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

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1950. Second printing (1st pub. 1948). Hardcover. Very good (last page browned, perhaps from a clipping?)/poor. Edwards, Lionel. 145p + 5 pls. by Lionel Edwards, 1 in color. Jacket quite torn. An interesting point of issue is that the jacket was printed on the other side of color proofs illustrating Bible stories--perhaps due to paper shortages in postwar England? (See photo.). K.M. Peyton's brilliant first novel, written was she was 15, about Liza and a powerful grey stallion she finds on the beach. The jacket front flap mentions Peyton's second book, The Mandrake, which was published in 1949. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate. (R.I.P. K.M. Peyton, 1929-2023).

Paris: Villain et Bar [printer], 1928. First edition. Unbound folded sheet. Very good (bottom corners slightly bent). Ca. 7 x 8 inches, folded into 4 pages. Promotional announcement of the delights offered by the spa town of Vichy, France, during the summer season of 1928.  Golf, tennis, swimming, shooting, polo, horse and automobile racing.  Concerts, balls, theater, dance, children's parks, etc.  Schedule of daily luxury trains from London and Paris. With the names of a few select hotels and the pavilions housing the famous curative waters.  A scarce survival. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1954. First edition. Soft cover. Very good. 98p, several ills. Unused bid sheet laid in. Auction catalogue of 477 lots, a few ills. of bindings by Pierre Legrain and P.L. Martin, among others. Rose was an English artist "vigorously championed by Gertrude Stein" (Wiki). Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1955. First edition. Soft cover. Very good. 120p, several ills. Erratum slip laid in. No prices realized. Auction catalogue of 504 lots, "including some of the best work of XIX-XX century French artists, publishers, printers and binders with important Surrealist material." Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Anderson Galleries, 1924. First edition. Soft cover. Fair. 38p, 3 ills. of title pages. Covers worn and soiled; internally clean and complete. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 266 lots: "source books: books by and about Shakespeare, English literature of the Elizabethan period, etchings, engravings, etc. pertinent thereto." One highlighted lot is a group of two "excessively rare" titles by Thomas Shelton on tachy-graphy from the 1640s, which "are among what may be termed the incunabula of shorthand." Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Anderson Galleries, 1928. First edition. Soft cover. Very good (light age soil). 34p, a few line ills. Laid in: Anderson Galleries sale catalogue 2233 offering the "Manuscript Horae together with the only perfect copy in America of Nicolaus de Lyra's 'Postillae super Bibliam' [Strassburg, ca. 1472], the property of Professor Paul Soubeiran de Pierres, Montpellier, France." Auuction catalogue of 100 incunabula assembled by this storied and controversial collector. Fwd. by Otto H.F. Vollbehr. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1964. First edition. Soft cover. Very good. 58p, 3 plates. Unused bid sheet laid in. Auction catalogue of 153 lots: literature, science, music, drawings, incunabula, a letter by Martin Luther, etc. The 3 plates show 12 bindings, including "an outstanding example of the use of the 'drawer-handle' tool so popular in England from the Restoration on." Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: American Art Association, 1936. First edition. Soft cover. Very good (slight age toning). 118p, no ills. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 540 lots: books and manuscripts chiefly of the 18th-20th centuries from America, Britain, and Europe. Lots 154-171 are "beautiful books printed at the Doves Press." Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: American Art Association, 1938. First edition. Soft cover. Very good. 108p, a few line ills. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 608 lots. Besides the Dunbar "Tamarlane," they include "Civil War autographs & letters by Lincoln, Grant, Lee, & others, property of the Estate of John Wanamaker, Philadelphia, Pa.; unusual framed portraits & autographs, property of The Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio; an important letter by George Washington relating to the Blount conspiracy with other unusual letters, property of Charles Francis Jenkins, Germantown, Pa.; valuable documents of the American Revolution; first editions of works by Barrie, Kipling, Shaw, Stevenson, Whitman, & others; first editions by Donne, Pope, Waller & other early poets, property of various owners." Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1938. First edition. Soft cover. Very good (covers chipped, browned). Blake, William. 85p, many ills. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue: 233 lots. For Clemens, they include "manuscripts, autographs, first editions including the manuscript of 'Tom Sawyer' from which the London 1876 edition was printed." Also various "autograph letters, first editions of English and American authors." Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: American Art Association, 1936. First edition. Soft cover. Very good. 2 parts, complete: 132, 121p, a few line ills. Unused bid sheets bound in. Auction catalogues of over 1100 lots: "first editions and autograph letters and manuscripts," including Washington's signed copy of Jeffries on two aeronautical voyages, and an "apparently unique" Walt Whitman broadside, with his autograph corrections. Thomas was secretary and general counsel to Warner Brothers Pictures. Much of his collection is now in Timothy Dwight College at Yale. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Rizzoli, 1989. First edition. Soft cover. Very good (light handling wear). 262p, over 140 ills., chiefly large color pls. Traveling exhibition catalogue; the organizers were especially proud that the show was going to Soviet as well as to Scandinavian museums. Very useful survey, with long artist biographies.

London: Macmillan, 1932. No stated edition. Hardcover. Good (front cover rubbed, scattered foxing to outer pages).. Aldin, Cecil. 93p, many ills. + several color plates by Cecil Aldin. Without the jacket. Pencil gift inscription. Aldin's name is misspelled "Alden" on the cover label. 25 long poems about hunting, hounds and terriers, ploughing, country ways, a huntsman's alphabet, etc. "A Sportman's Prayer" pleads, "Give me a girl who..." can cook and sew, will love my dogs, can ride a horse, sew on my buttons and darn my socks, and more of the same. Somehow overlooked in M.L. Biscotti's bibliography of foxhunting books. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

N.p. [Pennsylvania?], 1820. Unbound sheet. Very good. Large scissor-cut silhouette showing a racehorse and jockey walking over turf marked with hoofprints and tufts of grass. Very good, cut from paper that is blacker than appears in the photo. Scattered foxing overall to backing paper. Matted and shrinkwrapped. Size within mat is ca. 17 x 13 inches. Not examined under the mat. Provenance: Chester County, PA, ca. 1820s-40s (this information provided by the late seller, an expert in the field).  The details of horse and rider are English; since there was little flat racing in Pennsylvania at that date, the image probably comes from a printed source.  Very dramatic and decorative. Shipping/handling will be extra; please keep this in mind when ordering.

London / New York: Studio Vista / Dutton, 1971. First edition. Soft cover. Good (light shelfwear); very sturdy.. 160p, many photos. Index of 500 films, including their production companies, directors, and any variant titles. One in the publishers' pioneering (and now collectible) Pictureback series of inexpensive illustrated surveys of almost everything. SF films from a robot in 1897 and television in 1908, through 2001. Arranged by theme: inventions (the submarine, the ray, etc.), exploration (the alien and the astronaut), and prediction (the time machine, the bomb, etc.). Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

No stated place [Geneva, NY?]: No stated publisher, 1890. First edition. Unbound card. Fair. One card, ca. 5 ½ x 7 inches. Pencil notes on both sides, though not full race results. Creased, worn, edge tears. No loss. Lists 2 trotting races and 1 running race, each with a few local entries. The other side has ads for Geneva businesses--Slocum dry goods, Haight watches and jewelry, and Hallenbeck groceries. No date, but one horse (Billy Burr Blue) is listed as a 2:30 trotter in Wallace's Year Book for 1896. A celebration is announced for Monday, July 5. Pre-Emption Park was also the site of the Union Fair. Not pretty, but how many relics of racing at Pre-Emption Park are out there? 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.

Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2006. First edition. Soft cover. Very good (covers sunned). Eakins, Thomas. 66p, many ills. (bronzes and plaster models). The first exhibition and publication to focus on Eakins's small output of sculpture (figures, horses, anatomical studies). Includes a bronze study of horses for the painting The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Random House, 2003. Special Illustrated Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. 378p, over 100 photos from Seabiscuit's day. Light shelfwear to jacket; bookseller label on back. Handsome large-format gift edition of the bestselling tale of Seabiscuit and the three men with whom he made racing history--rider Red Pollard, trainer Tom Smith, and owner Charles Howard.

Minneapolis: M.W. Savage, 1909. No stated edition. Stapled soft cover flip book. Fair (handling wear). Ca. 50p, many photos. Ca. 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. If you flip the stop-action photos in the booklet one way, you get a "moving picture" of Dan Patch's record-setting mile. On the reverse sides of the pages are more photos, advertisements for Savage's International Stock Food Farm and his other stallions, etc. Dated from the list of colts sired by these stallions through the end of 1909. Dan Patch had been retired from racing by then. There are various editions of this booklet, with different ads and information, but the action photos are the same. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.