Second UK edition of Ackerley's celebrated account of his sixteen year relationship with a pet German shepherd. London: Bodley Head, 1966. Second edition, following the Secker & Warburg first of 1956. Octavo, 8 x5-3/8 in. 157pp. Green textured-paper boards; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Damp staining to spine ends and perimeters of jacket, with slight related darkening to edges of boards. Also light dampstaining to textblock fore-edge. Else a very good copy in very good, unclipped ("21s net") jacket.
