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Auberjonois, Fernand Top Dog: A Cavalier View of the English King Charles Spaniel Fernand Auberjonois
0905649397 / 9780905649399 Debrett's Peerage 1980-05-22 Hardcover Used: Good Used: Very Good Hardcover Standard Hardcover Auberjonois, Fernand
This hardcover book was published in 1980 by Debrett's Peerage with 95 pages. The text is unmarked. The binding is sound. The dust jacket is unclipped and untorn but moderately worn around the edges. There is a bookstore label attached to the front free endpaper. The page edges are toned. The signature book plate of Mr. Francis Fretwell is attached to the front paste down. This is the first book by a dog with Royal connections. The most Royal of dogs, the King Charles Spaniel has been protected by law since the time of the monarch for whom he was named, and been granted every privilege in the Kingdom. Never denied access to any establishment in the Realm, he has viewed English life and manners with a natural snobbishness. Nancy Mitford has at last met her match in the canine world in this arrogant yet witty view of the English scene.Every decade brings to light manuscripts of unknown works by famous authors. Very few "pawscripts" are uncovered. In this sense Top Dog is a real find. Books by dogs are rare. Books by dogs of imposing lineage, descendants of survivors of the Great Fire and the Great Plague are even scarcer.A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, the author belongs to one of the rare breeds that can boast a special relationship with crowned heads. He points with pride to the fact that his ancestors sat in the laps of Kings and Queens at a time when the only Englishmen allowed to keep dogs were "persons of Property or sons of persons of higher degree." He is a self-confessed snob who looks down upon his congeners with a natural arrogance which is redeemed in part by his perceptiveness.In Top Dog, Cefn Mawr McMuck (a nom de kennel) analyzes a condition he describes as Englistmess. He left his home at a tender age, and was adopted for the avowed purpose of observing man. "No one understands the English better than their dogs," he contends.McMuck's style is olfactory rather than visual. He smells London more than he sees it. In his words, "the whole of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is impregnated with the unmistakable signature of Floris . . . here and there one discerns the perfumes of Arabia, incense from India, marijuana from the London School of Economics students."Written with considerable wit and charm, this unique view of English life and manners will put any dog on top of the scene.
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Audry, Colette; Green, Peter (Translator) Behind the Bathtub The Story of a French Dog Collette Audry German Shepherd Prix Medicis Prize 1st ED Feminist & Socialist Writer
Little, Brown 1963-01-01 First Edition Hardcover Used: Good Hardcover Standard Hardcover
This FIRST ENGLISH EDITION hardcover book was published in 1963 by Little, Brown & Company with 313 pages. The text is unmarked. The binding is sound. The dust jacket is moderately worn around the edges with several small closed tears. The top front inside flap of the dust jacket is clipped. The page edges are toned with moderately scattered foxing. A few pages are creased at the top corner. Behind the Bathtub, for many months a best seller in France, was awarded the Prix Media's.In these pages Colette Audry tells the strangely compelling story of the six years during which a dog played a major part in her own and her son's life. Douchka, a handsome Alsatian bitch of great vitality, had little in common with the traditional hero of animal literature. She loathed small children. She was a terrible barker. She created havoc in Mme. Audry's small Paris apartment.Because of Douchka I was obliged to perform innumerable tiresome chores, take countless tedious precautions. She was, slowly but surely, crushing my independence — and I, far from resisting, had begun to aid and abet the process. It was not so much Douchka I was turning my back on as myself. Because I loved her. To her I surrendered what no man had ever taken from me — my freedom of movement and decision.As the author of this memoir, no one could seem less likely than Mme. Audry, a lycee professor, novelist, politician, fighting feminist, divorcee and unsentimental intellectual. As she candidly describes the rewards and penalties of her extraordinary involvement with Douchka, she is gradually seeing her own life from a new vantage point. Behind the bathtub, where Douchka customarily retired when punished, is also where the stricken dog goes to die — after having changed the existence of her owner. This book is a sentimental journey into the past, to be sure, but it is a rigorously intellectual one. In the end, Colette Audry has written an amazingly subtle and perceptive examination of the devotion that can and often does exist between two living things belonging to essentially different worlds.People are willing to prepare a tragedy for themselves every ten or fifteen years, to grieve periodically over the death of an animal, as though it were not enough to know that their mothers were going to die.The translation, doing full justice to the author's beautifully articulated and nuanced prose, is by Peter Green, himself an eminent writer of both fiction and non-fiction, classicist, and outstanding British reviewer.
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Beatty, Patricia Squaw Dog Patricia Beatty Labrador Retriever La Push Dog Washington Fiction Olympic Peninsula
William Morrow 1965 Hardcover Used: Good Used: Good Hardcover Standard Hardcover Franz Altschuler
This hardcover book was published in 1965 by William Morrow with . The text is unmarked. The binding is sound. The dust jacket is moderately worn around the edges with several small closed tears and some creasing. The top corner of the front inside flap is clipped. The signature book plate of Mr. Francis Fretwell is attached to the front paste down. Joe Pine, the toughest Indian in town, kicked the cringing Labrador. "No-good dog!" Joe shouted. "You coward, you squaw dog! You're no fighter.""He sure ain't," Joe's friends agreed. Having bet on the dogfight they were attempting to stage, the men were disgusted with the Labrador's obvious terror."Pa, if he's a squaw dog, can I have him?" Jimmy asked."Yeah, take him," Joe told his son. Thus began a fast friendship. Jimmy knew his father had stolen Kadedo from some tourists who were offering a ten-dollar reward for the dog's return, so he and Kadedo kept out of sight most of the time. Jimmy's two friends, the Coast Guard Captain's kids, helped them. But despite the efforts of all three children, Jimmy was eventually parted from his faithful dog. Then Kadedo's troubles began in earnest.Set during the Depression on the author's native Olympic Peninsula, the story is written with conviction and feeling. It is a hardhearted reader who will not be moved by Kadedo's trials and his final reunion with Jimmy Pine.
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Beatty, Patricia The Staffordshire Terror Terrier Patricia Beatty Dog Fighting California Canine Fiction
0688222013 / 9780688222017 Morrow 1979-01-01 First Edition Hardcover Used: Good Used: Good Hardcover Standard Hardcover
This FIRST EDITION hardcover book was published in 1979 by William Morrow and Company with 224 pages. The text is unmarked. The binding is sound. The dust jacket is unclipped but moderately worn around the edges with several small closed tears and some creasing. The top page edges are moderately foxed. There is a bookstore label attached to the front free endpaper. The signature book plate of Mr. Francis Fretwell is attached to the front paste down. This gripping novel, set in present-day California, involves a girl's love for her pet and the netherworld of fighting dogs for sport.Cissie Rose finds the tiny puppy she names Spook on the highway. Unweaned, he needs Cissie's help to survive, and she loves him instantly. Until Cissie does a report on Spook for school, the Roses have no idea that he is a pure-bred Staffordshire terrier, a breed with a centuries-old fighting heritage. But Spook's potential for pit fighting is recognized immediately by Cissie's no-good Uncle Cletus, and when the dog disappears after Cletus quarrels with the family, there is little doubt as to who is responsible. Getting Spook back becomes Cissie's obsession, and by the time she succeeds both she and the Staffordshire have discovered the cruelties of dog fighting at first hand.Poignant and thought-provoking, this unusual story holds the reader riveted from its dramatic beginning all the way to its satisfying conclusion. It is another winner from a master storyteller.
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Bill Branon; Illustrator-Dwain Seppala Timesong Illustrated Story Coyote Autism Inspirational Book
0929712544 / 9780929712543 Huntington Press 1998-03-01 First Edition Hardcover Used: Very Good Dust Jacket: Very Good Hardcover
This hardcover book is the first edition that was published in 1998 by the Huntington Presswith 85 pages. The text is unmarked. The binding is tight. The dust jacket is unclipped and untorn. The signature book plate of Mr. Francis Fretwell is attached to the front paste down. Timesong is the inspirational story of a three- legged coyote named J.B. Who befriends an autistic boy named Tom. Following the loss of his father,Tom retreats into a shell of isolation. J.B. counters Tom's despair with a simple and uplifting explanation of immortality. Timesong combines elements of science and religion to forge a thought provoking message for young and old in time of personal crisis. For those trying to reconcile the loss of a loved one, Timesong may be the key that opens the door to acceptance and peace of mind. Timesong is a gentle gift of logic, writen with humor and love.
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Brad Watson Last Days of the Dog Men Stories Canine Fiction
0393039269 / 9780393039269 W W Norton & Co Inc 1996-04 First Edition Hardcover Used: Very Good Used: Very Good Hardcover
This First Edition hardcover book was published in 1996 by W W Norton & Co Inc with 146 pages. The text is unmarked. The binding is tight. There is normal shelf and edge wear. The dust jacket is unclipped and untorn but has some creasing along the edges. In prose so precise and beautiful it makes a reader's hair stand on end, Brad Watson writes about people and dogs: dogs as companions, as accomplices, and as unwitting victims of human passions; and people responding to dogs as missing parts of themselves. In each of these stories he captures the animal crannies of the human personality - yearning for freedom, mourning the loss of something wild, drawn to human connection but also to thoughtless abandon and savagery without judgment. Ultimately, however, people are responsible where dogs are not: "I'm told in medieval times, " the narrator of the title story tells us, "animals were regularly put on trial, with witnesses and testimony and so forth. But it is relatively rare today."
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Capek, Karel (1890-1938) I Had a Dog and a Cat Pictures Drawn by Josef & Karel Capek Translated by M. & R. Weatherall
New York, The MacMillan Company 1941-01-01 Hardcover Used: Good Hardcover Standard Hardcover
This hardcover book was published in 1941 by The MacMillan Company with 160 pages including illustrations and the frontispiece. The text is unmarked. The binding is sound. No dust jacket. The page edges, pastedowns and endpapers are toned. The clothboards have some toning around the edges. The signature book plate of Mr. Francis Fretwell is attached to the front paste down. Previous owners name present. MINDA, OR THE BREEDING OF DOGSIF a man takes to himself a dog he does so:1.Either for worldly ostentation.2.Or "to guard the house."3.Or so as not to feel so lonely.4.Or for canine pursuits.5.Or, finally, from his surplus energy, to bethe lord and master of his dog.As for me, I took to myself a dog chiefly because of my surplus energy; it seems as if I had a desire for some living creature in this world to obey me. In short, one morning a man rang my doorbell, dragging on a lead something with red shaggy hair, clearly determined never to enter my gate; after which the man said that that was the Airedale, and he carried in his arms that bristly, dirty object over the threshold and said: "Off you go, Minda!" (It is true that in the register of the breed that bitch possessed some more pure-blooded name, but for some unknown reason she was simply called Minda.) Just then four long legs were visible which with incredible speed clambered underneath the table, and down there underneath the table you could hear something cowering and trembling. "It's a fine breed, Lord, yes," said that man expertly, and made his exit with astonishing celerity leaving us two to our fate.I have never meditated before on how to get a dog from underneath a table. I suppose that it is usually done by sitting down on the floor and expostulating with the animal, using intellectual and emotional arguments to get it out. I tried it both with a generous and a commanding voice; I begged and bribed Minda with lumps of sugar, I had a go at making a little dog of myself to entice her out. When all attempts had failed, I threw myself under the table, and dragged her out by the legs into the light. It was a brutal and unexpected violence. Minda stood on her legs, humiliated and trembling like a virgin in disgrace, and she strained out of herself her first reproachful little pool.The very same evening Minda was already lying on my bed and squinting at me with her pleasant, friendly eyes: "Man, you can lie under the bed; You, I don't mind!"The next morning, of course, she fled through the window; fortunately the road-men caught her.So now I take her on the lead for the needs of Nature, and at the same time I experience the worldly ostentation which is associated with the ownership of a pure-blooded dog."Look," says a mother to her child, "this is a doggie!"I turn with a slightly offended air and say: "It's an Airedale."The people who get my goat most are those who say: "You have got a nice greyhound; but why is he so hairy?"She drags me wherever she cares to go: she has terrific strength, and most peculiar interests; she drags me over rubbish heaps and dumps in the suburbs. Good-natured retired gentlemen meet us struggling each at the opposite ends of the lead wound several times round our legs. "Why do you pull at the dog so hard?" they enquire censoriously."I'm only just exercising it," I say quickly as I am hauled away to another heap.
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Carol Lea Benjamin The Dog Who Knew Too Much Rachel Alexander & Dash Mysteries Benjamin Pit Bull Akita
0802733123 / 9780802733122 Walker & Company 1997-10 First Edition Hardcover Used: Very Good Used: Very Good Hardcover
This First edition hardcover book was published in 1997 by Walker & Company with 215 pages. The text is unmarked. The binding is tight. There is normal shelf and edge wear. The dust jacket is unclipped and untorn. The signature book plate of Mr. Francis Fretwell is attached to the front paste down. Carol Lea Benjamin's second Rachel and Dash mystery, set again in New York's Greenwich Village, fulfills the promise of the first. Hired to investigate the suicide of a young woman, Rachel's search for answers, accompanied by Dashiell, her pit bull, leads her through a maze of riddles worthy of a Zen master and depends as much on human nature as on the nature of a popular breed of dog.Benjamin's second series mystery fulfills the promise of her debut, This Dog for Hire (LJ 11/1/96). A wealthy couple hire Rachel Alexander, a free-spirited sleuth who lives in Greenwich Village with her pit bull, Dashiell, to find out why their apparently happy daughter jumped out a fifth-floor window. Rachel finds the answer (murder, of course) by "assuming" the dead woman's life: wearing her clothes, learning t'ai chi, and meeting her friends. Crisp, clean, and focused, with a great heroine and canines; an enjoyable read.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Carolyn Parkhurst The Dogs of Babel Canine Fiction Virginia New Orleans Parkhurst
0316168688 / 9780316168687 Little, Brown 2003-06-13 First Edition Hardcover Used: Very Good Used: Very Good Hardcover
This First Edition hardcover book was published in 2003 by Little, Brown with 271 pages.. The text is unmarked. The binding is tight. There is normal shelf and edge wear. The dust jacket is unclipped and untorn. The signature book plate of Mr. Francis Fretwell is attached to the front paste down. When his wife dies in a fall from a tree in their backyard, linguist Paul Iverson is wild with despair. In the days that follow, Paul becomes certain that Lexy's death was no accident. Strange clues have been left behind: unique, personal messages that only she could have left and that he is determined to decipher. So begins Paul's fantastic and even perilous search for the truth, as he abandons his everyday life to embark on a series of experiments designed to teach his dog Lorelei to communicate. Is this the project of a madman? Or does Lorelei really have something to tell him about the last afternoon of a woman he only thought he knew?...
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Cecil, Patricia Kata Son of Red Fang Patricia Cecil 1ST Edition German Shepherd Timber Wolf Canadian Fiction North Woods
JOHN C WINSTON CO 1954-01-01 First Edition Hardcover Used: Good Used: Acceptable Hardcover Standard Hardcover Pitz, Henry
This STATED FIRST EDITION hardcover book was published in 1954 by the JOHN C WINSTON COmpany with 189 pages. The text is unmarked. The binding is sound. The dust jacket is unclipped but moderately worn around the edges with several small closed tears, small chips and creasing. The pages are toned with moderately scattered foxing. The signature book plate of Mr. Francis Fretwell is attached to the front paste down. Previous owners initial is on the top page edges. "Something moved in the thicket ..." Pushing the bushes aside, Jack gazed into the gleaming eyes of a young wolf dog caught in the jaws of a steel trap. His Indian friend, Black Grow, told him that the mother of the snarling animal was a pure-bred German Shepherd and the father, one of the largest Canadian timber wolves ever seen. Lonely for companionship, the teenager rescued the growling pup and carried him home to the family farm in the Canadian North woods.Jack soon found that Kata's ancestry and wild characteristics were not easily overcome. Despite long and patient hours spent trying to train the handsome, half-wild beast, the teenager could not be sure whether Kata would suddenly return to the freedom of the great woods.At first, Kata was puzzled by the intensity and kindness of his new master. But, with a growing sense of loyalty, he learned how to herd cattle and later proved himself a hero when he rescued a hired man and courageously saved the life of Jack's sister. Despite these feats, the wilderness had left its mark on the dog. Kata's first visit to civilization ended in his disgrace when the unaccustomed sounds of town life frightened him into attacking an innocent visitor.How the wolf dog finally won the respect of Jack's family and how he chose between Jack and the wild freedom of the trackless forests makes a close-to-the-heart climax well flavored with all the exciting ingredients of life in the Canadian North woods. THE AUTHORPatricia Cecil's background is a checkered one. She has been, at one time or another, a special feature writer, proofreader, American Kennel Club judge and photographer. She has traveled extensively through Canada, South and Central America, Europe and North Africa. By drawing freely on her store of experiences, she has infused her writing with elements of immediacy and believability.KATA, SON OF RED FANG, was written to entertain a young cousin recovering from influenza. That she found time to put this engrossing tale on paper speaks well for her powers of concentration. For she did it while looking after her family, swimming, sailing (she once owned and sailed a boat in the Caribbean), water skiing, breeding dogs and racing homing pigeons.THE ILLUSTRATORPhiladelphia-born, Henry C. Pitz attended the Quaker City's Museum School of Art before he was heralded as a full-fledged artist and instructor. Noted as the illustrator of more children's books than any other contemporary artist, he has combined his two desires, "to make pictures, teach and do research in history." Although his interest lies primarily in illustration, he has won numerous prizes for his paintings and prints. Mr. Pitz's dra-matic and animated black-and-white drawings for KATA are skilfully hewed to the tension of the narrative.
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Christopher Morley 1924 Where the Blue Begins Christopher Morley Canine Fiction Satirical Novel Fantasy
Doubleday, Page & Company 1924 Hardcover Used: Good Hardcover Standard Hardcover
This hardcover book was published in 1924 by Doubleday, Page & Company with 225 pages. The text is unmarked. The binding is sound though the front hinge is cracking at the title. The pages are toned. The corners are bumped and the tips are rubbed through. The top and bottom edges of the spine panel are chipped with a couple closed tears. No dust jacket. A few pages have a small soil spot or two. CHAPTER ONE Gissing lived alone (except for his Japanese butler) in a little house in the country, in that woodland suburb region called the Canine Estates. He lived comfortably and thoughtfully, as bachelors often do. He came of a respectable family, who had always conducted themselves calmly and without too much argument. They had bequeathed him just enough income to live on cheerfully, without display but without having to do addition and subtraction at the end of the month and then tear up the paper lest Fuji (the butler) should see it. It was strange, since Gissing was so pleasantly situated in life, that he got into these curious adventures that I have to relate. I do not attempt to explain it. He had no responsibilities, not even a motor car, for his tastes were surprisingly simple. If he happened to be spending an evening at the country club, and a rainstorm came down, he did not worry about getting home. He would sit by the fire and chuckle to see the married members creep away one by one. He would get out his pipe and sleep that night at the club, after telephoning Fuji not to sit up for him. When he felt like it he used to read in bed, and even smoke in bed. When he went to town to the theatre, he would spend the night at a hotel to avoid the fatigue of the long ride on the 11:44 train. He chose a different hotel each time, so that it was always an Adventure. He had a great deal of fun. But having fun is not quite the same as being happy. Even an income of 1000 bones a year does not answer all questions. That charming little house among the groves and thickets seemed to him surrounded by strange whispers and quiet voices. He was uneasy. He was restless, and did not know why. It was his theory that discipline must be maintained in the household, so he did not tell Fuji his feelings. Even when he was alone, he always kept up a certain formality in the domestic routine. Fuji would lay out his dinner jacket on the bed: he dressed, came down to the dining room with quiet dignity, and the evening meal was served by candle-light. As long as Fuji was at work, Gissing sat carefully in the armchair by the hearth, smoking a cigar and pretending to read the paper. But as soon as the butler had gone upstairs, Gissing always kicked off his dinner suit and stiff shirt, and lay down on the hearth-rug. But he did not sleep. He would watch the wings of flame gilding the dark throat of the chimney, and his mind seemed drawn upward on that rush of light, up into the pure chill air where the moon was riding among sluggish thick floes of cloud. In the darkness he heard chiming voices, wheedling and tantalizing. One night he was walking on his little verandah. Between rafts of silver-edged clouds were channels of ocean-blue sky, inconceivably deep and transparent. The air was serene, with a faint acid taste. Suddenly there shrilled a soft, sweet, melancholy whistle, earnestly repeated. It seemed to come from the little pond in the near-by copses. It struck him strangely. It might be anything, he thought. He ran furiously through the field, and to the brim of the pond. He could find nothing, all was silent. Then the whistlings broke out again, all round him, maddeningly. This kept on, night after night. The parson, whom he consulted, said it was only frogs; but Gissing told the constable he thought God had something to do with it. Then willow trees and poplars showed a pallid bronze sheen, forsythias were as yellow as scrambled eggs, maples grew knobby with red buds. Among the fresh bright grass came, here and there, exhilarating smells of last year's buried bones. The little upward slit at the back of Gissing's nostrils felt prickly. He thought that if he could bury it deep enough in cold beef broth it would be comforting. Several times he went out to the pantry intending to try the experiment, but every time Fuji happened to be around. Fuji was a Japanese pug, and rather correct, so Gissing was ashamed to do what he wanted to. He pretended he had come out to see that the icebox pan had been emptied properly. "I must get the plumber to put in a pukka drain-pipe to take the place of the pan," Gissing said to Fuji; but he knew that he had no intention of doing so. The ice-box pan was his private test of a good servant. A cook who forgot to empty it was too careless, he thought, to be a real success. But certainly there was some curious elixir in the air. He went for walks, and as soon as he was out of sight of the houses he threw down his hat and stick and ran wildly, with great exultation, over the hills and fields. "I really ought to turn all this energy into some sort of constructive work," he said to himself. No one else, he mused, seemed to enjoy life as keenly and eagerly as he did. He wondered, too, about the other sex. Did they feel these violent impulses to run, to shout, to leap and caper in the sunlight? But he was a little startled, on one of his expeditions, to see in the distance the curate rushing hotly through the underbrush, his clerical vestments dishevelled, his tongue hanging out with excitement. "I must go to church more often," said Gissing. In the golden light and pringling air he felt excitable and high-strung. His tail curled upward until it ached. Finally he asked Mike Terrier, who lived next door, what was wrong. "It's spring," Mike said. "Oh, yes, of course, jolly old spring!" said Gissing, as though this was something he had known all along, and had just forgotten for the moment. But he didn't know. This was his first spring, for he was only ten months old. Outwardly he was the brisk, genial figure that the suburb knew and esteemed. He was something of a mystery among his neighbours of the Canine Estates, because he did not go daily to business in the city, as most of them did; nor did he lead a life of brilliant amusement like the Airedales, the wealthy people whose great house was near by. Mr. Poodle, the conscientious curate, had called several times but was not able to learn anything definite. There was a little card-index of parishioners, which it was Mr. Poodle's duty to fill in with details of each person's business, charitable inclinations, and what he could do to amuse a Church Sociable. The card allotted to Gissing was marked, in Mr. Poodle's neat script, Friendly, but vague as to definite participation in Xian activities. Has not communicated.
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Cleveland, Reginald M. Guard, Son of Cop Reginald M. Cleveland Edwin Megargee German Shepherd Dog
Milton Bradley Company 1931-01-01 First Edition Hardcover Used: Good Hardcover Standard Hardcover
This FIRST EDITION hardcover book was published in 1931 by Milton Bradley Company with 267 pages. The text is unmarked. The binding is sound. No dust jacket. The pages are toned. The corners are bumped and the tips are rubbed through. The spine panel has several closed tears along the edges including one long closed tear along the rear gutter. The spine panel is sunned. The signature book plate of Mr. Francis Fretwell is attached to the front paste down. Previous owners name present. The top page edges are dampstained. An article about the author is attached to the rear pastedown. FOREWORD: SOME of the wisest men have learned valuable secrets of orderly and contented living from the animals. Animals are essential in the lives of primitive peoples the world over. To peoples in a higher stage of development they are still immensely useful, and even to the most sophisticated of city dwellers who has forgotten that the cream for his morning coffee presupposes a cow, that his gloves, mayhap, are fashioned from the skin of a goat, and that his very clothes derive their virtue from the woolly coat of flocks upon distant hills, the companionship, the understanding, the inexhaustible affection of a cherished pet is one of the enrichments of life.In this simple story, sliced out of the lives of some young Americans whose circumstances bring them the good fortune to dwell among the woods and hills, amid the surroundings of developed country living, is neither a thesis nor a sermon. If it serves to make a little clearer the instinct for service to man which lies deep-rooted in the nature of most dogs, and the ability to put that instinct to specialized, utterly faithful, and ofttimes very beautiful use, which is the particular heritage of the German Shepherd Dog, and if it succeeds in revealing to its readers something of the courage, the loyalty and devotion of man's best friend, I shall rest indeed content.Reginald M. Cleveland,
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Conant, Susan Stud Rites Susan Conant Alaskan Malamute Dog Lover's Mysteries Canine Fiction
0385477244 / 9780385477246 Doubleday 1996-05-01 First Edition Hardcover Used: Acceptable Used: Good Hardcover Standard Hardcover
This FIRST EDITION hardcover book was published in 1984 by Doubledaywith 271 pages. Ex-library copy with a card pocket, spine label and several library stamps including on all three page edges. The text is unmarked. The binding is sound though the spine is tilted. The dust jacket is unclipped and untorn but has some creasing along the edges. The first sixty pages have some dampstaining to the top page edges. The page edges are moderately soiled. The signature book plate of Mr. Francis Fretwell is attached to the front paste down. The Washington Post has called Susan Conant's Dog Lover's Mystery series "a real tail-wagger for lots of readers," and no doubt her many fans have been awaiting Stud Rites—as Kirkus Reviews has put it— "with ears up and alert eye."Set during an Alaskan Malamute National Specialty Show, Susan Conant's latest foray into the competitive world of purebred dogs proves lethal for the judge, who is found bludgeoned to death by a blunt object whose design is as tasteless as the murder itself.And who might benefit from the judge's death? Many, as it turns out— from the woman who has inherited his job to the organizer of the show to the handler whose dog now has a good chance of winning.Dog's Life writer Holly Winter is, of course, on the scene with two dogs entered in the competition. She knows who had access to the murder weapon. But it is a former lover, now working for a firm that specializes in canine reproductive technology, who unwittingly puts her on the trail of the killer.Once again, Susan Conant combines an insider's knowledge of the world of purebred dog fanciers with an intricately plotted and wittily told mystery that is certain to earn a rousing "Paws up!"—in the words of Publishers Weekly—from lovers of dogs and mysteries alike.SUSAN CONANT, three-time recipient of the Maxwell Award for fiction writing given by the Dog Writers' Association of America, lives in Massachusetts with her husband, two cats, and two Alaskan malamutes— Frostfield Firestar's Kobuk, CGC, and Frostfield Perfect Crime, called Rowdy. Her work has appeared in Pure-Bred Dog/American Kennel Gazette and DOG I world. She is the author of nine Dog Lover's Mysteries and is now at work on Animal Appetite, her tenth.
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D.W. Nash; R.W.F. Poole; Illustrator-Diana E. Brown The Fox's Prophecy Poetry Franco-Prussian War Sociology British
0718138791 / 9780718138790 Michael Joseph Ltd 1995-02-23 First Edition Hardcover Used: Very Good Used: Very Good Hardcover
This First Edition hardcover book was published in 1995 by Michael Joseph Ltd with 64 pages. The text is unmarked. The binding is tight. There is normal shelf and edge wear. The dust jacket is unclipped and untorn. The signature book plate of Mr. Francis Fretwell is attached to the front paste down. The original of this narrative poem was thought to have been written by a D.W. Nash around 1870, the time of the Franco-Prussian War which resulted in a crushing defeat for the French; the poem was full of foreboding about the future. In the 1918 edition, a new foreword suggested that those fears were justified and that the events of 1870 gave rise to World War I. In this new edition, the "Daily Telegraph" columnist Willy Poole reveals in his commentary how much of that prophecy is worthy of thought in 1995 - from the wavering of Altar and Crown, to the derision of words such as "honour" and "truth", and to the possible lack of wisdom to "yield to foreigners", for which read the EC.Show More Show Less
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David H. Henderson; Illustrator-Shep Foley; Introduction-Joel Vance David Hendersons Dog Stories A Collection
0832905178 / 9780832905179 New Win Pub 1998-09 Hardcover Used: Good Poor Hardcover
This hardcover book was published in 2000 by New Win Publishing with 160 pages. The text is unmarked. The binding is tight. The signature book plate of Mr. Francis Fretwell is attached to the front paste down. The dust jacket has a large piece missing from the front cover (about 1/8th of the front cover) and spine area (about 1/10th). Here are 21 great stories about dogs. Although fictional, they represent the wonderful relationship between canine and man. Some are re-treads, some fresh. Those previously published have been favored by good reviews from all areas of dogdom. Shep Foley, who illustrates regularly for Stover magazines, has again captured the essence of the wonderful rapport between dog and master in her drawings. David Henderson retired from law after more than fifty years. He has hunted and fished over most of the continent and written numerous magazine articles on the sports. He has also written four books of outdoor essays and stories: Covey Rises and Other Pleasures, Sundown Covey, On Point, and Spook. He lives with his wife of fifty-five years in Charlotte, which is also home to his three children and three grandchildren
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Edited by Dawn Jordan His Masters Voice Ed Dawn Jordan Dog Canine Poetry Dachshund German Shepherd Etc
1857860357 / 9781857860351 Arrival Press 1992-01-01 First Edition Paperback Used: Good Paperback Trade Paperback
This First Edition paperback book was published in 1992 by the Arrival Press with 198 pages. The text is unmarked. The binding is tight. There is normal shelf and edge wear to the covers. The bottom corner of the front cover is creased. The page edges are lightly toned. The signature book plate of Mr. Francis Fretwell is attached to the front paste down. The Dachshund.....So you want a dog that is little and classy,.....With long droopy ears and a low-slung chassis,.....With an eye that is soulful.....And a nose that is keen.....And a black shiny coat or a red satin sheen,.....With four little legs that can twinkle and run.....And a mind that is filled with a quick sense of fun......A dog thai's not petty or spiteful or mean,.....But a dog that can smell so delightfully clean,.....Except when he's been in the compost to play -.....Or digging a hole in the garden clay -.....Or eating the cacti -.....Or chasing the cat -......Or chewing a hole in your best fireside mat!.....A dog who is never too fussy to eat.....Be it biscuits or nylons or slippers or meat,......Or the inside of cars -.....Or the out side of doors -.....Or teddies or dolls prams or chairlegs or floors!......But when he is good, which he is quite a lot,......Then inside your heart he will find him a spot,......And hold it so tightly that you will agree.....That when he is good, He's as good as can be!.....A dog who is surely the utmost perfection,.....So please have a care when you make your selection,.....And if you are patient and loving and sweet.....Then a wee dachshund puppy will suit you a treat.
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Elfriede Hammerl Hunde Kleine Philosophie der Passionen by Elfriede Hammerl Dog Fiction Canine Humor
3423200375 / 9783423200370 Dtv 1997-05-01 Paperback Used: Very Good Paperback Trade Paperback
German Language Edition. This paperback book was published in 1997 by DTV with 141 pages. The text is unmarked. The binding is tight. The cover is moderately rubbed with some surface scratching. The signature book plate of Mr. Francis Fretwell is attached to the front paste down. Es war einmal ein kleiner Hund, der nahm sich einen Menschen. Der Mensch war weder auffallend schon, noch auffallend klug, aber der kleine Hund beschloE, ihn fur etwas Besonderes zu halten. Unermiidlich beschaftigte er sich mit ihm. Der Mensch lernte, hinter der Zeitung hervorzukommen und dem Hund zu folgen.
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Emily Carr Emily Carr & Her Dogs Flirt Punk & Loo
155054764X / 9781550547641 Douglas & McIntyre, Limited 2002 Hardcover Used: Very Good Used: Very Good Hardcover Standard Hardcover
This hardcover book was published in 2002 by Douglas & McIntyre Limited with 92 pages. The text is unmarked. The binding is tight. The dust jacket is unclipped and untorn. There is normal shelf and edge wear. The signature book plate of Mr. Francis Fretwell is attached to the front paste down. This charming, appealing book combines stories about dogs with drawing of dogs by the famous Canadian artist and writer Emily Carr.
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Fisher, M. F. K. The Boss Dog MFK Fisher Boston & Fox Terrier Mix Aix-en-Provence France Fiction Novel
0865474656 / 9780865474659 North Point Press 1991-04-01 Hardcover Used: Good Hardcover Standard Hardcover
This hardcover book was published in 1991 by the North Point Press with 128 pages. The text is unmarked. The binding is sound. The dust jacket is unclipped but moderately worn around the edges with several small closed tears and some creasing. There is a bookstore label attached to the half-title page. The signature book plate of Mr. Francis Fretwell is attached to the front paste down. She felt so weary and so inexplicably faraway from home that what she really wanted to do was lie down in the middle of the five-sided square circle, except that the Big Fountain was already there with three marble women on it, and go boohoohoo . . . more waterworks. So instead she allowed herself to snap gently at the two people she loved most in the world, which is an odd but not unusual kind of behavior.As Bill Movers recently said, M. F. K. Fisher "is a true American treasure." Since the publication of her first book in 1937 (Serve It Forth) she has provided her readers with high-spirited works of grace and intelligence, and she succeeds yet again with this latest offering. THE BOSS DOG—now seeing its first trade publication—is vintage Fisher in a delightful new form.An American mother spends a year in France with her daughters, ages eight and eleven. Soon after their arrival they fall in with an unusual cafe regular, a rather odd-looking fellow "with -rear, mostly the kind of terrier called yippv. pan Fox and part Boston and part Mystery." His nr of superiority inspires the children to call him ' : Dog" and thus the story unfolds. Part tantasv. pan autobiography, this winy tale chronicles an exhilerating sojourn in one of France most beautiful cities, Aix-en-Provence. Fisher provides an evocative and fully i view ot the entire citv—its cafe society. Q» traditions. Carnival celebrations, and first i spring. With typically exquisite detail. : rures the magic and miserv of being a : gently pokes fun at the comforting, yet; familiarity of family: and recites the man i rures of their new-found friend—Boss who-resides with "cocky-moekery" at the center of the story. The escapades of this expatriate family and their canine hero are touching and hilariouslyfunny.Infused with the author's trademark elegance and sly humor this stylish curio will be a sure source of pleasure for readers now hungrier than ever for Fisher's work.M. F. K. FISHER has written sixteen books of essays and reminiscences, many of which have become American classics. She has also published a widely admired translation of Brillat-Savarin's The Physiology of Taste and hundreds of articles in The New Yorker and other magazines. She lives in Glen Fllen, California.
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