Ackerman, Irving C: The Wire-Haired Foxterrier

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Ackerman, Irving C : The Wire-Haired Foxterrier

G. Howard Watt, New York, 1928

Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Small illustration of a fox terrier on front cover. 6" x 8 3/4." 191 pages, complete. Eleven black-and-white plates and seven black-and-white illustrations, complete. Index in back. Pages are very clean and intact overall. There is slight scuffing at the corner of the text block, slight age toning to pages, and a wrinkle, a small hole, and what appears to be glue residue (perhaps from a former bookplate) on front free endpaper. Covers also very clean and intact except for slight corner and edge wear, a few tiny bumps to bottom edge, a few small marks to front and back, moderate wear to head and tail of spine, and a small bit of sticker residue on spine. A Very Good copy. A comprehensive reference book about wire fox terriers. The following are the chapters: "Popularity--Origin--Uses--Clubs," "Early Fanciers--First Dog Shows--Outline of Wire History," "Anglo-American Matches--Foundation Strains and Their Development Down to Modern Times," "Foxterrier Fads," "A Few Notes Based on Personal Experience," "Character, Type and Balance," "How to Choose a Puppy," "Rearing and Breeding," "Diseases," "The Standard of Foxterrier," "Trimming a Wire," "Some Famous Wire Judges," "Some Celebrated Producing Wire Bitches," "The Wire Foxterrier in America," "Wires on the Pacific Coast," "Representative American Breeders and Their Terriers," "Roll of Honor," and. Illustr.: Rine, Josephine Z. (Text Illustrations); Tausky, R. W. (Photographs). Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

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