Messenger The Great Progenitor
New York: Derrydale Press, [1935]. First Edition, No. 20 of 500 copies. This book was copyrighted by the... Read More
Price: $2,000
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Involuntary Thoughts.
London: Thomas M'Lane, Repository of Wit and Humour, 1823. Alken, Henry. First Edition. Tooley cites eight plates, from the British Museum copy, but notes, “M'Lean's advertisement of this work in A Touch at the Fine Arts calls for 6 plates only.” The six plates in this set correspond exactly to... Read More
Price: $1,750
The Horse and the Hound their various uses and treatment, including practical instructions in Horsemanship and Hunting etc. etc. By...
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1848. Third edition. Read More
Price: $300
Powder. The Story of a Colt, A Duchess and the Circus.
New York: Harrison Smith and Rober Haas, [1933]. Printed in France "Achevé d'imprimer le 17 Janvier 1933 par Columna et Mourlot Frères à Paris." "Published simultaneously in Paris by the Domino Press (whose logo is on the back cover) , in England by Faber and Faber, and in the U.S.... Read More
Price: $150
National Velvet.
New York: Morrow, 1935. James, Laurian. First American Edition. Read More
Price: $250
The American Farrier; containing a minute account of the formation of every part of the horse, from the extremity of...
Philadelphia: Uria Hunt, 1832. Second issue, with new wording on verso of title page. Read More
Price: $300
Autograph Letter Signed ("P.T. Barnum"), to C.J. Haines about horses.
Bridgeport, Conn: September 2, 1865. Barnum replies to an inquiry about two horses he'd offered for sale: "I have just returned from a 20 day trip to New Hampshire & find your letter. The horses are both free from ... blemishes [and] imperfections. The dapple black is very handsome– can’t... Read More
Price: $900
From the Library of the Publisher of Natural History of Selborne
The Gentleman's Farriery: or, a Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Horses: wherein ... M. La Fosse's Method of Trepanning...
London: Printed for John Nourse et al, 1770. Seventh edition, revised. From the Library of the Publisher of Natural History of Selborne. Written by a human surgeon, and first published in 1753, this popular work was primarily a compilation of earlier writers. It went into many editions, the first edition... Read More
Price: $1,250
Reprint of Catalogue and Account of Sale and Dispersion of the Nursery Stud. Presented to George W. Bishop [in pen]...
[New York: 1892]. Dates of sale: Oct. 16 and Oct. 17, 1891; sold by Tattersall's, New York. Read More
Price: $300
The History and Art of Horsemanship.
London: Printed for T. Davies...and T. Cadell, 1771. First edition. This work, by the "Gentleman of the Horse to His Majesty", is a compound of Xenophon's Treatise on Horsemanship and Bourgelats' Elements (1750-53); it contains a dissertation on the Ancient Chariot by T. Pownall; physically a very attractive book. Read More
Price: $2,500
Breeding Your Own: How to Raise and Train Colts for pleasure and profit.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. First edition, no. 667 of 1250 copies. Read More
Price: $400
INSCRIBED BY EVC III TO EVC IV
Breeding Your Own: How to Raise and Train Colts for pleasure and profit.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. First edition, no. 1049 of 1250 copies. INSCRIBED BY EVC III TO EVC IV. Inscribed by the publisher on front free endpaper: "To my son Eugene IV from Eugene Connett III." Read More
Price: $600
The Traveller's Pocket-Farrier, or, A Treatise upon the Distempers and Common Incidents happening to Horses on a Journey. with Directions...
np [London?]: `, 1751. Early but 6th or so edition. Henry Bracken (1687-1764) began his practice as a physician and surgeon and, as a horse owner and patron of the turf, turned his hand to veterinary science in an era when most practitioners were abyssmally ignorant. He was among the... Read More
Price: $500
![Paul Brown Master of Equine Art … with a chapter “Paul Brown as a Book Illustrator” by Robin Bledsoe. [Forerward by Nancy Brown Searles]. Paul Brown, M. L. Biscotti.](/pictures/thumb/41528.jpg?v=1459571220)
Paul Brown Master of Equine Art … with a chapter “Paul Brown as a Book Illustrator” by Robin Bledsoe. [Forerward...
Lanham [Maryland] and New York: The Derrydale Press, [2001]. Brown, Paul. One of 25 deluxe copies signed by the author on the title page. Short biography and detailed bibliography of the great equine artist Paul Brown (1893-1958) by noted sporting dealer and bibliographer Duke Biscotti. Read More
Price: $450
Deluxe Issue, with Original Drawing
Aintree. Grand Nationals — Past and Present.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1930. Brown, Paul. Deluxe Issue, no. 17 of 50 copies, signed by Brown on the half-title and with a full page pen-and-ink drawing, signed and dated by Brown. Deluxe Issue, with Original Drawing. The beautiful deluxe issue of this classic of steeplechasing, with the bookplate... Read More
Price: $5,500
WITH PAUL BROWN DRAWING
Aintree. Grand Nationals — Past and Present.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1930. First edition, one of 850 copies. WITH PAUL BROWN DRAWING. "A wonderful book in appearance and content" (Frazier) With drawing of horse's head, signed and dated by Brown. Read More
Price: $750
Paul Brown Collection
[Collection of 11 books, comprising 7 volumes signed or inscribed with original drawings:] Silver Heels (1951); Black Beauty by Anna...
New York: Scribners, etc, v.d. Paul Brown Collection. A substantial and interesting collection of Paul Brown remarques in his books, most drawn for the same young horseman, over a period of years. Great Horse Stories (1946). Remarque of a horse's head and inscription, "For Emma, with lots of luck, Paul, 46" Fire!... Read More
Price: $6,500
Unrecorded Meadow Brook Steeple Chase Etching
Etching: Meadow Brook Steeplechase scene at the Ambrose Clark estate, Broadhollow, Westbury, N.Y.: Four riders coming over the wall, left...
New York: n.d., ca. 1930. One of a very few copies. Unrecorded Meadow Brook Steeple Chase Etching. Dynamic steeplechasing scene by the master, four riders at the main jump of the Meadow Brook Cup (the same jump as in Brown’s rare and celebrated aquatint for the Derrydale Press, 1931). Unrecorded... Read More
Price: $2,500
War Paint, An Indian Pony.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Brown, paul. First edition. With a fine sepia pencil portrait of War Paint's head with feather hanging down and a warm inscription "To Laura Adams [sister of Fredrick B. Adams, Jr.] May you count many co--- Very sincerely Paul Brown '36." Read More
Price: $1,250
In Dust Jacket
The Horse of the Desert. Introduction by Major-General James G. Harbord and Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn.
New York: Derrydale Press, 1929. First Edition, one of 750 copies on Aureian paper. In Dust Jacket. Read More
Price: $1,500
The Horse of the Desert. Introduction by Major-General James G. Harbord and Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn.
New York: Derrydale Press, 1929. First edition, unnumbered copy of the deluxe issue, signed by the author (75 numbered large paper copies printed on Van Gelder Book paper). Read More
Price: $7,500
The Horse of the Desert. Introduction by Major-General James G. Harbord and Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn.
New York: Derrydale Press, 1929. First edition, no. 26 of 75 large paper copies signed by the author. One of the great large-format Derrydale Press titles of the 1920s, and a classic work on the Arabian horse, “the aristocrat of the equestrian world.” A superior copy of the deluxe edition. Read More
Price: $9,000
An Academy for Grown Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions for walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling: WITH; The Annals...
London: Printed by W. Nicholson, Warner Street for W. Bayes, 54, Paternoster Row, 1808. Third Edition. Read More
Price: $750
![An Academy for Grown Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling. By Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. ... the Third edition. [issued with:] The Annals of Horsemanship: Containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments and Experimental Accidents Communicated by Various Correspondents to Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. Henry William Bunbury.](/pictures/thumb/237252.jpg?v=1438724819)
An Academy for Grown Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling. By Geoffrey Gambado...
London: Printed by W. Nicholson, Warner Street for W. Baynes, 54, Paternoster Row, 1808. Third edition. Read More
Price: $750