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    By Barbara Woodhouse
    London   Faber and Faber Limited; Hulton Press
    10" by 7.5" 84; 128pp.
    Two signed first edition volumes concerning training and caring for dogs, by the well-loved television personality Barbara Woodhouse.
    By Barbara Woodhouse

    1955-1957 Dog Training My Way and Barbara Woodhouse's Book of Dogs

    London   Faber and Faber Limited; Hulton Press
    10" by 7.5" 84; 128pp.
    Two signed first edition volumes concerning training and caring for dogs, by the well-loved television personality Barbara Woodhouse.
    £180.00
    : 1kgs / : 862M37
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    First Edition, Signed, With Dustwrapper

    The first edition, second impression of 'Dog Training My Way' and the first edition, first impression of 'Barbara Woodhouse's Book of Dogs', in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers.

    Signed by the author to the front free end paper of each volume. Loosely inserted to 'Barbara Woodhouse's Book of Dogs' are seven newspaper articles concerning the author.

    'Dog Training My Way' by Barbara Woodhouse includes instructions for many useful dog training exercises, such as heel work and retrieving. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eighteen photographic plates. Collated, complete.

    'Barbara Woodhouse's Book of Dogs' contains guidance including choosing a dog, behavioral issues, travelling and going on holiday with dogs, and different breeds. It also includes information concerning service dogs. This work is now uncommon, and the original dust wrapper in particular is very scarce. Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-seven photographic plates, and numerous in-text photographs. Collated, complete.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, cloth is bright and smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean, except for some offsetting to the end papers. Both dust wrappers have losses to the head and tail of the spine, some sunning to the spine, and chipping to the extremities. Significant loss to the rear of the dust wrapper of 'Book of Dogs'.

    Fine

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