McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1995, reprint.  ISBN 0-7710-8818-3.  Large trade soft cover, 232 pages including Afterword and About the Authors.  Front wrap has tiny corner bends, impressions from sticker removal, and 2 ¼” score from top edge not cutting through but visible on verso as well.  Interior clean and unmarked; black & white illustrations by Vlasta van Kampen.  ‘Courage.  Loyalty.  Devotion.  Somehow these traits are fiercer and purer among non-human animals.  In Great Canadian Animal Stories sixteen masters of storytelling, keen observers either of nature or their own animal companions, conjure with tales that bring their experiences vividly to life.’ (from rear wrap)