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211 pages; 5 3/4 x 8 1/2" Light wear to spine edges and board corners.

First Edition; 1937; Grosset & Dunlap, New York; first three page are bent, tan linen cover, corners are bumped. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng

FIRST EDITION. Very Good hardcover book. No DJ. .Bright clean square tight.Beautiful endpapers, 5 full page color illustrations, many b&w.Wear to spine tips, slight rub to corners, quarter inch split to top of gutter, eighth of inch indent to middle of lower spine. Shelf 1010. .Not a book club (BC)copy. We ship within one business day of receiving your order. Boards and spine are straight // Binding is tight.//Pages are clean, legible, and bright // No previous owner name//No writing in the book margins or blank spaces // No highlighting// No foxing// Not remainder marked // Not price clipped// Not Ex Library// Not a Book Club

Good condition. No dust jacket. Exterior has signs of gentle use along corners and edges. Light staining along the spine and on back cover. Tear on the inside of back cover near spine, though all the binding is still holding together securely. Unmarked, sturdy copy.

NF/None, no markings or names. ; Four lovely color plates by Wiese. Illustrated endpapers; First; Blue cloth/silver; 8vo; No DJ

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.

A sure sign-of-the times for these 211 pages of northern fiction, appears on page 131 when the pursuit of two (Nazi) escapees from an internment camp are being tracked by Sgt. Jim Thorne. Read more about : Tom Eagle's Nest, revolver, lead-dog, winter cabin, backtracking, marksmanship, Sergeant Thorne, drying skins, and Cameron River. Colour plates and b/w drawings by Kurt Wiese accompny text. Portrait of O'Brien on d.j. back. Cond ; Boards are blue with silver letteringand graphics. Silver Chief also appears on the UNclipped d.j. Pictorial end-papers. Volume is beautifully crisp and square and clean. No names nor marks. Piece missing at tail of d.j. spine. Very collectible ! QUote (p. 96) : " ._._. in the nick of time. His son, Donald, already had several such weapons, but this extra one would be money well spent. It had succeeded in loosing an Indian's tongue, with the result that Tom himself had asked the first question about tracks. His further remarks had ._._._. . " Size: Octavo

1937 First Edition. Tight and clean, no marks. Beautiful Jacket with one slight chip out at top of spine, otherwise like new. Price-clipped Jacket now in protective, clear, removable cover. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese.

1st British edition; dj w/rubbing, unclipped price, in mylar; blue c w/silver gilt titles; slight toning; 192 clean, unmarked pages

224 pages. Dustjacket darekend to rear, chips to spine-ends and corners, 3cm tear to top rear hinge, bronzed spine, wear/small nicks to edges, price-clipped. Hardback book covers are somewhat blanched with wear/small creases to spine-ends a small bump to top front corner. Flyleaf missing. Ink child's name to title-page, half-title and frontis rear. Pages-edges darkened, clean colour frontispiece. Pages clean and sound.

A good copy overall, internally just previous owner's name to end paper. But the boards are very worn and rubbed.

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)

B000PG76RE. no dustjacket. illustrated covers. 1st edition. edges rubbed. binding tight.

B000PG76RE. no dustjacket. illustrated covers. 1st edition. edges rubbed. binding tight.

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.