BEST HORSE STORIES
O'Mara, Lesley (editor) (introduction by John Francome) (Charles G. D. Roberts; Luigi Pirandello; Enid Bagnold; H. E. Bates; Rudyard Kipling; Barbara Woodhouse; David Gray; James Herriot; Jack Schaefer; Clare Leighton; Will James; Donn Byrne)
Language: English
Published by Wings Books - Random House, New York, 1992
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256 pp. Yellow boards lettered in black on the spine; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Dj art by William Geldart. This anthology contains: A Stranger to the Wild by Charles G. D. Roberts; Black Horses by Luigi Pirandello; The Gymkhana by Enid Bagnold; Sugar for the Horse by H. E. Bates; The Maltese Cat by Rudyard Kipling; My First Wild Horse by Barbara Woodhouse; Mr Carteret and His Fellow Americans Abroad by David Gray; An Expensive Operation by James Herriot; The 500 Mile Race from Deadwood to Omaha by Jack Schaefer; The Horse Show by Clare Leighton; First Money by Will James; Tale of the Gipsy (Gypsy) Horse by Donn Byrne; How Mr Pickwick Undertook to Drive and Mr Winkle to Ride by Charles Dickens; Philippa's Fox Hunt by E. Somerville and Martin Ross; A Genuine Mexican Plug by Mark Twain; Lost in the Moors by Diana Pullein-Thompson; Ballinasloe Buys and Point-to-Points by Marjorie Quarton; and A Happy Ending by Anna Sewell. Size: 8vo.
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- Title
- BEST HORSE STORIES
- Author
- O'Mara, Lesley (editor) (introduction by John Francome) (Charles G. D. Roberts; Luigi Pirandello; Enid Bagnold; H. E. Bates; Rudyard Kipling; Barbara Woodhouse; David Gray; James Herriot; Jack Schaefer; Clare Leighton; Will James; Donn Byrne)
- Publisher
- Wings Books - Random House, New York
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0517072513
- ISBN 13
- 9780517072516
- Illustrator
- William Geldart;
- Edition
- Later Printing.
- Seller catalogs
- Pets and Others
BEST HORSE STORIES is a diverse collection of tales about all different breeds. You'll root for Kipling's The Maltese Cat, an appropriately uncommon name for a polo pony who inspires his team of underdogs in the heat of a match. How Mr. Pickwick Undertook to Drive and Mr. Winkle to Ride sharesin pure Dickensian style and humorthe tale of "four friends and their four-footed companion," and their lesson in how difficult it can be to get to your destination if your horse doesn't want to take you. And Herriot's An Expensive Operation reevaluates who is the higher and who the lower of beasts when a veterinarian has to deal with a beautiful and noble horse for a patient, but a client who's as stubborn as a mule.
Illustrated with vivid line drawings, BEST HORSE STORIES is a celebration of this graceful animal that will delight horsepeople and animal lovers alike.
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