HTA Scholarship Art Gallery

Quality Equine Art, Antiques and Rare Horse Books

(Net proceeds of all sales go to the HTA College Scholarship Fund, a 501 c 3 non-profit fund)

 

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The best of Svetlana Gadjieva, Russia’s talented architect-artist

                                                                        

The Old Gdansk           The Morning in St. Petersburg        Winter Palace         

Framed and Matted

The last masterpieces of the world renowned woodcarver John Kittelson

Belgian four-horse hitch

 

Yellowstone Coach

 

The Roundup, 8-feet, 2 inches long

 

The Oregon Trail, 8 feet,

3 inches long

 

The Budweiser Hitch, 9 feet, 3 inches long

Cold painted bronze trotter, c.1910, by John Czadek, for The Bergman Foundry, Austria; 10 x 5.5 x 8, exquisite.

 

 

 

RARE AND OUT-OF-PRINT HORSE BOOKS

Prices include handling and shipping…all books in good condition unless noted.

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Akers, Dwight.  DRIVERS UP.  The Story of American Harness Racing.  NY, 1938, 367 pp.  profusely illustrated.  A well-written, romanticized history of the sport from its earliest beginnings to Dean Hanover.  Good introduction to harness racing’s evolution in this country.

Hervey, John. THE AMERICAN TROTTER.  NY, 1947, 551 pp.  The most authoritative and definitive history of the American harness horse and American harness racing, to 1947, by the sport’s greatest historian.

Morris, George Ford. PORTRAITURES OF HORSES. 1952, 280 pp.

Palmer, Walter.  HEART THROBS AND HOOF BEATS.  San Jose, CA, 1922, 106 pp.  Poems of track, stable and fireside, the finest work of harness racing poetry ever published.  Includes such classics as The Hobbles Sadie Wore; To Uhlan; Those Old High Wheels;  E. F. Geers; The Secretary Man, etc.

Parlin, S.W.  THE AMERICAN TROTTER, A TREATISE ON HIS ORIGIN, HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT.  1905, 313 pages, illustrated.  Parlin was editor of The American Horse Breeder, and the book is a compilation of his articles that appeared in that magazine.  The book contains a valuable historical preface by Peter C. Kellogg (Hark Comstock), one of the leading harness writers and an outstanding auctioneer of the late 1800s.