ADMIRAL WAGS Paul Brown Sherman SIGNED HB/DJ Cocker Spaniel Navy 1943
$ 24.27
Description
ADMIRAL WAGS Paul Brown Sherman SIGNED HB/DJ Cocker Spaniel Navy 1943. Author’s printed dedication reads: “To my son Jack– for whom we bought Admiral Wags– and my husband who saved his life.”. Admiral Wags of the U.S.S. Lexington by Fanny Jessop Sherman, the wife of the ship’s captain, Frederick C Sherman. Illustrated by Paul Brown with numerous illustrations in black brush ink with duotone red color. Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc, copyright 1943, 84 pages, stated first edition. SIGNED to Captain Thurs May. Dust jacket is a COLOR COPY, in bookseller’s mylar. 84 pages. Very good condition, clean and tight with no writing, tears, stains or odors. Told in the dog’s voice, true story of a black cocker spaniel “Admiral Wags” aboard the World War II destroyer USS Lexington during the battle of the Coral Sea. Author’s printed dedication reads: “To my son Jack– for whom we bought Admiral Wags– and my husband who saved his life.”
