Point-to-Point by Ivor Herbert - 1964: A Story of Steeplechasing

New York: Charles Scribner, 1936. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Charles Scribner, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Very Good. First Edition in original unclipped jacket. Clean orange cloth boards (very tiny pale white spot near bottom edge of front cover). Black lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight, no cracking; pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. "A" present on copyright page. Illustrated by the author. 312 pages. Dustjacket is not price clipped (2.50 on front inside flap), tiny corner chips, a few faint water marks to corners and top spine edge. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The story of an outlaw rider and an outlaw horse, and how they did each other good..

New York: Random House, 2006. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Random House, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. First Edition, First Printing with all correct first edition points in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean black boards with black cloth spine, bright stamped gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean blank endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 399 pages with index. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Collectible quality first edition..

Little May and Her Friend Conscience. Used. Very Good+ Condition. RARE/SCARCE. ANTIQUARIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK. Thomas Nelson & Sons First Edition, 1876. Color front paper paste-down label is in good shape. Complete. Dark Blue, blind-stamped boards. Pocket-size. 70 pages plus adverts.

Pittsburgh, PA: National Stockman, 1889. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio. 1074 pages, indexed. A large, heavy volume measuring just over 15 inches tall by11 1/2 inches wide. Hardcover bound in 3/4 black leather with dark green marbled paper-covered boards. The binding is worn and scuffed and bumped. There is a horizontal tear in the leather about 5 1/2 inches up from the foot of the spine, and there is a crack in the leather along the front hinge from this split to the foot. The tear appears to be closed or glued, but it is not open. The binding itself is sound, and the text is generally clean. We have found a tear on the fore edge of one page extending a little into the text. Many of the issues have their orange covers (although not especially pictorial). Most of the covers have many advertisements. Most of the issues are not illustrated, although a few do have some an illustration, usually of a farm animal. Weighs just over 10 pounds. Scarce.

Lanham, MD: The Derrydale Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2001. First Trade Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9781586670610 . Tan paper quarter-bound in brown paper. x, 149 pages. Black and white and color photographs, appendices, bibliography, and index. A lovely copy of this definitive study of the life and work of the noted artist with an additional chapter Paul Brown as a Book Illustrator by Robin Bledsoe. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

1930. 8vo size softcover with interior stapled binding and color illustrated covers; 232 pages with numerous vintage advertisements, some with black and white illustrations or photographs. Contents include: Officers, Directors and Executive Committee Judges and Ring Stewards Occupants of Arena Boxes Program (for each day November 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12.) Catalogue of Entries Hackney Horses Hackney Ponies Trotting Horses Heavy Harness Horses Saddle Horses: Three Gaited Saddle Horses: Five Gaited Saddle Ponies Mounted Police Hunters Corinthian Class Jumpers Military Classes Vintage Advertisements (many full page) include: Stadler & Stadler (color) B. Altman & Co. Hermes of Paris Hotel and Restaurant Elysee Seaton Hackney Farm Aquascutum Coats Pierce Arrow Whippy, Steggall Canada Dry F.A.O. Schwarz Purina Mills Emerson's Bromo-Seltzer for Headache Rollston 4-Passenger Victoria Penciled price on cover; edgewear, wear, light soil and several creases to covers, front hinge fragile on the… Read More

EDINBURGH: W H LIZARS, 1841 A very good copy of the 1st edition of Horses (Mammalia Vol XII) from Jardine's Naturalist's Library in the original publisher's cloth binding. With volume listing; black and white frontispiece of Gesner; black and white vignette title page; 2 further title pages; Publisher's advert (noting that this volume was produced 'early' - Marsupials had been due to be the next volume published); Memoir of Gesner; Introduction with black and white illustrations; text including synopsis and memorandum; and 32 plates bound at the rear. Of these 29 are hand coloured - the other 3 are a copy of a bas relief, a skeletal view, and a muscular view. The cloth binding is in very good condition having been expertly rebacked to retain the original spine. The spine and board edges are lightly sunned and there is a small identation on the side edge of the front board. The original green endpapers are present - with repair. There is a decorative bookplate of Francis… Read More

Little May and Her Friend Conscience. Used. Very Good+ Condition. RARE/SCARCE. ANTIQUARIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK. Thomas Nelson & Sons First Edition, 1876. Color front paper paste-down label is in good shape. Complete. Dark Blue, blind-stamped boards. Pocket-size. 70 pages plus adverts.

Krefeld: Richard Obermann, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. xii, 304 p., 22 leaves of illustrations: in-text illustrations (including 2 small tipped-in illustrations); 22 cm. Dark blue cloth with silver stamped spine title and front cover illustration. Illustrated dust jacket, in mylar cover. Includes index and chronology of horses, riders, and riding equipment. Scarce. Book is in Very Good Condition: edges of pages are slightly soiled; internally clean and bright. Dust jacket is in Good+ Condition: several closed tears of 3 cm. or less; creasing at ends of spine; lightly soiled.

London, The Tate Gallery for the Yale Center for British Art, 1981.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (30 x 23 cm.), publisher's gilt-stamped cloth with dust jacket. As new. xvii pp., (1 l.), 427 pp. Over 400 with black and white photos in text, along with 18 color plates. Extensive analytical index. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Describes in excellent detail 470 books and 43 periodicals.***