Author: TERHUNE, ALBERT PAYSON & SARAH C. SCOTT & WAYNE LEWIS
Title: Wolf
Description: Exeter, NH: J. N. Townsend Publishing, 2004. Paperback. ISBN: 1880158469. Illustrated by Sarah Chamberlin Scott. B&W Illustrations; 8.80 X 5.70 X 0.50 inches; 147 pages; Soft cover has slight rubbing to covers. Brown spine with black lettering. B/w drawings to illustrate the text. B/w photograph is the frontispiece, showing Terhune [author/owner] working with Wolf. Originally published in 1925. 'He was undersized; though wirily powerful and as lithe as a panther. His coat, which should have been wavily abundant, was as short and as thick as a chow's. It was not unlike a chow's in texture and growth. His bushy tail was three inches too short. His head was broad where it should have been chiseled into classic lines. His muzzle was not long enough for the rest of his head. The stop above it was too prominent. His glowing eyes were round; not almond-shaped or slanted as called for in the Standard of the Breed. In brief, he was not a true type of collie; though of royally pure lineage. He was a throwback; a throwback almost to the ancestral wolves which form the trunk and roots of the collie family-tree. It was this queer outward resemblance to a young timber-wolf which gave him his name'. Yet Wolf was beautiful, in his own odd way; and he was surpassingly strong and swift. That broad brain-space of his was vibrant with incipient wisdom. Another one of the exceptional works by Terhune, about his beloved Sunnybank collies. I grew up reading and rereading, the books. They were so enticing and magical, and sparked a love for dogs, to be surrounded by dogs, that lives on. Read Terhune, become entranced by these dogs and their stories [most of them true].. Near Fine .

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