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Straight solid hardcover in brown cloth covered boards with a full size color illustrated paste-on plate to frt cover of a handsome collie with his paw on the front door of his home, retrieving the newspaper for his master. Light color loss from storage, spine ends bumped with some rubbing at foot only, tips lightly bumped, cloth shows a few marks and there is no gilt on the blindstamped title on the backstrip, but the volume still displays well on the shelf from the front. Baby blue endpapers are illustrated with 18 different dog breed portraits fore and aft, Former owner's gift dedication on 2nd blank fep, rest of the sewn 160 pp text is crisp, tight and beautifully illustrated in b/w. Includes the following tales: Chinook of the South Pole Expedition, Brave Newfoundland Dogs, Barry, The Beloved Dog of St. Bernard Pass, Ginger, A Wonder Dog of the Moving Pictures, The Dog That Shared His Food, The Dog From Porto Rico, Gelert, A Dog of Long Ago, A Dog That Liked Candy, Sirrah, A Famous Sheep Dog, Owney, The Postoffice Dog, Balto, The Dog That Saved a City, A LITTLE DOG THAT NOBODY KNOWS, The Dog That Found a Kettle of Money, Mary Frances, That Appeared on a Cake of Ice, When Greyboy Slept in the House, Dogs That Like To Go Shopping, How Treve and Freckles Saved Their Master, Bum, The Railroad Dog, How Prince Saved Six People From a Fire, Helga: The Eyes of Her Master, Dynie: A Fire Dog. Seller Inventory # 47619
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