Search Results: Sports from Kate Mitas, Bookseller

Denver, CO: The Cycling West Publishing Co., 1897. Very Good. Approx. 6-1/4" x 8-1/2". Letterhead half-sheet, text and printing to recto only. Fold lines, slight crease to upper corner. Very good. TLs addressed to N. N Hill Brass Co., East Hampton, Connecticut, acknowledging receipt of a letter on the 19th and assuring the reader that "we take pleasure in giving publication to item regarding your factories, which will appear in our issue of Jan 28th. Electrotype will be returned to your office as soon as possible." The letter is signed by The Cycling West Publishing Co.'s business manager, G. A. Wahlgreen.The letterhead is lovely, featuring a cowboy riding a bicycle across the plains, lassoing a cow.According to an add in Spalding's Official Bicycle Guide of 1899, The Cycling West had "the largest circulation of any class or trade weekly west of Chicago" and was the "official organ for the California associated cycling clubs, reaching their entire membership weekly."

Philadelphia: Racego Game Company, (1921). Good in a Poor box. Box: 9-3/4 x 12 inches. Game includes: linen board printed in green, yellow, black and red, 26-1/2 x 26-3/4 inches when unfolded; [4]pp set of directions for play, printed in black on cream paper; six metal playing pieces in the shape of jockeys riding horses, painted black or brown, numbered consecutively, and housed in a cardboard holder with individual "stalls" for the pieces; cardboard box containing 60 flat, circular red, white and blue bone betting counters.Based on a description of Go! in a 1922 ad in Modern Stationer, this copy of the game is lacking 40 betting counters, but is otherwise complete. Heavy wear to box, with splitting to all edges and numerous neat black tape repairs; apron missing from one side of the lid, and the lid is now taped to the base at that edge, so it opens like a hinge. Light wear to directions; some scuffing to playing pieces. Scarce horse racing-themed board game that capitalizes on the popularity of… Read More