Description
Near Fine dust jacket, a mylar jacket has been added. Clipped on the lower corner of the front flap, the upper corner has the price of $3.95, minor corner-wear, an inch and three-quarter tear at head of spine on back panel. The Near Fine binding is blue cloth over boards, minor shelf-wear, the book cover and dust jacket have the same illustration of dogs which wrap around to the rear cover. Illustrated end papers. Black-and-white frontispiece and illustrations by Janet & Anne Grahame-Johnstone. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.5″ tall x 5.8″ wide.
Stated “First Printing”.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
Pongo and Missis, the two engaging Dalmatians of Dodie Smith’s Popular The Hundred and One Dalmatians, are back again with 9o of their relatives for a hilarious adventure that takes place during the dog days of summer. One morning when Pongo and Missis try to wake up their master and mistress, they discover that in all of England, only dogs can be awakened on that fateful day. Mysterious and astonishing happenings follow, such as the dogs learning to swoosh just above the ground -by thinking forward-moving thoughts. Missis takes to the wonderful new transportation immediately and even invents the high swoosh.
Why is this day enchanted? Every dog knows that it is, but no one knows why. When the secret is revealed at midnight, the dogs of the world must make the most difficult choice of their lives, and in doing so they prove that they are, indeed, man’s most devoted friends. Boys and girls everywhere will be entranced by this newest adventure of one of England’s and America’s largest and best-loved dog families
About the author (from the dust jacket)
Dodie Smith, the well-known English 20-thor and playwright, was born in England, where she attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and was on the British stage for several years before becoming an 24-thor of plays and books. One of her novels for adults, I Capture the Castle, became a best seller in America, and a play, Dear Octopus, was revived in London late in 1007. Miss Smith’s earlier children’s book, The Hundred and One Dalmatians, was published in numerous editions in America and Europe and was made into a movie by Walt Disney. Miss Smith now lives with her husband, Alec Beasley in Essex, England.
