![]() ![]() ![]() In 1943, while working for the OSS, Knight’s plane crashed and he was tragically killed. The first movie adaptation of “ Lassie Come Home began shooting in 1942 but its author would never see the finished film” ( Telegraph). Lassie, “the greatest canine heroine of the 20th century,” was brought to life when novelist and screenwriter “Eric Knight took a neighbor’s cross-collie pup, the runt of the litter, in exchange for the loan of a plough.” Soon Knight and his collie were inseparable and she became the model for a story serialized in the Saturday Evening Post (December 1938) that Knight expanded into this classic novel. Octavo, original pictorial gold cloth, cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket.įirst edition of the much loved children’s book on “the greatest canine heroine of the 20th century,” inspiring a popular series of films and television shows, in scarce original dust jacket. ![]() “LASSIE! SHE’S COME HOME! LASSIE’S COME HOME!”: FIRST EDITION OF ERIC KNIGHT’S BELOVED CLASSIC LASSIE COME HOME ![]()
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