1st Edition hardcover quarter-bound in brown leather and red cloth with marbled endpapers. The first 1000 copies were numbered, this being #623. Slipcase had split up two sides w/color loss, now repaired with bookbinder's tape on several sides, displays well on the shelf despite some wear to the gilt spine title. Book is flawless. 327 oaktag colored leaves filled with rare racing stories of legendary winners and dreamers, of the famous horses and their breeders, and the tracks. Color plates of horses by master painters along with sepia tone photos.