MIKE OF COMPANY D
by Aspden, Don
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Poplar Grove, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1939. Green hardcover cloth binding clean square and tight. Bit of shelfwear top and bottom of spine, very slightly bumped corners. Bookplate fep. Yellowing pages, some foxing, but overall clean interior. 261 pages. Many b/w sketches throughout by noted artist Paul Brown. Scarce book about a dog, part Irish Terrier in the text but all Irish Terrier in Brown's drawings, who worked his way into the affection of an army company during World War I. No dogs are supposed to be on the transport, but Mike manages to be on it when it reaches France. Both author and illustrator were with the AEF. This is a moving and humorous story of a dog at war who becomes the soldiers' friend and comrade.. Illus. by Brown, Paul. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Deja Vu Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10247
- Title
- MIKE OF COMPANY D
- Author
- Aspden, Don
- Illustrator
- Brown, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Charles Scribners Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- DOG DOGS IRISH TERRIER TERRIERS WORLD WAR I WWI
- Bookseller catalogs
- Dogs - Fiction, Children and Adult; Horses - Illus by Paul Brown;
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About the Seller
Deja Vu Books
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Poplar Grove, Illinois
About Deja Vu Books
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