BOOKS about dogs, horses, cats and other animals have been the
favorite of children and adults since books were invented. Below we will
offer you many old favorites for purchase, as well as a reference section of books
you might like to know about.
Lists of books for sale are divided below by Specific Dog Breeds,
Misc. Dog Stories, About Dogs in General, Dogs in Art,
Horse Stories
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DOG STORIES - specific breeds Old or particularly interesting books are highlighted in blue for your attention.
| Breed | Author | Title | Publisher | Date | other info | Condition | Cost |
| Italian Greyhound | Dorothy Lathrop | The Dog in the Tapestry Garden | Macmillan Co. | 1962 | 22 illr. 40 pgs.- . | excellent | $125. |
| IG plus | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Our Dogs | Nelson & Sons | 1888 | illr. | good | $45. |
| Italian Greyhound | Esther Baxendale SOLD | Fairy | L.C.Page | 1904 | true story; real photo | good | $35. |
| Bull Terrier | Marshall Saunders | Beautiful Joe | Phoenix Edition | 1893 | 359 pgs | fair (spine bad) | $15. |
| Bull Terrier | Richard Harding Davis | Ranson's Folly | Scribner's Sons | 1905 | illr. 345 pgs. | bad cover | $28. |
| cocker spaniel | Virginia Woolf | Flush, a biography | Harcourt Brace | 1935 | 1 real photo | good | $25. |
| cocker spaniel | Fanny Jessop Sherman | Admiral Wags | Dodd, Mead & Co. | 1944 | 29 + illr. 84 pgs | fair | $26. |
| cocker spaniel | Pearl Harris MacLean | Good Old Clipsy | Scribner's Sons | 1941 | 10+ illr. 194 pgs | good | $28. |
| cocker spaniel | F.E. Rechnitzer | Bonny's Boy | John C. Winston Co. | 1946 | illr. Kirmse 266 pgs | good | $45. |
| cocker spaniel | Wendy Dodd | The Puppy Book | Lothrop, Lee, Shepard | 1933 | life sketches 66 pgs | good | $20 |
| cocker spaniel | Flora Merrill | Flush of Wimpole St & Broadway | Robt. McBride & co. | 1933 | illr. by Edwina | good/ bad cover | $25. |
| cocker spaniel + | Miriam E. Mason | Timothy Has Ideas | Macmillan Co. | 1943 | 36+ illr. 128 pgs | good | $28. |
| Collie | Albert Payson Terhune | My Friend the Dog | Grosset & Dunlap | 1926 ed | illr. Kirmse 311 pgs | good /bad cover | $25. |
| Collie | misc. | Lassie (misc.inquire) | misc. | 1950's | children's books | good | avg. $5. |
| Dalmatians | Disney | Funny Bone Book (2) | Disney | distr by Smuckers (ppr) | ex | $5 ea | |
| Basset | Disney | the Fox and the Hound | Golden Press | 1981 | paper back | ex | $10 |
| Hounds (coon)? | John Hay | Rover and Coo Coo (2) | Green Tiger Press | 1986 | illr. Tim Solliday | ex | $15. |
| Border Collie | James Herriot | Only One Woof (2) | St. Martin's Press | 1974 | illr. Peter Barrett | ex | $15. |
| Border Collie | Donald McCaig | Nop's Trials | Warner Books | 1984 | paper back 334 pgs. | fair to good | $5 |
| husky | Jack London | Call of the Wild | Grosset & Dunlap | 1912 | 1st ed. illr.by goodwin | fair | $18 |
| terrier | Eleanor Atkinson | Greyfriars Bobby | Penguin Bks | 1973 | ppr back; photo cover | good | $6 |
| terrier | Major Gambier-Parry | Murphy | Mitchell Kennerley | 1913 | 1st ed./ 2 drawings 224 pg | good | $20. |
| terrier | Nola Baker | The Raft Dog | Bookcraft Inc. | 1960 | photos | good | $10. |
| dane | Steve Kellogg | Pinkerton Behave | Dial Bks. | 1979 | illr. | mint | $10. |
| rottweiler | Alexander Day | Carl's Masquerade | Alex Day | 1992 | 28 illr. | mint | $10. |
| rottweiler | Alex Day | Good Dog, Carl | Green Tiger | 1985 | 31 illr. | mint | $10 |
| greyhound | Cindy Victor | LEO, a greyhound's tale | Beaver's Pond Press | 2003 | ppr back | mint | $10. |
| greyhound | Jim Kjelgaard | Desert Dog | Bantam Skylark | 1979 ed. | paper back 129 pgs | good | $10. |
| greyhound | Martha Stewart | Greyhound Fanny | Stewart | 1912 | illr. | good | $25. |
| greyhound | Mark Flint | Grig, the greyhound | Country Life | 1938 | illr LionelEdwards | good | $25. |
| greyhound | Margaret Johnson | Sir Lancelot & Scamp | Harcourt Brace | 1945 | illr. | good | $15. |
| greyhound | Caro Senour | Master St.Elmo | Juvenile Bk | 1904 | true story | good | $25. |
| greyhound | Helen Griffiths | The Greyhound | Scholastic Bk | 1964 | fair | $5. | |
| greyhound | Jarrell | Snow-White... | Farrar,Straus & Giroux | 1972 | illr. include greyhound | good | $10. |
| Poodle & doxies | Ilse Birchoff | Drive Slowly-Six Dogs | Viking Press | 1953 | 8 real pictures 162 pgs. | good | $15. |
| whippet, spaniel, foxes | Burkett | Foxes Three | Lippincott Co | 1975 | illr. | good | $18. |
| GSD | Trimble | Strongheart, | Whitman Pub | 1926 | colorized photos | good; spine bad | $18. |
| sporting dogs | Paul Curtis | Sportsmen All | Derrydale Press | 1938 | illr. Kirmse; #441 of 950 copies | good | $75. |
| mutt | Butler | That Pup | Doubleday | 1905 | illr | ex | $5. |
| Belgian shep | McCraig | Nop's Trials | Warner Bks | 1984 | ppr back | fair | $5 |
| bull terrier + | Burnford | Incredible Journey | Little, Brown | 1961 | illr. | good | $8. |
| spaniel | John Galsworthy | Memories | Wm Heiunemann | 1926 | 9 illr Maud Earl | fair-good | $65. |
| Austr. sheep dog | Chas. Finger | Dog at his Heel | Winston Co | 1936 | illr Henry Pitz | fair | $18 |
| mutt | Wilkes | Fitzgo | Lippincott | 1973 | great story | ex | $8 |
| spaniel & greyhound | Johnson | Spaniel of Old Plymouth | Harcourt Brace | 1937 | illr by authors | good | $15. |
| foxhound | Kantor | Voice of Bugle Ann | Books, Inc. | 1946 | text only/nice cover | good | $8. |
| Eng. setter | Farley Mowat | Dog Who Wouldn't Be | Little, Brown | 1957 | illr. Galdone | fair | $8. |
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| Italian Greyhound | Louis Russo | How to Raise & Train an Italian Greyhound (2) | TFH | 1964 | 64 pgs. many photos | signed copy | $10 |
| Italian Greyhound | E.D. Thring SOLD |
The Italian Greyhound | IG Club of England | 1962 | 28 pgs. many photos | valuable history good condition |
$18. |
| Italian Greyhound | Wayne Green | The Italian Greyhound | author (pamphlet) | unknown | 11 pgs. many photos | (4) great copies | $5.ea |
| Italian Greyhound | IG Fanciers of So. Fl. | The Italian Greyhound | local breed club | 1963 | 10 pgs. many photos | pamphlets | $2. |
| Italian Greyhound | Eileen Worthing | Life & Legends of | IG magazine | 1964 | different and wonderful (ppr ) | good | $10. |
| Italian Greyhound | Annette Oliver | Living with IGs | 1983 | many photos | good | $20. | |
| Italian Greyhound | Lilian Barber | New Complete Ital Grey | IG Productions | 1993 | autographed copy | good | $20. |
| Italian Greyhound | James Sherrill SOLD |
Description of the Ethnic Characteristics of the Small Italian Greyhound | author | 1965 | photos - ppr. | good | $10. |
| Deerhound | Ken Cassels | A Most Perfect Creature of Heaven | author | 1997 | illr. Anne Gilpin | ex | $35. |
| Toy Dogs | AKC | Toy Dogs | G.Howard Watt | 1935 | 4 pgs from AKC breed standard book of 1935 | good | $2. |
| Greyhounds | Roy Genders | Greyhounds | Arco Pub. Co. | 1976 | 103 pgs. photos | ex | $10. |
| HORSE STORIES | Author | Title | Publisher | Date | Condition | Cost |
| illr. Keith Ward | Walter Farley | The Black Stallion | Random House | 1941 | good | $5. |
| illr. Keith Ward | Walter Farley | The Black Stallion | Jr. Deluxe Editions | 1941 | good | $5. |
| Walter Farley | Sun of the Black Stallion | Random House | 1947 | fair | $5. | |
| Walter Farley | The Black Stallion's Courage | Random House | 1956 | good | $5 | |
| illr.by author | Dorothy Lathrop | The Colt from Moon Mountain | Macmillan | 1941 | good | $75. |
| fabulous illr. | Anna Sewell | Black Beauty | McLoughlin Bros. | ? old | fair | $20. |
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| illr. | Dr. Kendall Co. | The Horse & His Diseases | Dr. Kendall Co. | 1907 | good | $18. |
| photos | R.S. Summerhays | Observer's Book of Horses & Ponies | Frederick Warne Ltd. | 1948 | excellent | $10. |
DOG STORIES - misc. breeds
| Author | Title | Publisher | Date | other info | Condition | Cost |
| Julie Haydon | Every Dog Has its Day | Marcel Rodd | 1945 | illr. Fritz Willis. | good | $10. |
| McCutcheon | The Day of the Dog | A.L. Burt Co | 1904 | illr. Harrison Fisher | fair | $10. |
| Sanford & Owen | Other Soldiers | Laurel Book Co | 1921 | photo illr. 207 pgs | good | $8 |
| Terhune | True Dog Stories (2) | Saalfield Pub. Co. | 1936 | etchings by Diana Thorne | fair | $25 ea |
| Marguerite Henry | Album of Dogs | Rand McNally | 1970 | illr. Wesley Dennis | good | $18. |
| Jack Goodman, Ed | Fireside Book of Dog Stories (3) | Simon & Schuster | 1943 | illr. by James Thurber 591 pgs | 2 -good 1 -with map cover (fair) |
$15. $25. |
| misc.famous poets | Songs of Dogs - an anthology | Houghton Mifflin | 1920 | 157 pgs of Poetry | good (leather over) | $18. |
| misc. | Personality of the Dog | Crown Pub. | 1964 | 45 stories; 13 illr. | good | $10. |
| James Herriot | Lord God Made Them All | St. Martin's Press | 1981 | good | $10. | |
| James Herriot | A;l; Things Wise & Wonderful | St.Martin's Press | 1977 | good | $10. | |
| James Herriot | Dog Stories | St.Martin's Press | 1981 | good | $10. | |
| edit, Grey | Real Dogs | Gardenb City Pub | 1926 | short stories | bad spine | $5. |
| Elizabeth | All dogs of My Life | Doubleday, | 1936 | real photos | good | $10. |
| Bruce David Colen | Meet me in the Doghouse | Doubleday & co | 1973 | photos | good | $5. |
| John T. Marvin | Complete book of Dog Tales | Howell Bk. | 1961 | some photos | fair | $5. |
| Vincent Gaddis | Strange World of Animals & Pets | Cowles Bk. Co. | 1970 | about dogs plus | ex | $5. |
| George & Helen Papashvily | Dogs & People | Lippincott Co. | 1954 | illr. Kirmse | good | $14 |
| edit, Cooper | Famous Dog Stories | Doubleday & Co | 1949 | illr. Diana Thorne | good | $20. |
| Eliz. Thomas | Hidden Life of Dogs | Houghton Mifflin | 1993 | 148 pgs. | ex | $5 |
| Maloney & Suares | The Literary Dog | Berkley Windhover | 1978 | famous writers, illr. | ex | $15. |
| misc. POETRY | Dogs Scrap Book | Dogs Scrap Book | 1966 | ppr book | good | $5 |
GENERAL INFORMATION - misc. breeds
| Author | Title | Publisher | Date | other info | Condition | Cost |
| Diana Thorne | Around the World with Children and Dogs | McLoughlin Bros. | 1915 | illr. children's book | good to fair | $18. |
| Morgan Dennis | Dog Book (2) | Viking Press | 1946 | illr & text | good | $25. |
| Morgan Dennis | Pure Breds | Winston Co. | 1954 | all breeds illr. | 1st ed.-good | $25. |
| Edward Anthony | Every Dog Has His Say | Watson-Guptill | 1947 | illr. Morgan Dennis | good | $18. |
| William Youatt | The Dog | Longmans,Green | 1904 | illr & text | fair | $10. |
| Gladys Emerson Cook | All Breeds, All Champions | Harper & Row | 1962 | illr. | many missing pages | $20. |
| Nat. Geographic | Book of Dogs | Nat. Geo. | 1927 | fabulous illr/cover | good | $20 |
| Nat. Geographic | Book of Dogs | Nat. Geo. | 1919 | 73 color illr. | good | $25. |
| Nat. Geographic | Book of Dogs (3) | Nat. Geo. | 1958 | 429 pgs. | good | $15. |
| Nat. Geographic | Man's Best Friend | Nat. Geo. | 1971 | 430 pgs. | ex | $15. |
| Nat. Geographic | Dog work for Man (2) | article in magazine | 8/58 | 32 illr. 19 paintings | good | $5 |
| Nat. Geographic | Non=sporting Dogs | article in magazine | 11/43 | 9 illr. 8 paintings | good | $5 |
| Nat. Geographic | Toy Dogs | article in magazine | 4/44 | 8 illr. | good | $5 |
| Nat. Geographic | Born Hunters, Bird Dogs | article in magazine | 9/47 | 10 illr. 19 paintings | good | $5 |
| Nat. Geographic | Field Dogs in Action | article in magazine | 1/37 | 8 illr. | good | $5 |
| Nat. Geographic | Hunters All:(Hounds) | article in magazine | 10/37 | 1 portraits | good | $5 |
| Nat. Geographic | Man's Best Friend (3) | National Geographic | 1966 | 360 illr. 430 pgs. | good | $15 |
| Nat. Geographic | Dogs Working for People (3) | National Geographic | 1972 | photos 40 pgs for young readers |
good | $10. |
| Clifford Hubbard | Observer's book of DOGS (3) | Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. | 1945 | 300 breeds; 148 illr. | ex | $15. |
| John Holzworth | Blue Book of DOGS (3) | Whitman Pub. Co | 1938 | color illr. 57 misc.breeds | good/fair cover | $10. |
| Robt. Briggs Logan | Red Book of DOGS | Whitman Pub. Co. | 1939 | 57 color draw by Larsen | good/fair cover | $10 |
| James Gilchrist Lawson | The Book of Dogs (3) | Rand McNally & Co. | 1934 | 103 AKC breed photos | good | $10 |
| Eugene Connett, Ed | American Sporting Dogs | D.Van Nostrand Co. | 1948 | photos & illr. from paintings by Edwin Megargee 549 pgs | ex - 1st edition | $45. |
| Albert Payson Terhune | The Dog Book | Saalfield Pub. Co | 1932 | illr. Diana Thorne -89 pgs | good/cover poor | $25. |
| Jane Sherman | Real Book about DOGS | Garden City Books | 1951 | illr. L. Bjorklund 192 pgs | good | $10. |
| John Rendel | Dog Book | Sterling Pub | 1952 | real photos | fair | $5 |
| edit, Loxton | Dogs, Dogs, etc. | Paul Hamlyn L:td. | 1962 | text and illr. | good | $5. |
| AKC | Blue Bk of Dogs | Garden City Pub. | 1938 | fab photo tour | good | $10. |
| AKC | World of Pure-Bred Dogs | Howell Bk. Co. | 1983 | 344 pgs | fair | $5. |
| Readers Digest | Book of Dogs | Readers Digest | 1982 | all about dogs | good | $10. |
| David Alderton | The Dog | Burlington Bks | all about & illr. | good | $10. | |
| Fernand Mery | The Dog | Cassell & Co Ltd. | 1968 | 234 pgs text & illr | good | $10. |
| Fernand Mery | Life, History, Magic of the Dog | Grosset & Dunlap | 1968 | general & illr. | fair | $5 |
| Douglas James | Wonderful World of Dogs | Octoopus | 1976 | tons color photos | fair | $5 |
| Paul Hamlyn | Book of the Dog | Hamlyn Pub | 1970 | general & illr. | fair | $5 |
| Wendy Boorer | World of Dogs | Hamlyn Pub | 1971 | general & illr. | good | $5 |
| Angela Sayer | Complete Book of the Dog | Gallery Books | 1985 | general & illr. | good | $5 |
| Henry Davis | New Dog Encylopedia | Stackpole Bks. | 1970 | over 600 pgs | good | $10 |
| Luis Untermyer | A Friend Indeed | Golden Press | 1968 | 3 x 5 size illr. | good | $5 |
| Author | Title | Publisher | Date | other info | Condition | Cost |
| Maria Luisa Incontri | Il Piccolo Levriero Italiano SOLD |
Sansoni (Italy) | ? | fabulous art tour | ex | $25.. |
| A. Croxton Smith | British Dogs (2) | Collins | 1947 ed | 32 illr. 48 pgs. | good | $15. |
| Hereward Lester Cooke | dogs horses cats & other animals in the national gallery of art (2) B | Westover Pub. Co. | 1970 | 31 paintings represented | good | $15. |
| Morgan Dennis | The Morgan Dennis Dog Book | Viking Press | 1946 | full page illr Dennis | good | $35. |
| E. A. Perry | Dogs | The Perry Pictures Co. | 1898 | 15 photo pgs old masters | fair | $18. |
| Kenneth Clark | Animals and Men | Wm. Morrow | 1977 | 219 illr. | good | $25. |
| Richard Ormond | Sir Edwin Landseer | Phili. Museum | 1982 | hundreds of illr. | good | $18. |
| Ruth Silverman, editor | The Dog Observed - Photographs 1844-1983 | Dog Museum of America | 1984 | all photos | good | $10. |
| curator, Cluny Museum | La Dame a la Licorne | Cluny Museum | 1979 | ppr cover | ex | $10. |
| Hennessy & CHristiansen | Secular Paintings in 15th Century Tuscany | Metropolitan Museum | 1980 | ppr cover illr & text | ex | $10. |
| ? | Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Hunting Scenes | Miller Graphics | ? | illr. | ex | $10. |
| Metro Museum | Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters | Metropolitan Museum | 1955 | ppr cover picture bk | good | $10. |
| Wm. Secord | Dog Paintings 1840-1940 | Antique Collector's Club | 1992 | includes historical overview of dogs | mint | $35. |
| Nancy Hathaway | The Unicorn | Avenel Books | 1958 | illr & text | good | $10. |
| pub | Masters in Art - Barye (2) | Bates & Guild | 1904 | illr monograph | fair | $5. |
| Bruce McCall | SIT! Dog Portraits | Stephanie Hoppen Gallery | 1993 | paintings by Thierry Poncelet | mint | $25. |
Obedience/Training & How To Books
| Barbara Woodhouse | No Bad Dogs | Summet Books | 1982 | 127 pgs many photos | good | $8. |
| Monks of New Skete | Art of Raising A Puppy | Little, Brown | 1991 | 273 pgs, photos | ex | $10. |
| Monks of New Skete | How to be your Dog's Best Friend | Little, Brown | 1978 | 202 pgs, photos, cover | mint | $10. |
| Mit Abbildungen | Der Deutsche Schaferhund | Albrecht Philler Verlag | ? | shuntzen training - ppr book in German | good | $8. |
| Leon Whitney | How to Breed Dogs | Orange Judd | 1962 | illr. 418 pgs. | good | $8 |
| McDonald Lyons | The Dog in Action | Howell Bk House | 1950 | fab. study of anatomy and movement - illr. | good | $18. |
| Tankoos | Gaines Guide to Collecting Dog & Cat Stamps | author | 1980 | illr. catalog | good | $18. |