Bearcroft Norma (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Gift quality First Edition hardcover in clean and bright, lightly bumped red paper covered boards. Signed by author on photo frontispiece. No other writing, tears or soil within the 93pp text has a faint coffee splash on fore-edge of page block. Price-clipped, original color illustrated dust wrapper shows light color loss at tips, light soil on white background rear panel and a watermark at head of rear gutter. Super rare and highly collectible, this 93 page book was written as a tribute to the horses captured in the wild, without which the pioneers themselves could not have opened up the Canadian West as they did. It was also written to support the efforts of the Canadian Wild Horse Society, (of which, the author is Secretary/Treasurer), to preserve these admirable animals from extinction in our time. Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. B/W Drawings (illustrator). 1st Edition. These 116 (low production value) pages begin the story in 1493 with Christopher Columbus. Read more about Abilene and the 105 Ranch. Also : Chilcotin, Joe Place, Fred Lade, halter-break, sire, saddle, $15 pony, 1848, rawhiding, buckshot, roundups, purebred stallion, and Janus. B/W drawings are by Maisie Robertson. A few b/w photos add tot text. Colour postcard laid-in. Cond : Paper wrapper is light blue. Spine wrapped with blue tape. Clean, bright, and tight. Minimal wear. No names nor marks. VERY collectible !! QUote (p. 64) : " During this interval we cut around 90-100 tons of wild meadow hay, pea vine and vetch to feed the freighters' teams in wintertime while they freighted goods into the Peace River and north, as there was no ._._._. . ".

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Robertson, Maisie (illustrator). Reprint. x, 116 pages. Illustrated in black and white. References. Reprint of the 1966 first edition. Chapters include: What is a Wild Horse?; First Horses Arrive in Eastern Canada; The American Mustang; Horses and Indians of the Prairies; Wild Horses of British Columbia; Recollections; Wild Horse Personalities; Canada's Wild Horses Today; Above-average wear. Usual library markings. A sound reference copy of this informative and uncommon work.