For the horse who was yours, for decades.

A hardcover memorial storybook for the horse who is gone. A hardcover, matte-printed, with a colophon at the back.

A horse memorial gift has to meet the partnership.

A horse is not a pet, not the way a dog is a pet. A horse is a thirty-year partnership conducted at the speed of mornings in the barn. He had a stall. He had a routine. He had the corner of the paddock he preferred at four o'clock. He had a name only you used in his ear. He had your weight on his back for half your life and half of his.

What fits in the tack room, what fits on the kitchen shelf, what fits in your hand at five a.m. before the barn — these are the registers a memorial object has to find. A hardcover storybook with his name matte-printed on the spine sits on all three. The framed photograph hangs on the wall. The book is what you take down and re-read.

What goes on the page about one horse.

You tell the press his name, his sire, the year you got him, the show he refused to enter, the trail he chose every Sunday, the snort he made when you opened the gate. Juno writes the long-tense, present-moment story. The book is illustrated for this one book. The book is hardcover, matte-printed, in a plain box. He is on the cover, painted, not photographed.

We do not make hoof-print add-ons. We do not stitch tail hair into the binding. We do not offer a second-printing-for-the-barn. Edition of one applies to a horse the way it applies to a person. The book is the held object. The barn keeps what the barn keeps. The book keeps the rest.

Eighty-five dollars. One edition. One horse, in full.

The book arrives in roughly two weeks in a plain box. You put it on the kitchen shelf or on the desk in the tack room. Years later you will take it down and find that you remember more than you thought you did. That is what we built the book to do.

More from the press.

• The rainbow bridge, quietly — The memorial hub.
• Pets hub — All pet storybooks.
• Pet loss gift — For someone whose pet has died.

a storybook no one else has ever read.