The Book of Famous Horses

First edition hardcover in red cloth covered boards showing bumped & rubbed tips & spine ends and a 1/2" split in head of rear board and some handling marks. Full cover paste-on art shows color loss, it mirrors the dust jacket frt panel. No names or tears in the tight, crisp 198pp text, only some light foxing on verso glossy plates. Hinges good, light glue residue from removed book plate on fep. Rare, facsimile price-clipped dust wrapper shows small repaired chips at tips & spine ends, now in new mylar and displays well. Author's introduction to several war horses: Buccephalus, Marengo, Copenhagen, Nelson, Traveler, Black Renzi, Old Sorrel, Comanche, Dandy and Vic, as well as ones we've heard/read of that didn't go to war like Justin Morgan, Eclipse, Many O'War, Maud S. and Old Clover.

Product Info

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company/ The Riverside Press

Year: 1929

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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