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Product Description: Over the millennia, many great writers, from Pliny and Plutarch to C.S. Lewis and John Steinbeck, have addressed diverse canine themes in their work, usually in a broader, human context. Late in the 20th century it was conclusively established by modern science that all dogs, without exception, are descended from wolves...read more

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9780786474974 | 1 edition (McFarland & Co Inc Pub, March 21, 2014), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Over the millennia, many great writers, from Pliny and Plutarch to C.

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Product Description: This classic from the pen of author and artist Cecil Aldin chronicles the lives of his own dogs — Micky, an Irish wolfhound, and Cracker, a bull terrier — and offers a charming book of practical advice for would-be dog owners and trainers...read more

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9780517627013 | Random House Value Pub, June 1, 1987, cover price $7.98 | About this edition: The author shows how to buy, train, and care for a dog by revealing the exploits of his own pets, an Irish wolfhound and a bull terrier

Paperback:

9780486497006 | Reprint edition (Dover Pubns, June 19, 2013), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This classic from the pen of author and artist Cecil Aldin chronicles the lives of his own dogs — Micky, an Irish wolfhound, and Cracker, a bull terrier — and offers a charming book of practical advice for would-be dog owners and trainers.

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After being rescued by a big smelly dog, a rich man must decide what to do when the sloppy canine asks for the hand of his beautiful daughter, in an amusing twist on the classic tale of 'Beauty and the Beast.'

Hardcover:

9780874838084 | August House Pub Inc, October 1, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In this British variant of a traditional tale, a great smelly, slobbery, small-tooth dog rescues a rich man from bandits and demands that the man bring his beautiful daughter to live in his castle.

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The Dragon King gives a poor old fisherman a magic gem that grants wishes after the fisherman saves his son, but when the mean old woman from across the river steals the gem, the fisherman's cat and dog must get it back.
By Jeong Kyoung-Sim (illustrator) and Kim So-un

Hardcover:

9780804836548 | Tuttle Pub, June 15, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The Dragon King gives a poor old fisherman a magic gem that grants wishes after the fisherman saves his son, but when the mean old woman from across the river steals the gem, the fisherman's cat and dog must get it back.

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Describes the qualities of people who are born in the Year of the Dog through the story of a puppy who is born under the sign.
By Jeremiah Alcorn (illustrator), Miah Alcorn (illustrator) and Oliver Clyde Chin

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9781597020022 | Immedium, January 1, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Describes the qualities of people who are born in the Year of the Dog through the story of a puppy who is born under the sign.

When sassy old Dog tricks Alligator, king of the swamps, it starts a feud that continues to this day in the Louisiana bayous

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9780606229777 | Demco Media, September 1, 2002, cover price $15.04 | About this edition: When sassy old Dog tricks Alligator, king of the swamps, it starts a feud that continues to this day in the Louisiana bayous

When sassy old Dog tricks Alligator, king of the swamps, it starts a feud that continues to this day in the Louisiana bayous

Prebinding:

9780613497930 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 2001, cover price $15.75 | About this edition: When sassy old Dog tricks Alligator, king of the swamps, it starts a feud that continues to this day in the Louisiana bayous

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When sassy old Dog tricks Alligator, king of the swamps, it starts a feud that continues to this day in the Louisiana bayous. Reprint.
By Donnie Green (illustrator) and J. J. Reneaux

Hardcover:

9780874834123 | August House Little Folk, September 1, 1995, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When sassy old Dog tricks Alligator, king of the swamps, it starts a feud that continues to this day in the Louisiana bayous

Paperback:

9780874836219 | Reprint edition (August House Little Folk, April 1, 2001), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: When sassy old Dog tricks Alligator, king of the swamps, it starts a feud that continues to this day in the Louisiana bayous

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This illustrated collection of thirteen tales provides readers with fantastic tales about super dogs and the incredible abilities they possessed.

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9780689806964 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A collection of traditional tales about dogs from around the world, arranged in such categories as 'The Trickster Dog,' 'The Enchanted Dog,' and 'The Super Dog'

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9780816743506, titled "How Mr. Dog Got Tame: An African-American Legend" | Troll Communications Llc, October 1, 1997, cover price $4.95

Prebinding:

9780613080057 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $12.95

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Describes every popular canine breed and relates tales about dogs from around the world, including writings from ancient Greek myths, African folktales, Old English legends, and biblical prophesies

Hardcover:

9780312151775 | St Martins Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Describes every popular canine breed and relates tales about dogs from around the world, including writings from ancient Greek myths, African folktales, Old English legends, and biblical prophesies

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9780312181390 | Griffin, February 1, 1998, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Describes every popular canine breed and relates tales about dogs from around the world, including writings from ancient Greek myths, African folktales, Old English legends, and biblical prophesies
9780044458449, titled "Military Effectiveness: The Interwar Period" | Reprint edition (Unwin Hyman, October 1, 1990), cover price $27.95 | also contains Military Effectiveness: The Interwar Period

A retelling of a Kato Indian story in which a dog accompanies the Great Traveler as He creates the world.
By Stanley Fellows (illustrator) and Michael J. Rosen

Hardcover:

9780152014964 | Harcourt Childrens Books, September 1, 1997, cover price $25.01 | About this edition: A retelling of a Kato Indian story in which a dog accompanies the Great Traveler as He creates the world.

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A young man is saved from death three times by the keen senses of his faithful hunting dog
By Yoriko Ito (illustrator) and Michael P. Waite

Hardcover:

9780688136604 | Lothrop Lee & Shepard, September 1, 1996, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A young man is saved from death three times by the keen senses of his faithful hunting dog

Library:

9780688136611 | Lothrop Lee & Shepard, June 1, 1996, cover price $15.93 | About this edition: A young man is saved from death three times by the keen senses of his faithful hunting dog

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Hardcover:

9780226895086 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 7, 1991, cover price $94.00

Paperback:

9780226895093 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 7, 1991, cover price $32.00

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This work constitutes the second part of a three-volume set which analyzes the strategic and military problems of the era spanning the two world wars. This book covers the interwar period. The other two volumes in the set address World War I and World War II respectively.
By Allan R. Millett (editor)

Hardcover:

9780521425896 | 2 new edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2010), cover price $110.00
9780044450542 | Unwin Hyman, January 1, 1988, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This work constitutes the second part of a three-volume set which analyzes the strategic and military problems of the era spanning the two world wars.

Paperback:

9780044458449 | Reprint edition (Unwin Hyman, October 1, 1990), cover price $27.95 | also contains The Mythology of Dogs: Canine Legend and Lore Through the Ages

Product Description: First published in 1990

Hardcover:

9780824027896 | Garland Pub, May 1, 1990, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: First published in 1990

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