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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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Limited Edition History of the Chow in France-NEW BOOK!

CLICK HERE TO ORDER THIS LIMITED EDITION BOOK BY JULIEN MARCHETTI Our wonderful friend and French chowist Julien Marchetti, curator of the pedigree database CHOWS WHO has written a gorgeous new book about the history of the Chow Chow in France.  The book is available now and this is a Limited Edition so act fast […]

THE FIRST WRITTEN PROOF OF THE CHINESE DOG OF CANTON -1780’s

This article below is fascinating, giving insight into the very first impressions of the Chinese dog we now call the “Chow Chow” at it’s initial discovery in the early 1780s.  It amazes me that in comparison…. the Giant Panda was only discovered by westerners  in 1869  with both animals being from China The first reliable mention  […]

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CHOW THE CHINESE DOG

COVER- The Autobiography of Chow the Chinese Dog and Joans Dog by Liliputian Page 37 Published by Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Union LONDON No date Cloth covered. One of the rarest childrens books in our collection  

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  • 1896 Book- An American Dog Abroad and the Foreign Dogs he Met – by Frank Pope Humphrey
  • BOOK- 1902 Childrens book -Tales from PuppyLand
  • BOOK – Jolly Roger Dog of Hoboken – 1985 by Daniel M. Pinkwater
  • BOOK- Puppy Dogs Tales 1922 by Frances Kent
  • BOOK- 1899 MODERN DOGS by Rawdon B. Lee Non Sporting Edition
  • CELEBRITY -1935 Cleanthe Carr Illustrator – Chow wedding
  • BOOK- 1933 First Edition Dog’Gerel – Illustrations by the famous Cleanthe Carr
  • 1904 First Edition Hondenrassen – 8 Chow pages- H.A. Graaf Van Bylandt
  • 1907 Very rare chow pages and photos from the Melbourne Sporting Library
  • BOOK 1950 MAN MEETS DOG author Konrad Lorenz
  • BOOK – Circa 1906 – THE DOG BOOK by James Watson -Chow pages
  • BOOK-1954 Dogs in Clover by D.A. Ponsonby
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  • Late 1800’s German bookplate with a Chinese Spitz/chow photo

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