Hardcover. London, Smith, Elder and Co. Cornhill, 1st, 1840, Dust Jacket: None, 365 pages. Vol. 8 only of 9 volume set. Pages lightly age toned. Light yellow endpapers. Faint crease/wrinkle in endpapers and on front and rear inside covers. Light smudge at top right corner of front flyleaf. Deckled page edges. Pages are slightly damp wrinkled. Light fox spots on a few pages. Page edges browned. Black cloth with embossed decoration. Gilt lettering on spine. Minor wear and scuffing. Corners bumped and lightly rubbed. Wear to top and bottom of spine.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Dunne Books, 1st thus, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket and pictorial boards share the same image, and are both clean and bright. Interior pages also in very good condition. Binding is solid. Filled with short but authoritative entries and quick fact boxes on every physical aspect of the horse as well as its importance to humankind in work, leisure, and sport, The Horse is the ultimate miscellany for anyone with an equine interest. Clean copy. Record # 33682
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