Thoroughbreds I Have Known. With foreword by Whitney...
South Brunswick and New York: A.S. Barnes, 1973. Reeves, Richard Stone. Unnumbered copy from a deluxe issue of... Read More
Price: $1,000
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![Reprint of Catalogue and Account of Sale and Dispersion of the Nursery Stud. Presented to George W. Bishop [in pen] with the Compliments of the Owner's Sons Perry Belmont, August Belmont, Oliver H.P. Belmont. August Belmont.](/images/noimage.png)
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 Thunderer. By “M.B.”.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1933. First Edition, one of 950 copies. Read More
Price: $150
Pioneer of Sporting Journalism
Life of William T. Porter.
New York: D. Appleton, 1860. First edition. Pioneer of Sporting Journalism. The biography of Porter, who in 1831 founded the American sporting periodical 'spirit of the Times," and served as its editor from 1835 to 1850. He also edited the American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine from 1840-1844, and the... Read More
Price: $750
Pioneer of American Sporting Journalism
Life of William T. Porter.
New York: D. Appleton, 1860. Pioneer of American Sporting Journalism. The biography of Porter, who in 1831 founded the American sporting periodical "Spirit of the Times," and served as its editor from 1835 to 1850. He also edited the American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine from 1840-1844, and the annual... Read More
Price: $350
CONNETT’S COPY
Life of William T. Porter.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. First Edition. CONNETT’S COPY. The biography of Porter, who in 1831 founded the American sporting periodical “Spirit of the Times,” and served as its editor from 1835 to 1850. He also edited the American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine from 1840-1844, and the... Read More
Price: $800
Original Paul Brown Drawing
Original drawing of a harness-racing scene.
n.p: 1939. Original Paul Brown Drawing. In one corner of the backing sheet is lightly pencilled in an unknown hand, “Almost identical The Good Luck Colt p. 184 by G.T. Eames 1953”. Read More
Price: $1,000
Aintree. Grand Nationals — Past and Present.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1930. Brown, Paul. First edition. Read More
Price: $200
The Water Jump in the Grand National of 1931 at Aintree. Title in Brown's hand in plate "The Water-Aintree, 1931."...
New York: Polo Magazine, 1931. First edition, edition size unknown. Brown did three prints for Polo Magazine from 1931 through 1933, each representing Aintree. Read More
Price: $400
GRAND NATIONAL
An attractive pastel “'Over the water' - Liverpool Grand National”, signed and titled by the artist.
[England]: Ca. 1920. C. Crosley. GRAND NATIONAL. A spirited, somewhat stylized, picture of two horses, jockeys up, taking the water jump at Aintree, with a suggestion of landscape in the background. We have not been able to trace this artist, but he was almost certainly a professional, drawing with a.... Read More
Price: $400
Fine pastel and pencil of a Horse's Head between a horse shoe with crop and cap beneath.
[England: Ca. 1920]. C. Crosley. Read More
Price: $250
The Curragh Race Course, County Kildare, Ireland, showing 8 horses reaching the finish line with party of revellers in the foreground.
New York: Published by Farrell & Co. 37 Spring St. NY, 1867. Peters, America on Stone "...is one of the crudest lithographs. I almost considered putting it as an example of the type to be avoided..." The Curragh Racecourse in Kildare is the head quarters of horse racing in Ireland since... Read More
Price: $850
Hand-colored engraved caricature: “A Hero of the Turf & his Agent”.
[London]: “Drawn, Etched & Pub. by R. Dighton”, 1806. Francis Buckle (1766-1832) is one of racing's most famous jockeys, with nine Oaks victories and twenty-seven Classic wins; he rode his first race at seventeen, and his last at the age of 65. He raced for several owners, including Colonel Mellish. Robert... Read More
Price: $150
Hand-colored engraved caricature: “A View near Hyde Park Corner.” Depicting the famous equestrian auctioneer, Richard Tattersall.
Charg. Cross, [London]: “Published by Dighton”, Feb., 1802. In 1766, Richard Tattersall (1724-1795), who had been stud groom to the second duke of Kingston, founded the world’s first bloodstock auction house. Read More
Price: $600
The Ballad of Myra Gray and Other Sporting Verses. By “Somerset”.
New York: Privately Printed [at The Printing House of William Edwin Rudge], 1927. First edition. Number 158 of 250 numbered copies. With 4 poems on Salmon fishing on the Restigouche This copy is inscribed "To Winsor White M.F.H. a real horseman and a lover of horses from Arthur A. Fowler." With... Read More
Price: $200
Game: "Racing Game" in black cloth covered wooden box with red label on lid stamped in gold showing 2 horses...
np: nd. c. 1890. Read More
Price: $450
Game: "Jeu de Course" in original black wooden box with metal spring loaded handle. 6 Horses (one missing) on circular...
(Paris): M.J. & Cie, c. 1875. Read More
Price: $900
The General Stud Book, containing Pedigrees of Race Horses &c. &c. from the Earliest Accounts to the Year 1807, inclusive...
London: Printed for James Weatherby … by C.H. Reynell … Golden-square, 1820. Second Edition. Early re-issue of the first volume of this long running British racing stud book. Read More
Price: $200
Fine Large Hand-Colored Racing Engraving After J.F. Herring
Hand colored engraving after Herring: Racing, Plate 3: "The Run In", No. 9 of Fores' National Sports Series.
London: Messers. Fores, 1857. Fine Large Hand-Colored Racing Engraving After J.F. Herring. J. Harris engraved a number of prints after Herring; Siltzer does not mention his collaborators on this one. Siltzer records the print as "Published Sept. 1, 1856" but "The Run In" is dated May 19, 1857. With the... Read More
Price: $1,500
Racing in America 1665-1979.
New York: Privately Printed for The Jockey Club, 1922-1980. First editions. A cornerstone of any racing library, including the now very difficult to find Vosburgh volume, and the final volume in the series by William H. Rudy. Read More
Price: $2,750
Blooded Horses of Colonial Days. Classic Horse Matches in America before the Revolution.
Baltimore: Published by Author, Printed by Kohn & Pollock, Inc, 1922. First edition. Fascinating account of racing including information on owners, tracks, bloodlines and racing accomplishments prior to the American Revolution. Read More
Price: $175
American Race Horses. An Annual Review of the Breeding and the Performances of the Outstanding Thoroughbreds of the Year Engaged...
New York: Sagamore Press, 1937-1946. First edition. Read More
Price: $250