Author: TERHUNE, ALBERT PAYSON(1872-1942)
Title: My Friend the Dog. [12 Stories].
Description: New York: Harper & Bros, 1926. First American Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse. Color & B/W Illustrations; 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 x 1 1/2; First American edition, from 1926. Hard cover has green boards with faded gold lettering on spine and front. Boards have sunning, rubbing, bumping, shelf wear, scuffing. Pencil notation on front end paper. Color paste down on front. Brown and white monochrome drawings on end papers. Illustrated with 8 color plates and many b/w drawings. Front gutter reinforced with piece of clear tape. Pages intact. Mostly clean, some light foxing to pages. 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.. Very Good- .

Keywords: Anthologies; Dogs; Dog Stories; Animals; Animal Stories; Cultural History; Social History; Pets; Animal Behavior; Juvenile Fiction Cultural History Animals Dogs Social History