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Painted Paw Press, Published 2006. Paperback, 124 pp.; 22 cm; first printing; one of 500 copies signed by Toreen West (artist), Peggy Howell (author), and Dean O. Torrence (cover designer) and numbered, this being number 192; illustrated throughout with color reproductions of sixty pet portrait paintings by Toreen West.
In Very Good condition. Glossy illustrated paper covers with French flaps; mild shelf wear with light bumping to corners and cover edges. Binding tight. Pages clean. Otherwise unmarked. A collection of sixty pet portraits by California artist Toreen West, each oil painting paired with a short first-person tale told to Tinker Bell, a two-pound long-coat Chihuahua. Author Peggy Howell, a Huntington Beach fine-art gallery owner, created the book as an interactive art book for children and adults. Cover designed by Dean O. Torrence of the surf-rock duo Jan and Dean, a Grammy-nominated album-cover artist.