Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1897. Hardcover. 412p., profuse b&w wood-engraved plates, ads; clothbacked boards with pastedown illustration. A virtually unrestoreable exemplar; terrifically worn casing is detached from its terrifically shaken textblock; many loose leaves, much edgewear; the cuts tend to be sound but some are not, less often because of..... More about Chatterbox. 1897 [5 chromolithographed plates]
Cat.No: 196625
Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Co., 1981. Paperback. 184p., very good first printing re-issue trade paperback in red pictorial wraps. Ackerley's only novel originally published in 1960. Semi-autobiographical. Filmed in 1988 with Alan Bates and Gary Oldman. More about We Think the World of You
Cat.No: 173500
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie, 1939. Hardcover. 26p., frontis, decorated title page, vignettes, limited first edition of 500 copies, signed by author on half-title page, rough faux-deckled edges; small faint stain to bottom edge and mild wear and soiling, gray boards and blue cloth backing with paper title label on spine... More about The Memorable Lives of Bummer & Lazarus (Citizens of San Francisco)
Cat.No: 213384
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie, 1939. Hardcover. 26p., frontis, decorated title page, vignettes, limited first edition of 500 copies, personal inscription signed by author on half-title page and dated Appleseed Farm 1958, rough faux-deckled edges, very good in gray boards and blue cloth backing with paper title label on spine,in unclipped... More about The Memorable Lives of Bummer & Lazarus (Citizens of San Francisco)
Cat.No: 213526
San Antonio: The Naylor Co., 1964. xviii, 238p., preface, footnotes, illustrations, very good first editionin gray buckram cloth, worn dj with sunned spine and closed tear on spine at head. More about Dogs on the frontier
Cat.No: 157295
San Francisco: PAWS [Pets Are Wonderful Support], 1988. [12p] 8.5x11 inches, event program, biographies, ads, rusted staples, light wear otherwise a very good souvenir program in stapled pictorial wraps. Juliet Prowse and Marga Gomez were emcees. Bow-Wow Beauty Dancers and The Barkettes performed. An award show for service dogs helping... More about First Annual Bow-Wow Beauty Pageant: August 28th, 1988 at Castro Theatre
Cat.No: 234211
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 about Almo "His Master's Eyes" (Illustrated) A True Story of a Famous Hero Eye Dog. [Revised.]
Cat.No: 183587
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. Hardcover. xiii, 271p., fine first edition in boards and unclipped dj. On Eighner's homeless period in Austin and hitchhiking to California with his dog. More about Travels With Lizbeth: three years on the road and on the streets
Cat.No: 228159
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 about Endou; poems, prose and a little beagle story
Cat.No: 177314
Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1913 [?]. Sheet_music. 5p., ad, large fascicle of 12x9 inches, rubricated titlepage with nice cover illustration (by T.J. Cain?). Rather worn with old vertical and transverse crease-lines, hand-soil and flecks; complete but as is. A rubber-stamp (neatly applied) lets us know the item was originally purchased... More about The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane. Song and chorus by Will S. Hayes. As sung by Alma Gluck...
Cat.No: 228863
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 about Sploshnye nepriiatnosti: futbol, sobaki, strel’ba
Cat.No: 213293
New York: a Roundtable Press Book, Simon and Schuster, 2004. Hardcover. [60p] 4.75x7.5 inches, color cartoons with captions on facing pages, fine first edition humnor book in green boards and unclipped dj. More about Is your dog gay?
Cat.No: 212780
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 about Jerry of the islands
Cat.No: 191778
New York: Macmillan, 1917. Hardcover. [viii] 344p. [viii] ads, color frontispiece, hinges sound, large bookplate of previous owner on front pastedown, mild shelfwear otherwise a very good first edition per Sisson page 96, BAL 11974, red cloth boards with black vignette of two dogs in silhouette, gilt titles, author name... More about Michael brother of Jerry
Cat.No: 192304
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 about The Blues of Flats Brown; illustrated by Nina Laden
Cat.No: 138371
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 about First annual San Francisco Bow Wow Beauty Pageant [poster]
Cat.No: 220486
Palo Alto: the Kennel Club, 1975. 224p., very good in original wraps. More about Catalog: all breed dog show and obedience trial; Sunday, February 16, 1975
Cat.No: 118303
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