Wolf Dog Valley by Gilbert, Kenneth - 1958

Collins, London and Glasgow, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Colour illustrated frontispiece, Illustrator not credited. The text is illustrated with the occasional full page and quarter page black-and-white drawing. Blue coloured boards with silver embossed series logo (a seagull) with still the titles to the lower right-hand corner of the front panel with silver coloured titles to the backstrip. Pale blue coloured tints to the top text edge.Colour illustrated dustwrapper with white and black colour title to the front panel and backstrip.A story set in the Pacific Northwest where two young brothers rescue old Jake Kroll from underneath an avalanche. They also rescue one of the Wolf dogs that Jake had been rehabilitating.All of a sudden deer in the park are being killed. Is it the rescued dog? Or is it his litter mate presumed dead?And, why was Geoff Marvin, a timber cruiser, hanging around? Softening and browning to the head and to the heel of the backstrip and lower book edges. The text block edges and pages are brown and foxed. Offset tanning and foxing to the endpapers.Chipping to the dustwrapper corners and to the head and to the heel of the backstrip. Creasing to the dustwrapper edges and rubbing to the dustwrapper panels. Sunning to the dustwrapper with browning and foxing to the verso. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). [10], 11-188 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children; fiction -- adolescent; United States; Inventory No: 0115145. .