Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Co., 1981. Paperback. 184p., very good first printing re-issue trade paperback in red pictorial wraps. The 1960 edition was Young 11*. Ackerley's only novel originally published in 1960. Semi-autobiographical. Filmed in 1988 with Alan Bates and Gary Oldman. More
Cat.No: 173500
New York: Poseidon Press, 1989. Paperback. 158p., very good first printing re-issue trade paperback in pictorial wraps. The 1960 edition was Young 11*. Ackerley's only novel originally published in 1960. Semi-autobiographical. Filmed in 1988 with Alan Bates and Gary Oldman. Cover depicts Bates, Oldman and "Evie" the Alsatian. More
Cat.No: 264666
New York: New York Review of Books, 2000. Paperback. xiv, 209p., introduction, backlist of series titles, very good first printing stated re-issue trade paperback in pictorial wraps. The 1960 edition was Young 11* NYRB Classics series. Ackerley's only novel originally published in 1960. Semi-autobiographical. Filmed in 1988 with Alan Bates..... More
Cat.No: 261963
San Antonio: The Naylor Co., 1964. xviii, 238p., preface, footnotes, illustrations, very good first edition in gray buckram cloth, worn dj with sunned spine and closed tear on spine at head. More
Cat.No: 157295
San Francisco: UCSG Oral History Program, Department of the History of Health Sciences, UCSF, 1992. Paperback. xvii, 174p., foreword, preface, introduction, appendixes, index, footnotes, references, illustrations and photos, first edition in 9x7.5 inch wraps. Newspaper obituary tipped-in to inside front cover; it has toned but not offset. Mild edgewear, a...... More
Cat.No: 146604
![Almo "His Master's Eyes" (Illustrated) A True Story of a Famous Hero Eye Dog. [Revised.]. W. A....](/pictures/thumb/183587.jpg?v=1523391024)
Los Angeles: Published by Almo, "His Master's Eyes" Co., 1938. Paperback. xvi, 124p., glazed paperstock throughout with scattered b&w photographic illustrations. Softcover; staplebound textblock in 8x5 inch decorated cardstock wraps. Third "edition" of a revision of the 1935 first issue. One blank has pulled back to reveal that the staples..... More
Cat.No: 183587
Providence: Lost Roads, 1995. 62p., scattered b&w illustrations, square 7.3 inch glossy wraps featuring b&w selfportrait in oils (photoportrait at the back). A fine copy. Texts range from postmodern fancy to children's-story plain. Foo, born in Malaya, lives in New York; Karl Barx was a beagle who lived with Foo..... More
Cat.No: 177314
New York: Golden Press, 1968. Paperback. [62]p., wraps, 5.25x9.75 inches, wraps lightly worn else very good condition. Cartoons about dogs. More
Cat.No: 271895
San Francisco: LIKK, 1994. 115p., paperback, orange wraps lightly faded along spine, otherwise very good; text in Russian. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. Vignettes on sports,dogs, and other subjects, illustrated with cartoons. More
Cat.No: 213293
San Francisco: Open Mind Pub. 2005. Unpaginated, 8.5x10 inches, illustrated with full-page color illustrations, very good first edition children's book in pictorial boards and matching unclipped dj. Personally inscribed and signed by the author in silver pen on the red endpaper. Total nonsense! neither cats nor dogs nor human children..... More
Cat.No: 161815
New York: Macmillan, 1917. Hardcover. [ix] 337p. 3 leaves [6p.] of ads, color frontispiece, hinges sound, very good first edition per Sisson page 94, BAL 11973, red cloth boards with black vignette of two dogs in silhouette, gilt titles, author name in black, covers lightly rubbed, 5 small stains at..... More
Cat.No: 191778
New York: Holiday House, 2000. Hardcover. Hardbound item; [28]p., color illustrations throughout, first edition laminated pictorial boards in glossy ditto-image dust jacket, 10x10 inches, a fine clean copy. Blues story for children, featuring two dogs, a young guitarist and an elderly percussionist who plays "the bones". Includes lyrics and notations..... More
Cat.No: 138371
![First annual San Francisco Bow Wow Beauty Pageant [poster]. PAWS, Pets Are Wonderful Support for...](/pictures/thumb/220486.jpg?v=1512622385)
San Francisco: PAWS, 1988. 11x16.5 inch poster, folded into thirds for mailing, creased at the two folds. The fundraiser and dog show, held at Castro Theatre, included entertainment by Jeanie Tracy, Marga Gomez, comedian Danny Williams, and Empress Lily Street as Cruela de Ville. More
Cat.No: 220486
![Meditaciones perruanas (lo que piensa un perro en sus ratos de ocio) [signed]. Raul Thomas](/pictures/thumb/251000.jpg?v=1588215055)
Madrid: Editorial Betania, 2002. Paperback. 144p., text in Spanish, signed and inscribed by Thomas on the half-title, lightly-worn first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Coleccion Narrativa. Author was born in Mexico and lived in San Francisco at the time of publication. More
Cat.No: 251000
![How to Play the Dogs for Profit [signed]. John S. aka Al Bennett Villella](/pictures/thumb/269095.jpg?v=1626920845)
Largo, FL: Self-published by the author at Century Pub. 1965. Paperback. 40p., 5.5x8.5 inches, handwritten in ink and signed "This is a pen name of John S. Villella" introduction, background, illustrated with figures and tables, lightly used paperback booklet in stapled wraps. The author owned several printing companies and auto..... More
Cat.No: 269095
