First edition. 96pp, with numerous black and white sketches by G L Stampa. In red cloth boards, with black illustration and lettering front and spine (boards a tad rubbed and faded at edges, corners and spine tips). Some moderate spotting on endpapers, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (toned and marked, chapped on all edges with several short nicks and tears, minor loss at ends of a sunned spine). Dust jacket now protected in an archival quality Mylar wrapper, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. 8vo. First published in the US in Liberty magazine and the in the UK in Cassell's Magazine in August 1930, this is this first appearance in book form of Kipling's Thy Servant a Dog, collected together with The Great Play Hunt and Toby Dog. The story is told by Boots, a black Aberdeen terrier similar to those owned by Kipling himself; Kipling is playfully credited as the editor of Boots' story, but in practice was the author.
