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

Leicester: Edgar Backus, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Very good (covers lightly rubbed, spotted).. Simpson, Charles. xiii, 292 + 40 pls., including 25 in black, white, and red by Charles Simpson. Lacks dust jacket. The 19th-century hunting lives of the Rev. John Empson of Lincoln ("the flying parson") and the famed Meltonian Dick Christian. Includes material from books by The Druid and "several hitherto unpublished letters from George Osbaldeston." This copy belonged to P.C. Puckle, Kineton Glebe, Warwickshire, and is filled with his pencil notes, corrections, additions, etc., on the horses, people, events, places, etc., in the text. His notes are based on firsthand knowledge as a boy and other sources.

New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Fotheringill, George A.. xii, 254p, several line ills. + 4 color pls. Pictorial cloth, gilt stamped and with illustration signed "GAF" (George A. Fothergill). Light marginal wear; overall a nice bright copy. No jacket (as issued?). With bookseller ticket of F. Loesser and Co. Brooklyn Book Store, in the shape of a book. Lively advice for boys on riding and driving, stable management, shooting, and keeping dogs. Part I on horses is by Paget, Part II on guns is by George A.B. Dewar, and Part III on dogs is by Alex. Innes Shand. Most or all of the illustrations are by Fotheringill.

N.p., 1950. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. Very good (slight handling wear).. High-quality reproduction of the original drypoint etching. Printer's copyright notice in lower right. Printed title and artist's name below. Accompanied by the original spiderweb-patterned transparent sheet with text from Page Cooper and R.L. Treat's biography of Man o' War. Ca. 12 x 16 inches overall. Would mat up and frame nicely. Palenske (1884-1953) was well known for his outdoor and western scenes, and for his detailed portraits of racehorses. This is a preview of our next catalogue, "Picturing Horses: Illustrations, Original Prints, and Drawings

London: Tate Publishing, 2011. First edition. Soft cover. As new. 90p, many color ills. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. Surveys the achievements of British women war artists from World War I to the present--"as eyewitnesses, participants, commentators, and officially commissioned recorders of war." Includes Laura Knight, Lucy Kemp-Welch, Anna Airy, Evelyn Dunbar, Rachel Whiteread, Jananne Al-Ani, and more. With bibliography and lists of various artists' official roles. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. As new/as new. 248p + 12 ills. This detailed work of labor, social, urban, and transportation history examines an often overlooked aspect of the horse-drawn world--the life of the commercial drivers. Chapters on the structure of the Parisian cab industry; the police, company discipline, and the coachmen's workday; statistical overivew of the coachmen and their backgrounds; the cabbies of the Compagnie Generale des Voitures a Paris; the roles of unions and newspapers; international expositions and strikes; and coachmen and the automobile. Long bibliography, including many archival sources. A few pages on horses and their treatment The vehicles are treated in passing. The photos show various fiacres (one electrically powered) and two early women drivers, 1907.

Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1982. First edition. Very good/fair. 282p, 148 large photos (some folding), printed in rich dark sepia by Meriden Gravure. Jacket shelf soiled. Front endpapers discolored, perhaps from old glue? Former owner's rubber stamp at bottom of title page. Content is otherwise fine. Designed by Eleanor Morris Caponigro. Printed in letterpress, title page in red and black. Distributed by Callaway Editions, New York. Selection of 148 master photographs in the CCA collection--from Fox Talbot to August Sander--that document the growth and development of architectural photography during the first century of the medium. All catalogued in detail by Marjorie Munsterberg and Catherine Evans. Large and heavy; shipping/handing will be extra. Please keep this in mind when ordering.

London: John Murray, 1853. Seventh edition, considerably enlarged (1st pub. 1827). Hardcover (embossed green cloth). Good (spine chipped, rear pages soiled; occasional light stains within). 528p +32p of publisher's ads, many line ills. Owner's ink name, 1853. The physician-author explains for (advanced) children the principles of gravity, motion, atmospheric pressure, the weather, flight, optics, botany, and more by way of children's pastimes such as marbles, bubbles, kites, tops, etc. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927. No stated edition. Hardcover. Very good. 225p + 94 photos and line ills. Without the jacket. Bound in green cloth with paper spine label; there was also an edition bound in batik-patterned paper over boards. One of the first general-interest books to promote modern design in the United States. Chapters on recent decorative art in Europe, "Industrial Democracy and Art," design education, "Discovering the New Beauty," materials (steel, concrete, terra cotta), Modern American Decorators and Craftsmen, etc. "Our task is precisely to find what beauty exists in the shower bath... in observing the silver stream from a beauitfully shaped silver vessel." An important contemporary account of Twenties design, with a focus on how good design can further good living.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Parker, Olivia. N.p., 53 plates printed in 2 colors. Short text by Parker. Unclipped jacket is chipped, rubbed. In his publishing memoir Godine at Fifty, David Godine singles out this book as one of his favorites, describing it as "one of the technical marvels we managed to squeeze out in the years when fine-line printing was in its infancy." He describes the innovative process used to successfully print the selenium-tinted photographs. Parker's first book, volume III in the publisher's Contemporary Photographers Series.

Boston: New York Graphic Society / Little, Brown, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/good. Parker, Olivia. N.p., 43 large color plates. Signed by Strand on the title page. Unclipped jacket is chipped; spine is faded. Jacket photo is titled "Chambers." Photo is too pale. Vibrantly colored. sensual, and evocative assemblages of natural and other objects. Parker's first book of color photographs. "This book was planned, prepared, and produced by the Publications Department of Polaroid Corporation.

New York: Routledge, 1989. Reprint (1st pub. 1986). Soft cover. Very good (covers slightly shelf-soiled). 246p, 106 black-and-white ills. Pioneering contribution to women's history. "Drawing on household accounts, women's magazines, letters, novels, and the artworks themselves, Rozsika Parker discovered strands of resistance: paradoxically, while embroidery was employed to inculcate femininity in women, it also provided a way to negotiate the constraints of the feminine role.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1960. Later printing (1st pub. 1958). Hardcover. Very good (bottom fore-edges foxed). McCann, Gerald. 224p, many ills. by Gerald McCann. No jacket. Juvenile/young adult novel, set in the Australian bush. First title in the popular Brumby series. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate.

Paris: Librairie Paul Jammes, 1970. First edition. Soft cover. Very good (spine faded). N.p., several full-page and other ills. Bookseller's catalogue offering 1,814 "livres anciens et modernes relatifs a l'histoire du livre, a la bibliographie, a l'histoire technique et economique de l'imprimerie, aux fonderies de caracteres." Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1980. Second corrected edition (1st pub. 1965). Hardcover. Fine/very good. 93p + many black-and-white ills. Details as known to Paviere about over 1000 painters, including contemporary artists. Dates, exhibitions, representative works, etc. Chiefly equestrian, but also some painters of field sports and games. Somewhat of a hodge-podge of information, but very useful as a starting reference.

[Windsor, VT?]: No stated publisher, 1820. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. Fair. Peabody, Moody Morse. Stipple engraving of a coaching scene. Caption reads "Engraved by Peabody, for Simon Ide, Windsor, Vermont." Printed on one side of thin paper. Ca. 13 x 5 1/2 inches. Wrinkled; large piece torn away from upper left and a smaller piece from the bottom; later paper support on back. Cut from a larger sheet of paper. Plate indentations present on all four sides. The original copperplate is in the New Hampshire Historical Society. A version of this image was used on the cover of a copybook used by a child in the 1850s. Peabody also engraved the famous Freemasons Heart. The scene shows an oval carriage pulled by four white horses through rolling New England hills. Five passengers fit snugly inside; the driver has no need to use his whip just now. In the right background a sidewheel steamer approaches a river bend. The popular light-weight oval vehicle shown here was later replaced by the sturdier and… Read More

Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024. First edition. Hardcover (plasticized boards). New. 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 five decades." She rode mostly at Midwestern fairs and other small tracks from 1924 to 1971. As a teenager the author watched her ride, and he never forgot her "fiery intensity and daring." He's used many family recollections, photos, and other firsthand sources to recreate her career. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1927. First edition. Soft cover. Good (spine chipped, taped; cover edges worn). 66, viii pp., many ills. + 8 pls. (some in color, some tipped in). In French; 4-page English summaries of the articles laid in. Errata slip tipped onto inside back cover. First issue of this lavish journal devoted to the graphic arts. Articles on the "dual virtues of a book" (Paul Valery), Balzac as publisher, the offset technique, cinema texts (Leon Moussinac), typography in Italy, Enschede's Civilite typeface, M.E.R. Weiss, justification (Maximilien Vox), illustrator J.E. Laboureur, the catalogue as a work of art, the subconscious as applied to advertising, and American advertisers in The Saturday Evening Post. Also some news notes and ads. The plates are all printed by different firms (Enschede, Mourlot, Draeger, etc.); they showcase different printing techniques and papers. Photos are cropped.

London: J. Hughs AND J. Robson, 1762. Second and First Editions. Hardcover. Good. Two works bound in one. Pembroke: [viii], 128p + 3 folding engraved pls. Thompson: iv, 81p, no ills. Old full leather (sound). Pages browned; bit plate is torn at the edges and creased from misfolding. From the library of two members of the Dunlop family, with one early notation of purchase. Also from the library of a Robert Graham. The Earl of Pembroke was a forward-thinking horseman who advocated careful training of army horses and riders based on the principles of school riding or dressage--an unusual approach in 18th-century England equestrian culture, with its emphasis on cross-country speed. This second edition (first published in 1761) is "revised, and corrected, with Additions." It is complete with 3 plates (the one showing bits is often missing). This is the first edition of Thompson's popular manual, which went through many editions, versions, and plagiarisms. Addressing the gentleman to whom riding may not… Read More

Brooklyn: Dance Perspectives, 1963. First edition. Soft cover. Very good. 104p total, many black-and-white photos. Light handling wear. Part One: "The Years in England" by John Percival. Part Two: "The Years in America and After" by Selma Jean Cohen. With short contributions by dancers and other choreographers--De Mille, Robbins, Laing, etc. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. Scarce. Sold as a group.

Santa Barbara: Wallace Hebberd, 1927. First edition. Hardcover (boards). Very good/good. Borein, Edward. 76p, many ills. by Edward Borein, frontispiece in color. Jacket (with original $2.50 price) is smudged; a few closed tears at the edges. The jacket illustration repeats the frontispiece. Endpapers slightly soiled from handling; boards a little splayed as always due to the binding. Foreword by Owen Wister in a printed facsimile of his handwriting: "This is the best Western story about a horse that I have ever read. . . . There is nothing made up. . . . The horse remains a horse, never becomes half-human with thoughts and emotions no horse could have." A very nice copy of a book that usually hasn't held up well. (Adams, Rampaging Herd 1789).