Horses from Trench Books

Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica. Paperback. Good+. Three booklets from EB's "True Nature Series". Included are: Vol. 2 'Gray Squirrel'; Vol. 7 'Pride the Saddle Horse'; and Vol. 8 'Shep the Farm Dog'. All three show moderate wear, inscriptions on flyleaf. All are sound and complete. Price is for all three.

London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1956. First British Edition . Green Cloth. Fine/Very Good+. Clean and unmarked. Jacket shows minimal wear, not price clipped (7/6). "An imaginative reconstruction of the life of Anna Sewell (1820-1878), author of that most famous of all animal stories...". Compact volume, 77 pages.

New York: Random House, 1956. First Printing . Brown Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Light wear/bunm,ps to corners, clean and unmarked.

New York: Rand McNally, 1966. Seventh Printing . Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Wesley Dennis. Light wear at corners, name and address inside front cover, otherwise a nice copy. "The story of a courageous little horse".

New York: A.S. Barnes, 1945. Second Printing . Green Cloth. Good+/Poor. Edwin Megargee. Wear to edges and corners, related clippings are taped to the flyleaf and half-title page. Jacket quite ragged, edgewear, 2" chip at top of spine. The author, a horse authority, has put together a collection of over fifty horse stories by a wide variety of… Read more about this item

New York: Platt & Munk, 1965. Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Sam Savitt. Minimal wear at corners, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows edgewear, 3" closed tear bottom front, 1" chip to back. "An Outstanding Collection of 25 Stories by Well-Known Authors".

New York: Rand McNally, 1949. First Printing . Black Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Milton Menasco. Wear and soiling to covers, sound unmarked copy.

New York: Henry Holt, 1940. Tan Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. Jacob Bates Abbott. Wear, light soiling to covers, binding quite loose, name on flyleaf. Great reading copy of a popular horse story that later became a best-selling TAB/Scholastic paperback.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1949. Reprint . Green Tweed. Good+/Fair. Fading to edges of covers, previous owner's name on flyleaf and half-title page. Jacket shows edgewear, chips at spine ends (affecting titles). "The exciting story of America's first great race horse".

New York: Appleton-Century, 1938. Third Printing . Illustrated Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Light soiling, minor wear; sound and unmarked. A collection of ten horse stories that originally appeared in the old St. Nicholas Magazine. Various authors, including E. Vinton Blake, Izola Forrester, Charles Tenny Jackson, others. First published in 1923.

New York: Golden Press, 1969. Red Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Minimal wear, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows light shelfwear, rubbing. Peta moves to Tasmania to run a horse farm that is next to an infuriating neighbor named Nat Trentham. We know where this is going!

New York: Franklin Watts, 1951. Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Corinne Boyd Dillon. Wear at edges, clean and unmarked. The story of a young Kentucky boy and his love for horses.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1939. Tan Cloth. Very Good/Good. Minor shelfwear, '15' written in corner of inside front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket shows edgewear and light soiling. Scarum is a twelve-year old ranch girl who rides her pony Nixie ten miles to school and back every day. Adventure ensues.

New York: Random House, 1968. Pictorial Cover. Very Good+/Good+. A nice sound, clean , and unmarked copy; white cloth with art to match the jacket. Jacket shows slight yellowing, wear at top of spine (affecting author's name). First title in the famous series!

New York: Random House, 1957. Fifth Printing . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Mal Singer. Bumps to corners, slight wear, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows wear at corners, small chips and creasing to bottom back, crease to rear flap.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1950. Reprint . Pictorial Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Pers Crowell. Minor shelfwear at edges, clean, bright, and unmarked. One of G&D's 'Famous Horse Stories'.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1950. Reprint . Green Cloth. Good+/Fair. Pers Crowell. Bumps/wear at corners, prev. owner's address label on rear flyleaf, otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket shows edge and corners wear, chip to top spine (affecting title). The further adventures of Ben and Dixie Darby on the Darby Ranch in Idaho.

London: Ward Lock & Co., 1949. First Edition . Brown Cloth. Good+/Fair. Slight bumps/wear at corners, inscription inside front cover, orig dealer sticker at bottom of inside front cover (Seeley's, Clevedon). Jacket quite worn at corners and spine ends, yellowed. Many photos and diagrams. "....an authorative and practical guide to the care of your horse and equipment....". … Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1941. First Edition . Orange Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Slight bumps to corners, orig owner's bookplate inside front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket shows edgewear, age discoloration to spine, not price clipped. Popular children's horse story.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Random House, 1952. First Edition . Cloth. Good+/Good+. Milton Menasco. Bumps and shelfwear to spine ends and corners, prev owner's name and small sketch on front flyleaf. Jacket quite shelf worn, small tears and chips at spine ends, not price clipped, not ex-lib.