Gift quality glossy hardcover with lightly bumped tips. Cover features a sepia-tone 1916 illustration by George Ford Morris of a handler riding one belgian while leading another in a stable courtyard with other horses and a colt milling around. 208 glossy crisp unmarked pages within, profusely illustrated in color and b/w. Includes all goings on for the 2016 year including: Board Meeting Minutes/ Fee Schedule, Financial Statement & Education Fund Report/ 2016 Belgian Expo/ Merit Program/ Youth Ambassadors/ Breeder's Showcase/ Coloring Contest Results/ Member Deaths/ New Members/ Sal... View More...
First edition hardcover 1976 in black cloth covered boards with bumped spine ends and sharp tips. 4 former owner's personal 'property of' stamps, one one each endpaper, and one on two sides of the page block. It is not a former public library copy, the profusely illustrated 844pp text has light foxing on preliminaries and pastedowns, else is crisp and unmarked. Un-clipped original dust wrapper displays well in new mylar. The ultimate Shire bible. View More...
Gorgeous book of b/w & color art depicting English Shire horses at work and rest in many different backgrounds. 144 pp. Perfect coffee table gift book with square tips and spine ends. Only flaw is a price clipped dj which is well protected in new mylar. Negligible finger soil on blank fep, no names, or tears anywhere. Chapters include: George Soper/ The Horses/ The Horsemen/ Ploughing/ Harrow to Harvest/ Farewell. View More...
Tall paperback in color illustrated card covers with light color loss and bit of curl at very tips. Book is SIGNED/DATED by author on Fep. 176 pp text is crisp and unmarked. The author's Reminiscences of the time after the Great War in one of America's wheat countries where the work was done by men and animals. This is history alive with the sounds, the smells, and the actions of big men and big horses in a big country. View More...
Gift quality biographical book written by a man who made a major life change, bought a farm in rural England and began raising Shire horses. This is the second in the series and the author mentions there'll probably be a third sometime down the line. Cute stories within and a fund-raising effort as well, as 50p of each volume sold was donated to the Scarborough Branch of Save the Children. View More...
Very rare book, privately printed, no date listed (approx 1992 or so), Signed in Best Wishes 1992 by Jenkins on title page. Micro rub at head of stapled spine. A 56 pp book of memories on his East Side Shire Horse farm within the North York Moors National Park. View More...
Corners rubbed, 32 p. text tight but with some page turning points. Tumbledown Farm Yorkshire TV series tie-in. Fictional kids story of three draft horses. View More...
Promotional booklet featuring Tetley's big grey Shire horses pulling various wagons and rigs for Tetley Tea company in UK. 32pp landscape format stapled paperback filled with old and new photography and drawings illustrate a brief history of the breed and company. Very light color loss at tips from storage, no names or markings inside. View More...
Near fine hardcover in vg dust jacket. Not exlib. 79pp tight, bright, crisp and unmarked. Price-clipped dust wrapper has a small chip at head of frt gutter, one creased closed tear at head of frt panel, another shorter one at head of rear panel. Here, thoroughly researched is the story of the development of heavy horses, from the European Great Horse to the modern breeds, highlighting the Belgian, Clydesdale, Percheron, Shire and Suffolk. Plus a chapter on the heavy horse as war charger of the Middle Ages, and another on the complicated harness of 'drafters'. View More...
Gift quality, crisp, clean 56pp stapled softcover in lime green background card covers with an oval black/white photo of a three horses aside hay cutter. Light color loss to periphery of green card covers from storage. Appears unread. Mapped centerfold. From farming the old fashioned way at 'Cryfield Grange Farm' to 'Crackley Cottages aka Tater Row', Frank Lowe was born in Leamington in 1926 and spent his early years in Cubbington. The family moved to Kenilworth in 1936 and Frank worked on the land from 1940 to 1957, when he left for the more regular hours of factory work. View More...
First edition hardcover in red cloth covered boards with bright gilt titles on frt panel and more dull title on back strip. This volume shows bumped spine ends and upper tips, 120 pp text is tight, bright, crisp and unmarked save for some foxing and age-toning on prelims and rear pages. Four black and white plates by Gilbert Holiday. Vintage Parisian bookstore sticker at foot of frt panel along with a pencil name and place (Paris) written on the fep in pencil. No dj, so no blurb found to sum up a synopsis of the tale. From perusing the book, I learned that it is about English Shire horses... View More...
Splendid compendium of all horses in service, from the horse and plough to the carriage horse, to the police mount to the cutting horse of the west. Lavishly illustrated with b/w photos and illustrations. 192 pg text as new save for "Horse & Pony" stamped on blank fep. Glossy pictorial dj with negligible surface wear and soil displays beautifully. View More...
1st UK edition straight clean brown hardcover with bright gilt title on spine. Name and tiny dinosaur stamp on fep. 187 pp. Professionally reproduced pictorial dust wrapper shows loss at tips but displays well in new mylar. Story of farmer Josh Johnson who is fanatical about every aspect of breeding his champion English Shire horses. His neighbor rise up because a badger named Brock has made his home on the Johnson farm and must be eliminated. Foxhounds, and a rowdy bar are also featured. View More...
Possible first, title page removed so no date listed. This is a well used, well loved exlib hardcover in rust orange patterned buckram boards. Spine ends bumped, tips remain sharp. 241 pp text is tight with pocket present. Unclipped dj is a professional reproduction that has a chip at lower fore edge of front panel, still displays well in new mylar. This is a very readable copy, all there but not pretty. See image or ask for one. A fast-moving story of a New England boy and a Percheron horse, full of warmth and understanding. View More...
Beautiful hardcover in brown cloth covered boards with fep neatly removed. Light sunning along spine edge. No card pockets or library stamps found. Unclipped dust jacket is mint otherwise. This book is perfect for gift giving to the Gypsy horse lover in your life. 40 pp unpaginated text is done in brown line drawings and text. Appleby Fair takes place every year in England, on the second Wednesday in June, both sides of the road from the Archway to the Quarry, up the Roman Road. Tradesmen, Licensed Hawkers, Scrap Merchants, Tatters, Travelers' galore come from all over Britain to mak... View More...
Beautiful book signed by author 'With Best Wishes Albin 74' on verso fep. Not signed to anybody in particular so it is perfect for gift giving to the Gypsy horse lover in your life. 40 pp unpaginated text is done in brown line drawings and text. Appleby Fair takes place every year, on the second Wednesday in June, both sides of the road from the Archway to the Quarry, up the Roman Road. Tradesmen, Licensed Hawkers, Scrap Merchants, Tatters, Travelers' galore come from all over Britain to make a deal, meet relations, friends and have a gay time at Appleby Fair. View More...
Stapled 1947 card cover with photo of grey Percheron pair ploughing a field. Shows light chipping/rubbing at tips, staples rusty but holding tight, price sticker on rear cover as well as an added title by a past owner. Covers breeds - The Clydesdale, The Shire, The Suffolk Punch, includes Work Horse Management, Training. Well illustrated with b/w photos throughout. Quite nice 48pp instructional booklet. View More...
