[First Edition] Star-Crossed Stallion Lawson

First edition hardcover in navy blue cloth covered boards with bumped spine ends and sharp tips. Frt cover has a gold medallion imprinted onto it - Winner of the Boys' Life Dodd, Mead Prize Competition along with four small darker blue spots. Gift ded on fep, no other marks, writing, no tears or soil in the tight, crisp 183pp text. Original color illustrated dust wrapper shows a few repairs on the backside, and sunning on the backstrip, but it is complete and displays very well in new mylar. Jacket is not price-clipped but does have an oval armorial sticker over the price on frt flap that shows a colored shield and 'City of Paris' and 'San Francisco'. No illustrations within, DJ painting by Algot Stenbery. Author 'Patrick Lawson' is the pen name of Lois Eby, her bio overview is on the rear panel along with a b/w photo. The exciting tale of the mystery involving Ajaz, the spirited Arabian import who bore certain markings branding him as a Shukaili, or bad luck horse, and of a boy who deeply loved horses - Arabian horses in particular because of his earlier memories and associations. An accident en route, then the burning of the stud farm stables the night of his arrival, gave Ajax sudden notoriety in his new home, a quiet Maine town. But Roger Daniels, who had spent twelve of his sixteen years in Arabia, championed the seemingly unconquerable horse, explaining the groundlessness of the old desert superstition.

Estimate:$100

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