Elegant Equine Art
The 29th Annual Art Auction of the HTA College Scholarship Fund
Tattersalls - Lexington, KY
Friday & Saturday mornings, October 6-7, 2006, 8:30a.m. until Noon

No Buyer's Premium.  Telephone Bidding Available.

 

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Catalog Numbers 236-255         NEXT

236. HEAD ON

Zenon Aniszewski

Watercolor, 15 x 11

SOLD - $700

237. THE TROTTING AND THE PACING HORSE IN AMERICA

Hamilton Busbey

1904, 369 pp. #79 of special ed. of 100, bound in 1/4 morocco leather, gilt edges and raised bands on spine, marbled end papers, a beautiful book.

SOLD - $150

238. WALLACE'S AMERICAN STUD BOOK

Volume 1, 1867, exceptional copy, bound in 3/4 green leather gilt edges and bands on spine.  Scarce.

SOLD - $350

239. WALLACE'S YEAR BOOKS

Long consecutive run from volume 1 of 1885 to volume 44 of 1931.  Volumes 1 and 2 alone are extremely rare collectors' items, and the run is complete for the years indicated. 

(An almost identical set is available at the hammer price of the first, the second set also containing volumes 1 and 2 of 1885 and 1886)

SOLD - $3000

240. MESSENGER AND LADY SUFFOLK

John Hervey, 2 volumes, Derry dale Press. Messenger, 1935, 65 pp., #110 of 500. The history of the founder of the American breed of trotting horse. Lady Suffolk, 1936, 127 pp., number 283 of 500, the history of the Old Grey Mare of Long Island, of song and legend.

Selling as a Set

SOLD - $300

 

241. THE AMERICAN TROTTER

John Hervey, 1947, 551 pp., w/dj. The definitive history of the Standardbred.

RNA

 

242. DRIVERS UP

Dwight Akers, 1939, 367 pp., front cover soiled. A romanticized, fascinating history of harness racing.

SOLD - $35

 

243. THE GAIT OF THE AMERICAN TROTTER AND PACER

Rudolph Jordan Jr. 1910, 324 pp. The most comprehensive book on gait ever written. Extremely rare.

SOLD - $500

 

244. HEART THROBS AND HOOF BEATS

Walter Palmer, 1922, 106 pp. illus., ex libris. The finest book of harness racing poetry.

RNA

245. THE AMERICAN TROTTER

S. W. Parlin, 1905, 319 pp. Parlin’s history of the trotter’s origin and development.

RNA

246. THE STORY OF A GREAT HORSE, CRESCEUS

John McCartney, 1902, 211 pp. The fascinating story of the champion trotter of the early 1900s.

RNA

247. THE MOMENT OF TRUTH

Zenon Aniszewski

Oil, 24 x 30

SOLD - $1800

248. CLOSE TO GOAL

Zenon Aniszewski

Watercolor, 21.5 x 29.5

SOLD - $400

249. SWISS

Zenon Aniszewski

Watercolor, 16.5 x 22

SOLD - $375

250. GUILERMO

Zenon Aniszewski

Watercolor, 18.5 x 13

SOLD - $550

251.  NEAR SIDE

Zenon Aniszewski

Watercolor, 13.5 x 19.5

SOLD - $350

252. THE QUARTET

Ferenc Flamm

Oil, 25.5 x 31.5

SOLD - $350

253. WHAM!

Zenon Aniszewski

Watercolor, 13.5 x 18.5

SOLD - $300

254. WINTER GAME

Ferenc Flamm

Oil, 25.5 x 31.5

SOLD - $300

255. BILLY POST AND HIS BAY POLO PONY

George Ford Morris

Oil, 22 x 28

Morris painted this commissioned work in 1929 for the Fred H. Post family.  It appears as a full page black and white on 221 of Portraitures of Horses.

SOLD - $10,000

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