Equine Veterinary Medicine and General Health

Alternative Health Practices for Livestock
by Thomas Morris, Michael Keilty
Hardcover, laminated, 211 pages from Blackwell Scientific (formerly Iowa State University Press)
Do you need help translating homeopathy, herbal medicine, etc. into the farm management program? This book offers advice from 16 leading vets and livestock specialists, organized in chapters. Includes Joyce Harman, leading equine authority. Sheep, swine, and cattle are covered as well as horses. This book normally sells for $100 but one corner of this copy got snagged in shipping or on display. Otherwise, new. A bargain at $68 plus post.

The Horse Doctors
by Stoecklein, David R.
New copy! AAEP's salute to horse vets in gorgeous photography, not much text. Coffee table for sure; perfect for a vet clinic reception area, too. A beautiful gift. All new condition. Multiple copies available. $60 plus post

Understanding Equine Preventive Medicine
by Bradford G. Bentz VMD
Softcover, 2002
Vaccination, worming, chronic conditions: advice and practices to avoid health problems in herd and smaller horsehoulds. $5 plus post

The Best of James Herriot
The Favorite Stories of One of the Most Beloved Writers of Our Time
Hardcover with dust jacket. 502 pages, indexed. I don’t know why I have to two copies of this book, but on some level, you can never have too many James Herriot books. This is a very nice oversized, illustrated edition, although the dust jacket is beat up. Lots of drawings and color photos of Yorkshire, too! $5 plus post. Plus one copy of the deluxe hardcover edition with illustrated cover, used, former owner's name inside (but nice). Also $5 plus post. Your choice.

Vet in the Vestry
The Adventures of a Country Vet Who Is Also a Country Minister
by Alexander Cameron, hardcover with dust jacket, 1987
From the Herriot tradition, with a Scottish accent and a vicar's collar to boot! Heartwarming tales! This is a used copy, with the former owner's name written on first page, but otherwise in like-new condition. Pages edges are darkening slightly. $5 plus post.

Proceedings of Special Species Medicine Symposium 1993, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
by Student Chapter, American Association of Zoo Veterinarians
Plastic external binding, 160+ pages
So you want to be a zoo vet? Or work in a zoo? Here's a collection of excellent papers on wildlife medicine, exotic pets, zoo medicine and wet lab proceedings. Papers on llamas, sea turtles, orphaned wildlife, avian parasitology, hawks, zoo welfare, and much, much more. In like-new condition, to a good home only, $5 plus post.

Understanding Equine Medications
by Barbara Forney MS, VMD
Softcover, 232 pages, 2004.
A practical, straightforward and well-organized reference book for the barn, the truck, the office. Lists medications, discusses how to adminster. Lots of information you can use. $5 plus post.

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HORSES IN HISTORY

Yankee Doodle Dandy: The Life and Times of Tod Sloan
by John Dizikes, softcover, trade paper size, Yale University Press.
This is quite collectible, as it is the advance uncorrected page proof from the publisher. Includes images stamped FPO. A rough cut but the text is readable if you want a good read, or sell it on eBay as a racing collectible for a fortune. There are some kitty teeth marks at bottom of first few pages. (sorry about that)

Todd Sloan, of course, was the famous American jockey who went to England and caused a scandal with his "forward seat". This is the man who gave us short, short stirrups. He was one of the country's great celebrities as the turn of the century and should not be forgotten. $10 plus post.

The Animals' Who's Who: 1,146 Celebrated Animals in History, Popular Culture, Literature and Lore

by Ruthven Tremain; hardcover with dust jacket, $15

I don't know why I had two copies of this book, except for the fact that I do like it enough to have bought it twice. It's an encyclopedia of famous animals, with short biographies. From Francis the Talking Mule to Miss Piggy to Red Rum, they are all here, with dates and details. A trivia lover's delight!

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HORSE CARE AND STABLE MANAGEMENT

The Way of a Man with a Horse: A Practical Book on Horsemanship
by Lieut.-Col. Geoffrey Brooke DSO, MC,
Veterinary Notes by Colonel Todd DSO, RAVC,
and a chapter on Pig-Sticking by Lieut-Col. Arthur Brooke DSO, MC

Published in 1920 or so. This is a beautiful book with lovely, clear "tipped-in" photos showing foxhunting, military and sport horses around the time of World War I. It's a treasure, especially for the POLO lovers out there. Great conformation shots of polo ponies. Plus 50 pages of veterinary advice, also shoeing. Interesting rocker toe shoes for stumblers. Book is hardcover, in good shape, but binding is a bit fragile: handle with care and treasure it always. 288 pages, indexed. A bargain at $20 plus post.

Everyday Horsemanship
by Eliza R.L. McGraw
Softcover, 224 pages, 2006
This attractively-designed, all-color book is brand new and is one of the more recent books to provide an all-around reference for people keeping horses, not just riding them. Lots of good advice here, although the photos show English-only horses, this book makes sense to anyone, any breed. $5 plus post.

101 Horsekeeping Tips: Simple Strategies for a Safer and More Efficient Stable
by Jessie Shiers
Soft cover, new, 184 pages.
A lot of people don't have the time or inclination to sit down and read a book about stable management. Here are some great tips, done as bulleted points, one tip per page. You can pick it up and begin reading anywhere. This is a new copy; cost new $12.95, this one for clearance $5 plus post.

Getting Your First Horse
by Judith Dutson, foreword by John Lyons
Soft cover, 168 pages.
A great guide for the novice and a reminder for old hands: how to look at a horse and your ability to house, train, and ride different horses that may be available. Objective and not condescending. $3 plus post

Horse Handling and Grooming
by Cherry Hill
Softcover, 148 pages, profusely illustrated with photos
This book shows you how to clean a horse and move it from point A to point B...with very detailed photos. The section on using a twitch is great. Don't write this off as beginner stuff. The closeup photos of clipper blades will make you feel guilty. $5 plus post.
Hold Your Horses: Nuggets of Truth for People Who Love Horsesby Bonnie TimmonsOne of my favorites. This is a used copy with writing inside but the cartoons are just so great, you'll want to go over the cartoons in this book again and again. Very funny. $2 plus post. (used)

The Random House Book of Horses and Horsemanship
by Paula Rodenas, Foreword by Walter Farley
Hardcover, laminated cover, 1991, 180 pages.
One of the best all-around horse books ever published. Nothing re-hashed here. Great photos of USET in action, farms, farriers, vets, etc. from the 90s. Covers sports, anatomy, training, lots more, with many interviews. This is a used copy with child-like writing inside. $4 plus post.
Know Your Ponyby Susan McBaneEverything the young rider needs to know to safely care for and enjoy his or her pony. From Britain, a very thorough guide with great illustrations. This is a used copy and has the former owner's sticker on front page. $3 plus post.

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TRAINING, RIDING, DRIVING, HORSEMANSHIP

Riding (Second Edition)
by Kate Delano-Condax Decker
Softcover, oversized, 2007, new
Not just another how-to book, this is more like a student's companion guide. Includes quizzes, many diagrams, and a this-is-easier-if-you-think-0f-it-this-way approach that is sure to help a lot of people. $5 plus post.

There Are No Problem Horses, Only Problem Riders
by Mary Twelveponies
Softcover, 1982, 228 pages, lots of photos
This is a like-new copy of a classic! One corner is "bumped" but should flatten out. Where do you think modern natural horse training ideas came from? This book was so far ahead of its time, and is still valid today, especially for problems with horse habits under saddle. This is a valuable book! $5 plus post.

Ups and Downs: A First Guide to Riding and Horse Care
by Suzanne Wilding and Sam Savitt
1973, Hardcover with dust jacket, x-library, 119 pages
This book was a good one years ago and it still is, plus it has Sam Savitt's great black and white how-to illustrations. This copy is in great shape but has old library stickers and marks. $3 plus post.


101 Horsemanship Exercises: Ideas for Improving Groundwork and Ridden Skills
by Rio Barrett
Laminated hardcover, 218 pages, British, oversized format, 2007.
What a lot of work went into this book! Detailed drawings with arrows explain exercises and training patterns, both from the ground and in the saddle. Some of the lunging ones look complicated but keep reading. If you're bored riding indoors, or you have a young horse or maybe a layup needs groundwork, or a spoiled horse needs retro-training in manners, this is the book. Author is a Parelli advanced instructor but uses British Horse Society principles, too. Foreword by Jane Holderness-Roddam of Burghley and Badminton fame. Last copy, new. List price $30. Clearance price $20 plus post.


The Horseless Rider: A Complete Guide to the Art of Riding, Showing and Enjoying Other People's Horses
(Hardcover) by Barbara Burn, Werner Rentsch New copy This book gives lots of ideas of what to do and what not to do when it comes to riding and caring for other people's horses. More people should read this! Last copy from old inventory $2 plus post

Know English Equitation and Training
by Bruce and Sue Coen
Softcover, 64 pages.
I don't think that they teach this way anymore, and this book is a valuable one. It covers balance seat, forward seat, hunt seat, saddle seat, dressage seat, and park seat side by side, with equal weight on saddle seat equitation. $1 plus post.

Fundamentals of Riding
by Gregor de Romaszkan
Hardcover, 154 pages, black and white photos
A good copy of one of the great classic texts of classical horsemanship by the famous Polish-French judge. Published in 1964, this is a former library book to be used as a reading copy. Did you know that the modern jumping seat we use now originated in Italy and didn't enjoy widespread use until after World War I? This book is full of facts and advice for riders and afficionados of equestrian sports. The former cavalry officer and author as a famed jumping and dressage judge and also rode racehorses. Lots of great comparisons between sports. Spots and stains add to the character of this great book. $5 plus post.

Back Pain Relief: The Ultimate Guide, A Comprehensive Pain Management Program
by Robert H. Miller and Christine A. Opie
Softcover, 301 pages, lots of diagrams, 1997
Is time spent in the saddle time spent in pain? So many of us are beset with chronic back pain that I hear from people all the time that riding is just too painful, no matter which horse and no matter which saddle. This book helps you understand the nature of pain and how the back is a conduit for neurological and musculo-skeletal pain. 300 pages of advice, exercises, and relaxation therapy to overcome pain. $6 plus post.

Horse and Rider: From Basics to Show Competition

by Judy Richter, Foreword by George H. Morris

Soft cover, 146 pages, 1983. This is a used copy, with a gift inscription inside,but it is like new and the spine is uncracked. Great advice for anyone aspiring to the hunter ring or the equitation classes. Still sound advice today. $4 plus post.

Discovering Dressage

by Laura Fry

Hardcover, 96 pages, 1993, indexed, illustrated with color and black and white photos, art

This book is a terrific introduction to dressage by the former British national champion. It explains everything--the arena, the gaits, the principles of the levels, in a non-elitist, easy-to-learn format. Quite simply one of the best books to cover the how and why of the sport. This is a used copy and the former owner drew a picture on the endpaper! $4 plus post.

Horses and Tack, Revised Edition

by M.E. Ensminger

Hardcover with dust jacket, 1991, many illustrations and photos, 499 pages

This is the standard one-volume reference used by many colleges and universities as the basic equine science textbook. It is encyclopedic! Chapters are history and development of horses, types/uses/breeds, selecting and judging horses, training the horse, breeding horses, feeding horses, pastures, management, health: diseases and parasites, buildings and equipment, tack, vehicles, clothes for riders, riding the horse, showing horses, glossary, appendix, index. See? It's all there! Actually a very good overall reference book. $8 plus post.

Educating the Young Horse: The Thinking Trainer's Guide
by Julian Westall
Hardcover, 256 pages
Individualized training for young horses from the years of experience of the author includes both practical instruction and philosophical insights into judging what the horse's character says about him and his future. A very helpful and well-packaged book in like-new condition. $5 plus post.

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HORSES IN ART, MUSIC, LITERATURE, ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

My favorite Mongolian photo from Wild Lives by the French photographer Tibo

Wild Lives: Horseback Cultures from Idaho to Indonesia
Text by Sylvie Lebreton, Photographs by TIBO
2001, hardcover with dust jacket, oversized "coffee table" book
Extravagant and expressive, a world tour with one of my favorite photographers, the great French TIBO...so wonderful he doesn't need a last name. Go with Tibo to the island of Sumba in Indonesia...to Andalusia in Spain...to Cameroon in Africa...to Hortobagy in Hungary...to Idaho and Montana in the USA...to Morocco in North Africa....to Jordan...to Mongolia...and finally to Patagonia at the tip of South America. Tibo's photos are world class and you will live vicariously through them. This has been one of our most successful gift books ever and this is, sadly, the last copy (except in my personal library, of course). It is close-to-pristine condition, with a bit of what they call "shelfwear" on the edges. Under the dust jacket (which is probably the least wonderful thing about the book), the cover is bright purple, and laminated. I took the dust jacket off mine and let it shine on the coffee table. There is only one copy left. To a good home only. Bargain price for a great, great book: $20 plus post.

The Horse in Art and History

Edited by Michael Seth-Smith

Hardcover, 11x17, 1978.

One of the best books on equine art. Examples are printing in huge format so you can see detail and admire brushwork and blending of color. Back cover is a little use. Dust jacket protected in mylar sleeve. A treasure! $16 plus post.

Henry Koehler: Elegant Impressions of Turf and Field
This catalog of the exhibit at the Natuional Museum of Racing in Saratoga Springs, New York in 2003 is a collection of color plates of the paintings. 56 paintings of beautiful racing or hunting themes from the Duke of Beaufort's to Deauville to Cheltenham and home to Saratoga. What a ride. Like new condition, a duplicate. $15 plus post.

Drawing Horses
by Walter Foster
1998, softcover, oversized.
Instructional manual for sketching horses with pencil. A revision of the classic 1949 text. He does a nice job on the hoof. $4 plus post

Horse Racing
The Hulton Getty Picture Collection and Allsport Decades of Sport
Soft cover, approx 400 pages, black and white and color photos.
This book is a treasure and one of my favorites. It is a photographic history of horse racing, with captions in English, French, and German. These are art photographs, the crisp black and white images that tell us so much about what went before. I will never part with my copy but this is one we had to sell and it's the sort of thing that people need to see, unless they are lovers of photography or horse history. Is that you? Then this is for you at the bargain price of $5 plus post.

Haddelsey's Horses: Paintings by Vincent Haddelsey
Text by Caroline Silver with Haddelsey
Oversized hardcover, 1978, with dust jacket in lovely condition
The horse in his landscape; this collection of paintings in the artist's unique, almost folk-art style shows horses doing their sporting and working best. Absolutely magic! $10 plus post.

On the History and Truth of the Unicorn:
Facsimile and Translation of an Old Manuscript by Michael Green
Soft cover, 64 pages, all color art
I'd file this under fantasy...except that I want to believe in unicorns, too. This is a fantasy art book extraordinaire. Very nicely designed, but in lightly used shape. All the folklore of the unicorn in one place with beautiful illustrations. $3 plus post.

The Unicorn Treasury
Stories, Poems and Unicorn Lore
by Bruce Coville, Illustrated by Tim Hildebrandt
A little beatup, but still a treasure. 168 pages, softcover. Read the inspired words of C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle and many others. $3 plus post.

The Most Beautiful Horses
Text by Dominic Klein, photos from around the world
Hardcover with dust jacket, 158 pages, black and white photography, 1971
I think this is the only book I have ever sold from Switzerland. It is a collection of photos of horses at work and in sport, shot in the late 1960s, and is literally a world tour. Includes a chapter on the horse in circuses. A snapshot of where the horse world was, 50 years ago, and beautifully crafted. $10 plus post.

Desiderata for Horse Lovers: A Guide to Life and Happiness
by Max Ehrmann
Hardcover with dust jacket
The age-old perscription for happiness illustrated with beautiful horse photos. Each double-page spread is a line from the manuscript. A beautiful gift! We sold these for Christmas and this is the last one, in perfectly new condition. (really nice) Size is about 5x5". $5 plus post.

The Royal Mews (Buckingham Palace)

Soft cover, color and black and white photos, 28 pages

A guide book to the stables at Buckingham Palace, includes photos of coaches and the Windsors riding and driving. Published perhaps in the 1970s, this is a period snapshot of the horsiest family in the world, just before all the scandals hit. Nicely done, and the driving details are excellent. How do you get the job of postillion? $3 plus post.

Man and the Horse: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hardcover, color and black and white plates, 128 pages, 1984, oversized "coffee table" book
Introduction by Diana Vreeland. Three essays comprise this richly illustrate book that accompanied a lavish exhibit of equestrian art in New York 25 years ago. The over-riding (ahem) theme is fashion, or at least the clothing one wears around horses, so the chapters are: 1) Man and the Horse: The Evolution of Riding and Its Influence on Equestrian Costume by Alexander Mackay-Smith; 2) Aside and Astride: A History of Ladies' Riding Apparel by Jean Druesdow; and 3) Fashion on Wheels by Thomas Ryder, the famed driving expert. The photos of old time children's riding fashions and ponies/donkeys are the best part of this book, althought the Stubbs plates are pretty fabulous. If you know anyone who is into sidesaddle outfits, this book has some lovely plates and photos. I love this book but don't know why I had two copies, so now you can have one two. $10 plus post.

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AGRICULTURE, RURAL CULTURE, COUNTRY LIFE, FARMING

Le Charolais
by Daniel Meiller and Paul Vannier
259 pages, soft cover, oversized "coffee table book"
I've never seen such a lavish book about a breed of anything (except maybe Arabian horses--maybe!) This book is in French but it doesn't matter since it is mostly photos and the photos are amazing. Here's the history and the state of the world's Charolais cattle in a beautifully designed book meant for the coffee tables of ranches all over the world. Wow, is all I can say. The corners are a little bent. You will love it. $40 plus post.

Farm Animals in the Making of America
Wallace Homestead Book Company; 1975; Paperback; 128 pages
Illustrated with more than 200 rare engravings from the Golden Age of American livestock breeding. Duplicate copy is a little beat up, some page are loose, but you may want to use this book for reference, copying or scanning. It is a gem. There is a very strong midwestern emphasis, especially on the lengthy section about draft horses. You can learn a lot. Includes plans for an octagonal barn and a beautiful ad from the Putnam Nail Company in Neponset, Massachusetts, plus Dr Roberge's patented hoof expander. And that's just the first few pages. This is a standard reference book around here. $10 plus post.

The Countryman: Winter 1971-73
I collect these fantastic book-like magazines from the UK and have a couple of duplicates. Each is like a paperback book with a spine, sort of like Readers Digest in the old days, but more pages and smaller.

This edition includes an account of Scotland's last stagecoachman...across the South Downs on horseback...the wildest inhabited spot in England...fishing villages of the Firth of Forth...plus much more and lots of poems, black and white drawings and woodcuts, practical info on country living, birdwatching, and some very fine photojournalism. I want to live in this world. 208 pages. $3 plus post.

The Countryman: Summer 1974
Another duplicate! Sorry the cover is loose on this one. 208 pages of good stuff! You'll see why I collect these. This one has a black and white photo essay of gypsy wagons. $3 plus post.

Getting Started in Farming

by Sherman Johnson and Milo Peterson

Hardcover, 372 pages, 1955

Now here's a book! Probably was the standard aggie business intro textbook of the late 1950s. Great photos of modern (for the Fifties) farming techniques. Interesting to see what cattle looked like 50 years ago. Interesting! $4 plus post.

FARM: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer

by Richard Rhodes

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition, 336 pages, some illustrations, 1989

Get inside the culture of modern farming with Tom and Sally Bauer, as Rhodes (who won the Pulitzer Prize) follows their triumphs and pitfalls and shows where modern meets tradition, and how there is hope for farming as a family business. Well worth a read. $3 plus post

Great American Farm Tractors: John Deere, Farmall and Ford
Text by Robert Pripps, Photos by Andrew Morland
Hardcover "coffee table" book, 382 pages, in perfect dust jacket, 1998
This is what a tractor is supposed to look like! Relive the grand glory days of American tractors in stunning photos. These vintage survivors have been restored, preserved, polished and prepped! Stunning photos in great scenery of the American midwest (Wisconsin, I think). I love this book. $12 plus post.

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HORSE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS

Thunderhead
by Maureen O'Hara
Hardcover, ex-library, second printing , 1943
Do kids still read Maureen O'Hara? they should! She also wrote "My Friend Flicka" but I always like Thunderhead better of the pair. Here's a super reading copy, the real thing. This would be a super book to read aloud to a 10 year old. (it would take a while, it's not a short book) It's a little beat up but historic. $3 plus post

The Blind Connemara
Story and pictures by C.W. Anderson
The heartwarming tale of a beloved pony who is going blind and the girl who loves him (and he knows it). This is an ex-library book, discarded. Lovely story for any age horse-lover. $4 plus post.

Waiting for Stardust (from the "Thoroughbred" Series of novels for young adults)
by Campbell, Joanna Used - Very Good Paperback 1999; almost like new except for a crease on front cover corner. Doesn't appear to have been read. Extremely tight, binding is not "broken" yet by reading. Here's one of the rare special books in this famous series. It can be yours. From one horse lover to another! $4 plus post

A Horse Called Wonder
(from the "Thoroughbred" Series of novels for young adults)
by Campbell, Joanna
Also used, but in almost-new condition. Our girl Ashleigh struggles to save a foal's life. $4 plus post.

The Forbidden Stallion
(from the "Thoroughbred" Series of novels for young adults)
by Campbell, Joanna
Again, used but in great shape. Ashleigh sneaks into the neighbor's paddock and rides a racehorse. $4 plus post.

Humbert: Mister Firkin and the Lord Mayor of London
by John Burningham
New copy; 32 pages, new 2000 edition, soft cover; large format 9.6 x 8.5 inches. A draft (cart) horse hauling scrap iron on the streets of London has his fifteen minutes of fame when the Lord Mayor's golden coach breaks down. The snobby brewery horses have to go back to the stable while Humbert saves the day. Hilarious, with a nice message at the end about humane treatment of city horses. The art in this book is incredible! Last copy, $7.95 plus post.

Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell
Hardcover, date unknown, estimated 1970s.
Ah yes, you know this book, but have you seen it with theses illustrations? Walter Seaton does a lovely job of illustrating the story that we are accustomed to seeing with Lucy Kemp-Welch's art. This is an unusual edition from Doubleday. No cover but hardcover is illustrated. In typical used condition. $3 plus post.

Chucaro, Wild Pony of the Pampa
by Francis Kalnay
Hardcover,1958, very good condition, lightly soiled on cover on white areas
Black Beauty, South American style? This terrific tales follows a cold on the Argentine plains through a life of being the object of affection of both the station owner's son and the poor gaucho's son. This is an old-fashioned tale where the poor kid struggles against authority and wealth for the love of a horse. Good stuff. $3 plus post.

Crazy for Horses
by Karen Briggs, photos by Shawn Hamilton
Soft cover, 32 pages, all color
A photo guide to horse breeds for reference by most everyone, but sort of packaged to appeal to junior high and older kids. A handy book to have around. Brand new.
$2 plus post

JUMP! Six Card Games
Have fun with kids away from television! Great for road trips, campouts, all that downtime at horse shows or when the power's off. Brand new, still in shrink wrap. Cost new $9.95; blog price $4 plus post.

Blaze and the Gray Spotted Pony

by C.W. Anderson

Hardcover with jacket, ex-library, 46 pages.

A classic by one of the foremost illustrators of horses in the 20th century. And one of my favorites. This is an ex-library copy with all the usual stamps and labels but the beautiful drawings and the lovely story are strong enough to hold their own. Lovely, lovely book. $4 plus post.

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Horse-Related Fiction: Novels, Mysteries and Short Stories

Stalking Horse
by Bill Shoemaker
Hardcover with dust jacket, first edition, 311 pages.
I meant to read it, I really did. Now you can read it and tell me all about it. This copy is in very good condition but it is a used book, however unread. It has a little shopwear and the former owner wrote the date on the endpaper. It's yours for $3 plus post.

Flying Changes
by Sara Gruen
Author of "Water for Elephants"
Emotions run deep at Maple Brook Farm. Whehter it's galloping across country or a collision course with self-truth, this author guides the story with a gentle rein. Like New. $5 plus post.

Horse Play
by Judy Reene Singer
"A horse may throw you...but he'll never dump you!" This book will make you laugh. Published in 2004, it immerses you in the world of dressage, where an adult working student from the real world paints an endlessly entertaining picture of dressage riders who don't really have to deal with much reality. This is an x-library copy in like-new condition. Have a laugh! $5 plus post.

The Horse Whisperer
by Nicholas Evans
AUDIO BOOK on four cassettes (abridged)
The book was better than the movie, that's all I can say. And this is a good reader, Peter Coyote. The description of the truck wreck is sooooo realistic, keep your hands on the wheel if you are going to listen to that part! $5 plus post.

Kentucky Heat
by Fern Michaels
Hardcover, first edition, 2002
Kentucky's Diamond clan is battling the legal system and each other to breed and train a Derby prospect. Can Nealy pull it off? A great beach read or long plane ride. Like-new condition with perfect dust jacket. $5 plus post.

Horse Heaven
by Jane Smiley
Here's the trade paperback edition. Big enough to get your hands around and you will keep them there for all 561 pages. This book is one that I enjoyed immensely, though I sometimes got confused about which horse was which. This isn't the copy I read, though. I wish it had been so nice. This is a brand new copy that I thought would sell, but my farrier and vet customers weren't convinced they wanted to read it. But you know better. Jane Smiley did win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, after all. It is a little worn around the edges from its travels to trade shows. $8 plus post.

Bolt
by Dick Francis
Hardcover, dust jacket, new condition, 1987
Someone is shooting the horses of Newmarket. Can Kit Fielding find the shooter without getting shot himself? I love Dick Francis and you will too once you dive into this one. $4 plus post.

Whip Hand
by Dick Francis
Hardcover, dust jacket, very good condition, first US edition, 1979
Why is someone trying to harm the racehorses in investigator Sid Halley's ex-father-in-law's stable? You know it will be an exciting ride to find out the answer! This is classic Dick Francis and all about racing! The binding is a little pulled on this copy but the pages are all still sewn in and the dust jacket is in good shape, though faded a bit. Gift inscription written in front. $3 plus post.

Airs Above the Ground
by Mary Stewart
Hardcover, no dust jacket, 286 pages
This book is a little beat up, but it's all there. A great reading copy. This is the mystery set amidst the Spanish Riding School's Lipizzaners in post-World War II Vienna. A great escape! $3 post post.

The New Treasury of Great Racing Stories
Edited by Dick Francis and John Welcome
Hardcover with dust jacket, very good condition, 1994
Fourteen great stories, mostly British and Irish themed, will help you escape. Great book for a long flight. These are the classics--Damon Runyon included! $6 plus post

Driving Force

by Dick Francis

Hardcover, dust jacket, 318 pages, like new.

What angle of horse racing has Dick Francis not used as a device for a murder? In this one, he's set the plot inside a horse van delivering Thoroughbreds to a racecourse. What can possibly go wrong? Lots! $4 plus post.

MOO
by Jane Smiley
Softcover, 414 pages, used, well-read.
Hilarious and insightful novel set at a midwest university where the ag school ("Moo U") is like an industrial complex. A genetically enhanced hog is hidden in a university warehouse, a horse suffers from eternal navicular disease, and everything hinges on huge grants, alumni funding, and the future of the family farm. Oh, and how the sports teams do. Worth a read $2 plus post.

Ruff Way to Go
by Leslie O'Kane
Hardcover, like new. Ok, it's not about horses. Allie Babcock is a pet therapist/detective who knows that the dog knows who dunnit. For mystery lovers and dog fans! $2 plus post.

Our Horses in Egypt
by Rosalind Belben
Hardcover, 310 pages.
The best storyline for a novel in years. Emma Thompson will definitely play the lead when they make this a movie. At the end of World War I, a British woman is distressed when the local boys come home but her mare who was donated to the army does not. She finds out she was abandoned in Egypt with all the other British mounts. So...she goes to bring back her favorite hunter. And what she finds and how she manages is quite a tale. Told also from the horse's experience. You will never forget the Dorset Yeomanry marching across Palestine and the farriers who had no shoes for the horses...and how they suffered. What an unusual and remarkable book. I'm selling it just because I think someone else should read it. I had it sent over from England. $10 plus post

Love and Country
by Christina Adam
Soft cover, 276 pages
Hey, a rodeo novel! A single mom and her son move out west and get caught up in rodeo and the horse world. The western lifestyle and country and western music as a cure for what ails the eastern neurosis. It could be right...well-written. Like new. $2 plus post.

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BOOKS for CHILDREN not about horses

Mr Buzz the Beeman
by Allen Ahlberg, Illustrated by Faith Jacques
Hardcover, 1981, color illustrations
The bees are swarming! What a great way to teach children that honey bees are important to our farms and to a lot of the food we eat. Mr Buzz goes chasing after a swarm from one of his hives and everyone in town is concerned. They all join in with him to chase the bees and bring them home. You have to love it. $2 plus post.

Blossom Comes Home

by James Herriot, Illustrated by Ruth Brown. Hardcover.

This cow is something else. She's not about to be sent to market and she fools the vet and her owner. One of Herriot's heartwarming tales showcased for children who will love the independent nature of his cow. It's a classic. Book is ex-library with stamps and stickers, but you'll love it anyway. $2 plus post.

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