Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell

$6,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

London: Jarrold and Sons, 1877. First edition, first printing of the classic equine novel; in Carter's variant C binding. Good. Cloth well-worn and soiled, textblock edge lightly spotted, inner hinges repaired, pencil markings to brown coated endsheets, effaced owner name to first blank sheet and owner name in pencil to title page, light cigar smoke odor to pages, pages thumbed. Written by Sewell during the last years of her

• Printing: first

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