Search Results: Horses, Dogs, Cats from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

Neptune City NJ.: T.F.H. Publications, 1995. TS-238.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Fine interior; cover has surface wear to glossy sheen. Red star mark stamped on bottom page block. Lower front right edge ding to cover, qtr-inch.. Lermayer, Ralph (Photos by). 1 Glossy color photo illustrated paper over boards. 159p. 7x10.25in. High quality glossy paper. Audience: General/trade. Pets / Veterinary care: Ateterix albiventris, the African pygmy hedgehog began surging in the American pet market in the early 1990s. This volume if for not only pet owners but for breeders. Numerous color photos of hedgehogs and their life cycles.

Lerner Publishing Group, 1967. Reprint. 2nd printing.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Trim is close in rebound cover (text very close to page edges). Sturdy edition.. Jaruska, Wilhelm. 0 Text in English, German. Green Cloth over boards. Library Rebind. Colorful, warm illustrations. Children's illustrated fiction: A tribute to the work of ordinary, wagon-pulling horses, and the love their human partners have for them. First pubished in Austria, telling the tale of city traffic and a workhorse needing to bring forth her foal; a reflection on thousands of years of horses.

Dutton Books, 1999. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 0 Paper over boards. 208 p. Henry and Lois Foster Hospital for Small Animals, Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, Medford, MA.

Beirut, Lebanon.: Library du Liban., 1894. Reprint. Reprint date not found.. Hard cover. Very good. Near fine. Light end paper, top page block blemishing. Clean pages. 28 cm.. 1 Dark green lightly textured cloth cover boards. Off-white text pages. Footnotes. B&W Illustrations, Plates (13). Charts. Glossarial Index and Supplement. Subject Index. xix, 411 p. 28 cm. RARE. "Reproduced from the original 1894 edition published in England". Art includes photo-style, pen&ink, and archival. Author: For many years, Consul-General, Baghdad, and Political Resident for the Government of India in Turkish Arabia. Sections: Method of Transcription from Arabic to Roman Letters; Bibliography; Contents (Country of the Arabian, Breeders, General View of Arabian Horse, Breed History, Buying an Arabian horse, Lists of illustrations, Map & Tables.

New York NY.: E P Dutton., 1966. First edition. Stated First Edition.. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Clean interior. Tightly bound. Jacket clean save lower spine library tag.. Kuhn, Bob (Color jacket art and interior Pen&Ink art by).. 1 190 p. Light rust color cloth over boards. Two small dogs, lower front. Illustrated jacket.

New York.: Grosset & Dunlap., 1954. Inside front cover, lower corner, "100100".. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket.. 1 26 p. Color illustrated glossy covers: cats w/ red background; repeated on back cover. "Silver Dollar" oval, front lower left, small. Color art inside, varied cats. 29 cm. Colorful artful showing many cats, active poses: Tabby, Siamese, Persian, Burmese, Abyssinian, Tortoise Shell, Maltese, Russian Blue, Maine Coon, Manx, Angora, Solid-Color, Short-Haired, Training Your Cat, The Great Wild Cats. Also a section: Interesting Things Everyone Should Know about Cats.

New York.: Scholastic Book Services., 1963. First edition. Stated 1st printing, November 1963. TW 518.. Trade paperback. Good. Signed by previous owner. Cover soiling. Spine lower tear, repaired with clear tape.. Lasker, Joe (Pictures by).. 1 48 p. Includes illustrations. Trade paperback, art-illustrated cover in Browns, orange, white black. Titles in blues. Interior art in black, orange. RARE In Mexico, a boy named Mateo has parents who are potters, making pots and toys out of clay. Some Spanish words and a few glossary words about making pottery are listed near front. Mateo helps by gathering wood on the mountain above his village and stacking it aboard the family burro. He also likes to stop and see the beautiful brown horse, Panchita. Mateo wants to shape a clay horse like this one. This was his secret.

Philadelphia / London.: Running Press Book Publishers., 1995. 1st Courage Classic printing. Original was in 1877.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. With slight spine tilt.. 1 First edition. White Paper over boards; black spine titles. 176 p. Audience: General/trade. Youth British Classic narrated by the horse, Black Beauty, who had known carefree country life and the nurturing of a wise mother horse. Then came the abuse suffered by a drunken rider, a thoughtless stable hand, and urban cabbies in the days of city carriages. His life would get better again. For author Anna Sewell (1820-1878), this would be her only published work. Having suffered a debilitating ankle injury when young, she depended on horses the rest of her life for mobility. By 1870, while in poor health, she began to write this story, and lived long enough to know of its popularity.

Chicago: Rand McNally, 1976. Reprint. 6th PB printing (1970 1st). Wraps. Fine. No dust jacket as issued.. Dennis, Wesley. 0 172 p. illus. 25 cm. Includes Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. Pictorial Cover.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1898. Later printing. 100100, front inside flap.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Single interior page-fold. Top front left jacket chipped; minor spine end edge wear... 1 Red cloth over boards. Black spine titles, light blue decorations. 306 p. 21 cm. Pen&Ink Illustrations. Classic youth-oriented story of the Collie pup of the Gray Dogs of Kenmuir, who would be raised up as a sheepdog and compete for the Shepherd's Trophy against the rival "Red Wull."

New York.: Grosset & Dunlap by arr. w/ David McKay Co. Inc., 1967. Author copyright 1962. Presumed first printing by G&D.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Prior owner ink stamp, back of first free end paper. Pages 3-6 have light stain transfer marks, mildly distracting. Rubs minor: spine ends, corners. Slight back cover general soiling.. Ferguson, William (Title Page Pen & Ink Illustration by).. 1 First edition. Color illustrated cover scene, youth kneeling near colt in farm field. vii, 180 p. 21 cm. Audience: Children/juvenile. Youth series: Horses. Back cover lists this title at end of 30. Double spread title page drawing: winter, 2 horses pulling people-filled large snow sled wagon near farm. Set in southeast Washington State. Lead character Russell Seamore, 14, awakens in the early morning with a start, concerned about the family saddle pony Daisy, near birthing the night before. She had not, but the day would start with youthful carelessness,… Read More

Shelburne VT.: Chapters Publishing., 1997. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Leister, Bryan (Cover art by), and Sullen, Barbara (Inside Pen&Ink art by).. 1 Textured copper-toned paper over boards. 240 p. Audience: General/trade. Featuring cats, 22 stories. Entertaining, nicely done artwork.

New York.: Creative Age Press., 1948. 2nd printing. 1947 first.. Hard cover. Very good in poor dust jacket. Jackets flaps have survived and are neatly tacked inside front board.. 1 128 p. Green and yellow cloth over boards. Black spine titles. More than 100 cats, all ages, sizes, and breeds in Black & White photos.

New York.: Golden Photo Guides from St. Martin's Press, 2002. Hard cover. Very good. Minor degrading of clear sealer over color photo cover.. 1 Illustrated glossy paper over boards. 64 p. Horizontal format: 6 x5 in. Color active photos. Audience: General/trade.

William Morrow & Company, 1989. Book Club Edition.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Minor DJ edgewear.. 0 Green Paper over boards. 319 p. Wraparound photo on DJ. Like in A Walk Across America, Jenkins has as varied experience with animals and birds as with people and places.

Boston.: Houghton Mifflin., 1946. First edition. . Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Signed by previous owner. Library rebound edition.. Coburn, Duncan. 1 203 p. Includes illustrations. Red durable cloth over boards; black front cover illustration and titles. 5x7.75in. 3 full-color artwork plates. Youth fiction about Jack, a family German Shepherd dog, based on the author's own youthful experience with his dog in Nebraska. Themes of coyotes, prairie fire, hail storm, encounter with rattler, courage, loyalty.

New York.: Howell Book House., 1983. 3rd printing.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Light lower book edge rubbing. Else near fine.. 1 Brown textured paper over boards, white titles. 8.25x11.25in. 208p. Index. Jacket edges top and bottom designed to fold-in, strengthening them. Audience: General/trade. Veterinary Medicine primer for horse owners, by Australian vet surgeon and member of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists, also associated with the Tom Quilty endurance race. Numerous color photos; diagrams. Introduced with an overview history of how horses evolved, what follows is reference-style information by topic or symptom, well-illustrated. Chapters include: Points of a Horse; Buying a Horse; Basic Horsemanship; Healthy Horse; First Aid, Administration of Medication; Diseases and Problems A-Z; Breeding.

North Hollywood CA.: Gardner, Albert B. (Self-published)., 1936. First edition. Date same on both sides of title page.. Hard cover. Very good in fair dust jacket. Very minor bumping, green cloth cover. Chipping on DJ, barely intact; stains.. Lanz, Walter (Lantz). 1 Green cloth covers; gold spine titles. 204 p. Illustrations, diagrams. The dog breed known as The Great Dane. Cartoons by then soon to be famous Walter Lantz (only name misspelled in this book). Other drawings by author. Also illustrated "by Photographs of Outstanding Specimens". Gardner's B&W drawing on end papers: "Am.&. Can. Champion Canis. Major of Willow. Run". Chapters: History and Background; Dane Standard; Breeding Principles; Brood Matron and Puppies; Keeping the Dane; Schooling and Training; Dane Diet; Disease and Difficulties; Sense and Senses; Kennels; Dog Shows; The Working Group.

Fort Collins, Colo.: Caballus Publishers., 1973. Print run of 2000 copies, stated.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Near fine with slight minor edge foxing. Clean, unmarked interior. Prior owner address label on half title page (Nabub Morgan Farm, Woodstock VT).. 1 Brown textured leather over boards. Gold titles. x, 331 p. 23 cm. B&W photos and drawings. First published in 1909 under title: My quest of the Arab horse. "Desert stud catalog": p. 287-331. Editor's Prologue reports Davenport was a political cartoonist and journalist who became friends with Teddy Roosevelt before his presidency. In wanting to acquire Arabian horse, Roosevelt later, as Presdent, supported by letter his request to import some from Turkey to the American desert. The privately funded project iincluded a plan to breed stud horses for the cavalry. That plan was not supported by Congress, but Davenport did raise Arabians for the private market. Frontispiece is portrait of Sheikh Achmet Haffez, then the… Read More

Garden City NY.: Garden City Pub. Co., Inc., 1925. First edition. No later printings noted.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Tightly bound. Sun-fade to spine, still easily readable titles.. 1 Brown cloth over boards, dark brown titles on spine. ix, 342 p. 21 cm. Bibliography. Each of these 15 Short Stories is prefaced by a paragraph about its author: As a Dog Should, by C. Alexander; Being a Public Character, by D. Marquis; Bulldog, by M. Brand; Fox Terrier or Something, by B. Tarkington; The Grudge, by A. P. Terhune; Justice in the Painted Hills, by A. Hull; Memoirs of a Yellow Dog, by O Henry; Old Duke, by Arthur Train; Pair of Lovers, by E. Singmaster; Rex, by D.H. Lawrence; Shag of the Packs, by E. Marshall; Such as Walk in Darkness, by S.H. Adams; The Soul of Caliban, by E. -L. Squire; Triangle, by D. Byrne; White Monarch and the Gas-House Pup, by R.G. Kirk.