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By: Slater, John O; Foreword By Peter Osborn
Price: $28.00
Publisher: UK, The Landmark Press: 1968
Edition: Possible First
Seller Id: 44529
Condition: Near Fine
Nice hardcover with negligible wear at tips of boards. A nostalgic tour in b/w photos, 80 pp. View more info
By: Smart, Bruce
Price: $75.00
Publisher: VA, Lost Mountain Graphics: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller Id: 32377
ISBN: 0974542415
Condition: Fine
A brilliant 1st edition hardcover in navy cloth boards with bright gilt titles, sharp tips and spine ends, internally unread. Glossy, unclipped dj in new mylar has a 1/2" closed tear at foot of front flap fold, else as new. Signed: Bruce Smart on title page, not to anybody in particular. Perfect for gift giving. "A Community of the Horse: Stakes and Stakeholders picks up where Bruce's first book: A Community of the Horse: Partnerships left off. It continues the exploration of the Virginia horse community, starting with breeding and flat racing, and using these to transition from the... View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: NY, Prentice-Hall, Inc: 1947
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 33038
Condition: Very Good +
Light blue cloth w/illustration of racing horse on frt board, blue titles on lightly dulled backstrip. Tiops fairly sharp showing very light rubs to cloth. Cloth at spine ends crimped. Name on age-toned fep, 279 pg text tight, crisp and unmarked. Interesting compilation on the turf including many subchapters but three main headings which are: Improving the Breed of Horses/ Improving the Breed of Bankrolls/ The Mare Heads Down the Stretch. View more info
By: Stevens, Gary; with Mervyn Kaufman; Foreword by Bill Shoemaker
Price: $5.00
Publisher: NY, Citadel Press/ Kensington Publishing Corp.: 2003
Seller Id: 45869
ISBN: 0806524502
Condition: Very Good
First printing of the paperback edition published one year after the hardcover. Glossy illustrated card covers show light surface wear, tiny bit of curl to cover tips, 236 pp text tight and bright. View more info
By: Stewart, Kenneth
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, J. A. Allen: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 28213
ISBN: 0851311970
Condition: Near Fine
Black 1st edition hardcover board tips still sharp, foxing on endpapers, gift dedication on fep. DJ in new mylar shows one taped tear on front panel, small closed tear on rear panel, displays well. Rare first edition. 100 pp plus appendix and charts. The author, Chairman of the Transvaal Board of Stipendiary Stewards and Chief Stipendiary Steward and Technical Adviser of the Jockey Club of South Africa, has had close on fifty years' experience of the administration of racing in a dozen countries, learning his racing first in Great Britain. He has contributed to numerous publications on a wide ... View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: NY, The Derrydale Press: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 44313
Condition: Near Fine
1st trade edition hardcover. Unclipped light green dj is a professional reproduction that displays well despite a 1 x 2 in chip covered with age-toned cello tape at head of frt panel near backstrip. Slightly tatty at extrems, 1/2 in open tear at foot of rear corner of backstrip and rear panel. Illust grass green cloth boards with dark green silhouette of horse jumping through a stirrup and bright gilt title on frt bd, bright gilt title on backstrip. Tips sharp showing color loss and very light rub on lower tips, spine ends bumped. Ours is the first trade edition, one of 850 copies of Gentlemen... View more info
By: Sugar, Bert; Richardson, Cornell
Price: $12.00
Publisher: NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 32515
ISBN: 0471445576
Condition: Fine
Fine 1st edition hardcover in near fine dj with a tiny spot on the upper edge of frt panel. 225 pp text crisp and unmarked. Bert Randolph Sugar is one of the most recognizable personalities in sports, with his trademark fedora and cigar, he is a fixture at race tracks and boxing matches. A former advertising executive at McCann-Erickson and J. Walter Thompson, Sugar left the world of advertising after a brawl with a fellow ad exec landed him in the pages of the NY Times and Advertising Age. Sugar became a sportswriter, and a damn good one at that. Bert was the editor of Ring Magazine and fou... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: VA, Thomasson-Grant: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller Id: 37781
ISBN: 156566051X
Condition: Fine
1st edition. Author's presentation copy, signed on illust half title pp: "For Andrew, Thanks so much for coming! Beth H. Sutton 10-13-94". Grey paper covered boards with burg cloth spine and bright gilt titles. Photo illust glossy dj shows few light surface scratches from storage, else as new. Glossy 112 pp text fine. Profusely illust w/color photos. "When young David Jackson witnesses his uncle's filly win a crucial race, he begins to understand the pride and the hard work behind a family tradition of thoroughbred racing. He becomes caught up in the exciting atmosphere of tra... View more info
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; 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
