![Item #31256 Wallace's Year Book of Trotting and Pacing in 1929 [complete vol. 42], and Wallace's...](/pictures/thumb/31256.jpg?v=1672745885)
Goshen, NY: American Trotting Register Association, 1929, 1930. First edition. Hardcover (leather). Part 1: 520p. Part 2: 310p. Bound at the end of Part 2 is Volume 26 of Wallace's American Trotting Register (1930) 104p. No ills. No jacket, as issued. Part 1 of the Year Book includes race summaries..... More
![Item #30673 Rysdyk's Hambletonian [real photo postcard]. Anonymous](/pictures/thumb/30673.jpg?v=1641843367)
N.p. No stated publisher, n.d. [ca. 1920s-40s]. No stated edition. Unbound. Reproduces one of the mid-19th-century lithographs showing William Rysdyk and his great trotting sire Hambletonian. Similar to but not the same as the Henry C. Eno or Currier & Ives compositions. Here the hay rack is on the left..... More
![Item #30648 Celebrated Stallion "Tippoosaib" [half-brother of Hambletonian 10?]. E. Anthony, H...](/pictures/thumb/30648.jpg?v=1640696282)
New York: E. & H.T. Anthony, n.d. [ca. 1860s]. Anthony, E. & H.T. No stated edition. Stereo card. In the series Beauties of the Hudson River, no. 4188. Published ca. 1864-1868. Dated from the Anthony address on the back (501 Broadway) and from the 2-cent orange tax stamp. Image is..... More
N.p. Unpublished, 1879. Hardcover. 208p, many line ills. of locks, keys, door knobs, etc. Several pages removed throughout. The compiler has pasted many periodical articles onto the first ca. 40 pages of a Parker & Whipple Company trade catalogue for locks and related hardware (based in Meriden, CT). The articles..... More
Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1985. Bonnot, Agnes. First edition. Soft cover. 72p, ca. 40 black-and-white photos by Bonnot. Short text in French by Caujolle. Old bookstore price sticker on back of lightly shelfsoiled vellum jacket. Evocative photos of horses in many guises--harness racing, in training at Saumur, close-up details in the..... More
N.p. Unpublished, [ca. late 1890s]. Soft cover (limp leather). 134p, a few mounted reproductions of photos. Pages from various trotting farm catalogues (chiefly Bryn Mawr Stock Farm) have been mounted on the righthand pages. The descriptions, pedigrees, and records of the horses are often corrected or updated by hand. On..... More
Bologna: Tipografia Compositori, 1953. Morris, George Ford; Dickey, Robert. First edition. Hardcover (skewed from size but sturdy). 28p + 72 genealogical tables of leading American and French Standardbred stallions; 5 mounted pls. Skewed; covers rather stained and rippled; some pages damp-stained but overall internally good, clean, and sturdy. Further condition..... More
New York: A.S. Barnes, 1955. Dennis, Wesley. First edition. Illustration by Wesley Dennis. Price is clipped. JACKET ONLY for this children's trotting horse story. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
![Item #30930 Catalogue of Maple Park [Standardbreds]. A. C. Fisk, proprietor](/pictures/thumb/30930.jpg?v=1653390604)
Coldwater, MI: Michigan Horse News, 1892. First edition. Stapled soft cover. 24 pp, 4 plates showing the stallions Latitude 4870, Judean 5154, Great Heart 11172, and Highlawn Prince 15456. Ca. 6 x 8 inches. .Advertises 5 stallions plus several other trotters, pacers, mares, and young horses for sale. Family and..... More
Lehigh, Ind. Ter. [Oklahoma]: No stated publisher, 1898. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. One newsprint sheet advertising the services of the trotting stallion Gold Dust, "the best bred horse west of the Mississippi River." Ca. 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. In the late 1800s Lehigh, located in coal country..... More
![Item #31000 [Program--July 3, 1948]. Goshen Raceway](/pictures/thumb/31000.jpg?v=1657990954)
N.p. [Goshen Historic Track], 1948. First edition. Unbound sheet. One sheet of duplicated typescript. Ca. 8 1/2 x 14 inches. Folded and slightly wrinkled. Some results penciled in. Photo shows top half of the program. Lists 11 races (all with heats), including entries for the 2 elimination heats of the..... More
Cincinnati: C.T. Woodrow & Co., printer, 1880. First edition. Soft cover. 16p, no ills. Lists 23 stallions, mares, and young horses, all with family information. The stallions were Solicitor (with 7-generation pedigree), Lord Coke, and Barrister. The stallions and young horses were for sale. Can be sent outside the US..... More
![Item #31162 [Chromolithographed advertising card]. N. H. Lancaster, Agricultural Fair](/pictures/thumb/31162.jpg?v=1666095662)
Cincinnati: Strobridge Lith. Co., 1893. No stated edition. Unbound card. Card no. 1 in an unidentified series. Ca. 5 x 3 inches. Advertises the Twenty-Fourth Annual Fair of the Coos and Essex Agricultural Society, Lancaster, N.H. Front shows 3 trotting horses put to high-wheeled sulkies. Back lists the fair events--9..... More
[Lewiston]: No stated publisher, 1952. First edition. Stapled soft cover. 12p, 1 ill. on cover. Ca. 5 1/2 x 10 inches. Entries, with past performances, for 8 trotting and pacing races held at the fair's 6th session. One is Class A, the rest are C and D. Results and times..... More
Boston: Mark W. Cross & Co., 1891. First edition. Soft cover. 100p, many line ills., some photos. Ca. 11 x 9 inches. Covers stained, rubbed. Trade catalogue from this fabled horse goods firm, which claimed to be "the largest horse furnishing establishment in the world." Its faded painted sign can..... More
Goshen, NY: [Author], n.d. [1910 or later]. No stated edition. Unbound sheet, accordion folded to make 8 pages. 8p, no ills. Ca. 3 1/4 x 6 inches, folded. In this pamphlet Mills introduces his qualifications to “secretaries, managers, and executive committees of trotting meetings”—as a longtime owner, breeder, trainer, driver..... More
![Item #31085 Central Washington Agricultural Society Cattle Show and Fair [premium list]. No named...](/pictures/thumb/31085.jpg?v=1661858168)
Machias, ME: Furbish & Kingsley [printer], 1889. First edition. Stapled soft cover. 40p, a few line ills. in ads. Vest-pocket sized. About 16 pages list the prizes for dozens of classes for horses, livestock, manufactured items, arts and crafts (including the "best knit drawers"), crops and produce, and the trotting..... More
![Item #30897 [Very Early Action Photo of Trotting Race Finish, Charter Oak Track, Hartford]. No...](/pictures/thumb/30897.jpg?v=1650914775)
N.d. [1880s]. Mounted photo. Mounted original photo in carte-de-visite format. Ca. 4 x 6 inches, printed in sepia. The handwritten notes on the back incorrectly identify the track as Washington Park and two of the horses as Bonita and Felix. This photo is very similar to one reproduced in the..... More
Independence, IA: No stated publisher, 1891. First edition. Stapled soft cover. 52p, a few ills. in the ads. Lightly age browned and edge-worn, lower corners dogeared, short closed crease to right side of title. If there were any covers, they aren’t present. Ca. 10 x 14 inches. Volume 1, number..... More
Goshen, NY: Orange County Driving Park Association, n.d. [1954]. First edition. Soft cover. 45p, many photos of races, horses, and personalities. Summary of the meeting, giving one page to each featured race—photo, description, and heat results. The 100th anniversary of Historic Track was celebrated with a pageant of horses, riders..... More
Owosso, MI: Owosso Press Steam Print [printer], March 1879. First edition. Sewn softcover. 28p, no ills. except the same line cut on front and back cover. Two gatherings are loosening; others may follow. Removed from a bound volume, spine neatly taped. Cover printed in red and black. Ca. 3 1/4..... More
![Item #30183 Score Card [harness and flat racing]. Geneva Pre-Emption Park, NY](/pictures/thumb/30183.jpg?v=1633973522)
No stated place [Geneva, NY?]: No stated publisher, N.d. [1890s]. First edition. Unbound card. One card, ca. 5 ½ x 7 inches. Pencil notes on both sides, though not full race results. Creased, worn, edge tears. No loss. Lists 2 trotting races and 1 running race, each with a few..... More
![Item #16989 Prince Alert, a King among Light Harness Horses [1903 stereo card]. William H. Rau,...](/pictures/thumb/16989.jpg?v=1633973455)
Philadelphia: Sold by Universal View Co., Philadelphia and Lawrence, KS, 1903. No stated edition. Very good stereo card, printed in rich sharp tones. The back is plain. The title continues, "Mile Pacing Record made in 1903, 1 min. 57 seconds." Prince Alert made racing history when he became the first..... More
![Item #31411 Letter to Mr [Randolph] Huntington + Clay Pilot stallion card. Byron Rowe](/pictures/thumb/31411.jpg?v=1678806655)
Unpublished, 1885. Unbound sheet. Note with envelope sent from Brookfield, WI, on letterhead of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. Dated May 24 (27?), 1885. Together with a stallion card. In blue pencil on back of letter: "Confidential & please return to R. Huntington." Rowe asks Huntington how "the..... More
![Item #30363 Breeders' Trotting Stud Book: Vol. 1 [1881]; Comprising the Pedigrees of the...](/pictures/thumb/30363.jpg?v=1633973566)
Chicago: J.H. Sanders, 1881. First edition. Hardcover (original half-leather). 464p + engraved frontispiece of Maude S. by E. Forbes. Covers scuffed; internally very good, clean, sturdy, complete. A pioneering compilation of 2:30 horses and their relatives, based on extensive research in printed sources and from firsthand accounts. The first edition..... More
