Princess Marie Bonaparte sitting on Oscar Nemon’s Sculpture of Topsy, Paris, 1961 First edition published in 1940, TOPSY, is a psychoanalytic tale of the effects of a dog on its owner; the analyst is the great Marie Bonaparte. Only after being told that her chow had cancer did she realize the attachment she developed to […]
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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Book – The Chow Chow – A Complete Anthology of the Dog
The Chow Chow – A Complete Anthology of the Dog gathers together all the best early writings on the breed from a British library of scarce, out-of-print antiquarian books and documents and reprints it in a quality, modern edition. This anthology includes chapters taken from a comprehensive range of books, many of them now rare […]
Author – Dr. Fernand Mery -Le Chow Chow – Published 1970
The photo you see above is of the esteemed author, veterinarian, and dog lover Fernand Mery with 2 of his dogs . I acquired this gorgeous original 8×10 studio photo a few years ago because I had 2 copies of his book”Le Chow Chow”, and loved having this image to go with them. In researching […]
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