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A Fine first Printing of the First Edition, Advance Review Copy, with a bumped corner in an alike dust-jacket. There are some publisher's inserts laid in.

Leon Rooke's Shakespeare's Dog is a tale of love, loss, and redemption set in the streets of London during the reign of Elizabeth I. When Surrey's favorite dog, Shakespeare, is run over by a cart and dies, Surrey is inconsolable. His friends and courtiers try to comfort him, but Surrey is determined to find Shakespeare's murderer. Elizabeth I intervenes and orders Surrey to stop his pursuit, but Surrey is not easily dissuaded. He eventually discovers the dog's true identity and sets out to make amends with the man who bought him.; 8vo; 157 pages; $6.00.