Kentucky Derby Winner (Aristides): The Exciting Story of American's First Great Race Horse (Famous Horse Stories Series) by McMeekin, Isabel McLennan - 1949

Junior Literary Guild and David McKay, 1949. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Dillon, Corinne. Light wear to the board edges; cracked front hinge, pages a little discolored; a good solid binding. No jacket. Illustrator: Dillon, Corinne. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Juvenile; Inventory No: 187673. .

New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1949 Book. Good. Hardcover. Moderate wear; a reading copy only..

New York: David McKay Co., Inc., 1949. Green tweed boards have rubbed edges. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Prior owner name on feb. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Libris.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. 1949. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Later Edition Used. Hard Cover -. Good. In color pictorial jacket, 8vo, 224pp. (shelfwear, rubbing and fading to jacket at extremities, nicks at tips and corners, gift inscription to inside cover).

NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1949. Cleaned ex-library >no pocket< Pictorial Cover, 224 pg w/b&w illus. + list of Derby Winners starting w/Aristides in 1875 up to Decidedly in 1962. Binding Firm, Interior pgs Clean, Covers have spine edge/corner/shelf wear w/sunned spine. From Famous Horse Stories, The Exciting Story of America's First Great Race Horse. Non-Fiction/Sports Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

New York:: Grosset & Dunlap, 1949.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: green 'tweed' binding with the horseshoe device of this series in darker green; a Good book, with a Fair dust jacket.. 8vo (8.25 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art is by Edwin Megargee. Illustrated in black and white; the artist is not credited. The exciting story of America's first great race horse, Aristides. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Big Jack Spratt (that's Gramper) and little Jack Spratt (that's Jackie) are as alike as their identical blue jeans, straw hats, and love of horses can make them. Gramper isn't quite as ready to predict good fortune as young Jack is, but he's not one for standing in the way of daydreams, either. Jackie and Gramper knew, somehow that their 'liddle red hoss' was destined for greater things than pony-back rides. But dreams have set backs. When Risty (the liddle red hoss) just plain disappeared, and then hurt himself -- the reader gets wound up along with Jackie waiting to see Risty in… Read More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1949. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. 224 pp. Reissue. Historical novel about the horse who won the first Kentuicky Derby in 1875. Illustrated with drawings. Young adult. Fine in dust jacket with some edgewear and shallow chipping.

Good. Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library.

David McKay Company and The Junior Literary Guild, 1949. Hardcover. First Edition/DJ Acceptable. 8x6x0. David McKay Company and The Junior Literary Guild, 1949. Shelf worn DJ with tears and faded spine. Unmarked clean pages.

R. Wright Enterprises, 2005. Jacket and boards have only light wear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Author Wright signed fep.. Signed by Author. Fourth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.