New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good+. 1926. Reprint. Sixth Printing; Hardcover. B/W Illustrations; 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 x 1 1/2; 311 pages; 1926 printing. Hard cover has red boards with back lettering on spine and front. Boards have sunning, rubbing, bumping, shelf wear, scuffing. Tidily written pen inscription: Mildred Cary, 2/14/42, from Vaughan & Justine, inside front cover. Illustrated with many b/w drawings. Pages intact. Mostly clean. A collection of eleven stories of collies, as children's pets, farmers' steady helpers, trackers or slayers of vicious beasts, and companions of very different men and one story of a wolf as tame and devoted as a dog, by the master of dog stories, Albert Payson Terhune. Newspaper column taped to rear endpaper. 'Paterson, NJ, March 4; no name of paper or year, but probably from 1942, when Terhune died o February 18. Column title 'Terhune's Will Gives His Ideas On Life for Dogs.' .

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Bookseller: Pegasusbooks.biz (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 10505
Title: My Friend The Dog. [12 Stories].
Author: Terhune, Albert Payson
Illustrator: Marguerite Kirmse
Format/Binding: Sixth Printing; Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1926
Keywords: Anthologies;, Dogs;, Dog Stories;, Animals;, Animal Stories;, Cultural History;, Social History;, Pets;, Animal Behavior;

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