The Silver Pony
first edition Hardcover
1973 · Boston
by Ward, Lynd
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. First Edition. Hardcover. This book was the winner of the New York Times Best Book Award (1973) and the Caldecott Honor Medal (1974). It was Ward's return to the "novel in woodcuts", decades after his brilliant God's Man and Mad Man's Drum. Overall, a very handsome copy. Gift inscription on ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, small closed tear at heel, price clipped, else bright and clean. Linen boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, pictorial endpages. 8vo. 175pp. Illus. (b/w plates). (Inventory #: 3715)