Descrizione

Later edition. With illustrated endpapers printed in red. small 8vo, publisher's red cloth, the upper cover and spine lettered in blue. [ii] 295 pp. A solid and sound example, the binding is sturdy and the hinges are firm, the text is clean but toned as is common for these Depression-era reprints, the red cloth only lightly mellowed and with a few little bumps.

Edizione: one of the most popular animal stories of all time. black beauty is the only book anna sewell ever wrote. it is a timeless story which relates events in the life of a horse which suffers great cruelty and despair but for whom there is the ultimate eventuality of a happy home. this novel became an immediate success and in its day caused the altering of human behaviour towards and treatment of domesticated animals. unfortunately anna sewell would never realize her dream of experiencing the changes she wrote and fought for as she died only a few months after the book’s publication having never received more then £20 for her literary efforts. the novel struck home in an immediate and especially meaningful way for animal lovers and for animal rights activists in their struggles for the humane treatment of animals. in the intervening years since its publication it has become a revered classic of the highest order. it has become known as “the uncle tom’s cabin of the horse.”