dogs

Hardcover. Boston, W. A. Wilde Company, 1st, 1905, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with 3-color pictorial decoration on the cover. Five b&w plates by Harry Burgess. Covers with edgewear, front hinge cracked, binding shaken but still holding. Dog advntures set in the northern wilds of Canada, told from the dog's viewpoint.

Hardcover. NY, Penguin Publishing, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Illustrated in full color by David Cox. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Paula Wiseman/Simon & Shuster, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED BY KATE FEIFFER AND JULES FEIFFER ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Jules Feiffer. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Kestrel, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Kalman. Nighttime is the best time for stories. And Lulu is the best storyteller. She knows about the three cross-eyed dogs at a fancy restaurant, about blue and green mountains where fish fly, about the family party where Maishel Shmelkin forgot to wear his pants, and of course about the noodle woman the pointy red nose. The stories, told by a sister to her little brother, are short and sweet and make you remember things and forget things. Maira Kalman paints a wondrous and humor-filled world in a child's-eye view. It is full of wild invention, people familiar and outlandish, bittersweet moments and flights of fancy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. 3-color illustrations by Barrett throughout. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1st US, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. Kipling's classic poetic tribute to his beloved Scottie. Seven black and white full page illustrations by Cecil Aldin, whose name is misspelled on the cover. There is tanning to the cover , light corner wear to boards. Previous owner's notation on front fly leaf. Aldin's charming drawings are clean and bright.

Softcover. Washington, Smithsonian, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 62 pages, minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Part of the Photographers at Work Series. Includes an interview with Eggleston along numerous color photographs of horses and dogs in various situations.

New York, Dodd Mead & Co., 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a brigh, unclipped dust jacket. Ex-lib with light stamping, pocket on rear fly leaf. Endpapers scarred where dj was taped. B&W pictures by William Gropper.

Hardcover. NY, Schwartz & Wade, 4th pr., 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth, color art by Hills. Learn to read with this New York Times bestselling picture book, starring an irresistible dog named Rocket and his teacher, a little yellow bird. Follow along as Rocket masters the alphabet, sounds out words, and finally . . . learns to read all on his own! Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Dayton OH, A. F. Hochwalt Co, reprint, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in decorated tan cloth, 236 pages, b&w photos. With b/w endpaper illustrations by C.W. Love, ten b/w plates (including a frontispiece) on unpaged leaves, Foreword, and Prologue. Features nineteen chapters titled as: "Your Pointer of Setter Puppy," "Some Suggestions on Feeding," "Care o the Dog," "House Breaking and Teaching to 'Heel,'" "The Bird Dog Breeds," "Avoiding Gun-Shyness," "Retrieving," "Backing," "Teaching to Point," "Steadiness to Wing and Shot," "Bolters," etc. Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated by Stein. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy. Caldecott Honor winner David Ezra Stein has fans at his command with this comical dog's-eye view of having a best friend. Many dogs have human owners. Not this one.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 578 pages, b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line on top edge, otherwise clean. The first major biography of David Samuel Peckinpah, who began writing scripts for Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, and The Westerner and went on to direct phenomenal films such as Riding the High Country, Straw Dogs, The Getaway, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and The Wild Bunch.

Hardcover. Boston, G. P. Putnams, 2nd, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 211 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white illust. by Diana Thorne. Moderate wear to edges, clean copy.

Hardcover. Shrewsbury UK, Quiller Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Profusely illustrated with color photographs of fox hunts. Detailing the best of hunting both in Britain and America. Clean, bright copy in an unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED/INSCRIBED on front fly leaf "With all best wishes from Jim Meads/03".

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, wartime cartoon book showing the life of the enlistee (as a dog). One of the early Freeman efforts. Dust jacket edge worn, soiled, price-clipped.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, reprint, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with decorated cover, 284 pages. Black & white illustrations by C. W. Ashley. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Corners and spine rubbed.

NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Light edgewear and soil to the dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Gail Owens. A Parisian mongrel successfully leads a double life until both of his "owners" enter him in the same dog show. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 6th, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 475 pages. Hardcover with dark green covers, gilt lettering and dog illustration in gilt on front. Gutter cracked throughout and repaired in places. Previous owner's writing on front fly leaf. Cover boards fraying at corners and small rips to top spine with small piece missing.

Hardcover. Chicago, Follett Publishing, 5th pr., 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages in color by Erickson. Light wear to text pages at top corner. A lost puppy gets directions from various animals to find his way home. A Follett Beginning-to-Read Book. Small note on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead , 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with drawing of dog on cover. The previous owner has created a wrap-around dust jacket using the title page soread from in the book. Illustrated with drawings in blue & red by Addison Burbank. Laffy is a smooth Fox Terrier who became mascot of the Navy Training School (Salvage) in New York City. Ex-lib with stamp on rear fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt , 1st Thus, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Susan Jeffers. A young readers version of Knight's 1938 classic. SIGNED BY JEFFERS.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 248 pages. Bound in pale orange illustrated cloth with black spine lettering. Top edge with a publisher applied pale orange stain. Map illustrated end papers (Same for front and rear). Color frontis on glossy paper and numerous full page and smaller illustrations by Marguerite Kirmse on plain paper or in-text. Copyright page states 1940 with no other printings stated. Two inscriptions on the dedication page: The first dated 1940, the second from that original recipient to her grandson dated 1986. Nice. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Look! An elephant eats. Look! Giraffes drink. Look! A warthog digs. A gorilla hides, wild dogs listen, zebras run, monkeys sit, hippos splash, and a rhino naps. Each line of text is illustrated by a two-page spread with a beautiful painting of an animal Ted Lewin has seen on his journeys to Africa. At the end of the story, a boy reads, plays, and dreams, surrounded by toy animals that represent each of the real ones. Clean copy.