Search Results: My Brother Mike by Doris Gates

Viking, 1948. 1st edition. Very Good-/Good++. Hardcover: Light blue cloth binding with illustration on lower frontboard. Title on spine. Gift inscribed on illustrated endpaper. Page edges are slightly soiled. Illustrated title page. This is the story of Billy and his fox terrier. Billy was boarded out by the county to a disagreeable family. This is a story full of warmth and vigor and very real people. Nice tight binding. Illustrated by Wesley Dennis. Jacket: Edgewear and chipping on corners and spine edges. Closed tear on lower spine. Illustrated front cover. Attractive copy in protective mylar. .

The Viking Press, 1960. Beige hardcover cloth binding with illustrated endpapers is clean, square and tight. DJ has some minor shelfwear and sun-faded spine, some foxing. Price-clipped. Clean and tight interior = 1st published i 1948 - this is 3rd printing stated. Inscribed on half title page by the author to her daughter, Jeanne. This is the story of 10 year old Billy Evans and his fox terrier Lucky. Billy has few possessions and no real friends - his mother is dead and his father has disappeared. But when they meet up with a friendly tramp named Mike, things start to change for Billy and Lucky. 191 pages. This very prolific writer did not sign very many of her works.. Illus. by Dennis, Wesley. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by Author(s). Hardcover. Very Good/Near Very Good.