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

New York: Whitman Saddle Co, 1885. No stated edition. Soft cover. Good (back cover stained, with various ink names chiefly in the margins; folded down the middle). 43p, many line ills. Ca. 6 x 8 1/2 inches. Trade catalogue with descriptions and prices of many styles of saddles and trees--park, boys', hunting, racing, ladies' (5 pages, all with leaping horn), traveling, army, frontier, vaquero, and "farmers'." Also various horse boots, stirrups, bits, and miscellaneous goods. Very scarce: one copy in WorldCat, giving the printed date as 1885, though this copy is undated. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 218p, 280 photos and line ills. + 30p of color photos. Owner's neat ink stamp on front endpaper. Still the only social and architectural history of American stables, from the everyday to the grandest of the grand. The authors criss-crossed America for their firsthand research. An excellent survey, covering all of the United States and many equestrian disciplines.

Paris: Salet, 1959. First edition. Soft cover. Good (handling wear). 90p, many ills. including a number of bindings. Bookseller catalogue with 273 entries--incunabula and other early works, illustrated books, fine bindings, etc., including history, literature, religious texts, belles lettres, etc. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Routledge, 1994. First edition. Soft cover. Very good (opening upper corners creased, spine faded). 238p, a few ills. and charts. On the use of and attitudes toward animals in Western European medieval society, including "the rediscovery, in the 12th century, of the idea of an animal side to humans that made people start thinking of themselves as animals." Chapters on animals as property, animals as food, animal sexuality, animals as human exemplars, humans as animals, and what is a human? With a table comparing medieval laws regarding animals, and an extensive bibliography. Horses are one of the many animals considered. (In print at $42.95) Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Chicago: Breeder's Gazette, 1917. Photocopy. Loose sheets. Very good (copy is dark but very readable). 22p, no ills. PHOTOCOPY of the long index to people and horses named in the book. It was issued separately from most editions of the book. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate; sent postpaid if ordered with another item.

N.p.: Artist, 1982. First edition. Unbound sheet. Very good. Sanderson, Ruth. Large original woodcut. Numbered (5/200), signed, and dated in pencil. Ca. 10 x 13 1/2 inches. Printed on light-weight paper. A few areas are lightly inked but most are a rich black, which is darker than the photo shows. Light handling wear to paper edges, which a mat would hide. A dramatic print of an alert, high-headed horse framed by trees. Sanderson is well known for her illustrations of many children's classics and fantasy tales, as well as book jackets and covers for them, including the latest Black Stallion and Nancy Drew. Shipping/handling will be extra; please keep this in mind when ordering.

Charleston, SC: [Author], 2013. First edition. Soft cover. Very good. 167p, many ills. by the author and photos. Story of the UConn Morgan horses from the 1930s on, with profiles of the leading sires and much firsthand information about the horses in the breeding and riding programs. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: William H. Schab, 1940. First edition. Soft cover. Very good (slight shelfwear). 54p, several line ills. + several plates. Over 140 entries, indexed. See photo 2 for contents. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Konigstein im Taunus: Karl Robert Langewiesche Nachfolger Hans Koster, 1962. First edition. Soft cover. Very good. 47p, over 100 color ills. On the Curt Tillmann collection of 20th-century German book jackets--Steinlen, Bernhard, Koch, Zapf, Salter, Kredel, Heartfield, Reiner, Piatti, and many more. Includes adult and children's books. Uncommon in the US. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Mount Morris, IL: Brethren's Pub. Co, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Moore, A.F., Jr.. 127p, 28 pls. by A.F. Moore, Jr. (some aftrer photos). Covers shelf-rubbed, edges rubbed; hinges cracked but binding sturdy. A little light marginal staining. On early training, bitting, training to drive and ride, and correcting vices, all based on complicated rope restraints. Also some veterinary advice. Because the author was blind, his knowledge was, "of necessity, . . acquired in the stern school of practical knowledge." Illustrator Moore was based in the nearby town of Polo. Scarce; WorldCat gives only 3 locations. (Wells 6701) Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. [Regional Imprint].

New York: Macmillan, 1968. Stated first edition. Hardcover (pictorial boards). Good (front endpapers torn and rubbed at top; some marginal handling soil). Schick, Eleanor. 30p, many full-page color ills. by the author. No jacket (as issued?). Children's picture book--Jeanie discovers she doesn't know quite as much about riding horses as she thought she did. An unusual topic for this age group, written with insight into a horse-crazy know-it-all.

New York: Justin G. Schiller, 1973. First edition. Soft cover. Very good. N.p., several ills. Catalogue of 1692 books and other works for children, "including original drawings, manuscripts, and related juvenilia." Much information here! Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Hildesheim: Olms Presse, 1982. First edition. Soft cover. Good (covers shelfworn). Variously paged, several ills. In German. In the publisher's series, Documenta Hippologica. Reissues three writings on Goethe as a horseman, each taken from a larger work: "Goethe und die Reitkunst" by Herrmann B. Muller (1921, in fraktur), "Der Reiter" by Carl Diem (1982), and "Wie man Pferd kaufen muss" by Sultan Kabus (1811). Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Washington DC: GPO, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. Fair (shaken, covers worn and rubbed). 75p + many ills. (halftone photos and line cuts after photos) + 2 maps. No jacket, as issued. In 1881-1883 Lieut. Adolphus W. Greely and his men made four ill-fated attempts to set up a meteorological observation station in the Canadian Arctic.  They were tragically stranded over the winter of 1883-84; in June 1884 Commander Schley and his relief party were able to rescue the few survivors and retrieve most of the dead.  This official report documents in great detail the outfitting of the rescue ships, their journey northward, the discovery of the camp, the medical treatment and funeral services given, and the return home.  Of interest here for the many plates, which are clearly based on photographs.  (The list of crew members doesn't name a photographer.)  Most of the plates are line cuts engraved by Moss Engraving Company.  Several, such as "Belles of Upernavik" and some portraits, are halftones of… Read More

New York: Achim Moeller Fine Art, 2005. First edition. Soft cover. Fine. Gojowczyk, Hubertus. 8p + 24 color plates. Gallery press release laid in. Bound in three different sizes of paper. Exhibition catalogue of Gojowcyzk's mixed-media altered books, including a series titled "Wunderkammer / Cabinet of Curiosities.

Dresden: Albertina, 1930. First edition. Soft cover. Fair. 50p + 24 pls. Spine reinforced with tape; lower corner of front cover and opening pages chipped away. Paper age browned; the book has the look of a much earlier publication date. Exhibition catalogue of 206 drawings by Rembrandt and many of his students and followers, compiled from the Albertina's collection. With a Lyonel Feininger association. Inscribed "Fur From [sic] Lyonel Feininger mit herzlichen Grussen und Empfehlungen von [indecipherable]." Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Brussels: Editions de la Connaissance, 1939. First edition. Soft cover. Good (cover wear, outer pages foxed). Le Cobusier, Breuer. 94p + 10p of ads, many photos, plans, and line ills. In the publisher's series Architecture et Technique, but apparently all published. Introduction to the principles of order, economy, proportion, and hygiene in designing and engineering modernist houses and apartment buldings. Works by Bourgeois, Breuer, Le Corbusier, and many others, chiefly French and Belgian. Very scarce: 5 copies in WorldCat, all outside the US. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

London: Batsford, 1947. Second edition (1st pub. 1939). Hardcover. Very good except as noted/good. Cook, Brian. 120p + 115 photos, 1 in color. In the publisher's Face of Britain series with one of Brian Cook's iconic jackets (chipped). Minimally marked library discard: 2 small ink stamps on opening pages, paper shelf label on jacket spine. Chapters on Galloway, the Border, Lothian, the Middle West, Fife, Angus, the Mearns, and the North-East. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Chicago: Sears, Roebuck, 1915. No stated edition. Stapled paperbound. Good. 72 and 80 pages, each with dozens of line ills. including many decorated bindings.  Somewhat externally worn and creased; internally good, clean, complete.  Ca. 9 x 11 1/2 inches. Two catalogues of hundreds of books and magazines for sale by Sears, Roebuck.  One is headed, "Greatest of All Bookstores at Your Service."  Bestsellers, gift books, home study, practical arts, series books for boys and girls, history and current events, etc. etc.; most with short selling copy.  Also scrapbooks, stationery, and related items. Many of the titles are discounted.  One catalogue features a color insert promoting the memorial edition of Ben Hur at 39 cents, reduced from 48 cents and "better than the $1.50 edition."  Laid in one is an unused order sheet.  Both are dated from internal evidence, such as the publication dates of books on World War I. Sold as a group. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

London: Faber and Faber, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/poor. Pollard, James. 118p + 66 color pls. and a portrait of Pollard. Life and work of England's leading 19th-century coaching artist, with illustrations of all his known aquatints. With an introduction, "The Great Age of Coaching," by James Laver.