Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 345 pages. 272 black and white illustrations and frontispiece in color. Folio 14" x 10 1/4". Sturdy blue textured cloth stamped in gilt on spine. 3 Appendices: 1. Intro to English edtion of 1749 Albinus's "Table of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body". 2. text of "The Anatomy of the Horse". Good dust jacket worn at edges, closed tears.
Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1st Thus, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 226 pages. LIMITED EDITION OF 600 COPIES - SIGNED AND HAND NUMBERED BY ILLUSTRATOR LUCY KEMP-WELCH. Illustrated with 30 full color tipped-in plates and many black & white line drawings. Title in gilt on spine and front cover. Front cover features embossed gilt portrait of Black Beauty and Ginger. Light fraying to cloth at top and bottom of spine. Small whitish smudge on back cover. A nice copy.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Frank H. Dunton, 1st, 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth, gilt title on spine faded, unpaginated, floral decorated end papers. Light edgewear, clean tight copy.
Softcover. Greendale WI, Reiman Publications, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 252 pages, an amazing collection of vintage and antique photos of horses in harnesses. Working horses get their respect in this softcover book covering nearly every category of horse drawn carriage, cart, wagon. Logging to fire to coal to breweries. Also includes many images of harnesses, hitching posts, sleighs. Shows men and women who cared for working horses, from farms to cities. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1st, 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright green pebbled cloth stamped with a gilt design of an Arab horseman standing next to his horse, gilt title on spine. Commentaries by The Emir Abd-El-Kader, translated from the French by James Hutton. Clean and bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Orange Judd , reprint, 1865, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 432 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Blind stamp decoration on front cover. Small portion of top dust jacket edge missing. Previous owners stamp on front paste down. Water stain to bottom and fore edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear and a 1" triangular chip to rear panel at top. Color frontispiece, b&w plates, 302 pages. This book reveals the fascinating story of Alois Podhajsky's extraordinary efforts to save the magnificent Lipizzaner horse of the Spanish Riding school during WWII. The book is a testament to one man's devotion to these horses and his willingness to make tremendous sacrifices and exert great effort to preserve the regal bred and an old classical institution along with it.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribners Sons, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Will James. Green cloth covers with some small areas of spotting. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London , Hurst And Blackett , reprint, 1900 , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 424 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Previous owners book plate on front paste down. Foxing to end papers and paste downs. Previous prices written in pencil on front pastedown. Binding lose. All pages clean and legible.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Company, 2nd Pr., 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Full color frontis. Light abrasion to page edges 233-248. Faint circular damp stain on front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, McClure, Phillips & Company, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in red cloth with gilt tiles on front cover and spine, 287 pages. Illustrated in black and white, color frontispiece. Previous owner's inscription on title page. Otherwise clean.
NY, Cowles Book Co., 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Illustrated in 2-colors by Richard Cuffari. The story of the champion race horse Top Gallant. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.