BROWN, William Robinson (1875?1955). The Horse of the Desert. Foreword by Major General James G. Harbord and Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn. New York: The Derrydale Press, [1929]. Small folio. Numerous illustrations from photographs, maps, drawings, etc.; several in color. Original gilt?decorated blue cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut (some old adhesive residue to endpapers); original price?clipped dust jacket (spine very gently sunned, few tiny chips at extreme ends of spine). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 750 copies from a total edition of 825. An authoritative work on the Arabian horse, in the rare jacket.