An Academy for Grown Horsemen containing the completest instructions for walking, trotting, cantering, galloping, stumbling and tumbling. Illustrated with copper plates, and adorned with a portrait of the Author [TOGETHER WITH] Annals of Horsemanship by GAMBADO, Geoffrey [ BUNBURY, William Henry] - 1787

London: Methuen & Co., 1905. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Good. Heavily faded at the spine. Pages lightly age-tanned. Previous owners' name to the first blank. . Hardback. Physically 6¾” x 4¼” (0.5 kg); (xvi) 120pp; In the Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain and Coloured Books series; Contains: Colour plates [24]; Colour frontispiece; Title page vignette; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #181690|| Condition:

Methuen and Company, 1905. hardback. very good condition, Nicely rebound in leather  and in a custom slipcase; the spine and some  fading; there is some foxing to the first few pages - no dust jacket - Illustrated with color plates - shipping via USPS.

Mount Vernon, Ny: William Edwin Rudge, 1929. Book. Illus. by Gordon Ross. Very Good. Full-Leather. Signed by the Illustrator. De Luxe edition limited to 100 copies this being number 43 with an illustration signed and hand colored by Gordon Ross.

[New York:: William Edwin Rudge,, 1929].. Facsimile edition; No. 160 of 400 copies (plus 100 special edition).. publisher's boards printed in imitation of leather, in slipcase.. Some very light foxing to the first few and last few leaves; tiny address sticker on front free endpaper; otherwise fine.. Folio,. Illustrated..

New York: Rudge, 1929. Limited. hardcover. very good(+). Illustrated with [facsimile] Copperplates, and Adorned with a Portrait of the Author. 38pp. Thin, small folio, patterned boards; broken cardboard slipcase. (New York: Rudge, 1929). A very good(+) copy in a poor slipcase.<br/><br/> One of 400 numbered copies, printed by William Edwin Rudge, a facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1787, with two additional illustrations by Gordon Ross.<br/><br/>

Mount Vernon, NY: William Edwin Rudge. FINE book, FI slipcase. Owen Culbertson intro, HIS BKPLT 2nd ep.. 1929. facsimile. Hardcover. FINE book, FINE slipcase. Owen Culbertson's copy with his bkplt SIGNED presentation "To Bob Heine from Owen Culbertson". . Bunbury aka Geoffrey Gambado. Facsimile of the London 1787 edition, with the addition of two Gordon Ross plates. #491 of 500 copies. 1-100 a de luxe edition with the Ross plates hand colored. 101-500 have the two Ross plates, but these NOT hand colored. FINE contents but light margin foxing of first & last leaves. This copy with Culbertson's bookplate tipped in. Above that a neatly inked gift note: "To Bob Heine from Owen Culbertson". .

Mount Vernon, NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1929. Facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1787. Hardcover (imitation leather, gilt-stamped). Fine/fine. Bunbury, H.; Ross, Gordon. xx, 38p + 12 pls. by Bunbury and 2 additional pls. by Gordon Ross, 1 in color and signed in pencil. One of 100 deluxe copies (unnumbered; out of series). Presentation copy from artist Owen Culbertson to Churchill Newcomb, 1929. With Culbertson's bookplate. Laid in: 2 handwritten notes from Culbertson to Newcomb, and a typed list of an exhibition of Culbertson's collection of sporting art. In original plain jacket and slipcase. A fine-press reprint of this classic of equestrian humor, with an introduction by Culbertson. Equestrian mishaps and accidents are much the same today, and a close reading also reveals a good deal about British horsemanship of ca. 1800. (For this and other mock horsemanship manuals, see Monica Mattfeld's recent book Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship.) A beautiful… Read More

NY: William Rudge, 1929. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Near Fine. A near fine, reprint, de-luxe edition, #8 of 100 copies, printed by William Rudge with a signed, hand-colored plate by Gordon Ross. Some light foxing in front and rear otherwise as new, brown, full leather, in publisher's wrapper and slipcase covered in same as wrapper. Lovely gift copy.

London: Printed By W Nicholson For W Baynes. Printed by W. Nicholson For for W. Baynes London,1808.The Third Edition.The first title contains 9 engraved sepia plates by William Dickinson after drawings by Bunbury (xxiv) 36 pages.The second title contains some 11 Sepia plates with drawings by Bunbury.again.81 pages,paginated seperately within the One Volume.Several plates have some evidence of previous water staining.The book is bound in contemporary quarter green calf over plain brown paper covered boards. with gilt title lettering to spine.The corners are a little knocked but the binding remains firm with NO hinge weakness,NO loose leaves etc.Light spotting to the pre-lims.Light spotting to plates that are mostly contained within the page margins.The book has NO previous names or inscriptions present.The book has a total of 20 Sepia plates,there would appear to some 9 Sepia plates lacking from this copy,Large folio 13.5'' tall by 10.5'' wide.Uncommon . Good. Hardcover. Third Edition. 1808.

London: W. Nicholson; W. Baynes, 1808. Leather. Very Good. 13" by 10.5". [Henry William Bunbury]. A humorous work poking fun at horsemen, entertainingly illustrated with caricatures by Henry William Bunbury. The third edition of 'An Academy For Grown Horsemen'.Bound by J. Sampson of York.Complete as two works bound in one.Illustrated with a frontispiece to each work, and a total of twenty-four plates, being eight plates plus a frontispiece to 'An Academy For Grown Horsemen', and sixteen plates plus a frontispiece to 'Annals of Horsemanship'.Nine plates have been restored, excised then bound back in reinforced with an additional leaf adhered to the reverse of the plates.Collated, bound without three plates.An entertaining satirical work on horsemanship, enlivened with caricatures. This work departs from the typical use caricatures of political satire of the day, instead using the humour of the drawings to mock society. In particular this volume makes fun of the antics of horseman.Illustrated by the… Read More

Stated First edition Burroughs hardcover, copyright 1946, as shown in scans. Published by Tarzana. Illustrated by John Coleman Burroughs. Dedicated to Brigadier General Kendall J. Fielder. Frontispiece and 4 other illustrations plus all pages without writing or marks. Good binding. Pebbled blue front board has rubbing and wear. Back inside cover has light foxing. Second interior page has a label remnant from original owner. Not ex- library. Please see scans.

Illustrated with pen/ink images Sloane is known for. (2) books,a yellow and an orange (18x12cm) with gilt title on covers and spines. Paper title on dark red slipcase with signature of author. Slipcase has very minor wear to bottom fore edge.

The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.

William R. Gillis. Goldrush Days with Mark Twain (H. Glintenkamp woodcuts). Copyright 1930. Albert & Charles Boni, NY. With an into by Cyril Clemens. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS 6 woodcut illustrations included, Twain frontis (Three old friends), and 5 other historic and realistic woodcut illustrations. MEMOIRS. HISTORY OF NEVADA GOLDRUSH. Summary: Mr. Gillis was a friend of American author/humorist Mark Twain and was with him at Virginia, Nevada in the Goldrush days. In 1859 placer miners in the Great Basin discovered the largest gold and silver strike that had happened in the United States up until that time. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS. Used. Good- Condition. 264 pages. Used. Good condition. First few pages are loose. Frontis is still affixed to binding. Green cloth boards gold titling. No titles left on spine. Spine is sunned.

West Pub. Co, 1981. 2nd. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. John W. Dalton's near definitive textbook of cosmetology. Professional level instruction covering all significant topics for students of cosmetology. Valuable resource for replicating ca. 1970's hairstyles, makeup, etc. A standard in its field. Expanded and revised second edition. 463 pp. 10" x 7 3/8". Tight copy with light rubbing to cover and scattered yellow highlighting. Small corner loss to front blank endpaper. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

Budapest: Corvina, 1989. Gray Buckram Binding w/black and red lettering on spine, Crest on cover. Pictorial Endpapers,w/91 pages of full color photo illustrations from Hungarian National Gallery, National Szechenyl Library and private collections. Includes 2 page Genealogy of the House of Arpad. Book is in As New Condition w/Fine wrap around DJ. Also contains (2)Brochures osThe Danube Bend, Hungary, found in book. **Oversized-extra shipping charges may apply Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Karoly Szelenyi (photos).

Philadelphia: DAVID MCKAY, 1921. Probable 1st edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Poor. Philadelphia: DAVID MCKAY, 1921. Probable 1st edition. Poor. N.C. Wyeth. Front cover has a badly bumped corner, spine is faded and soiled as is the rear cover. Front hinge is torn but cover is still attached, binding is loose. FFEP has some child's writing but otherwise contents are clean and the Wyeth illustrations are clean and bright .

THE PICKWICK PAPERS. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. By Charles Dickens. Dodd, Mead 1935. 637 pages. Illustrated edition. Dark green boards, Gilt decorated spine. Titling still fairy. bright. . Illustrated by C.E. Brock. All colour plates including frontispiece are affixed to binding and are in nice condition. 16 colour plates in all. Used. Good Condition/ No Dj if issued. 637 pages 5 3/4 X 8 1/2. A nice copy. Will ship from Oregon. We consider offers.

032 Mister Rogers' Plan and Play Book: Daily Activities from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for Child Care Providers, Family Communications, Inc. Copyright 1983. 1985 2nd Edition Thus, Spiral bound. Pre-owned unused condition. ISBN 9789995253899 RARE IN THIS 2ND EDITION PRINTING. Large format 9 1/2 X 11 1/8. 333 pages, indexed.

Montgomery, R.A: 1986 Bantam-Skylark: The Owl Tree, Choose Your Own Adventure #36. Softcover. Illustrated by Leslie Morrill. Number line CW 098765432. Used. VG condition. 50 pages. 5 ¼ X 7 5/8. Series. Keywords: Choose Your Own Adventure, Bantam-Skylark, Adventure, Series, Collectible. ISBN9780553154498