Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Goll, Claire. Diary of a Horse. Thomas Yoseloff, New York, 1956.
Price: US$17.00 + shipping
Description: 40p, several ills. by Marc Chagall. Large ink name on inside front cover. Without the jacket (its author biography is laid in). Stains on inside back cover from where the biography was formerly glued down. The Paris cab horse Goliath describes the hard life that he and his comrades live, in a series of short poignant vignettes. Reminiscent of Animal Farm (the horses form a Union) and Black Beauty (the fates of the horses). Not happy reading. Goll was a well-known French poet who moved in avant-garde artistic and literary circles. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. First trade edition (1st pub. 1946 in a limited edition).
Seller: Robin Bledsoe, Bookseller (ABAA), Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Goll, Claire; Drawings By Marc Chagall. Diary of a Horse. Thomas Yoseloff, New York, 1956.
Price: US$27.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 40 Pp. Sad Story Of A Horse By Claire Goll, Wife Of Yvan Goll, And Friend To Rilke, Joyce, Malraux, Chagall, Leger, Dali And Lipchitz [The Last Four Of Whom All Illustrated Books By The Golls]. Book Lightly Worn, No Names Or Marks, Rubbing At Corners, Paged Browned As Usual. Dj With Wear, Light Soiling And Dust, Slight Losses At Corners, 1/8" Loss And 1/2" Deep Dampstain Across Bottom Of Spine.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Goll, Claire. Diary of a Horse. Thomas Yoseloff, 1956.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Whitening along edges of brown cloth boards. Jacket is a little dusty.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
GOLL, CLAIRE. Diary of a Horse. Thomas Yoseloff, New York, 1956.
Price: US$58.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Trade Edition. Drawings by Marc Chagall. Self-told tale of Parisian cab horse. Fine in fine dustjacket with very slight soiling.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$71.23 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo., pp.40, brown cloth lettered in black, b/w frontispiece and 4 further b/w plates; slight foxing to endpapers, contents lightly toned, a very good copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has slight chipping to headband and rear upper edge, and slight surface soiling to pale paper, with small mark to front, else vg and now in a protective cover.
Seller: Minster Gate Bookshop (est. 1970), YORK, United Kingdom