Author: TERHUNE, ALBERT PAYSON
Title: My Friend the Dog. [12 Stories].
Description: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926. Reprint. 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 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.'. Very Good+ .

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