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Creator:
Sewell, Anna, 1820–1878
Title(s):
Black Beauty : his grooms and companions / by A. Sewell.
Edition:
American ed.
Published/Created:
Boston : American Humane Education Society, [1891?]
Physical Description:
iv, 245 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sporting 1966
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"The 'Uncle Tom's cabin' of the horse."
Preliminary pages include "Killing animals humanely," which describes how to shoot a horse and a dog in the quickest and least painful way.
BAC: British Art Center copy: First American edition. Orange wrappers; printed in black. In brownish-orange cloth slip-case; dark brown leather label with gold lettering on spine. Spine height: 7 3/4 inches.
Subject Terms:
Horses -- Juvenile fiction.
Horses.
Form/Genre:
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Contributors:
American Humane Education Society.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress)
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