My Dog Skip.

MORRIS, Willie.

$450.00

Item Number: 141499

New York: Random House, 1995.

First edition of “this classic story of a boy, a dog, and small-town America… a rich experience all around” (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “To John, Warm wishes to a fellow dog-lover in Michigan 6/17/95.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Andy Carpenter. Jacket illustration by Alan Phillips.

In 1943 in a sleepy town on the banks of the Yazoo River, a boy fell in love with a puppy with a lively gait and an intelligent way of listening. The two grew up together having the most wonderful adventures. My Dog Skip belongs on the same shelf as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Russell Baker's Growing Up. Made into the film bearing the same name, starring Kevin Bacon, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson and Frankie Muniz,