The Black Stallion.

New York:: Random House, 1941.. 30th Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: beige cloth with small black vignette; black text and lines on the spine; the top edge tint is light red (this has a speckled appearance); otherwise a Very Good book, with a Fair dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.25 inches tall) . Description: Illustrated with drawings by Keith Ward. Walter Farley began work on this novel while still in high school, and it was published while he was still a college undergraduate. He had created the ''most famous fictional horse of the century'', and the beginning of a long, much loved series of stories about horses and adventure. ''The prize-winning story of a boy's love for his horse. Alec Ramsay, a typical American boy, encounters a magnificent untamed black stallion. Little does he dream of the ties that will develop and bind them together, of the adventures they will share, of how they will electrify all America!''