DUSTY FOR SPEED! (Whippet) - First Edition Signed HC w/DJ

Neilson, Frances Fullerton and Neilson, Winthrop

Published by E.P. Dutton & Company, 1947

About this Item

A beautiful sensitive whippet with the speed of lightening in her slender legs, is the heroine of this absorbing story by Frances Fullerton Neilson and Winthrop Neilson. 13 yr old Jan finds her, bruised and burr-torn, in the bushes one day and takes her home. Home is the gasoline station when times are hard, business is bad and here is another mouth to feed. After a long, discouraging winter, during which time Dusty is stolen by gangsters who enter her in the whippet races, spring comes with promise of better things. C: 1947, 1947 - 1st Edition, E.P. Dutton. Illus: Hans Kreis. 5-5/8" x 8-1/4", 219 pgs. VG hardcover, Gd+ unclipped DJ (1/4" closed tear & fold on bottom of DJ binding & very minor chip wear, sunfading on binding and on back of DJ near binding and in folded area with some light soil, original $2.50 price). Green boards, Whippet head on cover and title, author, publisher lettering on spine. Inscription and signed by both authors. DJ covered in brodart archival quality cover.

Seller Inventory # DF0166

Bibliographic Details

• Title: DUSTY FOR SPEED! (Whippet) - First Edition Signed HC w/DJ
• Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Company
• Publication Date: 1947
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Dogs - Fiction