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Published by The Macmillan Co., New York, 1946
Seller: Betty Mittendorf /Tiffany Power BKSLINEN, Ralston, NE, U.S.A.
Book
Cloth. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Louise Birt Baynes, John R. Baynes, and Ernest Harold Baynes (illustrator). Reprint. Green cloth binding with white lettering and small white illust of a dog. B & w photos. 137 pages. Chapter book. Spine and covers worn around edges. Library stamps on cover. color on covers fading. Usual library markings. Pocket on inside of back cover. Pages slightly yellowed and spotted.
Published by Literary Licensing, LLC, 2013
ISBN 10: 1494029529ISBN 13: 9781494029524
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: New.
Published by The MacMillan Company, NY, 1946
Seller: STUDIO V, San Marcos, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. LOUISE BIRT BAYNES. B.W PHOTO ILL (illustrator). LATTER PRINTING. PRICE CLIPED.
Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1927
Seller: Counterpane Books, Frazier Park, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition ex-library (City of San Clemente) hardcover, sewn-bound in red cloth, with black illustration and lettering on front cover, and slightly-faded black lettering on spine, is in Fair condition, having some sun-fading to the top of front cover and all of spine; slight splay to front cover; some rubbing/scuffing to cover surfaces, especially back cover; the library markings are in the back endpaper section (mostly removed due date sheet, library stamp, and remnant of pocket); library presentation inscription written in brown ink on first free endpaper, with a penciled note by previous owner or bookseller, and old price written in ink; endpapers have some foxing; some dampstaining to lower right of interior pages; slight shaking to volume. Illustrated with b&w photographs by Ernest Baynes. Scarce. Nature. Birds. DB.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hbk 137pp, profusely illustr b+w photo plates, no dj (as issued?) very good green cloth with white titles and ornament, rubbed at extremities, now in custom acetate jacket, altogether a very good clean tight unmarked copy, becoming harder to find.
Published by The Macmillan Company, NY, 1923
First Edition Signed
Illustrations From Photographs By Louise Birt Baynes, John R. Baynes, and the Author. (illustrator). Very Good (little wear covers, contents clean & tight with some browning endpapers and tiny bump to corners of text for a few beginning pages). Small 8vo., pictorial green cloth, stamped in white; 137 pages. I have never seen a dust jacket for this book and one dealer's listing said it was issued without one, which I find hard to believe, especially from a major publishing house like Macmillan. Plus, the discoloration to the endpapers appears to be caused by the flaps of a dust jacket First Edition, first printing. Signed by Baynes of the front endpaper. From the Preface: "Every incident described in this life of Polaris actually took place, and almost everyone is recounted exactly as it occurred. [Dogs] do not possess such [human] intelligence, they possess canine intelligence and this often serves them better, probably, than would our own." The forebears of Polaris were on Adm. Robert Edwin Peary Sr.'s mushing team to the North Pole. Peary was an American explorer and United States Navy officer who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for claiming to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909. "Introduction" by Capt. Robert A. Bartlett, who sailed the "Roosevelt" for Peary, and the "Karluk" for Vilhjjalmur Stefansson. Bartlett called Polaris "the finest Eskimo dog in the world." Ernest Harold Baynes [1868-1925] was an American naturalist. He was "the closest thing New England, and the world for that matter, will ever get to a real-life Doctor Doolittle; all sorts of New England birds and animals: foxes, wolves, chickadees, bears and bison were known to roam around and in and out of his house"- New England Historical Society. He treated animals like friends, but unlike Doolittle, never claimed to talk to them. He was instrumental in bringing to public attention the near demise of songbirds and of the bison.