover. Nicely rebound in brown cloth with gilt-stamped leather spine labels. Top edges gilt. 127 pages of text and 107 plates, including five heliotypes and 9 color plates illustrating equine anatomy. Preface by Leland Stanford. Photo of book before rebinding laid in. An important book in both the history of photography and equine literature with a fascinating back story about how it was researched and written. Railroad baron, California Governor, and horse racing mogul Leland Stanford (he also bankrolled the founding of Stanford University) had a wager with some of his horse racing buddies about whether all four hooves left the ground at a point during a horse's trot. Stanford hired antiquarian bookseller-turned-photographer Eadweard Muybridge to provide… 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.

NY: Dodd, Mead & Co. Very Good with no dust jacket; Corners rubbed, owner bookplate on rear . pastedown endpaper.. 1977. First Printing. Hardcover. 0396074324 . Written in collaboration with the United States Equestrian Team. Red cloth. Black and white illustrations, index. Breeding, training, and career data on twenty-two horses of the United States Equestrian Team including observations by owners and associates with knowledge of the horses. Inscribed by the author / illustrator Sam Savill on the front free endpaper with hand drawn illustrations on both the front pastedown and front free endpaper with a personalised birthday greeting to previous owner. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 96 pages .

Lanham, MD: The Derrydale Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2001. First Trade Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9781586670610 . Tan paper quarter-bound in brown paper. x, 149 pages. Black and white and color photographs, appendices, bibliography, and index. A lovely copy of this definitive study of the life and work of the noted artist with an additional chapter Paul Brown as a Book Illustrator by Robin Bledsoe. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .