Recently I obtained my long anticipated, first edition mint condition copy of Dog’Gerel. A wonderful book of dog breeds written by Esther Kimball Hartshorne, and illustrated by the famous illustrator and chowist, Cleanthe Carr who started her career as a teenager. The book features one of her chow illustrations on the cover as well as […]
YOU ARE VISITING THE CHOW LITERATURE CATEGORY
We love our vintage chow books! I will be scanning example pages as well as the covers from every book we have in our extensive collection and listing them each, on a post of their own which can be found in the left column. I have multiples of a few of the books and will state if I have one available for sale on its page
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CELEBRITY -1935 Cleanthe Carr Illustrator – Chow wedding
Circa 1935 Famous American Illustrator Cleanthe Carr and one of her half dozen Chows, “Kubla Khan”. In 1937 Cleanthe and her chows were showcased in Life Magazine pictured at their “wedding”. The couple were soon blessed with a cream and honey-colored baby according to the LIFE article. Also see one of her illustrations in the […]
BOOK- 1899 MODERN DOGS by Rawdon B. Lee Non Sporting Edition
This very old documentation of the earliest imports of Chows from China was written by the well-known expert on Foreign dogs of the Day Mr. W.K. Taunton. Taunton owned the lovely “Chinese Puzzle” pictured below which was considered the first “chow” to be shown in England, however, in retrospect she was most likely another one […]
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