Description:
1905 Very Rare Hardcover; Book Detached From Covers; Detached penciled endpapers & cover page; Covers show heavy wear (See Photos) Damaged binding; Light foxing; Some pages have small tears and staining; Tanned pages; Light penciling.Black Beauty is Anna Sewell's first and only novel. The story is told in the "first person" (or first horse) as an autobiographical memoir of a highbred horse named Black Beauty, from his carefree days as a foal on an English farm, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, he meets with many hardships and recounts many tales of cruelty and kindness. Each short chapter recounts an incident in Black Beauty's life containing a lesson or moral typically related to the kindness, sympathy, and understanding treatment of horses.