[drivingpairs] Re: Color of Horses hardback -- I've got a special printing!

Greetings, all!

As usual, I am weeks or months behind perusing my
lists.  Anyway, back in about 1978, as a sophomore at
Virginia Tech, I encountered "The Color of Horses" in
Newman Library.  A few years later, after I was
married (around 1983 I guess), I decided that I HAD TO
HAVE THAT BOOK.  I went to a small local bookstore and
found out that it was out of print.  Then the good
news:  the publisher was taking special orders and had
to have at least 50 orders and would PRINT THAT MANY
UP IN A SPECIAL PRINTING.  At the time $35 or so was a
lot of money for me to spend on such a book, but I did
it anyway, and the book is, as I type, downstairs in
my living room alongside other horse books in my
"colors" reference section.  The book has of course
now come out in paperback and is widely available.  It
is one of the most beautiful books EVER.  I don't
think it's "outdated" at all.  Maybe "dated," but
exquisite nonetheless.

Are you saying that my SPECIAL ORDER HARDBACK (i.e.
LIMITED EDITION?) book downstairs is worth hundreds of
dollars?? My gosh!  Of course, I have NEVER allowed
ANYONE to borrow it, and they have to look at it with
me present, and keep it in the room, and not take it
anywhere else.  All the more so now!  WOW!!'

Laura

--- KDougk@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Many moons ago, I was intrigued by a clinic at U of
> Cal Davis about color of 
> horses. In 1974, The Color of Horses by DMV Ben
> Green of Texas had just been 
> published. That hard back version of the book became
> fairly rare and got to be 
> over $1,000 on E-Bay and still sells in the $300 to
> $400 range. Recently, 
> Virginia Tech thought the book was important enough
> to reprinted the book and it 
> is now available in paperback for $20.00.
> 
> I do not agree with Lewella that it is an "Extremely
> outdated book" that 
> predates genetic testing. Green's book does not
> discuss except in a very general 
> way, genetics. Dr. Sponenberg's Equine Color
> Genetics or the website 
> EquineColor.com. addresses what we see as colors,
> the proper names and what breeding 
> combinations are likely to have what colors in the
> offspring. Green's book, 
> discusses what causes what we see as a color. 
> 
> In essence, the color of all horses is determined by
> light refraction. "One 
> pigment colors all horses." If one extracts the
> liquid from a horse hair, the 
> color liquid is a dark amber for  ALL horses. 
> 
> The difference in color is determined in a horse
> hair by the distribution, 
> density and pattern of the dark amber liquid. Thus
> light refraction determines 
> the color of a horses.
> 
> "The manner in which the pigment is transmitted from
> the follicle determines 
> the pattern and density of the various patterns that
> refract light to reflect 
> the different known colors."
> 
> A white horse is the absence of pigment and occur
> over a period of years. 
> This is due to the four layers of Dermis tissue
> gradually losing their ability to 
> secret hair pigment. A white/gray horse will finally
> develop the toughest 
> hide of any horse, whatever their color.
> 
> Before you revolt, ever remember riding behind a
> black horse and seeing, when 
> looking at the rump, a brown sheen. You are looking
> at the ends of the hair. 
> 
> Ben Green was a wonderful character from the Trans
> Pecos region of West Texas 
> who travel the world and wrote a number of books.
> And did very serious 
> scientific research on the above.
> 
> Douglas Kemmerer
> Hawks Hill
> Middleburg, VA 20118
> 
> The Color of Horses: The Scientific and
> Authoritative Identification of the 
> Color of the Horse (Paperback) by Ben K. Green
> (Foreword), Darol Dickinson 
> List Price:$20.00
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Li
> 


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