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THE BOOK OF THE DOG. With facsimiles of drawings in colour by Elizabeth F. Bonsall and with stories and verses by Alice Calhoun Haines
by BONSALL, Elizabeth Fearne & HAINES, Alice Calhoun
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Minus/No Jacket
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Frederick A. Stokes, 1905. Hard cover in original pictorial boards. Published NY: Frederick A. Stokes, 1905. Large 4to., 10 1/2" x 11 3/4", unpaginated, illustrated with 6 (including frontis) recto printed full page color plates, two-color page borders of numerous dogs throughout, plus b/w drawings in text panels by Elizabeth Bonsall. Gray cloth and color pictorial paper covered boards. Wear to the boards along edges and tips, small tear/chipping to the spine cloth at the heel, short gift inscription on fly leaf, else very good, covers and internals clean, bright, unmarked, binding strong. Contents include: Puppies; Cleopatra's babies; A happy thought; General Napoleon; A modest ambition; Model dogs; Different voices; At the show; A bully apology; The sad end of Arabella; Doggie's toilet; Why Mousie ran away; Very scarce! Only four copies in WorldCat.. Hard. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 4to.
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- The Wild Muse
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009945
- Title
- THE BOOK OF THE DOG. With facsimiles of drawings in colour by Elizabeth F. Bonsall and with stories and verses by Alice Calhoun Haines
- Author
- BONSALL, Elizabeth Fearne & HAINES, Alice Calhoun
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1905
- Size
- 4to
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Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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- Heel
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- Jacket
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- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
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