In language that truly evokes the Wild West, Smoky the Cowhorse brings to life one horse's story, from his birth on the open range through his "breaking" to Smoky's "other" lives as an outlaw rodeo star and saddle horse. A Newbery Medal Book. 40 illustrations.
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In language that truly evokes the Wild West, Smoky the Cowhorse brings to life one horse's story, from his birth on the open range through his "breaking" to Smoky's "other" lives as an outlaw rodeo star and saddle horse. A Newbery Medal Book. 40 illustrations.
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Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering and large color plate to front board. x, 263pp. Color frontispiece, 14 called-for full-page plates (some color), pictorial endpapers. Near fine. Nonauthorial gift inscription on front flyleaf; touch of foxing to gutter of both endpapers. Attractive, tight and nice later printing of the "Illustrated Classics Edition for Younger Readers" edition of James' best known work. The Newbery Medal-winning 1926 children's book was the basis for three film versions, and this unique copy bears fine autograph additions from two of the stars who portrayed lead character Clint Barkley. Neatly tipped to blank leaf facing half-title page is a 4¼" X 3" photocopy of a still scene (not "Smoky"), at center of which is boldly penned "Sincerely / Fred / Mac / Murray" in his trademark green ink. Below this is a heavy stock 5" X 3" card inscribed and signed "Best Wishes / Richard / Fess Parker" in black fineline, dated by him 12 August 1987 at upper right. FRED MacMURRAY (1908-91) starred in the 1946 version of "Smoky" and FESS PARKER (1924-2010) in the 1966 version. Laid in is the perfect bookmark: Parker's original transmittal envelope.
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Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 1929. 310 pgs. Decorated endpapers. Illustrated with Color & Black and White Plates. Signed and inscribed by Will James on the FFEP. First, thus. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in black cloth with color pastedown present to the front board with gilt titles present to the spine and front board. Bound in cloth with titles present to the spine. Pg. 7 is chipped at the lower right corner. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Smoky knows only one way of life: freedom. Living on the open range, he is free to go where he wants and to do what he wants. And he knows what he has to do to survive. He can beat any enemy, whether it be a rattlesnake or a hungry wolf. He is as much a part of the Wild West as it is of him, and Smoky can't imagine anything else. But then he comes across a new enemy, one that walks on two legs and makes funny sounds. Smoky can't beat this enemy the way he has all the others. But does he really want to? Or could giving up some of his freedom mean getting something in return that's even more valuable? E-190; 9.9 X 6.9 X 1.2 inches; 263 pages; Signed by Author.