Peter B. Kyne Soldiers Sailors & Dogs First and similar items

SOLDIERS, SAILORS AND DOGS By Peter B. Kyne. New York: H.C. Kinsey Company, Inc., 1936. First edition. 1936 printed in Roman numerals to the title page, $2 to the jacket's flap. Kyne, a prolific San Francisco novelist and writer/creator of the Cappy Ricks series, had more than 100 of his works adapted to silent and talkie films including THE THREE GODFATHERS. This novel comprised of interlinking character featured stories, spiced with humor, focuses on a variety of men, and men's dogs, including a hard-boiled army Sergeant John Ryan, ship owner Old Man Hickman, dog man Dan Pelly, desert rat Chuckwalla Bill, sailors, and more. Elusive in the striking first edition dust jacket. Some minor foxing to the upper page edges and quite sparingly foxed to the page fore-edges, faint age-toning to the end-papers as usual, very light soil-stains to the covers, else very good in polished blue linen with yellow titles, rules and stars to the front cover and to the spine; in an about very good dust jacket with terrific multi-characters illustration to the front panel, with a separation tear through the spine panel, chips and short tears to the edges, surface nicks and rubs at the spine folds and flap folds; original printed $2.00 price still intact to the front inner flap. The dust jacket will be placed in a clear, removable, protective sleeve after photographing for this entry. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION VINTAGE BOOKS THANKS! Created by Seller's Assistant Basic.