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Price: $8.00
Publisher: NY, Clayton Spicer Press: 1949
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 33921
Condition: Good
Blue cloth with red titles soiled and marked, corners bumped and quite rubbed. Solid reading copy, not pretty outside but all there and priced accordingly. Previous owner's name printed on upside-down book plate on front paste down. 80 pp text is tight and bright w/two 1/2" closed tears at foot of two pages. Undated, circa 1949. Internals are very good, profusely illustrated with more than 100 black & white photographs taken at California racetracks that illustrate the owning, breeding and competing of thoroughbreds in racings' heyday. The suits, the dresses, the hats, or the guys in ... View more info
By: The Blood Horse
Price: $35.00
Publisher: KY, The Blood-Horse, Inc: 1963
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 31940
Condition: Near Fine
Fine collectible copy with negligible color loss to extremities, tips not rubbed through cloth. Unmarked, no names, notes, tears or soil. First Edition. Top edge of page block in gilt. 1001 pp with 103 pg section: Sires of Broodmares and 167 pg index. Burgundy cloth covered boards lettered in gilt on the spine within a black title box. The 24th volume in the series. Acknowledgment of source material is made to Daily Racing Form.and to The Jockey Club". Errata section (following first main section); plus index at rear. View more info
By: The Blood Horse
Price: $15.00
Publisher: KY, The Blood-Horse, Inc: 1968
Seller Id: 34587
Condition: Good +
Solid reference copy, all there but not pretty. This book is cocked with watermarked cover, text remains tight and bright. Cover shows light rubbing, a little dulling of the gold stamping on cover, and an area of abrasion on foot of front cover from something that was adhered to book and later removed (see image). Text tight and bright w/one ink note at foot of one page, crossed out name on fep and former owner's name stamp on rep. 275 pp. Contains information about 19,000 stallions. The list in this edition is complete through the fourth supplement of Volume XXIII of the American Stud Book. N... View more info
By: The Blood Horse; Paulick, Raymond S. Editor
Price: $38.00
Publisher: KY, The Blood-Horse, Inc:
Edition: Reprint
Seller Id: 25224
Condition: Very Good
Silver hardcover leatherette boards with green lettering shows color loss at still sharp tips, internally fine with name on fep. 199 pp. Only 2,200 copies of the Silver Anniversary edition of The Blood-Horse were originally published. This reprint has additions to include all winners of American stakes races foaled from 1916 through 1940 and the selection dealing with stallions has been updated to include the entire stud record of each sire. View more info
By: The Jockey Club Statistical Bureau
Price: $15.00
Publisher: NY, The Jockey Club: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 36621
Condition: Very Good +
Tight, bright paperback with moderate handling/storage soil on white background covers. Watermark at head of spine and along very lower edge of covers, 464 pg text is clean and unmarked. View more info
By: The Rt. Hon. Lord Willoughby De Broke Et Al
Price: $18.00
Publisher: London, Seely, Service & Co. Ltd: 1954
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 44482
Condition: Near Fine
Stunning copy in gold cloth boards with bright gilt titles. 334 pgs, No names, tears or soil. Professionally reproduced color illust dj in new mylar displays beautifully. The definitive text, a must have for any complete sporting library. More than suitable for gift giving. Includes: The History of Steeplechasing, The Grand National, Cheltenham: The National Hunt Meeting, Soldiers in the Saddle, Point-to-Point Racing, The National Hunt Committee, Breeding of Steeplechasers, Breeding of Winners of the Grand National, Purchase of Steeplechasers, The Early Education of 'Chasers, Schooling over Fe... View more info
By: Tote Investors
Price: $48.00
Publisher: London, Tote Investors Ltd.: 1939
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 44457
Condition: Very Good
1st edition hardcover in beige cloth quite grubby. Vintage adverts in the first few pages, foxing on first and last few pp, internally pretty clean. 703 p. In producing Who's Who in Racing, Tote Investors, Ltd, have endeavored to provide a really up-to-date (as of 1939), and comprehensive reference book dealing with the social side of the sport. In addition to those racing and training on a big scale many smaller owners and trainers, as also club members, are brought to notice. Another feature is the section devoted to Studs which are approached from a new angle. The whole-hearted cooperation... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: NY, Coward-McCann: 1945
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 29116
Condition: Very Good
Sharp straight copy in taupe linen cloth boards with blue titles and horse illustration on cover, spine slightly darkened but title legible. 245 pp, pictorial endpapers. A compilation of stories by various authors and trainers of the day. Chapters include: The Role of Racing by Tom R. Underwood/ Racing as a Sport by Robert F. Kelley/ Racing as a Business by Alexander M. Robb/ The Breeding Background by J. A. Estes/ The Horse Farms by Fred A Purner, Tom R. Underwood and Humphrey Finney/ The Yearling Sales by Nelson Dunstan/ Training the Horse by Joe H. Palmer/ Running of the Race by Neville Dun... View more info
By: Unknown
Price: $12.00
Publisher: KY, Fasig-Tipton: 1988
Seller Id: 18707
Condition: Very Good
Tight bright paperback with pictorial softcovers. Base of frt cover separated from spine for 1". Unpaginated, approx 250 pages of info on the yearlings, agents, index to sires & dams, index to consignors etc. Uncommon research volume for any race horse owner. View more info
By: Unknown
Price: $15.00
Publisher: VA, Virginia Sales Co: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 37658
Condition: Near Fine
Off-white & green paperback has a small amount of yellowing from age otherwise shows well. Unpaginated text is bright & tight with no tears or soil. The many descriptions of horses for sale in the 1972 Mixed sale in Warrenton, VA at the Horse Show grounds. View more info
By: Unknown Author
Price: $10.00
Publisher: KY, Kentucky Thoroughbred Association: 1986
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller Id: 34875
Condition: Good
Solid copy in surface worn covers. 199 pp text tight and bright. Lists past wins, jockeys, and so much more. Not pretty but all there. View more info
By: Vickers, Captain Reginald J., M.C.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: VA, Privately Printed: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 27830
Condition: Near Fine
Lovely copy in beige boards with b/w photo of TB yearling on cover. Original onion skin sleeve present and in VG shape showing light foxing and only light wear at tips. Spine ends and board tips still sharp. Internally fine save for light finger soil on title page and light foxing on endpapers. 55 pgp. A plea to eliminate early training of horses so that they are not broken down at an early age. Includes: They Deserve Better Treatment, Early Days of a Thoroughbred, The Significance of Early Female Racing on Future Reproduction, Early Racing of Colts, The Incentive for Racing Immature Thorough... View more info
By: Waller, George
Price: $18.00
Publisher: NJ, Prentice-Hall: 1966
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 41490
Condition: Very Good
1st edition hardcover in faded blue cloth, HUGE volume, heavy page block shaken but not loose, inner hinges fine. Professionally reproduced dj from the Bonanza published edition displays well in new mylar. Gift dedication on fep, 392 pp. Exhaustive compendium of the track, the town and the times. View more info
By: Willett, Peter
Price: $17.00
Publisher: KY, The University of Kentucky Press: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 45945
ISBN: 0813114772
Condition: Fine
1st edition hardcover in green paper covered boards with bright gilt spine title shows sharp tips and bumped spine ends. Super lightly brushed tips of unclipped dj show a touch of color loss, else displays beautifully in new mylar sleeve. Collectible copy. 272 pp text is crisp and unmarked, Full of lore, history and thoughts to the future by former president of the British Thoroughbred Breeders Association. Illust with b/w photos of such supreme champions as Eclipse, , Diomed, St. Simon, Sceptre, Pretty Polly, Tourbillion, Hyperion, Nearco, Birkhahn, Star Kingdom, Ribot, Bold Ruler, Anili... View more info
By: Winants, Peter
Price: $48.00
Publisher: VA, The Chronicle of the Horse: 1988
Edition: First Limited Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller Id: 32960
ISBN: 0962012815
Condition: Fine
One of 1,000 copies, this one #358 is signed by Peter Winants on front page. 231 pp plus index. Very lightly bumped (not rubbed) tips, internally as new. Collectible and much-sought offering of steeplechase racing history. Profusely illust w/color and b/w photos, charts, drawings. Gorgeous, collectible and exceedingly rare volume of a stunning brown gelding. Chapters: Comparing Great Horses: Introducing Some Key People and Places/ Flatterer's Folks - By an Honest Stallion Out of a Mare who was "Just a Horse"/ 1982 In Flat Racing - Hard Work and Reasonable Success, But No Place to Go/ 1... View more info
By: Winants, Peter
Price: $48.00
Publisher: MD, Winants Bros, Inc: 1966
Edition: First Limited Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller Id: 34827
Condition: Fine
Limited to 2000 copies, signed and numbered by author Peter Winants. Grey two-tone leatherette with bright yellow titles on cover board and back strip. Shows negligible edge wear from storage, corners and spine ends sharp, no damage or markings from former owners, no fingerprints, creased corners, page tears or damage of any sort. More copies available. Profusely illustrated with photographs of the life and descriptive story of the great steeplechasing horse, his rider, Tommy Smith, and owner, Mrs. Mary Stephenson in England, France (Chantilly) and the USA. Peter Winants was long-time editor ... View more info
Price: $18.00
Publisher: NY, D. Van Nostrand Company: 1951
Edition: Second Edition
Seller Id: 33959
Condition: Very Good +
Light green cloth with bright gilt image with two harness racing horses frt cover, bright gilt titles on backstrip. Gift dedication fep. Text is tight and bright. 219 pgs. View more info
