Search Results: Authors starting with J from Robin Bledsoe, Bookseller

Moscow: Scientific and Art Museum of Horse Breeding, 1992. No stated edition. Soft cover. Good (handling wear). 44p, ca. 40 color pls. The title is taken from a poem by Pushkin, "Winter Morning," in which the author while traveling by sleigh drops the reins to "let the restless horse run forward on its own." In Russian and English. Selections from this museum that holds over 3000 paintings, sculptures, and other works of equestrian art. It was created in 1929, originally from the large art collection donated by horse breeder Y.I. Butovich. Sadly, he met an uncertain fate in 1930s Soviet Russia, but his legacy lives on. The museum, now part of the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, is still active. Scarce, at least in the U.S. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Scribner's, 1936. First edition, with Scribner "A. Hardcover. Fair (but sturdy). James, Will. 312p, 45 full-page line ills. + color frontispiece, all by James. Lacks the jacket. Endpapers browned from binding glue, covers faded and scuffed, some marginal foxing and other page stains. "Scorpion, as the cowboy who started to break him named him, was an average size range saddle horse, the right size for all around range work, for rough country and mountains and for fast outside roping or cutting out, and if a man sat him like a rider and not like a pack, he could go circles around the bigger horses any place or time." The only Scribner edition (later reprinted by others). A sturdy reading copy.

New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1959. First edition. Stapled soft cover. Good. 12p, 10 black-and-white ills. Covers scuffed with handling wear; light handling soil to outer pages. Short closed tears around die-cut opening that reveals the number 8 of the title. One painting each by Albers, de Kooning, Gorky, Guston, Kline, Motherwell, Pollock, and Rothko, plus 2 installation photos of 8 Americans (1957).

New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1973. First edition. Soft cover. Very good. N.p., chiefly 181 ills., 22 in color. Twenty-fifth anniversary loan exhibition of 54 works sold by Janis over the years, plus illustrations of others not included in the show. "With this exhibition the gallery marks its 201st presentation," and there are installion photos of many of the shows.

New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1953. First edition. Soft cover. Good. N.p., variously illustrated. Die-cut covers show average handling wear and rubbing. Internally overall very good (a little inking on title page and in Janis's preface). A loan exhibition of 32 paintings and sculpture sold by the gallery, plus illustrations of 28 other works handled during the gallery's first 5 years. With 16 installation views of previous shows, for a total of 76 large ills., 3 in color. "Many works which passed directly into private collections are now on view at the Gallery for the first time." Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1959. First edition. Soft cover (covers foxed, soiled). Good. Gorky. 33 Paintings: [20]p, 44 black-and-white ills., including earlier installation views and photo of Gorky. Late Drawings: [16]p, 39 black-and-white ills., including earlier installation views. Catalogues of the gallery's third and fourth one-man shows of Gorky's work. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. Sold as a group.

Nottingham: John Jardine, 1906. No stated edition. Stapled soft cover. Good. 16p, many ills. Covers detached; foxed; creased; old stain on several pages. Complete. Saddle and harness maker Jardine was a "contractor to H.M. Government." This trade catalogue describes and prices several styles of harness for gig, cab or spring cart, van ("suitable for brewers, furniture removers"), cart, leader gear, pair, breaking or show ring, and plough. Also a few saddles, numnahs and false collars, a cavalry officer's saddlery outfit, and British Government harness for leader and wheeler. Two pages advertise Jardine and Govier's patent check strap, "a preventative for runaway horses" ("it is not advisable to leave horses unattended in these days of electric and motor cars"), with photos showing how to use it. Sold as is.

London: Henry Colburn, 1828. 3rd ed. (1st pub. 1827). Hardcover (new full leather, gilt stamped). Very good. 316p + 4p of publisher's ads, no ills. Owner's blind stamp on half title page. Volume 2 of Kitchiner's 2-volume Traveller's Oracle, complete in itself. Volume 1 covered hints to travelers--what to take with you, how to defend yourself, songs to sing, etc. Volume 2 deals with the costs of keeping any number of horses and staff at home or at a livery stable, costs of various carriages, their construction and decoration, duties of coachmen and servants (and reciprocal responsibilities of the owner), horse health and stable management, what to look for in a used carriage, estimated expenses of hiring hackney coaches, and more. One chapter details "the fifteen things which a good coachman won't do." (Rittenhouse Carriage Hundred 48, Wells 4218) Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Chicago: Chicago University of Commerce, 1913. No stated edition. Hardcover. Covers dented and stained here and there; edges shelf rubbed; internally very good. 293p, many photos and line ills. Some offsetting from the plates. No jacket (as issued?). Textbook, with test questions at the end. Chapters by Thomas A. Bird, Homer J. Buckley, Henry S. Bunting, E.N. Ferdon, and Samuel C. Dobbs. On window trimming and commercial display, direct-mail and print advertising, specialty advertising (on calendars, pens, hat bands, "novelties" such as desk items, umbrellas, etc.), and advertising clubs. The second photo shows a $5,000 window in a St. Louis department store, "one of the most expensively finished windows in the world." Lots of forgotten details about material culture are here!

New York: Bonanza Books, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Very good (two overstock red ink stars on front endpaper)/good. 90p, many ills., some in color. Jacket is age soiled with some closed tears. Based on the exhibition assembled by the Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Craftsman's Council. Traditional and contemporary baking, with an emphasis on molded and figurative shapes; step-by-step photos of "creative baking techniques" and basic dough recipes. Includes several pieces by Ruth Asawa Lanier Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

N.p.: No stated publisher, n.d.. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. Good (bottom corner creased, minor soil). One sheet of card stock, 1 ill. printed in brown. Tongue-twister verse, featuring the letter F. One of the alliterative rhymes first published in Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation by Willard Johnson (Philadelphia, 1836). Perhaps printed by the late Anthoensen Press in Maine, as it was found among Anthoensen materials and is representative of their work. Uncommon, cute for display. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1970. Limited edition. Sewn softcover. Fine. Hidy, Lance. [16]p, 1 wood-engraved ill. by Lance Hidy. One of 3000 copies. Originally published in 1758. Illustrated in Godine at Fifty, where Godine describes this letterpress pamphlet as "probably as subversive as anything we issued. In 1970, we were all keenly aware of the Vietnam War." One of the press's earliest publications. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Bordeaux: Librairie Joseph Vincent, 1900. First edition. Soft cover. Fair (heavily foxed, small chip out of front cover). 16p (self wrs.), color ills. on covers and each page. Bookseller's catalogue of French children's picture books illustrated by Mars, Boutet de Monvel, Crafty, and Caran d'Ache, all published by Plon. Each page reproduces a page from one of the books. Ca. 4 x 6 inches. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate. A scarce survival.

Millwood, VA: Author, 1981. Limited signed edition. Hardcover. Very good/fair. 134p, many line ills. and photos, many in color. Owner's blindstamp on front endpaper. Worn jacket. No. 86 of 1000 copies, signed by Jung. Jacket photo is cropped on the right. Lessons from the international driving champion on selecting horses; breaking singles and pairs to harness; equipage; selecting and training wheelers, leaders, and spares; driving exercises for pairs and four-in-hand; and competing in dressage, cross country, and cones. Very hard to find, as owners of this book don't usually part with it.

Miami: Metro Dade Cultural Center, 1985. First edition. Unbound. Very good. One accordion-folded sheet, 7 black-and-white ills. + color cover. Exhibition catalogue of 25 bindings from the mid-19th century on, chiefly French. After the show, Juvelis offered many of them for sale; the pricelist is laid in. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.