Search Results: Titles starting with I from Robin Bledsoe, Bookseller

Manitou Springs, CO: Ute Iron Springs Photo. Gallery, 1900. No stated edition. Unbound. Photo is very good; back of mount is browned and rubbed. Hiestand, J.G.. Mounted original photo (cabinet card), printed in sepia. Mount is ca. 8 x 4 1/2 inches. The caption, hand-lettered within the negative, appears at the lower left. This put-upon and soulful burro is laden with explosives, bottles of rum, a jug, frying pans, shovels, a rope, and more. The same burro shows up in other Hiestand photos and postcards (often misidentified as a mule), but this particular view is uncommon. Hiestand was the official photogapher of the Pikes Peak cog railway, which carried tourists up from Manitou Springs. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Bologna: L. Cappelli, 1925. No stated edition. Soft cover. Good (outer pages lightly foxed). [24]p, 5 lift-up plates. Covers foxed; one gathering detached. Printed on a heavy newsprint-like paper. In Italian. Anatomical guide to the most common visible ailments and defects of the horse. Following the text, 5 color plates show the exterior, skeleton, musculature, circulatory system, and internal organs. The plates are lifted up to expose the different layers, and in plate 5 the internal organs can be lifted up. Numbered legends identify the diferent parts. The plates are very good and intact, which is very unusual for this type of book. Very scarce; WorldCat locates 2 copies, both in Italy. It does not further identify the author. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Bologna: Tipografia Compositori, 1953. First edition. Hardcover (skewed from size but sturdy). Fair. Morris, George Ford; Dickey, Robert. 28p + 72 genealogical tables of leading American and French Standardbred stallions; 5 mounted pls. Skewed; covers rather stained and rippled; some pages damp-stained but overall internally good, clean, and sturdy. Further condition details on request. In Italian. An enormous and sumptuous production, printed by letterpress (partly in red). The first part surveys many foundation sires and their lines. The second part contains detailed 5-generation pedigrees, chiefly of mid-20th-century stallions. These tables are dated 1948 and 1951. The plates are by George Ford Morris (Mambrino King), Robert Dickey (Hambletonian 10), and others. Very scarce; WorldCat locates only 3 copies, all in Italy. Very large and heavy (14 x 19 inches); shipping/handling will be extra. Please keep this in mind when ordering. As is, priced accordingly.

New York: American Art Association, 1916. First edition. Soft cover (stiff wrappers, in rubbed but sturdy slipcase). Good (covers smudged, stray pencil marks throughout). [Ca. 200]p, many ills. From the library of painter Stanley Marc Wright, with his bold ink stamp on both sides of the slipcase. Auction catalogue of 259 American, German, French, Danish, and other European paintings, chiefly late 19th century and contemporary. Sale prices penciled in. Collector and philanthropist Reisinger was the co-founder of Harvard's Busch-Reisinger Museum.

Chicago: Albert Rouiller's Art Galleries, printed by Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelly & Sons, 1913. First edition. Soft cover. Good (covers lightly rubbed, spine lightly chipped). 152p, many ills. Occasional marginal pencil marks. Pricelist of hundreds of etchings by painter-etchers George Charles Aid, George Walter Chandler, Charles W. Dahlgreen, C.K. Gleeson, Lester G. Hornby, Katharine Kimball, Bertha Lum (woodcuts), Donald Shaw McLaughlan (with addenda slip bound in), John Marin, Bror. J. Olsson-Nordfeldt, Joseph Pennell, Otto J. Schneider, J. Andre Smith, Everett L. Warner, Cadwallader Washburn, Herman A. Webster, and Charles Henry White. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

London: Cassell & Co, 1880. No stated edition. Soft cover. Good (cover wear and soil; internally generally very good). 48p, many large line ills., 1 mounted color plate. Bound in at the rear: "A Classified Catalogue of Cassell & Company's Publications" (8 pages). Ca. 9 1/2 x 13 inches. Cassell & Co. was the preeminent Victorian-era publisher of illustrated books and periodicals in all fields--travel, art, literature, sport, natural history, children's works, gift books, religion, etc. It issued multi-volume "Libraries" and diaries for many uses (chapel register, poultry keeping, family washing, etc.). Here is firsthand documentation of how it recorded and advertised this output. Scarce: a few earlier editions are in WorldCat, but not this one.

Portland, ME: James Bailey Company, 1909. No stated edition. Soft cover. Fair (covers loose, first page dampstained red from inside cover). 176p, hundreds of line ills. An interesting assortment of goods from the "largest stock of general saddlery goods in New England." The firm (established 1846) had two shops in Portland, one for saddlery and one for "automobile accessories, bicycles and sundries, motor boat supplies." Here are harness, collars, hames, and related hardware; bits; rosettes (5 pages); bridle fronts; letters and ornaments (2 pages); plumes and tail ties; robes and mats; saddles (2 pages, including a ladies' side and a ladies' astride); whips (3 pages); harness soap, oil, and dressing; stable supplies; carriage heaters, candles, and lamps (1 page); various accessories for curtains, shafts, and whips; bells for shaft, team, saddle, body, and martingale (5 pages); and more. The horse goods take up 136 pages. The last section offers 8 pages of baseball goods (gloves, balls, bats), and… Read More

New York: American Art Association, 1920. First edition. Soft cover. Very good (spine chipped, small slice out of top of front cover). N.p., many plates (fine bindings). Auction catalogue of 175 lots: "the complete writings of distinguished American, English and French authors in finely bound library editions."  Ruppert was a brewing magnate, US Congressman, and owner of the New York Yankees (1915-1939) during their storied heyday.  In 1919 he purchased Babe Ruth's contract from the Boston Red Sox.  Without knowing the details, I wonder if he sold his library the following year in order to concentrate on (and help finance?) his baseball interests.  Ruppert is in baseball's Hall of Fame and the Red Sox Hall of Shame.  Uncommon. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. .

Los Angeles: Balcony Press, 1989. First edition. Paperbound. Very good (spine faded). 92p, ca. 100 color photos. Photos and captions grouped by themes: transition, joinery, Oriental forms, "the theme of three," flowers and trees, doors, fireplaces, and leaded glass. Inspiring details from this California Arts and Crafts landmark (Pasadena). Published at $24.95, with old price sticker on back cover.

New York: Knopf, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Mint in shrinkwrap/mint. Bucher, Emil M.. 204p, ca. 370 ills. (photos by Bucher and other ills.), over 300 in color. Other contributions by Karl Albrecht, et al. Photo is a little cropped and shows reflections from the shrinkwrap. Excellent large history of the Lipizzans at the Spanish Riding School, Piber, and other Lippizan farms "far from Lipizza," including Tempel Farm in Illinois. Still the best book in English; very informative. Large and heavy: shipping/handling may be extra. Please keep this in mind when ordering. Good for a gift!

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Good to very good (outer pages foxed, covers shelf-scuffed, a little splayed due to size). Kemp-Welch, Lucy. 22p + 22 large mounted plates, 4 in color and the rest in grey tones. No jacket (if issued?). The first volume in the publisher's Artists of the Present-Day Series, ed. by W. Shaw Sparrow. This impressive book was published in conjunction with Kemp-Welch's first solo exhibition (she had already shown with others at the Royal Academy and sold a painting to the Tate Gallery, one of its first acquisitions by a woman artist). The subjects are chiefly studies of horse heads, farm animals, and birds. The frontispiece (shown here) is the only color plate with horses. WorldCat locates only a few copies in the US. Very large (ca.12 x 17 inches); shipping/handling will be extra. Please keep this in mind when ordering.

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. Limited edition. Hardcover. As new/as new. 195p, 112 ills., several in color. One of 500 copies. Comprehensive history of the firm, its many printing innovations, and the life and friendships of the man who guided it for decades. (In print at $75.).

Des Moines. IA: Mills Publishing Co, 1892. First edition. Hardcover (original pebbled cloth). Fair (first 4 pages have detached, exposing the inner joint; else sturdy and sound). Over 714p, no ills. "Containing complete alphabetical lists, with condensed pedigrees of all standard stallions, standard mares, geldings, and non-standard animals, with an appendix containing a numerical list of standard stallions; the trotting rules and regulations; the registration rules and regulations, etc., etc." A handy way to quickly look up horses listed in the first 10 volumes of the register, 1880s-90s. Heavy; shipping/handling may be extra. Please keep this in mind when ordering.

New York: Graphis, 1997. No stated edition. Soft cover in self wrappers. Very good. 240p, hundreds of photos, charts, diagrams, and other ills., almost all in color. Photo is cropped on the right. "This is a book about everything. Using over 100 examples of information design, the book reveals the heart of a good [visual] explanation"--from the foreword by Peter Bradford. A cornucopia of designs for all kinds of information--maps, museum displays, statistics, transportation networks, weather, systems, astronomy, textbooks, "how an aircraft carrier works," etc. etc. Examples by many leading illustrators and designers, who explain how they arrived at their design solutions. Includes Wurman, Bradford, Muriel Cooper, David Macaulay, Alexander Tsiaras, and more. Heavy; shipping/handling may be extra. Please keep this in mind when ordering.

Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1996. First edition. Soft cover. Very good (fore-edges shelf soiled)/good. 262p, over 120 ills., some in color. Jacket soiled, wrinkled. Catalogue accompanying a major exhibition, which sought "to explore the anatomists' curiosity about the structures and functions of the body, and the artists' equally passionate search for ways to represent it." Texts by Cazort, Monique Kornell, and K.B. Roberts on "The Theatre of the Body," anatomy books for artists, and "The Contexts of Anatomical Illustrations." Detailed cataogue entries. Heavy; shipping/handling may be extra. Please keep this in mind when ordering.

New York: American Art Association, 1920. First edition. Soft cover. Internally very good; covers smudged. N.p., several plates. Auction catalogue of 132 lots, held on February 17, 1920; unpriced. Books, manuscripts, and association copies by or relating to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Byron, Clemens, Dickens, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lowell, Swift, Thoreau, etc. Foley was a longtime Boston bookseller, here perhaps acting as a middleman for various book scouts and other dealers. Fabayan was a Boston business and civic leader. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Clitheroe, England: Sold by H. Whalley, printed at the "Advertiser" Office, 1820. No stated edition. Soft cover. Very good. 8p, 1 line ill. on cover. Subttitle continues, "which was honoured with the presence of the Duke of Norfolk and his noble brothers, and his kinsman--Talbot; [etc.]." A 24-stanza poem recounting a memorable stag hunt in northern England, including the names of various hunters and their attendants, horses, and hounds. Very scarce: not in Biscotti, WorldCat, the British Library, or any other source consulted. The printer was active ca. 1826-1841. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: United States Polo Association, 1927. First edition. Soft cover. Covers chipped, edges worn; internally very good. Brown, Paul. 120p, many photos, line ills., and ads (a few in color). Large souvenir program for the famous 1927 America-England match. Includes articles about the game and its history (including polo in contemporary India), large photos of all the British and American players, details of the ponies in both strings, a 2-page spread of of sketches by Paul Brown illustrating "The Galloping Game," and many ads for luxury goods such as hotels, furs, automobiles, riding equipment, etc. C.W. Post advertises that they will auction most of the British ponies and all their gear after the tournament. The English team was made up of players and ponies on the Army of India team, sponsored by various maharajahs. The American starting team of Webb, Hitchcock, Stevenson, and Milburn was called by Newell Bent "one of our greatest, if not our very greatest, polo team." Shipping/handling will… Read More

London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1986. First edition. Stapled soft cover. Very good. 23p, several ills. Surveys the printing, binding, authors, artists, etc., of this fine press run by ballet historian Cyril Beaumont and his wife, Anna, from 1917 to 1931. Chiefly literature. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 226p, a few maps. No jacket, as issued? An "interpretative study" rather than a detailed history. Covers early settlement on the prairie, changes during and after the Civil War, transition to the corn belt ecoomy, "the new agriculture," "food wins the war," etc. Only passing references to horses.