Octavo, Hardcover. ex school lib book with blue pictorial boards and no dj. Wear to board edges, corner bent, some light stains on edges of endpaper else a good reading copy. Great color illustrations (framable). Famous dog story series. 235 pp. Heroism in the Canadian wilderness. Silver Chief, son of a husky and a wolf, gets a well earned rest has a great rescue adventure and goes home.
General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. The top and bottom edges of the spine have some small tears. P/O sticker and inscription inside. THe spine has water staining along it. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.
1939. First Edition. 155 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth with blue lettering. Colour illustrations throughout. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Moderate sunning to spine.
Part of the Famous Dog Stories series for young people. Good condition, DJ poor but in library cover. Stated first, but is Grosset & Dunlap in America, copyright 1937 is John C. Winston Company, Great Britain. Assumed printing 1940s. Tan "tweed" boards with the Famous Dog Stories logo on the right bottom, indicative of early 1940s printing & binding, rather than the later 1945 binding that had a dog on the cover board. A really good copy, tight bending, pages have some yellow to them from age. A great addition to one of the 1930s-40s YA book series collectibles. We are a small indie bookstore in scenic Vermont, specializing in children's, YA, and science fiction. Please consider buying from us and supporting indie bookstores and our bookstore cat, Wesley!
Reprint. Hardcover. Edges and endpapers very slightly foxed, bookshop stamp on the front free endpaper, otherwise very good in laminated pictorial boards. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. In the "Famous Dog Stories" series.
Reprint of 1957 (code M-757 on copyright page), with many full-page color plates and some black and white illustrations by Kurt Wiese. A very attractive copy with just slight wear to edges and two tiny chips on rear panel of dust jacket, bright and clean otherwise.
Dark green top-stain. Dustjacket good plus. A few small tears and chips to edges, .75" or less. Brown discoloration to folded edges. Color illustrated front jacket, black and white photograph of author to rear panel. Very small, lightly raised spot to cloth of upper rear board. Color illustration of Silver Chief to frontispiece. 14 black and white illustrations throughout text. Navy blue illustrated endpapers. Silver metallic debossed lettering to spine and front of denim blue cloth-covered boards. Silver stamped illustration of sled dogs to front board. 235 pp. Clean, tight, bright. By author of Silver Chief, Dog of the North ; Valiant, Dog of the Timberline and Alone Across the Top of the World. "An heroic tale of the most ancient struggle of man against the elements in which modern innovations -- serums, radio, the airplane -- play a vital part," (front flap).
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