Lassie Come Home Puffin, Paperback, 1994.Lassie Come-Home Henry Holt, Hardcover, 1995.Lassie Come Home Holt, Unknown Binding, 1995.Lassie Come-Home (Perennial Bestseller Collection) G.Lassie Come-home (Picture Puffin Story Books) Puffin Books, Paperback, 1997.

Lassie Come Home (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) Tandem Library, School & Library Binding, 1998.Lassie Come Home Demco Media, Turtleback, 1999.Lassie Come Home Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, Paperback, 2002.Lassie Come-Home�� Henry Holt & Company, Unknown Binding, 2003.Lassie Come-Home San Val, Hardcover, 2007.Lassie Come-Home Square Fish, Paperback, 2007.Lassie Come-home, Library Binding, 2008.Lassie Come-Home 75th Anniversary Edition Henry Holt and Co.Lassie Come-Home Macmillan Young Listeners, Audio CD, 2015.Lassie Come-Home 75th Anniversary Edition Square Fish, Paperback, 2015.Jacket with shallow chipping at spine ends and corners, a few closed tears repaired with tape on verso.

Ink gift inscription dated 1941 on front free endpaper small Vancouver-based bookseller ticket on rear pastedown. Illustrated by Kirmse with color frontispiece, 6 full-page black-and-white images, and vignettes throughout. In original price-clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Original bright orange pictorial cloth stamped with central vignette of Lassie on front board. The first book in a larger epic story of audiences' love affair with the sweet dog Lassie. This first edition was illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse, who was famous for her etchings of dogs, depicting them 'with an understanding and originality seldom found in other artists' work' (rear flap). In 1943, the year the first Lassie film was released, Knight was killed in an air crash. This expanded book about the character was published just before the United States entered World War II, when WWI-veteran Knight enlisted to serve in the US Army Special Services.

Knight's collie dog Lassie first appeared in a story for THE SATURDAY EVENING POST in 1938, based upon a love for the collies Knight and his wife raised on their Bucks Country, Pennsylvania farm. First printing of the children's book about a heroic collie, adapted into a series of beloved films and television shows beginning in 1943. Condition: Near fine in very good jacket.

Lassie come home book 1940