Garden City, New York, Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc., 1931
An exceptional copy of this charming tale about a horse in the English Cotswolds, issued both in a standard trade format and this special edition with an additional original lithograph.
First edition, deluxe issue, number 171 of 250 signed & numbered copies, from an overall limitation of 276; small folio (305 x 225 mm.); original lithographed signed in pencil at end with tissue guard, title-vignette, full-page illustrations and pictorial endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown; original parchment-backed cloth with onset pictorial label to upper cover, very slight dulling to spine, but overall an excellent example, housed in magnetic-locking black cloth drop-back box with inset colour title to upper cover.
First edition, deluxe issue, number 171 of 250 signed & numbered copies, from an overall limitation of 276; small folio (305 x 225 mm.); original lithographed signed in pencil at end with tissue guard, title-vignette, full-page illustrations and pictorial endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown; original parchment-backed cloth with onset pictorial label to upper cover, very slight dulling to spine, but overall an excellent example, housed in magnetic-locking black cloth drop-back box with inset colour title to upper cover.
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