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Dumb-bell of Brookfield
by Foote, John Taintor
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
-
Manhattan Beach, California, United States
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About This Item
Appleton, 1925-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1925. Hard cover, 262 pp. plus 3 pages of ads at the back. 1925 edition. Good in acceptable+ dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gold lettering on front and spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges and corners of covers and gold lettering a bit rubbed and faded. Spine just slightly cocked but binding is still nice and tight. Light soiling and spotting to edges of text block. Pages browned with age but otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket has several 1" or less chips and tears and creasing along edges. Light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well. Price clipped. Now in an archival quality Brodart cover. NOT Ex-Library. No remainder marks. Nice illustration of dog on jacket and frontis-piece.[From front jacket flap] No other dog story has quite the fineness of the story of Dumb-Bell, of whom Rex Beach in his foreword to the book says, "He was more than a champion, more than a dog, he was a gallant gentleman and a philosopher, and he held as his creed a truth that many of us would do well to pause and ponder over; namely, the way to gain a friend is to be one." Rex Beach tells us that he laughed and cried as he read the story and there can be no doubt that its appeal is a strongly personal one for every animal lover. When champion Roderigo died there was no other to take his place seemingly. But this was reckoning without Dumb-Bell, his son, whose story this is. In it John Taintor Foote has written what is probably the greatest of dog stories.
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- Bookseller
- Epilonian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20170906005
- Title
- Dumb-bell of Brookfield
- Author
- Foote, John Taintor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Appleton
- Date Published
- 1925-01-01
- Keywords
- Fiction, Dog Stories
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Epilonian Books
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Manhattan Beach, California
About Epilonian Books
Epilonian Books is a small bookseller dedicated to preserving ephemera and any esoteric or imminently extinct written work.
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- Text Block
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- Spine
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- Tight
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- New
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