Size: 8vo-over 7.75"-9.75" tall; No date on this Grosset & Dunlap reprint, but copyright 1945 by John C. Winston was the first edition (listed on verso title page). This is volume #3 in the Silver Chief series. Book has no names, tears or soil inside. Head of 211pp text is dyed burgundy. Brown 'tweedy' paper covered boards with small splits in paper at spine ends. Story title and decorative edging on backstrip title. Famous Dog Stories and G, D, with a thistle flower separating these two initials are all that is decorating the front tweedy paper covered boards. Spine ends and upper tips bumped, lower tips still sharp. Unclipped (and unpriced) color illustrated dj in new mylar shows several short closed tears, a couple of short, triangular chips on frt and rear panels, plus a 3/4" x 1.5" chip at head of spine that took a piece of the last letter R on Silver with it.
First edition. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Very good in pictorial boards. Light rubs at spine ends and slong spine folds, fold in bottom corner of rear endpaper, top edge of text block spotted. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Size: 8vo-over 7.75"-9.75" tall; No date on this Grosset & Dunlap reprint, but copyright 1945 by John C. Winston was the first edition (listed on verso title page). This is volume #3 in the Silver Chief series. Book has no names, tears or soil inside. Head of 211pp text is dyed burgundy. Brown 'tweedy' paper covered boards with small splits in paper at spine ends. Story title and decorative edging on backstrip title. Famous Dog Stories and G, D, with a thistle flower separating these two initials are all that is decorating the front tweedy paper covered boards. Spine ends and upper tips bumped, lower tips still sharp. Unclipped (and unpriced) color illustrated dj in new mylar shows several short closed tears, a couple of short, triangular chips on frt and rear panels, plus a 3/4" x 1.5" chip at head of spine that took a piece of the last letter R on Silver with it.
First edition copy. Collectible-Good. Acceptable dust jacket. Text loss to dust jacket spine ends. Owner's name on frontis recto. (dogs, police dogs, human-animal relationships, Canadian Northwest)
First edition. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Very good in pictorial boards. Light rubs at spine ends and slong spine folds, fold in bottom corner of rear endpaper, top edge of text block spotted. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1943. Stated first edition, 1943. Very good in fair dustjacket. Illustrated with color plates and other illustrations in black and white. Blue pictorial cloth printed in silver gilt, color illustrated dustjacket. The book has modest shelfwear, mainly light rubbing to the corners and spine ends and a very small transparent spot to the front cover, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [2.00] and has considerable chipping and some closed tears, old tape repairs to reverse side, cover design mainly intact, about 15 percent paper loss. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
First edition copy. Collectible-Good. Acceptable dust jacket. Text loss to dust jacket spine ends. Owner's name on frontis recto. (dogs, police dogs, human-animal relationships, Canadian Northwest)
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1943. Stated first edition, 1943. Very good in fair dustjacket. Illustrated with color plates and other illustrations in black and white. Blue pictorial cloth printed in silver gilt, color illustrated dustjacket. The book has modest shelfwear, mainly light rubbing to the corners and spine ends and a very small transparent spot to the front cover, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [2.00] and has considerable chipping and some closed tears, old tape repairs to reverse side, cover design mainly intact, about 15 percent paper loss. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book