Looks lovely protected in new mylar cover. The unclipped DJ is downgraded to Good- (minus) due to heavy rubbing to extremities & edgewear all around, a few small chipped areas. NO writing, underlining, or highlighting NOT ex-lib. In 288 pages, with Author's Note in rear.Hardcover book has pumpkin-colored cloth over boards & is in VG+ condition: completely clean, binding strong & straight, pages slightly off-white, NO foxing. published in 1935, this is a Book Club Edition of the 1963 reprint, with a lovely full-color frontispiece by Walter Seaton & internal pen-and-ink illustrations by Earle B. Classic tale of young Velvet Brown & her Piebald horse as they dare to enter the Grand National steeplechase race! The book became even more popular after it was made into a movie starring young Elizabeth Taylor in 1944. Dust jacket has minor edge wear/wrinkling, two tiny edge tears, two soft creases at bottom of front panel. It is rich with the comedy of life and character and poignant in its realization of the eager, indomitable trust of youth.' Minor wrinkling at bottom of spine. Enid Bagnold's clear, pungent style gives this joyous and captivating tale a rare flavor. When he appeared at Aintree, the crowd looked at him and hooted.

When Velvet took him on, he looked like a newly painted rocking horse. Because he preferred sociable village life to lonely fields, he learned to jump fences.

The Piebald (was) part carthorse, part Arab. And, since the breathless imagination of youth sees no obstacles as insuperable, Velvet's thoughts turned to the greatest race in the world - the Grand National. And so, when she won a notorious and unwanted piebald in a village lottery, (she) began to dream. '(Velvet Brown's) passion in life was horses.

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