Black Beauty The Autobiography Of A Horse By An...
Straight and solid petite hardcover (6.75" x 5."), in medium blue colored cloth with red title in a gothic font on frt bd, regular black block font title on spine. Frt cover illustration is super faded (as well as having a lighter colored cup ring with a matching vertical smear through it. The once color illustration of a man holding a mare who has a dark colt by her side standing before a white fence and large pine tree. Boards soiled and marked but you can still make out: 'PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED' across the foot of the frt cover, and Young People's Cloth Library at head of rear cover followed by 24 other offerings in this series printed underneath. Spine ends and all tips bumped and lightly rubbed, 168 page block with 5 further pages of other book offerings pages are browned and brittle. Inner hinges are fine, former owner's gift presentation from her teacher dated June 15, 1905. Endpapers yellowed with an unused proper space for one's name on the inside frt cover. It has a color frontispiece, and many full page illustrations and smaller vignettes scattered throughout. A classic with the strong message of the tale being that humans should always be kind to animals. Told in first 'horse' person. Solid working copy, all there but not pretty.
Black Beauty The Autobiography of a Horse by An...
Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in pictorial boards in a Very Good in clear acetate Dustjacket. DJ has small chip at top of spine. Full page colour and in-text black & white illustrations by Fritz Eichenberg. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 301 pages. A lovely version of this classic horse story. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
One of the first and still one of the best-loved animal stories, Black Beauty was first published in 1877, just a few months before author Anna Sewell's death. Told in the first person, it is the autobiography of a horse, narrated by Black Beauty himself. From his simple beginnings under the shady trees in the meadow, Black Beauty's life takes many twists and turns--from a riding horse on a country estate to a cruelly mistreated cab horse on the busy streets of London, to his final years in happy retirement in the country. Black Beauty has many owners, some of whom treat him badly, but throughout it all he keeps his sweet temper and fine spirit.
"She loved to drive the family pony and she loved to talk to the pony as if the pony could understand her," Smiley says. It's likely that Sewell based Beauty's character on Bess, a spirited black horse owned by the Sewell family. "Everybody in the family was quite fond of her," Smiley says.
Sewell's decision to write the book as an "animal autobiography" was quite novel in Victorian England, and the little green book with the sad-looking horse on the cover was released to great fanfare. Promoters in the U.S. brought a pirated edition of the book to America hoping it would do for animal rights what Uncle Tom's Cabin had done for slavery. Within two years, 1 million copies of Black Beauty were in circulation in the U.S., and animal rights activists regularly passed copies of the book to horse drivers and stable hands.
Black Beauty, written by Anna Sewell in 1877, is a book about the life and experiences of a horse named Black Beauty. The Black Beauty book is often referred to as an animal autobiography given its first-person narration from the point of view of a horse. It is thought to have changed the way children's books were written forever. Black Beauty shows many great examples of anthropomorphism, as it gives the horses human feelings, thoughts, and emotions as they go through all of the positive and negative experiences in their lives.
'Black Beauty' features a colorful cast of characters, both horse and human. Black Beauty is the title character and narrator of the story. He's a well-bred horse, the son of a wise old mare named Duchess and said to be the grandson of a famous racehorse. He's named for his shiny black coat and also has a white star on his forehead and a single white hoof.
Black Beauty is a nearly all-black horse and is the title character and narrator of the story. Throughout the course of the novel, Beauty introduces the reader to many characters, including his mother, Duchess, and other horses named Ginger, Merrylegs, Sir Oliver and Captain. We also meet Beauty's many owners, including Farmer Grey, Squire Gordon, John Manly, Lady Anne, Jerry Barker and the Blomefields.
Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell, is the eponymous memoir of a handsome black horse with a white star on his forehead. He recounts his happy days as a carefree foal raised by a loving mare on a fine English farm owned by a kind and understanding squire. However, after he is four-years-old, Beauty suffers a series of upsets that lead him to a degrading life of hardship. After unfortunate twists and turns, the kindly hand of Fate steps in and Beauty is returned to the country, where he pleasantly lives out his days. 041b061a72