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

Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1978. First edition. Soft cover. Very good (covers lightly age yellowed). 208p, over 200 ills. of over 200 thoroughly described works. Compiled with the assistance of advanced graduate students at Yale and elsewhere; the first in a projected series of three catalogues of the Wadsworth Atheneum's European paintings. Classically designed by Nathan Garland, printed by Meriden Gravure.

Big Sandy, TX: Stewart Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. 352p, many photos (chiefly of personalities). Signed by the author's wife, Clyda Mae Laster. Jacket rubbed, spine faded. Memoirs of a lifelong showman--the vaudeville, circus, and riverboat shows he performed in or owned for six decades, from the 19-teens on. Very little about horses.

South Bend, IN: Studebaker Brothers, 1892. First edition. Soft cover. Very good. Title page reads: General Catalogue and Illustrated Hand Book of Carriages, Buggies, Wagons, Etc. 128p, dozens of line ills. of the firm's vehicles. Very good paperbound, with a small hole and string for hanging up. Ink stamp of former owner on cover: James Reynolds Elevator Co., Poughkeepsie. Errata and Addenda sheet tipped in at front. Small but mighty catalogue showcasing Studebaker vehicles, issued for the Chicago World's Fair. One vehicle per page, usually with description and specifications. A really nice copy of this scarce catalogue. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1951. First edition. Hardcover (patterned boards). Very good/fair. Bileck, Marvin. 176p, several line ills. by Marvin Bileck.   Review copy slip tipped onto front endpaper: "Advance Copy from Harcourt, Brace and Company.  Please note the release date for review and the price.  Oct 29 1951.  $3.00."  Signed by Kazin in 1984; flyer for the signing occasion laid in.  Jacket is browned, a little chipped, old insect damage along spine. Classic, lyrical account of a young man coming of age in the 1930s and exploring first his home ground of Brownsville, Brooklyn, and then "the vast, alluring 'beyond' that encompasses all the partly seen, ardently guessed at, life that is not Brownsville . . . . This is the story of a soul awakening to the ecstasy of the senses, the power of language, and the meaning of existence" (flap copy).  Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Goshen, NY: American Trotting Register Association, 1930. First edition. Hardcover (leather). Very good (gilt spine titles partly worn away, spines rubbed). Part 1: 520p. Part 2: 310p. Bound at the end of Part 2 is Volume 26 of Wallace's American Trotting Register (1930) 104p. No ills. No jacket, as issued. Part 1 of the Year Book includes race summaries and an index of racers in 1929. Part 2 lists standard, 2.05, and 2.10 horses and their pedigrees and dams, and other statistics. Vol. 26 of the Register is an index of standard trotting and pacing stallions and mares, non-standard horses, and an index of breeders and owners (including 1929 foals). Sold as a set. The photo shows one of the volumes. (Wells 7771).

N.p. [North Brookfield, MA]: Boston Public Library, 1996. Limited edition (1 of 600 copies). Unbound sheet. Fine (trivial handling traces). In honor of David McCord on his ninety-ninth birthday, November 15, 1996, the Boston Public Library reprints as a broadside his poem from One at a Time, published by Little, Brown. Six hundred copies have been printed letterpress on Strathmore paper at The Sun Hill Press." Ca. 7 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. Photo is cropped top and bottom. A lyrical 4-stanza poem, in which "a boy on the verge of flight" swings high over a valley, "With the wonder of all of it more or less | In the last hello and the first goodbye. | And a swing in the walnut tree is why." Shipping/handling may be extra; please keep this in mind when ordering.

Unpublished, 1963. Various bindings and loose sheets. Good. Three-ring binder, notebooks, loose sheets, etc. Mostly handwritten in mostly the same hand, a few typed. The activities of the Washington Squires Polo Club (a youth club) are only one of the topics here. Photo of cover is cropped. Appealing documentation of a child's obsession and involvement with horses for several years. Lists of horses and riders s/he knew; games at polo club and school; compositions about horses; records of wages earned for helping at the barn; lists of horse books; poems; information about horses; and much more. A few sheets were evidently typed by an adult, such as a long account of "The Joint Hunt with Blue Ridge in Virginia Saturday Dec. 5, 1959" and "One Hundred and One Horsey Happenings," e.g. "Baby Doll pulled the line down," "Slightly plastered man rode Sheila," and "Arnold makes seven goals in one game." Lots and lots of names here--someone could have fun identifying the youngsters and seeing what became of… Read More

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1959. No stated edition. Hardcover. Good/fair. Ed. by Phyllis Rosenteur. 204p, no ills. Line on copyright page reads 94611. With ink stamp, "From The Library of Earl Wilson The New York Post." Jacket torn, as shown. Breezy memoir, full of inspirational life lessons learned by the singer/comedian during his long career.

Boston: New England School of Art & Design, 2001. First edition. Soft cover. Fine. Andersen, Wayne. 16p, 14 ills. + cover, most in color. Invitation to opening and post-opening party laid in. Catalogue of 30 paintings, some with Andersen's comments. Also a one-page memoir, touching on his varied career as "public intellectual," art historian, museum curator, founder of an international design firm, breeder of champion Arabian horses, and of course painter.

Helsinki: Museum of Art and Design, 1999. First edition. Soft cover. Very good (covers lightly smudged). Higby, Wayne. 54p, many large color ills. In English. Exhibition of 15 works embodying "memory-traces" of canyons, rocks, the sea, etc. Short artist's statement. Long bibliography and biography by Helen W. Drutt English (who lent the works) and Huron Lou. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Rahway, NJ [and] New York: Privately printed "for friends to whom hunting, hounds and horses are what they are to us, 1927. First editions. Hardcover (boards, cloth spines). Fine/very good. 158 and 204p, no ills. Subtitled A First Venture with Irish Banks and English Downs and A Further Venture with British Hounds. Each in original glassine jacket (some tears) and box. Presentation copies from the author to Diana Bolling, Christmas 1936. Two-volume set. In the first volume Lanier recalls hunting with the Duhallow, Cattistock, and several other Irish and English hunts, plus attending the Grand National Steeplechase. The second volume treats hunting with the Cotswold, Mr. Milne's Hounds in Dorset, the Melton Mowbray, the Quorn, etc. Each volume was printed in a small edition, and they are extremely scarce in this fine condition, complete with jackets and boxes.

Boston: Charles A. Stone, 1913. Limited edition, privately printed. Hardcover (boards). Good (covers stained, scraped; internally very good to fine). 52p + reproductions of 26 photos. No jacket (if issued?). Printed in letterpress on deckled paper by the Pinkham Press, Boston; title page partly in red. Presentation copy from Stone to one Nathaniel Bowditch (a descendant of the famous navigator?), 1913. Laid in: judge's red ribbon, 1915 Chestnut Hill Horse Show. Charles Augustus Stone was a Welsh Pony enthusiast whose cousin, the sculptor Anne Whitney, was a friend of Dargan's. On Stone's behalf she asked Dargan, then traveling in Britain, to learn about the breed, observe it, and write back to Stone. These two lyrical and informative letters on the heritage and qualities of the ponies are based on her visits to Longmynd and other farms. Dargan was a poet and novelist best known for her nature writing. A lovely little book, which Stone gave out to friends and acquaintances. (Wells 1770) Can be sent… Read More

Stuttgart: Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, 1992. First edition. Soft cover. Very good (covers shelfsoiled, small private library number on spine).. 190p, many color ills. Color-packed survey of advertising posters made for the German savings bank, from the late 1920s through 1992, along with historical texts. Many well-known artists, and a wide variety of styles, are here. The title, "He who doesn't honor a penny," has the meaning of "A penny saved is a penny earned." Published in connection with an exhibition at the Deutsche Plakat Museum, Essen. From Milton Glaser's library, with a letter to him from the Deutscher Sparkassenverlag laid in. Large; shipping/handling will be extra. Please keep this in mind when ordering. A surprisingly uncommon title.

Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1979. First edition. Soft cover. Very good (lightly shelf smudged). 44p, many ills., many in color. Texts in English and Dutch. Presents works by Voulkos, Arneson, Gilhooly, Nagle, Price, Shaw, Notkin, and Brady in the Stedelijk collection, with a text on each. Most of the artists were then working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Los Angeles: UCLA Library, 1967. First edition. Soft cover. Very good (spine faded). 20p, several ills. Annotated checklist of books, magazines, and a few objects in this exhibition of a "sampling of the works that lie somewhere in the spectrum between fact and myth." Works by Andy Adams, Henry Allen, "Max Brand," Zane Grey, William S. Hart, Tom Lea, Clarence E. Mulford (creator of Hopalong Cassidy), Frederic Remington, Owen Wister, and more. Includes much fiction. Issued as a keepsake for Friends of the UCLA Library, with presentation slip laid in. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Colorado Springs: The Western Horseman, 1962. First edition. Soft cover. Good (light handling wear and cover soil; old address labels neatly cut off). Full year (12 issues). Variously paged (ca. 100p each), hundreds of photos and ads. Clean, complete. Lots of good old-time reading and history here! Articles by Randy Steffen (2-part article on the Civil War soldier, hints), Bob Denhardt, Anthony Amaral, Fred Harvey, etc. Feature articles on many subjects--Kellogg Ranch Arabian-Shetland crosses, "Girl Race Horse Trainer" (Norma Krahling), "Way of a Pony Girl" (Janie Thomas), 101 Wild West Show on Coney Island, Rosa Bonheur and Buffalo Bill, the Mexican cavalry (2-part article), Abbot-Downing stagecoaches (3-part article), Mister Ed, Zanaton ("Mexico's Man o' War," sired by Little Joe), photos of rodeo champions 1929-61, bronze equestrian statues, Mongolian cowboys, the first Appaloosa World Wide Futurity, swimming your horse, leather artist Al Stohlman, etc., plus the regular articles on training,… Read More

Colorado Springs: The Western Horseman, 1959. First edition. Soft cover. Good (light handling wear and cover soil; old address labels entirely or partly removed). Full year (12 issues) of "the magazine for admirers of stock horses." Variously paged (ca. 100p each), hundreds of photos and ads. Clean, complete. Lots of good old-time reading and history here! Articles by Randy Steffen (hints, part of the Horsemen through Civilization series), Bob Denhardt, Bob Gray, etc. Feature articles on many subjects--ongoing series on TV and film horsemen, modern chariot racing, Culver Military Academy, Pabst carriage and vehicle collection, pinto coloration, Porters saddlery, ranching in Hawaii, California's 3000-mile riding/hiking loop, Montana-bred Spokane's 1889 Kentucky Derby win, still-living oldtime cowhands and rodeo riders (Ben Bird, Billy McGinty, Fanny Sperry Steele), etc., plus the regular articles on training, riding, breeds, letters to the editor, rodeo and club news, vet's corner, October All-Breed… Read More

Colorado Springs: Western Horseman, 1953. First edition. Soft cover. Very good (average light handling wear and age soil); clean, complete.. Issues for January through September. Each 48 to 64p, many photos and ads. "The magazine for admirers of stock horses," full of old-time information and photos. Articles by Francis Haines, Bob Sutherland, Willard H. Porter, Lee M. Rice, John Richard Young on "head-tossers and rearers," Nelson C. Nye, Robert M. Denhardt, Frank Tallmadge Phelps on foundation Thoroughbred sires, Randy Steffen on light breed characteristics, and many more. Articles on the stallion as a stock horse, training the short-horse, Chief Joseph's war horse, Arab blood in the cow horse, the Girls Rodeo Association, artist Ross Santee, etc. Also letters from readers,"Just Whittlin'," Junior Horseman, Vet's Corner, rodeo and show news, and other regular features. Many ads for saddles and other gear, stallions at stud, etc. Sold as a group. Shipping/handling will be extra; please keep this in… Read More

No place: Unpublished, n.d. [19th century?]. Unbound sheet. Good+ (smudged, old fold creases). One leaf, folded once to make four panels.  On the first panel is a hand-colored woodcut or wood engraving of two mules in conversation.  Beneath them is the verse headed When Shall We Three Meet Again? The other three panels are blank.  Folded, 7 x 10 inches. . I have no idea why, by whom, or for whom, this piece of friendship humor was made. Probably a piece of amateur printing. The verse reads, "When shall we three meet again?" | You cry, my long-eared dears; | When girls prove mules to meet such men, |They must be muly tears (muleteers)." Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Walsall, England: No stated publisher, 1940. No stated edition. Soft cover. Fair. Ca. 24p, many photos. Fastened with brads in paper covers. Old dampstaining to bottom margins throughout, and with a very faint musty smell. Priced accordingly. Catalogue of riding, racing, hunting crops and thongs; whips for trotting, dressage, polo, and dog; and riding canes. No driving whips. Makes a point of the new "fibroflex" fiberglass whips. Photos and short descriptions of all the whips. The firm was long established in Walsall, which is still home to many saddlemakers and other manufacturers of horse goods. Mimeographed pricelist stapled in. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.