Horses from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Cincinnati, Ohio: The Eagle Carriage Co., no date (ca. 1914). Oblong octavo (6" x 8.5"), 56 pages plus covers, profusely illustrated. Publisher's pictorial stapled stiff paper wraps, the upper in color. Price list & separate correction slip laid in. This nor any other from this company found in OCLC as of 4/14/2024. Lightly soiled, brief edge wear, otherwise very good or… Read more about this item

Boston: Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1872. First edition. Duodecimo (7.5" x 5.5"), 8 pages. Publisher's pictorial paper wraps, sewn. OCLC locates 8 copies under 2 accession numbers as of 4/7/2024. Lightly toned & soiled, trace edge wear, otherwise very good. "To awaken attention to the improper use of check-reins, we wish to give a wide circulation to… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Verlag von J.J. Weber, 1892. Sextodecimo (6.75" x 5"), XIV, 291, & [1] pages plus two double page plates, with 71 illustrations in text. Publisher's very elaborate brown pictorial cloth lettered in gilt & black. Text in German, edges of the text block stained red. Light edge wear & rubbing, brief archival tissue reinforcement at the verso of the first… Read more about this item

Syracuse, New York: T.H. Appleby MFG. Co., no date (ca. 1890). Chromolithograph trade card on light card stock measuring approximately 5.25 inches by 4 inches, rubber-stamped on the verso, "Leslie A. Appleby, Seedman and Florist, Syracuse, N.Y.," otherwise blank. An applied printed paper label at the bottom left of the front apparently corrects an old address. Top corners creased, light edge… Read more about this item

Richmond, Virginia: Benj. T. Crump Company, Inc., no date [1933]. Quarto (11" x 8.5"), 72 pages, illustrated throughout (some in color). Original stapled, pictorial light card covers. Price list dated 1933 laid-in. Slight edge wear, light soiling, sporadic foxing/ handling marks within, otherwise Very Good. Mostly relative to horses, the catalog describes & illustrates the company's line of bits, whips, saddles, harnesses,… Read more about this item

[Warrenton, Virginia]: Piedmont Press, (1993). First edition, this copy inscribed & signed in ink by Evans & Gott at the title page. 4to (11.25" x 9"), v, 107 & [1] pages, with folding map laid in & illustrations from photographs & art work throughout. Publisher's gilt-lettered tan cloth in pictorial dust jacket featuring art by Catherine Stettinlus Zimmerman. Covers slightly splayed,… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1892). Second edition. Tall octavo (9.5" by 6.5"), xxviii & 916 pages including illustrations plates, & diagrams. Publisher's olive cloth lettered in black. Small split at the lower joint, stain on back cover, edges & extremities lightly rubbed, previous owner's name in ink at first blank page, otherwise very good. "No pains have been spared to… Read more about this item

Bowie, Maryland: Bowie Heritage Committee, (1984). First edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"), 135, ii, & 178 pages plus 7 unnumbered pages of plates Publisher's gilt-lettered green cloth. Lightly rubbed, slightly soiled, sporadic minor foxing, previous owner's name in ink at first blank page, otherwise Very Good. Built in 1745 in Bowie, Belair Mansion was the home… Read more about this item

Odessa, Texas: The Rahtbooks Company (1964). "Edition DeLuxe," this copy with generic presentation signed by the author at a tipped in leaf adjacent to the front pastedown. 8vo, xv & 208 pp, with frontis from photograph & 16 unnumbered pages of illustrations. Publisher's gilt lettered blue cloth, in pictorial dust jacket One corner bruised, previous owner's name, place & historic price… Read more about this item

Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), May 31, 1862. Original manuscript document signed by S.G. Perkins, Captain 1st Vermont Cavalry, measuring 4.25 inches by 7.75 inches, approximately 67 words recorded in ink on laid paper. With brief cryptic annotations & stamped "Received" mark on the verso. "Rec'd at Martinsburg, Va. May 31, 1862 of John Miller one gray mare five years old… Read more about this item

Taunton, [England]: Barnicott and Pearce, The Wessex Press, 1920. First edition. 12mo, x & 50 pages plus 12 full page illustrations from photographs. Publisher's pictorial paper wraps. Covers browned & soiled, moderate edge wear including a corner crease & small losses, otherwise Good. "The present little work is meant to be helpful to visitors - particularly the footers - sho… Read more about this item

New York: Privately printed by the Derrydale Press, 1927. Complete in 7 variously paginated & profusely illustrated tall octavo volumes. Limited edition, an assembled set, volume one number 440 of 500, the others number 435. Original green cloth with pairs of gilt-lettered black leather spine labels on each volume, the upper covers with armorial crests in gilt. Volume one with… Read more about this item

Buenos Aires: Casa Pardo, (1968) First edition, this copy with presentation in ink to Arthur E Khoui (?) by Jorge L Quiroga, Oscar Roldan, & others at a blank page adjacent to the half-title. Large quarto, unpaginated [256 pp], illustrated throughout mostly from photographs (some in color). This copy bound in cowhide edged in polished black calf simulating lacing, with… Read more about this item

New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1941. First edition. 4to (10.5" x 7.75"), unpaginated [40 pages]. Publisher's rust cloth lettered & decorated in black in pictorial dust jacket. Slight sunning in the margins, edges lightly rubbed, otherwise Very Good in dust jacket with edge wear (including small losses & tears), rubbed & lightly foxed, still Good or better. "When Rory O'Mory… Read more about this item