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HARD-TO-FIND BOOK THE BEAGLE IN AMERICA AND ENGLAND,  by H. W. Prentice, 1st edition, copyright October 1920 by H. W. Prentice and W. A. Powel, 6" x 9 1/4", 246 pp + 213 pp of  Appendix + ad pages, green cloth over boards with embossed gold decoration and title on cover, first 246 pages are about the beagle with a lot of wonderful pictures and illustrations (please feel free to request a scan of the table of contents), the appendices are the lists of Beagle Bench winners and Beagle Field Trial winners from 1890 to 1919, very good condition with wear on  the spine, corners and edges, some slight soiling of the covers, small separation of the cover from the pages (see photo of front end page), two previous owner's names and addresses, interior is in fine condition with a few pages with slight soiling and foxing and a few dog-eared page corners    #HD27352    $140.00

WONDERFULLY ILLUSTRATED, AWARD-WINNING CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT CHINESE SHAR-PEI, THE SIX WRINKLED WOOS BY Lois R. Czarnecki, Laura Almada illustrator, ISBN: 0962727504, Ohana Press, 1992; velveteen Hard Cover, First Edition, Stated 1st printing, inscribed by the author "To Elva, Watch out for the Wrinkles!  Aloha, Lois Czarnecki", 9" x 12" , 30 pages - unpaginated, near mint to condition with some light scruffing of the velveteen cover but it is so light it is barely worth mentioning    #CM28380    $115.00

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1905 PRETTY PRIMER BOOK with CHROMOLITHOGRAPH COVER OF CHILDREN PLAYING WITH DOG AND DOLL, W. B. Conkey Company, Chicago, earlier reader with little stories about things young people like, lots of small illustrations in the form of low-quality engravings, black and white only; lots of dogs illustrations including Pugs, Saint Bernards, Spaniels, Terriers and a Collie; 32 unpaginated pages, 7 1/2" x 9 3/4", good condition with significant wear on the corners and edges of the covers, some minor scratches and soiling on the covers,  the first 10 pages (5 sheets) have small tears, the original owner wrote name and date in pencil inside the cover, some discoloration on the inside of the covers from the glue used for binding     #SP29434    $36.00

YOUR GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPPY, by Ernest H. Hart, 1967 first edition, 125 pp, 5 3/4" x 8 3/4", book about the  birth and training of German Shepherd puppies, lots of black and white photos, information on the original owner's puppy (sire, dam and their numbers) but no name hand-written in ink on the inside cover , excellent condition, some slight soiling on the cover and some very slight wear on the corners, the spine and binding are strong and in great shape    #WK25108    $25.00
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1908  LONGFELLOW'S "EXCELSIOR", Cupples & Leon, NY, marked in pencil on the inside cover "1908, A Merry Christmas to Miss Morton from Mary Gale, 16 pgs., 4 3/4" x 6 7/8", hardcover booklet with Longfellow's poem, 6 color illustrations including a repeat of the cover page, poem pages are decorated with gold and white trees, good condition, spine is very worn, but still solidly holding the pages together, the edges and the corners of the book are worn, there is light foxing on the inside pages    #EXBK1    $16.00    SOLD
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1927 POLK MILLER'S DOG BOOK,  with setter covers, for Sergeant's, 48 pp, covers common dog breeds with blk & wt pictures of the dogs, also cover's common dog ailments and the Sergeant's remedy,  good condition, the covers are quite faded and worn, but the interior is fine    #DG25157    $5.00

WHAT DOG IS THAT?,  by Walter Edward Blythe with descriptive text by Joseph Nathan Kane, 1944, looks to be first edition, Greenburg Publisher, New York, 122 head illustrations by breed, 60 pp., 5 3/4" x 8 1/2", good condition with wear on the spine, corners and edges, yellowing of the pages    #DG30074    $20.00     HOLD

Border Collie book

NOP'S TRIALS, by Douglas McCaig, first edition, 1984, hardcover with dust jacket, 328 pp., story of a stolen Border Collie, his mistreatment in many circumstances and his owner's search for him, light reading suspense, author borrows many stories from real life events with the sheepdog trial people, the author knows his Border 
Collies and does not try to give them human traits or apologize for dogs' animal behaviors, good read, book is in near mint condition, dust jacket is in very good condition with some wear on edges and minor soiling    #COL27171    $12.00
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ONLY ONE WOOF, by JAMES HERRIOT,  illustrated by Peter Barnett, children's book, 8 1/4" x 10 1/2", 1985, St. Martin's Press, New York; hardcover, paper over boards, 30 pp., unpaginated, lots of illustrations, story about a sheepdog (Border Collie?  Australian Shepherd? named GYP, English Shepherd?) who never barked, good condition with some wear on the edges and corners, mild soiling on the cover, some soiling of the endpages    #HRD30159    $8.50 ....

The Fireside Book of Dog Stories, edited by Jack Goodman, intro by James Thurber, 1943, cloth over boards hardcover, published by Simon and Schuster, 588 pp. , 37 stories, by Albert Payson Terhune, James Thurber, John Glasworthy, Jack London, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, O. Henry,  Robert Louis Stevenson, etc., fine condition with mild wear on corners and spine, slight soiling to the cloth, no dust jacket and no map (dark mark where map was)    #DAL26947    $15.00    SOLD

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DOGS, DOGS, DOGS book by Paul Hamlyn, 1963, hard cover, 149 pp.,  illustrations and color photos, 8 1/4" X 11", covers -  dogs' history and origins, dogs in art, dogs as entertainers, dogs in war...plus much more,  very good condition, no dust cover, some soiling on the cover, also some wear on the spine, edges and corners    #DG13058    $8.50 ....

HOW PUPPIES GROW

CHILD'S BOOK  WITH GOLDEN RETRIEVER ON COVER by Selsam, 1971, for a young  reader, paperback, 34pp with b/w photos, very good condition,  some bends in the cover    #13471    $4.00
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DOG OWNER'S GUIDE, 1955, 3rd edition, by Kasco Mills, art deco cover,  138 pp., covers choosing a dog, to training to showing a dog, illustrations and photos,  6"x9", very good condition,  bend on the lower right hand corner, not readily apparent    #15556    $8.00

Cocker Spaniel advertisement ad $4.00
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1950's - 1970's SCRAPBOOK WITH EMMET WATSON ILLUSTRATION OF ENGLISH SETTER AND POINTER HUNTING, unused, 27 sheets (54 pages),  I will throw in a few old sporting dog scraps from magazines, 10 3/4 x 15", good to fair condition with wear on the covers and yellowing to the pages    #SP30072    $18.00....
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THE FAITHFUL FRIEND, Favorite Writings about Owning and Loving Dogs, First edition, selected by Lois Daniel, published 1968 Hallmark Editions, with colorful photographs and historical illustrations, 4 7/8" x 7 1/8", hardcover, brown paper over boards, Collie photograph dustcover, near mint to excellent condition, the book is in near mint condition with minuscule wear to the paper on the bottom of the spine and a quote about men written in pencil by the previous owner, the dust jacket has small wear and a couple small tears (just enough to make it look a little used), but overall the dust jacket looks super    #COL27309    $7.50    HOLD
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1964 WATER DOG,  Revolutionary Rapid Training method, with dust jacket,  by Richard Wolters, featuring lots and lots of photos of Tar the black Labrador Retriever, 179 pp, 6 3/4" x 9", you can learn quite a bit about training and spending time with a dog pretty fast with this book even if you are not looking to train your dog as a retriever, fair to poor condition, looks like the last dog trained with this book did not appreciate it much and gnawed the spine and part of both covers away, also got some pages, but all information is there and surprisingly the binding is still solid, this book is not going to fall apart on you, personally I get a kick out of the teeth marks     #SP27174    $5.50
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GREATHEART by Ethel Dell, 504 pp., 1918 romance novel with (I believe short-haired) Saint Bernard dog on the dustjacket, dog is not really in the story except a partial sentence reference to one being there, the dog is not Greatheart, story is typical romance novel but was considered good enough to reprint in 1980, 5 1/4" x 7 3/4", hardcover, published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, book is in fine condition, alas the dust jacket  is very rough, most of the spine area is missing, it does still stay on the book though    STB27694    $9.00
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UNDERDOG, by Joe Camp, the story of making the movie BENJI, Benji on the dust cover, 1993, First Edition, hardcover, Longstreet Press Inc,  230 pp., 6 1/3" x 9 1/4", interesting read, black covered boards with metallic red writing on the spine, excellent to near mint condition, very slight wear to the dust jacket, small dent on the bottom edge of the front cover, insides like new    #DG27695    $10.00
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Pet Library's POODLE Guide, 1968, by Barbara Lockwood and Margaret Sheldon (ROTHARA Kennels), printed in England, excellent book with lots of specific information about Poodles and about showing Poodles, lots of photos and diagrams, photos include many champion Poodles, 248 pp., fine condition with slight wear on the covers (glossy) and corners, covers also have very light soiling, interior is in excellent condition - looking like new, but 2 former owner stamps    #PD27897    $12.00

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LASSIE AND THE FIREFIGHTERS, 1968, by Florence Michelson, Whitman Publishing, 28 pages, unpaginated, 5 1/2" x 6 1/4", very good condition with moderate wear on the corners and edges, some kid's printing in pencil on the title page    #COL30054    $10.00 

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THE HIDE and SEEK DUCK, by Irma Wilde, 1952 first edition, Wonder Books, New York, story about a missing duck and the search for the duck by a girl, a large dog (looks like a Golden Retriever to me), a small dog (a Cairn Terrier) and 3 kittens, 26 pp, hardback, 6 1/2" x 8", good condition with some wear on the corners, spine and edges, previous owner's name is in pencil on the inside of the cover, a little soiling to a few of the pages, there is some looseness to the pages, but not bad    #SP30055    $8.50    .

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BOXERS, book by Beverly Pisano, 1990, 192 pp, covers history, breed characteristics, grooming, selecting your dog, health, training and behavior modification, 5 1/2" x 8",  glossy cover, very good condition with some slight wear on cover and spine

#BX30273    $8.00 

Cocker Spaniel advertisement ad $3.50
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CHAMPION DOG PRINCE TOM, by Jean Fritz and Tom Clute, illustrated by Ernst hart, 1959, Coward-McCann Inc., New York; 128  pp, lots of small illustration so f the Cocker Spaniel, story of a blond Cocker's winning of a National Field Trial Championship, good condition with considerable wear on the dust jacket, wear on the book spine and corners, some yellowing of the pages and a few areas of soiling, a small rip in a few pages and writing by the original owner on the endpages, is in much better condition than it sounds   #SP30097  $10.00    HOLD

. Hard to find 1946-1947 edition of Fun with Dick and Jane reader by William S. Gray and May Hill Arbuthnot. Hard cover book is a library copy from Hancock Central Schools, Hancock, New York. 160 page reader in great condition all pages intact no rips, tears or writing. Covers show some wear along edges and at corners - binding still tight with pages. 
 
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