First Edition, Published by ARCO Publishing NY, 1959. 384 pp. 
The dust jacket has some light bumping and rubbing but in very good conditionwith Mylar protective cover. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright.Previous Owners details on ifc. 
 
This is an anthology of many of the important works on the Arabian Horse and Arabia. From the book description:
 
'The selections in this anthology have been chosen from the works of men and women with different backgrounds and varied specialties, but who have in common a love for and an understanding of horses. Several of the pieces evoke the romantic past of the Arabian horse, when it was the pride of kings and the glory of Arab shieks. Passages from the works of Lady Anne Blunt, who, with her husband, visited Arabia in the nineteenth century and published several books on her impressions of that region, and Charles Doughty, whose book Travels in Arabia Deserta has become a classic, recapture the wonder and excitement of travellers on first seeing these magnificent chargers in their native land. Washington Irving recreates the splendour of Moorish Spain with selections from his Tales of the Alhambra, Rudyard Kipling envisions a fantastic world of talking horses and ponies in The Maltese Cat. Stories by Felix Salten and Basil Tozer as well as excerpts from Lew Wallace’s Ben-Hur and Henry Morton Robinson’s Stout Cortez reveal the important role played by the Arabian horse in history.
 
But the tales of heroism and sacrifice, of distant lands and foreign customs, form only a part of this collection. Every source that might yield information on the Arabian horse has been tapped. Scriptural references to the horse, the opinions of artists and poets, essays by such expert horsemen as Major General G. Tweedie and Lieutenant Roger Upton, comments by veterinarians and breeders round out the picture of the Arabian horse in fact, fantasy, and fiction.
 
Not only horse lovers and sportsmen but everyone who can be thrilled by tales of courage and adventure will find this anthology enjoyable. Thorough and broad in scope, it provides a dependable and glowing portrait of the Arabian horse. But, apart from its value as sheer entertainment, The Arabian Horse in Fact, Fantasy, and Fiction is also an excellent reference work which can be consulted with confidence by the student of equine lore.'