From HORSE BOOKS PLUS LLC, Boston, VA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 27 February 1998
About this Item
Gift quality 1st Adam & Charles Black, London hardcover edition 1959 in brown paper covered boards showing several small marks from nearby past adhesive, no longer present. Original un-clipped dust wrapper illustrated by Peter Biegel with a wrap around color plate of Beauty and Ginger galloping in a pasture as a fox hunt passes by in the next field. DJ has a few vertical wrinkles from past life in a too small mylar, now remedied in new mylar but wrinkle remains. Haven't tried ironing it, you can. Tiny bits of color loss at extremities, ghosting from a long ago price tag on rear dj panel, doesn't obscure reading the blurb printed there. No names, writing or damage found save for foxing on the endpapers. Illustrated within 258 pages are eight full color glossy plates by Percy F. S. Spence and eight b/w line sketches by K. F. Barker. An uncommon edition of this wonderful tale by Anna Sewell, written not as a children's book, but as a head's up to the Victorians of the day that horses (and cattle) were over-burdened and over worked in the streets and fields of England and that mercy to them and all animals was a must goal to achieve. This book had much to do to begin animal welfare leagues the world over. Seller Inventory # 48587
Bibliographic Details
Title: Black Beauty The Life Story of a Horse
Publisher: Adam & Charles Black
Publication Date: 1957
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.
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