Author: Tracey,Julia Lowndes with a Note by Lady Smith-Dorrien
Title: TERRIER,V.C a black-and=Tan hero who won the Victoria Cross
Description: London, The Aldine Publishing Co.Ltd. circa 1916 according to the British Library illustrations in the text [13 including full page] by Louis Wain + full page photograph of Lady Smith-Dorrien + decorated titlepage & vignette facing page 1. . 8vo blue cloth spined pictorial boards [Cream covers showing some marks and dustiness/edges rubbed] Titlepage with Lady Smith-Dorrien's photograph and her note with mermorial of the dog on the verso of these 2 leaves tipped in on glazed paper. The rest of the book is on regular wood pulp paper. Almost all of the Louis Wain illustrations are signed and deal only with dogs and cats. The book has an inscription to the free endpaper and aside from about five marginal fingermarks is in clean tight condition with no tears or other problbems. The story is about the terrier whose master goes off to war but the dog realizing that his owner has forgotten his pipe, follows him to France where they are reunited. When the master ill they are repatriated and Star,the dog, becomes famous and meets the King. The story was obviously written well before the war is finished and the last leaf includes "What the Blue Cross does for War Horses" and asking for donations to help build further Horse Hospitals in France to help the horses that are wounded.

Keywords: Louis Wain illustrated World War One Dog story


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