Atlantic Stampede 1999: Riding into the Millennium Oct. 1-3
Washington DC: The Atlantic States Gay Rodeo Association, 1999. Magazine. 32p., 8.5x11 inches, program for the events, stapled pictorial wraps in very good condition, More
Cat.No: 346190
Horses, equestrian
Catalogue of the Washington County Thoroughbred Stock Breeders Association, 1883. Organized June 16th, 1883. Annual Meeting, Third Tuesday of August.
Washington PA: the Association, 1883. 84p., illustrated with numerous cuts of livestock (many illus. are duplicated generics) and a showy plethora of various fonts ("Jersey cattle! Poland-China swine"), softbound, a 10x6.5 inch sewn textblock in paste-fastened wraps. Covers are dusty and edgeworn with corner-tip losses, top and tail of spine..... More
Cat.No: 242646
Morgan Brothers Whip Manufacturers. Wholesale Saddlery Hardware [sheet of stationery]
Hamilton, Canada: n.d. 8.25x7.25 inch sheet of unused stationery, also known as a billhead, for writing up sales. Design features a whip, and notes that the company was established in 1860. More
Cat.No: 335071
Ninth Annual Exhibition Cowboy Artists of America 1974
Phoenix: Northland Press, 1974. Paperback. unpaginated, illustrated wraps, illustrated with color and b&w reproductions of paintings in the exhibit, trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 44494
The Lights of Cobb and Co. The Story of the Frontier Coaches, 1854-1924.
Adelaide: Rigby Limited, 1967. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries, 228p., illustrated with numerous b&w photos and facsimiles, and half dozen maps and charts. First edition, hardbound in brown papered boards gilt and enclosed in the watercolor-decorated dust jacket. Book itself very slightly edgeworn, dust jacket a little more so, a sound, clean..... More
Cat.No: 296662
Sindhi Tombs and Textiles; The Persistence of Pattern. Foreword by George F. Dales
Albuquerque: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology / University of New Mexico Press. Paperback. xvii, 76p., a particularly absorbing catalog (per one who has catalogued too many catalogs), b&w and color photography throughout, period, contemporary, exhibit and field. The reader will be glad of the double-spread line map, the documentation is of..... More
Cat.No: 236769
La Batalla de Zacatecas. 1914, 1989 75 Aniversario de la Batalla de Zacatecas
Mexico D.F. Gobierno del Estado de Zacatecas, 1989. Hardcover. 160p., plentiful photoillustrations, one or two period photographs on every page, presswork on alkaline matte paperstock, mostly b&w but occasional color, hardbound in 11x8.5 inch purple cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. Item is in general good shape..... More
Cat.No: 289350
Peasant Revolts in China, 1840-1949. Translated by C.A. Curwen
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1973. Paperback. 180p., numerous b&w plates and a number of plates in color, softbound first American edition in 8x5.5 inch color wraps. Half-title bears some old dealer's prices and the ownership of [Gerry] Foley, a Bay Area revolutionary deceased in Zapatista strongholds. Rear cover..... More
Cat.No: 331614
The First Emperor of China - The Greatest Archeological Find of Our Time. Introduction by Mr Yang Chen Ching, Curator of the Museum of Warrior and Horse Figures from the tomb of Ch'in Shih-huang-ti
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981. Hardcover. 208p., heavily illustrated with color and b&w photographs, numerous line-maps, and diagrammatic renderings. The first American edition, hardbound in 10x7.5 inch grey cloth boards gilt and enclosed in an unclipped, as-new dust jacket. An unmolested copy: perfectly sound, clean, and (except for..... More
Cat.No: 335563
The hunting day
[London?]: [The Graphic?], 1886? Four folio sheets in colors, illustrating the title poem, plainly removed from (per a modern handwritten note, on a post-it) the Christmas number of The Graphic for 1886. 16 x 11 inches, with an average eight vignette images per page; color process is unfamiliar to this..... More
Cat.No: 99695
On the Vertebrate Fauna of the Lower Pleistocene Site 'Ubeidiya
Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1969. Pamphlet. 29p. (text & tables) + XIX (plates both diagrammatic and photographic), large sewn pamphlet in plain printed 10.5x7 inch wraps. Cover bears an ownership signature and a few mild smudges, inside find booksellers' marks on first blank, a very good..... More
Cat.No: 229672
Ballsout Trucker
San Diego: Surrey House, 1974. Paperback. 186p., very good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. HIS69108. Despite title it concerns two 20-somethings at a Dude ranch. Reprinted in 1991 as MOA-119. More
Cat.No: 149081
Ballsout Trucker
San Diego: Surrey House, 1974. Paperback. 186p., lightly worn, good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. HIS69108. Despite title it concerns two 20-somethings at a Dude ranch. Reprinted in 1991 as MOA-119. More
Cat.No: 326366
Speaking through my skin; poems
East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1996. 62p., long tls from the African American author requesting a review laid in along with a short author biography, wraps. Winner of the 1996 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. Harvard grad who now works and lives on a horse farm, some of which..... More
Cat.No: 91543
What If You Are a Horse In Human Form?
n.p. Self-published by the author, n.d. Paperback. 49p., softbound in 9x6 inch color-pictorial wraps, front cover and a few adjacent leaves arecurled, else sound, clean and unmarked in any way. Find a description of the title situation-- a notion this cataloguer has never before encountered --that species may differentiate mind..... More
Cat.No: 334345
Peninsula Activities, Review of Progress: Atherton, Woodside, Menlo Park. This is a "Pictorial Review" showing activities and progress of the California cities of Atherton, Woodside, and Menlo Park, suburban communities of the world famous Sunny Peninsula of the San Francisco Bay Region
San Mateo CA: Delores K. Jibby, 1948 X 1949. Spiral_bound. A peculiar book; unpaginated, perhaps two hundred pages, profuse b&w photography (pedestrian, modest reproduction quality), texts rendered from typed ms and holograph headings. Softbound with a wide-diameter wire spiral. Covers are detached (but present) and very ragged along spine fastening..... More
Cat.No: 237607
Wohlerfahrner Pferde-Arzt: Enthaltend Mittel für die Heilung aller bekannten und verschiedenartigen Krankheiten und Seuchen der Pferde, Welche nach einer fünf und zwanzigjährigen Ausübung der Ross-Heilkunst bewährt und untrüglich befunden wurden
Libanon [Lebanon, PA]: Jos. Hartman, 1842. xii, 184 p, 12mo, plain boards with leather spine and corners, mildly worn all round; text in German. Guide to equine medicine for use in the Pennsylvania Dutch communities. More
Cat.No: 267994
Notes on Cavalry Weapons of the American Civil War 1861-1865. This precis, with authentic illustrations and tabular data.. was prepared by Colonel Berkeley R. Lewis, Ordnance Corps, United States Army (Retired), author of "Small Arms and Ammunition in the United States Service." He is also the author of the second precis of this commemorative series, "Notes on Ammunition of the American Civil War," published in December 1959.
Washington DC: The American Ordnance Association, 1961. Pamphlet. 31p., a fine-press treatment on splendid paperstock (staplebound, but so be it), rubricated titlepage, pamphlet format; features seven plates each displaying numerous edged weapons (no lances, sorry), rifles and amazing pistols, some with author's personal experience of handling. A rather pedestrian-looking revolver..... More
Cat.No: 313049
Closet red; a Marxist's adventures inside the ruling class
New York: Waverly Publishers, 1985. Paperback. 187p., wraps, illus., top left corner bumped, else very good condition. Much on his interactions with the Kennedy clan. Bernard had made a then cutting-edge film documentary on studfarm practice, too graphic for general release. Rose Kennedy heard about it and without having grasped..... More
Cat.No: 8113
Donna Long, paintings July 13 - August 12, 2007. Foreward by Eric Nelson
Yountville: Napa Valley Museum, Serge Sorokko Gallery, 2007. 46p., thirty or so fullpage color reproductions on coated paper throughout, front and back covers similarly decorated, 3p. statement by the artist ("In Europe I photographed carriage horses"), 12x9 inch matte blue wraps with glossy color onlay images. A very good copy..... More
Cat.No: 168582
Out of the Gate
Tallahassee: Dreamspinner Press, 2014. Paperback. 250p. + ads, fine first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Romance novel about a British actor who buys a racehorse and gets involved with an ex-actor turned trainer. More
Cat.No: 218614
Flor Nueva de Romances Viejos
Madrid: Coleccion Austral, 2002. Mass Market Paperback. 262p., illustrated with a few b&w period photos and some music notation. Pocket edition, paperbound, paperstock is faintly toned but unmarked and unmarred, no signs of handling. More
Cat.No: 227827
Dreamers, Hustlers, Touts, Sharpies, Greed & the Big Kill: a horse race story
San Francisco: Midnight Special Editions, 1981. Pamphlet. 6p., 4.25x5.5 inches, very good first edition pocket-size chapbook in stapled light blue wraps with thoroughbred race horse images on covers. Short story poem about the poet down on his luck (in other words his usual state of existence) betting it all at..... More
Cat.No: 242810
Schoolboy, Cowboy, Mexican Spy
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. xii+218p., foreword, index, illustrated with plates from photographs, very good first edition in dj. From dj flap text: "The cowboys' skill with half-wild cattle fascinated the schoolboy. He treasured their accounts of guiding Theodore Roosevelt on big-game hunts and of Herbert Hoover seeking gold..... More
Cat.No: 114971
Saving Man Labor in Sugar-beet Fields Issued 1919, revised 1928
Washington DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1928. Pamphlet. 14p., pamphlet fastened with a single staple, 9x6 inches, photo-illustrated with a plethora of b&w photography (most pages feature two photos sandwiched with paragraphs of text). Expect shots of lots of turned soil, a variety of tractors & disks etc., men in..... More
Cat.No: 335728