Author: TERHUNE, ALBERT PAYSON
Title: My Friend the Dog. [12 Stories].
Description: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926. Sixth Printing; Hardcover. Illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse. B/W Illustrations; 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 x 1 1/2; 311 pages; 1926 printing. Hard cover has blue boards with back lettering on spine and front. Boards have sunning, rubbing, bumping, shelf wear, scuffing. Pencil notation on front end paper. Taped onto front end paper is 3" piece of paper, with a typed synopsis of one of the stories. Brown and white monochrome drawings on end papers. 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.. 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