Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions. The Autobiography of a Horse. Translated from the Original Equine

by Anna Sewell

$18,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

London: Jarrold and Sons, 1877. First edition, first printing. Original publisher's gilt and black stamped green cloth, wood-engraved frontispiece by C. Hewitt, 8 pp. of publisher's advertisements in rear. In Carter's C binding, with a small gilt horse's head medallion, looking to the left, as is virtually always found Carter, More Binding Variants, 37-38 . Fine with light wear to extremities, moderate foxing to all edges.

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