REX. By Joyce Stranger.

1967 1st edition. 8vo (132 x 202mm). Pp192. Not illustrated. Yellow-speckled olive-drab boards, spine titled in gilt.

"Nan was a working collie. Though brutally treated by her master, she served him faithfully for several years. He, unable to afford another dog, or allow Nan any rest, always drowned her pups at birth. Desperate to save at least one litter, her motherhood instinct triumphed over her loyalty and she ran off to give to give birth on the desolate fells. This cost her her life, but Ned Foley, ex-tramp and dedicated poacher, understanding the ways of the wild as well as if he were an animal himself captured one of the pups. In the Swan one night he bet Pete Lanark, whose sheepdogs were always winners at the Sheepdog Trials, that he could not train his pup. Pete tooks the bet". This was Joyce Stranger's third novel, following The Running Foxes and Breed of Giants.