Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa (First Edition, 1958, Edgartown Library Thayer Collection Provenance)

Language: English

Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1958

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Acceptable / Acceptable: paper loss to jacket spine. Ex libris, interior text unmarked. First Edition. 1958. Harcourt, Brace, New York. Hardcover: Acceptable in terracotta cloth, corner bumping, edge & shelf wear, tape ghosting to margins. Acceptable illustrated dust jacket, unclipped $2.75, original New York Herald Tribune Spring Book Festival prize frog seal to the front panel; paper loss to the spine fold, chipping, closed tears to the flap folds. Provenance: Edgartown Free Public Library & Edward Davis Thayer Collection bookplates, Lauriat's of Boston ticket. Line illustrations by Julian de Miskey. 126 pp. 6.0x8.25 in. (Octavo). Kalnay's tale of a boy, a gaucho and a wild pony on the Argentine pampa, a 1959 Newbery Honor book. Ships in a box, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa carries readers to the grasslands of South America. Francis Kalnay's 1958 juvenile novel follows twelve-year-old Pedro and his gaucho mentor Juan as they find and gentle a spirited wild pony on a great cattle estancia. Conflict arrives when the wealthy ranch owner claims the horse for his own son, and Pedro and Juan set out to protect the animal while confronting rigid social divides. Gaucho folklore, estancia custom, and South American equestrian tradition run through the narrative. Harcourt, Brace published the book in New York in 1958. Julian de Miskey, the Hungarian-American artist and longtime New Yorker contributor, provided black-and-white line illustrations and a two-page title spread. National recognition followed publication: the 1958 New York Herald Tribune Children's Spring Book Festival Prize and a 1959 Newbery Honor. The copy carries documented Martha's Vineyard provenance from the Edward Davis Thayer Collection at the Edgartown Free Public Library. Thayer was a Massachusetts woolen manufacturer whose family kept a summer residence at Starbuck's Neck in Edgartown and endowed literary collections for the island community. A period bookseller ticket from Lauriat's of Boston and Chestnut Hill traces the volume's original retail distribution. Kalnay drew on firsthand experience living among gauchos on the Argentine pampas, and the novel is his most widely recognized work, valued for its cultural grounding and its mid-century illustration.…

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Title
Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa (First Edition, 1958, Edgartown Library Thayer Collection Provenance)
Author
Francis Kalnay
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York
Publication year
1958
Condition
FAIR
Dust jacket
Dust Jacket Included
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Julian de Miskey
Edition
First Edition.
Item weight
49 ounces
Dimensions
6.0 x 8.25 in
Seller catalogs
Children, Children's Collectable Books, First & Collectable Editions

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