Novelist, memoirist, playwright and children’s book author extraordinaire Dodie Smith’s most well-known work besides I Capture the Castle. Smith is a writer whose name should roll off one of everyone’s tongue. Her excellence and output was significant.

The Hundred and One Dalmatians is well-known, but her name is often not attached to the story, in part, perhaps because of her gendered treatment, and perhaps because it is now better known as a Disney movie, and not a book and a play. Dalmatians was originally published in the American women’s magazineWoman’s Day as ‘The Great Dog Robbery’.

The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Dodie Smith. London: Heinemann, 1956. 190 pages. 22.5 x 15 x 2.5. Hardback. First edition. Beautifully illustrated dust jacket, sun-faded in spots, marks and spotting, and with chips and tears to corners and edges. Price clipped, ownership signature on the half title. A very good book in good dust jacket.