The Black Stallion by Walter Farley - 1941

Garden City, New York: Random House/Junior Deluxe Edition, 1941. First BOMC Edition and Printing. Hardcover [8vo/deckle foredge] 224p. Dustjacket is clean, bright and intact. Binding is tight with spine lean most noticeable at upper end of textblock. Boards are clean, Pastedowns and endpapers are clean. Pages are clean heavy stock. Near Fine in dj protected against wear and tear in Brodart Archival Mylar. The first book in a long running, higly acclaimed series by Walter Farley. The 1941 BOMC edition of "Stallion" is one of the rare instances where BOMC republished an author's first novel, originally meant for children and teens, in the same year as the first edition first printing of the original. Any 1941 first edition/first printing of Black Stallion is extra difficult to come by and costs upwards of 7000 USD. [To our knowledge, only one copy is available] Or you can pay a fraction of that for this especially well preserved, 77 year old 1941 BOMC first edition/first printing. Near Fine in dj protected against wear and tear in Brodart Archival Mylar.