BRAVE COMPANIONS

First edition. With a colour frontispiece by artist Lynd Ward. 8vo, publisher's original gray/blue cloth, the upper cover ruled in silver, the spine lettered and ruled in silver, and in the scarce original dustjacket which repeats the Lynd Ward illustration in colour. 215pp. A near fine copy, there is a little spotting to the prelims only, very lightly so for a book produced to the conservation standards of the time. Otherwise the text is clean and fresh, the binding is clean and solid with scant evidence of use or wear. The jacket is whole and complete, with just a bit of edge rubbing and some mottling to the white areas of the flaps and rear panel.

Edizione: an engrossing and heartfelt study of one of the great post-war problems; the adjustment of military personal, and especially those wounded or disabled, back into civilian life. this is a story, "more real than imaginary, more hopeful than sad" of a soldier who's k-9 companion gave up her life to save his, and how her puppy valor provided comfort during his long hospital stay. upon returning to the states and learning he would likely be blinded for life, valor once again comes to his aid, now being trained as a seeing-eye dog.