Black Beauty: The Autobiography Of A Horse.
by Sewell, Anna
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/--
- Seller
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LOrignal, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
World Publishing Company, New York., 1946. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/--. 8 3/8 H x 5 3/4 W x 1 1/16 inch. Book 13HC1056. NON SMOKING STORE. My listing includes PHOTO OF ACTUAL BOOK for sale. Book Interior NEAR FINE / Boards Very Good / Dust Jacket Missing. Sewn binding. Book pages feel very gently read, perhaps once. Boards are beige cloth, lettering gilt in black rectangle on spine with lovely gilt prancing horse, front and back boards have green outline prancing horses with a bush, a tree and four birds flying and with a beige background with alternating solid green horizontal stripe, then beige, then a mixed stripe of light green and pink. Book spine is straight, square, solid, no sunning, no chips, slight edge wear to top and bottom free ends, at top right of black rectangle the black is mostly rubbed off in a triangle 1 3/4 inches H x 3/8 W at top going down to a fine point, near bottom of black rectangle the black is off in small dots. Book boards and spine are flat, clean, bright, no rips, one very slightly tipped corner point, no spine creases, no sunning, the two lower corner tips are worn at the very point only, the front cover has two small dark brown dots and a light red dot, book has minor edge wear. Page edges 2 white, slightly sunned and top edges are yellow still bright with two tiny dents ball point tip size. Inner end papers are beige with a two-page green drawing of a groom exercising a horse on a lead. Next front page in has 1/2 page of Christmas gift wish to grand daughter dated 1958. Inside of book is tight, clean, bright, clear, flat. Page 116 has a small horizontal crease across 1/2 width and there is a jagged tear to the outside bottom edge of the page with paper missing going up 7/8 inch from bottom on the side edge an extending 11/16 inches across bottom edge, then going up an average of 3/16 inches extending 2 inches further across the bottom. Rainbow Classics Series. A gorgeous frontispiece painting and lovely colour illustrations and black line drawings by May Lamberton Becker. Illustrations by Wesley Dennis.
Synopsis
First published under the full title: Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions. The Autobiography of a Horse. Translated from the Equine, by Jarrold and Sons London in 1877, the novel now known as simply Black Beauty was written by English author Anna Sewell. The first American editions from 1890 have the added title ' The “Uncle Tom's Cabin” of the Horse' as promoters of the novel hoped it would do for animal welfare what Stowe's novel did for the abolition of slavery. Anna Sewell was born in 1820 in Great Yarmouth, England. She suffered an accident as a child that left her crippled and dependent on carriage horses as her main source of mobility. She began writing Black Beauty in 1871, and continued through 1877 though her health was deteriorating. In December 1876 she wrote in her diary "I have been confined to the house and to my sofa, from time to time, when I am able, been writing what I think will turn out a little book, its special aim being to induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses". Her mother, Mary Wright Sewell, was a successful children's author, and Anna helped edit her books, and later her mother helped Anna transcribe Black Beauty . An animal autobiography, told by the magnificent black horse himself, this is the dramatic and heartwarming tale of Black Beauty's life-from his idyllic days on a country squire's estate to his harsh fate as a London cab horse. Although not originally intended as a children's novel, but for people who work with horses, it soon became a children's classic. Two years after the release of Black Beauty in the United States there were one million copies in circulation. Today Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books in history, with over 50 million copies sold in 50 different languages. The earliest dated inscribed copies are Christmas 1877. Although the book was an immediate bestseller, Sewell lived just long enough to see her first and only novel become a success – she died on 25 April 1878.
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Reviews
On Sep 8 2005, Marydeme said:
While living at Squire Gordon's country estate, the spirited young horse, Black Beauty, is well taken care of an happy. But when the squire is forced to sell off his horses, Black Beauty's life changes as he is passed from one curel master to another. After much hardship and perseverance, Black Beauty finds a home full of love and kindness.
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- Bookseller
- WILLOWBAY BOOKS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Black Beauty: The Autobiography Of A Horse.
- Author
- Sewell, Anna
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine/--
- Edition
- Presumed First Edition
- Publisher
- World Publishing Company, New York.
- Date Published
- 1946
- Pages
- 315 Pages.
- Size
- 8 3/8 H x 5 3/4 W x 1 1/16 inch
- Bookseller catalogs
- Vintage;
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