Maeterlinck, Maurice and Cecil Alden — Our Friend the Dog

New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1913. Hardcover. Blue cloth, with gilt decoration on spine & front cover, gilt top edges, 67 pp. 6 color plates. A children's story about a bull-dog named Pelleas, penned by Belgian essayist Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949), and printed on thicker paper for tinier fingers to handle. Augmented with six color plates rendered by English animal illustrator Cecil Alden (1870-1935). G (Covers show average wear along edges and esp. along spine & its head and heel; flyleaves are tanned at edges but they protect the rest of the book from this; only occasional instance of foxing.) .