The Starlight Barking: More About The Hundred and One Dalmatians - Signed, Inscribed and Dated by the Author
by Smith, Dodie
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
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Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
8vo, publisher's original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial decorative endpapers. fine with just a little pushing to spine ends in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with slight edge-wear in places and a couple of spots to upper panel. A near fine example of the sequel to 'The Hundred and One Dalmatians'.
Synopsis
The Hundred and One Dalmatians, or the Great Dog Robbery is a 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith. A sequel entitled The Starlight Barking continues from the end of the first novel. At a dinner party attended by the Dearly couple, Cruella de Vil expresses her dislike for animals; subsequently, the couple's new Dalmatian puppies disappear. The Dearly dogs are some of 97 puppies who are kidnapped or legally purchased from various owners, with the intention of skinning them for their fur.
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- Bookseller
- Fine Book Cellar Ltd. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1476183138852
- Title
- The Starlight Barking: More About The Hundred and One Dalmatians - Signed, Inscribed and Dated by the Author
- Author
- Smith, Dodie
- Illustrator
- Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Date Published
- 1967
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Starlight Barking, Dodie Smith, Signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions; Signed First Editions; Children's Literature;
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