Beautiful Joe~ An Autobiography by Marshall Saunders 1893 HC Phoenix Edition

Description: Beautiful Joe by Marshall Saunders Published in 1893 by Charles H. Banes Acceptable condition. Significant wear to edges, fading, staining of cover. Shelf cocked. Previous owner name written on inside, front cover. Open spine at front. A stamped name on reverse of dedication page. Pages are tightly bound, very toned, some staining. The real Beautiful Joe was an Airedale-type dog. He was medium-sized, brown, and described as likely being part bull terrier and part fox terrier. He was also described as a mongrel, a cur, and a mutt. He was originally owned by a local Meaford man, who cruelly abused the dog to the point of near death, and even cut off his ears and tail. Walter Moore, father of Louise Moore, rescued the dog in 1890, from what likely would have been a violent and painful death. In 1892, Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861–1947), first learned about Beautiful Joe when she visited her brother and his wife, Louise Moore. Saunders was so touched by Joe's story that she wrote a novel-length, fictionalized, autobiographical version of it, entitled Beautiful Joe. Margaret Saunders relocated the story to a small town in Maine and changed the family's name from Moore to Morris to win a literary contest sponsored by the American Humane Education Society. The book was first published in 1893. By 1900, over 800,000 copies sold in the U.S., 40,000 in Canada and 100,000 in the United Kingdom. Saunders chose to write Beautiful Joe as an "autobiography" and tell the story from Beautiful Joe's viewpoint, and in her imagined version of Beautiful Joe's own words. 359pp Measures approximately 6.25 x 3.75 x .5 inches See photos vk

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