TSLN-0002 · Shelf Class D · Reference — does not circulate
The Amateur Trainer
Ed. F. Haberlein · Self-published, Beaver Dam, Wis. · 1898
“Patience is the trainer's whole outfit; the rest is a whistle and a check-cord.” — Preface
Sample review — placeholder prose until Durrell writes the real one.
A slim, self-published manual from a Wisconsin trainer with a lot of opinions and a check-cord in every photograph. This is the reference copy: too brittle to mail, so it stays on the shelf and you come sit with it. Worth the trip for the plates alone.
Reference shelf — by appointment · Read at the bench, not by mail
Condition: Fragile — original wraps, chipped, brittle text block; handle on the bench only · Published 1898, before 1931 — in the US public domain.
ask me at the bench — D.S.