Black Beauty. London: Paradine Press, 1977. Facsimile Edition. Pp 247. Full tan leather with five raised bands to the spine and a black horse motif to the upper board. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Housed in slipcase. A fine bright copy.

Limited Edition of 100 copies, Signed by Lucinda Prior-Palmer. Published to mark the centenary of the book’s first printing in 1877.

An attractive facsimile edition, issued to mark the centenary of Black Beauty and signed by one of the greatest Horse Women in Great Britain.

Lucinda Green (born Lucinda Prior-Palmer, she married the Australian Equestrian David Green in 1981 and competed under both names) won a silver medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, 2 gold medals at the 1982 World Championships, and five gold & four silver medals at the European Championships between 1975 and 1987, among many other achievements.