Rocking Horse Blues by Otis S. Dorian / illustrations by H. Elizabeth Anderson. 

Wood horse speaks like a 1930s tough: 

He tells stories of living on a fine farm with high class dogs, one of whose wife left him for an Irish Setter. 

The toy gives his boy's father a tip on a horse to win, would have been in the Kentucky Derby if it weren't for a drinking problem. 

At one point he tells the young boy that they are going to hell and back - the gates of the cemetery that day.

Blurring the line between surreality and children's literature. Found in NYC.

9 x 11" factory surplus folder w/ type written pages & manuscript edits. (4) colored pencil illustrations / drawings.