Recent Arrivals from Robin Bledsoe, Bookseller

Toronto: Coach House Press, 1970. First edition. Unbound. Very good. Eight color cards + reply postcard. The cards advertise Coach House titles, giving pagination and price for each: Night by T. Kenneth Gist, Vancouver Poems by Daphne Marlatt, Bearing Down by Penny Chalmers, Open Letter (literay magazine edited by Frank Davey), Iron Horse by Allen Ginsberg, Among by… Read more about this item

Paris: Henri Laurens, 1924. First edition. Soft cover (self wrappers). Very good (light handling and corner wear). 12p, many ills. In French. Describes and prices the publisher's many art, travel, children's, religious, and other books and series for 1924. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

N.p. [Amherst?]: University of Massachusetts Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Very good (endpapers browned from binding glue, cover edges lightly rubbed)/good. Baskin, Leonard. N.p., many photographs by Hyman Edelstein. Jacket chipped at top of spine, and back soiled with one small stain. The trade edition. Presents 15 sculptures in bronze and wood (heads, torsos, partial and full figures).… Read more about this item

[Boca Raton, FL]: [M.N. Weir and Sons], 1950. First edition. Unbound. Very good. One sheet, folded twice to make four pages. Printed in black and blue. Ca. 4 x 7 inches, folded. Promotional brochure issued by the Weir realty firm, which were "the exclusive sales agents for Arthur Vining Davis' vast holdings in the Boca Raton area of… Read more about this item

Brooklyn: George McKibbin & Son, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 32p, many ills. Printed in red and black. Lacks the glassine jacket. "This is the first of a series of monographs devoted to the educational advancement of book design manufacturing and publishing, a project sponsored and published by George McKibbin & Son...." Sold with the publisher's prospectus… Read more about this item

N.p.: [American Library Association?], 1943. First edition. Unbound. Good. Ca. 2 1/2 x 6 inches. Lightly stained on front, 3 small pencil drawings on back. Printed in blue and red. Prints the Dickinson poem beginning "He ate and drank the previous words" and lists 9 rules for how children can "take great care of this book." A scarce… Read more about this item

Ludenscheid: Kunstgemeinde, 1965. First edition. Unbound. Good (light handling wear). Zadkine, Ossip. One folded sheet, printed on 4 sides; 1 ill. (Hercules and the Nemean Lion). Old light crease. In German. Checklist of 28 lithographs by Zadkine on the theme of the Labors of Hercules, for an exhibition held, as it happened, two years before his death. With… Read more about this item

London: Sotheby and Co, 1927. First edition. Soft cover. Good (spine rather chipped, mended). 346 + many plates, many folding. Auction catalogue of 2151 lots, held March 28-April 8, 1927. "Comprising English literature from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth, tracts, ballads, broadsides, proclamations, newspapers, etc." Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping… Read more about this item

N.p.: No stated publisher, 1965. First edition. Soft cover. Good (slight old insect damage to bottom of covers, light sunning). [8]p, 7 photos. Laid in: reproduced typescript summarizing the history of Glen Magna and inviting financial support. History of the estate, its McIntire Tea House, and its gardens, long in the Peabody and Endicott families and then acquired… Read more about this item

N.p.: Biltmore Hotel, 1960. No stated edition. Unbound. Notepaper is fine. Letter sheets are lightly dogeared with light handling wear. 12 sheets of notepaper (5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches), 7 letter sheets (8 1/2 x 11 inches). All unused. Letterhead reads The Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles 13, California, and lists three hotel executives, headed by Leo F.… Read more about this item

Elverson, PA: Bright Books, 1967. Reprint edition (1st pub. 1968 in US). Hardcover. Very good/very good. 202p + several photos. Not an autobiography, nor an instruction book, but on "the relationship between horse and rider" as seen through the lives of Podhajsky's Lipizzans at the Spanish Riding School, and other horses. (Wells 5887 cites 1st ed.) Can be… Read more about this item

London: W. Thacker, 1891. Third edition (1st pub. 1881). Hardcover, stamped in black and gilt. Fair (becoming shaken). 285p+ 40p of publisher's ads, ca. 80 text ills. + many line plates by J.H. Oswald Brown, John Sturgess, and Stanley Berkeley. No jacket, probably as issued. The final edition of this comprehensive Victorian guide, somewhat revised. Omits the sidesaddle… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1951. No stated edition. Hardcover. Good (endpapers browned, ink name on front endpaper). Brown, Paul. 232p, several ills. by Paul Brown. Lacks the jacket. An early though probably not first edition, nor the more common book club edition. Copper manages to handle the difficult black gelding Chance, and learns about romance along the way.… Read more about this item

North Pomfret, VT: Trafalgar Square, 2024. First edition. Soft cover. New. Dennis, Wesley. 308p, many ills. by Wesley Dennis and photos, some in color. Life and career of this well-loved author of 59 books over almost 80 years, based on her papers, other original material, and interviews. How she came up with the ideas for the stories, researched… Read more about this item

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1933. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good (spine slightly faded). Lida Lacey Bloodgood, Ned King. 131p, many line ills. by Lida Lacey Bloodgood (Princess Dominique Radziwill) + 15 plates by Ned King and others. No. 359 of 985 copies, signed by the author. Fwd. by A. Henry Higginson. Lacks the slipcase. No jacket, as… Read more about this item

Chicago: Wagner & Hanson, printers, 1929. No stated edition. Soft cover. Internally very good (covers smudged, front cover stained). 52p, many photos. Folding map of "Buffalo Bill Dude Ranch Country" tipped onto inside back cover. Scarce promotional brochure for some of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad's Western routes--chiefly in Wyoming from Yellowstone to Cody, along the Shoshone… Read more about this item

Devon, PA: Pennsylvania Cattle Show Association, 1912. First edition. Stapled soft cover. Good. 16p, several photos. Blank entry form laid in. Center gathering loosening; covers stained and soiled. Ca. 6 x 9 inches. Lists the conditions and prizes for 70 classes for Jerseys, Ayrshires, Guernseys, Holsteins, and Brown Swiss. Also lists the officers and directors of the Pennsylvania… Read more about this item

New York: Van Nostrand, 1963. Second edition (1st pub. 1951). Hardcover. Very good (inner margins of two pages browned from old bookmark)/good. 370p, over 100 line ills. and photos + 2 folding charts outlining steps in schooling and performance. With two chapters by Alexis Wrangel. Edited and designed by Eugene V. Connett. Although Littauer's emphasis on forward movement… Read more about this item

London: Cassell, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. McConnell, J.E.. 181p, 5 line ills. + color jacket by J.E. McConnell. Unclipped jacket slightly chipped at top. Ink gift inscription. Previous owner's neat ink stamp on front endpaper and one bottom page margin. The third Three Jays adventure--a drive through France to the marshes and white horses of… Read more about this item

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Fair (outer pages quite foxed; one plate loose). Edwards, Lionel. 163p + 10 plates by Lionel Edwards. Lacks the jacket. London family loses its money and must relocate to the country, where they discover the delights of riding and huning in Exmoor. This became a common theme in pony books,… Read more about this item