Guadenzia - Pride of the Palio by Henry, Marguerite - 1960

Rand McNally, 1960. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. Lynd Ward, Illustrator. First Edition, First Printing (with "A" on copyright page) in clean unclipped dust jacket. Very clean red cloth boards with unchipped gold lettering on cover and spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean color-illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Beautifully illustrated by Lynd Ward. 240 pages. Clean color illustrated dust jacket is not price clipped (3.95 on front inside flap), a few small edge chips. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.

Each summer, in the ancient hill town of Siena, Italy, there erupts one of the mos extraordinary, exciting, and dangerous horse races in the world--the Palio. This magnificent book is a true story of the Palio--a thrilling, heart-stirring tale of a boy and a beautiful half-Arabian mare who won undying fame. All the rich pageantry and medieval splendor that surround this race of Siena are captured in the text and in Lynd Ward's glowing illustrations.