Straight from The Heart: True Stories of Remarkable Encounters with Once-in-a-Lifetime Horses - Hardcover

Straight from the Heart : True Stories of Remarkable Encounters with Once-in-a-Lifetime Horses [Seabiscuit]

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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dust jacket. Wildermuth, Pamela (drwaings); & Pamela Parker (jacket painting) (illustrator). First Edition. Gaithersburg, Maryland: Fleet Street Publishing, 1997. This is the incredibly rare 1997 HARDCOVER first edition. This anthology contains 29 delightful horse stories, each by a different author, including LOST AND FOUND by Laura Hillenbrand who went on to write the bestseller SEABISCUIT: AN AMERICAN LEGEND. Handsomely illustrated by Pamela Wildermuth with 13 b/w drawings and a full color dust jacket painting by Pamela Parker. Bound in the original dark blue (almost black) cloth, stamped in shiny gold. From the dust jacket: "In 1988, EQUUS magazine invited readers to share their stories about special horses in their lives Compiled by the editors of EQUUS, 'Straight from the Heart' brings you the best of these stories You'll meet Coal Bay, a hard-luck racehorse who carries on his back his owners' Christmas dreams. And Kricket, a faithful school horse who offers solace to a young girl grappling with her mother's fatal illness. Then there's a Roman-nosed mare named Seabiscuit, who demonstrates the 'beauty of an ugly horse,' and a sickly pony named Roosevelt, who recovers his health in time for a life-saving mission during a terrible winter blizzard. And so many more ". First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Wildermuth, Pamela (drwaings); & Pamela Parker (jacket painting). 8vo. x, 187pp. Seller Inventory # 017084

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