Spike of Swift River by O'Brien, Jack - 1942

Philadelphia, PA: John C Winston Co, 1942. Has DJ (DJ has price) & Illustrated. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by Kurt Wiese.

The John C. Winston Co., 1942. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.

Collins, 1958. Hardcover. Good. 1958. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Collins, 1958. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1958. This Impression. 256 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white illustrations and colour frontispiece by Kurt Wiese. Prize plate on front free endpaper. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces.

Collins, 1962. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1962. First Edition Thus. 256 pages. Illustrative jacket over red cloth. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown and free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Water staining to textblock edges. Visible creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Bleaching to spine ends. Water staining to rear board. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Loss to spine ends. Visible sunning to spine. Noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges. Water staining to panels.

NY: Grosset & Dunlap. Fair. (1942). Solid book. Binding somewhat mottled, .

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1942. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Minor bleaching to back cover top and spine edge.. Wiese, Kurt (Illustrated by). 0 274 p., 10 full-pg pen&ink illus. Other smaller illus. including chapter headings. Catching a free (illegal) ride on a steam train, a young lumberman's story emerges. He meets a large injured dog even as he rests his own knee, damaged when forced off the running train. With this developing partnership, another Jack O'Brien tale of adventures goes forward.

London, Glasgow, 1958;. Reprint; Seagull Library; Good+/ NIo Dw; 256pp with coloured frontis. & b/w text Illustrations by Kurt Wieseby ; Blue covers with silver motif & letteriing. The adventures of two outlaws Dan and Spike - man and dog. .

Chicago: John C. Winston Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1942. Hardcover. Color and b/w; 6 X 9 x 1 1/4; ix, 274 pages; Hard cover is red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Missing DJ. Covers have sunning, rubbing, scuffing, bumping. Front gutter is getting weak, but pages are clean and tight, pages have some age fading/sunning to them. Brown/white monochrome end papers. Color frontispiece. Illustrated with 10 b/w drawings, throughout the book. "The hero of the book is Spike, a Shepard mix, but Dan is really the protagonist, and it’s the “legal theft” of his father’s timber company that left Dan penniless and riding the rails. Now, in Swift River, Dan is given a chance to get back on his feet, and with Spike at his side he overcomes being the new guy, sub-zero weather and bad guys to win out against the odds". This copy is from 1942, by the John Winston Company, Akron, Ohio. .

Collins, 1958. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1958. Reprint. 256 pages. Pictorial dust jacket with red lettering over blue cloth. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Colour frontispiece with B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Minor sunning to spine. Clipped dust jacket. Moderate wear, tear and chipping to edges and corners. Notable tanning to spine and edges, with minor soiling to DJ.