![Item #31256 Wallace's Year Book of Trotting and Pacing in 1929 [complete vol. 42], and Wallace's...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31256.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30673.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30648.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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N.p. Unpublished, 1879.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
Cobbleskill, NY: Compiled and published by Harry W. Brunell, n.d. [ca. 1886). No stated edition, probably first and only. Soft cover. N.p. [over 100p], no ills. Penciled numerals on inside front cover, occasional penciling elsewhere. Ca. 4 x 5 1/2 inches. Alphabetical lists of 2:30 trotters and pacers to 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N.p. Unpublished, [ca.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
Fort Riley, KS: Press of the Mounted Services School, 1915. First edition. Soft cover, placed by former owner into a photograph album. Ca. 50p, no ills. but many family tables. Presentation from Danford to army surgeon Major D.W. McEnery. The front cover reads "Photographs." This the only book I know..... More
White River Junction, VT: Fellows the Photographer, n.d. [ca. 1900]. Fellows, George E. Mounted photograph. Vintage sepia-toned photo of a Standardbred mare, Martha Wilkes, who is identified in the upper left. Photo is ca. 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches, mount is ca. 10 x 8 inches. Mount is scuffed..... More
![Item #30930 Catalogue of Maple Park [Standardbreds]. A. C. Fisk, proprietor](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30930.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31000.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31162.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
![Item #31527 Use Gombault's Caustic Balsam [with portrait of trotter Boralma 2:07]. Williams Co....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31527.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1684238734)
Cleveland: Lawrence, Williams Co., n.d. [ca. 1902]. No stated edition. Unbound card. Chromolithographed trade card, ca. 5 x 3 1/2 inches. Ink stamp of G. Jay Tompkins (a local distributor?) on back. Thomas Lawson's Boralma 2:07, "one of the most famous trotters seen on the turf," is used to advertise..... 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
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...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31085.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
[Chicago]: Horse Review, 1901. Dickey, Robert L. First edition. Unbound sheet. Photo supplement to the Christmas issue of Horse Review (December 10, 1901). Removed from the journal. Folded, as issued. Ca. 20 1/2 x 15 inches, unfolded. Portraits of 15 harness horses associated with Billings--6 photos in harness with various..... More
![Item #30897 [Very Early Action Photo of Trotting Race Finish, Charter Oak Track, Hartford]. No...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30897.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
Minneapolis: International Food Co., n.d. [ca. 1901]. No stated edition. Soft cover. 16p, 15 ills. Closed tears to front cover, neatly though unprofessionally mended on the inside. Dogeared. Stapled binding loosening. Newsprint pages age browned, lightly stained. Small promotional booklet for M.W. Savage's International Stock Food products, featuring photomechanical line..... 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
