National Velvet by Bagnold, Enid - 1935

New York.: Author copyright. William Morrow & Company., 1935. First edition. Same date, copyright, title pages.. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket. Prior owner note: "Elizabeth Lane Dwinell, 1935". Slight bumping to lower corners, spine ends.. Jones, Lurian (Drawings by).. 1 Black and light red cloth over boards. Silver titles, spine and front. 303 p. 21 cm. Deckled outside pages. Classic story of a young girl and her love of riding horses. "Velvet" is 14, the youngest daughter of the Brown family, hard-working modest village residents. Velvet's goal was to become the best horseback rider in England, and for that she prayed. Miss Ada was their old pony. For her adventures early on, Velvet's fantasy companions were small paper horses she kept safe in a box. Will Velvet grow into her dream? The author's daughter, at 13, was the illustrator.