1945 The Red Pony
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Description
Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
The first printing of the first trade edition of the first illustrated edition of this work. The novella had first appeared in 1937.
With numerous full page and vignette illustrations by American illustrator Wesley Dennis, who is best known for this work, and for his illustrated edition of Anna Sewell's 'Black Beauty'. With beautifully illustrated endpapers by Dennis also.
This episodic novella by the author of 'East of Eden' and 'The Grapes of Wrath' is arranged as four tales; The Gift, The Great Mountains, The Promise, and The Leader of the People.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial paper onlay to front board. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Light handling marks to pictorial onlay. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright.
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