Description

Hardcover, pale brick red cloth in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 207 pages. Illustrated with drawings by Paul Brown. First edition, first printing with same date on title and copyright page, no additional printings listed. “FROM Paul Revere’s ride in 1775 to the comeback of a down-and-out jockey on Derby Day in 1951, Louis Wolfe recalls many exciting stories of the part men on horseback have played in the American past.” [NYT book review, July 4, 1954]. No previous ownership marks. Book is square, tight and internally unmarked with moderate foxing to untrimmed fore-edge, top edge, and mild fading to cloth. Dust-jacket worn with considerable edge-wear and moderate age soiling and toning. A very scarce title in acceptable condition, with dust-jacket. Near very good in poor dust-jacket.