dogs

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & McClure, reprint, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with illustrated label on front cover, 350 pages. An early printing of this dog classic. Name on blank prelim page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in orange cloth covers with blue lettering. 114 pages, illustrated with 4 b&w photographs. The amazing and true story of Bobbie, a collie from Silverton, Oregon, who got lost in Indiana during a family vacation in the summer of 1923. Bobbie managed to find his way back to Oregon in 1924. Charles Alexander's book reconstructs the arduous 2800 mile journey. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Jr. Literary Guild/Winston, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Blue cloth with black drawing, lettering.

Hardcover. NY/London, Lippincott/Heineman, 1st , n.d. (1912), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 16 tipped-in color plates with black & white drawings of dogs opposite. Minor soil to cardboard covers.

Hardcover. NY, Bluesky/Scholastic, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Rylant. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Ars Edition, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Approximately 5 3/4" x 4 3/4", 18 pages. English version by June Head. Eight brief poems written from the various points of view of eight different dogs. Austrian children's author and artist Ida Bohatta (sometimes published as Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo) produced quite a few of these miniature picture-books during the course of her long career (which began in the 1920s), each containing approximately eight poems, with eight accompanying color illustrations. Color illustrations in the style of Thornton Burgess. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oversized in tan cloth spine with paper label over illustrated paper-covered boards with a two-color cartoon of a boy holding a kitten surrounded by dogs. 223 pages of b&w drawings printed on rectos only. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in laminated boards, color illustrations by Manning de V. Lee. The front board has an illustration of Andy Archer holding Bugle with Yorktown, VA waterfront in the background.

Hardcover. New York, Capital Publishing Co., 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 22 pages illustrated in color with oversize die-cut cardboard covers. Features a piece of felt that can be buttoned to dog's face at the nose - which is an actual button. Green plastic spiral binding, light crease to back cover,dog head reinforced in rear, otherwise very good. Story by Terrus, design and pictures by Plowitz.

Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 142 pages, 8"x8' . This book documents 100 'decorated sheds' that were built in the 1920s-'40s, including giant cream-cans, flower-potslemons, pumpkins, cats, dogs, owls, Mother Hubbard's boots, etc. Mostly b&w photos.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 3rd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, SIGNED BY DAY on the front fly leaf in her formal cursive style. No dust jacket issued. Join beloved babysitting Rottweiler Carl in author/artist Alexandra Day's perfectly joyous holiday children's picture book, Carl's Christmas . After helping baby decorate the family tree, Carl and his charge share an adventure-filled Christmas Eve complete with window shopping, giving to the needy, and a visit with Santa Claus. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2nd pr., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, illustrated in color by author.SIGNED BY DAY on the front fly leaf in her formal cursive style. No dust jacket issued. The rottweiler goes to a costume party.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages, color illustrations by Day. Carl is finally back! Once again, Alexandra Day has concocted a very busy day for the amazing and all-around resourceful Rottweiler Carl. His owner believes Carl is at home taking a nap, when really he's making tracks all over town. He visits a bakery, makes a delivery for the pharmacist, helps out a veterinarian, and joins in a magician's act in the park. But in the most important event of the day, Carl becomes a real hero when he rescues a litter of puppies from a fire. With eight more pages of fun than in the previous Carl books, this captivating adventure, related mostly through pictures, will delight fans old and new.

Hardcover. Hungary, Petofi Printing House, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial laminated boards. Color illustrations by Emma Heinzelmann. Spine and corners rubbed. Translated by Judith Elliott. Covers slightly splayed. The Terrible Seven cats terrify nine dogs, all called Louis in what was perhaps the most frightful conflict since cat and dog wars began.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, color illustrations by Sheyda Abvabi Best. A picture book about Champ and Major, President-elect Joe Biden's two adorable dogs! Major will be the first shelter dog in the White House, and Champ can't wait to show him around. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BOOKPLATE WITH SIGNATURES OF BILL LITTLEFIELD AND BERNIE FUCHS. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 4th pr., 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boars with green cloth spine. Unpaginated. Charming color illustrations by Diana Thorne throughout. Soiling to spine and light edgewear to cover boards. Internally very good.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY BROWN. Chowder is a hilarious and heartwarming story that introduces an endearing new character: a weird but completely loveable bulldog who learns to make friends by being true to his quirks.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photos by author of dogs starring in the fairy tale. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Dan Yaccarino. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Coward McCann & Geohegan, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, illustrated throughout in 2-colors by Paul Galdone. Weekly Reader Edition. A dog who never growls at strangers meets a burglar in his house. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Page & Compnay, reprint, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 425 pages. 8 b&w illustrations. Illustrated frontispiece. Paste down plate on front cover. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co., 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Ruth Caroline Eger. Short tear to cover paper along spine, easily re-glued. Light tanning to pages, Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Teague and SIGNED BY TEAGUE with a small sketch of dog's head.