Dogs

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, Doubleday, Doran , 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, 309 pages. Color frontis and endpapers illustration by Morgan Dennis. Blake Carson adopts a mongrel named Luck off a dock in Seattle. The dog lives up to his name when his dog team is stranded on an ice floe in Alaska. Front fly gone but otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Sundial Press, 1st thus, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 309 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Morgan Dennis. Dust jacket shows moderate chipping and wear. Clean, bright copy internally.

Hardcover. New York , Hyperion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. SIGNED BY JEFFERS. A small board book. A new installment in this engaging series follows the lovable Westie dog named McDuff who in this holiday tale falls asleep while waiting for Santa to arrive on Christmas Eve only to be awakened by a loud thump and a new arrival.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. This is a pictorial memoir of Melisande, a most uncommon dog who becomes a famous opera singer. B&w cartoon illustrations by Roy McKie. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice, clean, almost new-looking condition. Color illustrations by Donald Carrick. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, The America Press, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 180 pages, blue cloth with gilt lettering. Scores of glossy B&W photographs from the air and ground. Maps of Alaska on both sets of end papers with airplane and dog team routes. First edition of this Jesuit priest's 1600 mile expedition memoir about mushing down the Yukon River, visiting Jesuit Missions, and into the erupting Aniackchak Crater. Accounts first published in The Saturday Evening Post. This is an ex-library copy with stamping and residue to endpapers, but clean and tight inside.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 317 pages, color frontis by Marguerite Kirmse (repeated on dj). Red cloth boards, black stamped lettering on cover and spine. Fading to covers at bottom.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers stamped in black, 268 pages. True story of the Alaskan sled dog who went to France during the Great War and won the Croix de Guerre; presumably targeted for older children. B&w frontispiece and endpapers illustration by Charles Livingston Bull. Covers with mild soil, clean inside.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st Edition, 1992, 102 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cream cover boards, decoration in brown on front cover, brown quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket price-clipped, excellent. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. In beautiful condition. Go climb a tree, cats! it's the year of the dog--thanks to the 101 inimitable cartoons in this book, a whole glorious, uproarious world of dogs from more than sixty-five years of The New Yorker.

Softcover. NY, Perigee Book, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated. B&w cartoons that satirize the efforts of owners to discipline their pet dogs and pokes fun at the behavior of dogs. Mild shelf wear, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Illustrated in 3-colors by Margaret Bloy Graham. No dust jacket. Children's Choice Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black, 126 pages, line drawings in brown by Paul Brown. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, light shelf wear, tanning to endpapers, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages, b & w and color lithographs by Kurt Wiese, slight wear to edges of cover, clean, tight copy.

Boston, Little Brown , 7th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with blue design of doll with dog on front. llustrated in color, b&w by Anne Vaughan. Previous owner's signature opposite first blank page, faint foxing to color illustrated endpapers otherwise tight, clean copy. Lacks dust jacket. Susan Araminta is different from all the other dolls because her face was made of wood. She is put in a box with some old clothes and left at the curb. The trashman with a horse and wagon means to take her home to his little girl but she falls off the wagon and lands in the street. There she is discovered by the gruff Scottish Terrier Mister MacHugh who rescues her.

Hardcover. NY, G. Howard Watt, 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped with black lettering and dog's profile. Color frontis by Charles Livingston Bull, 302 pages. Mystery novelist's scarce first book, chronicling the adventures of a German Shepherd living in the Canadian Northwest. Bookplate on inside front cover, front fly leaf missing. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons , reorint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Officer Buckle knows more about safety than anyone else in Napville, but his dull presentations put his audiences to sleep. Enter Gloria, Napville's new police dog. Gloria knows just how to liven up the safety speeches--as long as Officer Buckle's back is turned! Full color illustrations by Rathmann. Caldecott Medal Book with gold sticker on front. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, St Martins Press, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Peter Barrett. Gyp, a cheerful but always silent sheep dog, startles everyone with uncharacteristic behavior during the championship sheep dog trials. Clean copy.