Bob: The Spaniel. The True Story of a Springer.

New York: G. Howard Watt, 1927.

Price: $100.00


About the item

First Edition. Photographic frontispiece of author and subject. 1 vols. 12mo. Original tan cloth, black lettering, covers a little worn and soiled, front free endpaper excised, else internally fine. With three autograph letters, signed, by the author laid in. Jones, A Bibliography of the Dog, 3268.

Item #12927

Affectionate recollections of the author's springer spaniel, by the sister of famed sporting book collector David Wagstaff. Included are three warm notes, signed, to Adelaide Baylis, enclosed in an envelope mounted on the rear paste-down, on social matters, one bearing the interesting postscript, “What do you think of the new theory of art (Houseman) that it is a matter of secretion? I should say endocrine exuberance?”.