2006
Dead End by Mariah Stewart (Mass Market Paperback – 30 May 2006)
Excerpt – page 312: ” … our house, sleeps in his bed. This big, hairy thing. Clumber spaniel, you ever seen one of them”
2004
Google book search on “Clumber Spaniel” found this (2 Dec 2005)
Something Borrowed, Something Blue by Sandy Henry – Fiction – 2004 – 188 pages
Page 15 – And she couldn’t forget their big Clumber Spaniel, Malcolm. She hadn’t thought about that dog in a long time. He was short and squat, … (one mention only apparently)
Google book search on “Clumber Spaniel” found this (2 Dec 2005)
The Hippie House by Katherine Holubitsky – Juvenile Fiction – 2004 – 233 pages
Page 38 – Halley first distinguished herself simply by being a Clumber spaniel. Dad had read about the rare breed in a duck-hunting magazine. …
2002
Google book search on “Clumber Spaniel” found this (2 Dec 2005)
Canine Courage by Tiffin Shewmake – Pets – 2002 – 200 pages
Page 176 – … stationed on the Pacific island of Biak, was sitting in front of his tent when a lieutenant walked past with Raye’s black Clumber Spaniel on a leash. … (one mention only apparently)
1997
Google book search on “Clumber Spaniel” found this (2 Dec 2005)
The View from King Street: An Essay in Autobiography by Christopher Hurst – 1997 – 464 pages
Page 26 – … and sending his Clumber spaniel, Brutus, after them. His academic forte was coaching in Latin and Greek, and I had my first Latin lesson with him. … (only mention listed)
1996
found by using Google’s book search (added 23 June 2009)
Dancers in the sunset sky: the musings of a bird hunter by Robert F. Jones – Sports & Recreation – 1996 – 192 pages
Page 189
Seating himself comfortably in the leather chair, he flipped pages until he
found what he sought. Pansy and Sancho were clumber spaniels, …
1990
The Road to Westminster : How to Select and Train a Purebred Dog and Prepare It for the Show Ring (ISBN:1558701699) Freeman, Robert B.; Freeman, Toni C. Betterway Publications, Inc., White Hall, VA, USA, 1990. Soft Cover. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. 176 pages including index. Authors have more than twenty years experience owning, breeding, and showing purebred dogs. They specialize in Clumber Spaniels and nine of their dogs are or have been champions. They explain all the things that have made them successful, not only as breeders and handlers but as loving ‘bonded’ owners of happy, contented dogs. I understand (see this is one Clumber theme book not in my collection, yet) it contains many b&w photos of the Clumbers.
1956
The Clumber Pup by Eleanor Farjeon juvenile appears only to have been published inFarjeon anthologies, BUT Clumber Spaniel League Victoria has rights to do a 200 limited edition – due for release sometime!
1953
That’s a good dog Ghent,Brian & Gillibrand London,Seeley,Service & Co.Ltd. Hardcover. Dust Jacket 1st.edition.1st.impression easy read, contains a couple of lovely scrapboard illustrations by Ghent from photos of his dogs – Book covers other breeds too.
1936
Jock The King’s Pony. by Johns, Rowland. Book Description: New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. , Inc., (1936)., 1936. First Edition. Hardcover 8vo dustjacket 60 pages Illustrated by Paul Brown The late King George V’s favorite shooting pony, Jock tells of his friends in Sandringham which include Charlotte the parrot, Snip the Cairn terrier, the Master’s other hunting dogs, Scion the Clumber Spaniel and Bob the Labrador. Some lovely paragraphs on the Clumbers!
1931
Gun-dogs by Patrick R. Chalmers scarce & pricey1st edn 12 superb large colour plates by R.W. Binks of Gundogs, (Labrador Retriever, Golden Retriever, Flat Coat Retriever, Curly Coated Retriever, Clumber Spaniel, Irish Water Spaniel, Cocker Spaniel, Springer Spaniel, English Setter, Irish Setter, Gordon Setter and Pointer), large 4to. NO I don’t have a copy, photocopy the Clumber print for me when you buy it!
1930
All Spaniels Their Breeding, Rearing and Training by Lloyd, Freeman Editor Field and Stream, New York, Very small breed section but what a lovely pair of Clumbers in the wee tiny b&w photo, I reckon I could live with the stacked one, and the one seated is magnificent. Also the frontispiece is a rather badly coloured & re-formatted litho from the Abraham Cooper Scrub A Shooting Pony (Hoare Collection)
1920
The Story of Jack- A Tale of the North and Other Fascinating Dog Stories by Lytle, J. Horace The Pettibone-McLean Company, Dayton, Ohio, 1920. Burgundy Cloth/gilt Hardbound. Illustrated with Engravings (illustrator). First American Edition. 12mo – over 6¾” – 7¾” tall. 164pp.engravings for each story. Ho ho, what a secret this one has managed to become – there’s the story of Bruce the Clumber & golfing!
1918
The Little Red Balloon by Caroline Hofman; illustrated by Rachael Robinson Elmer; published by P. F. Volland Company
one of the dog family is undoubtedly a Clumber, the book is available online at http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/Little_Red_Balloon/pages/01_Little_Red_Balloon.htm (added 23 June 2009)
1907
Google book search on “Clumber Spaniel” found this (2 Dec 2005)
What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes ; a Book of Suggestions for Children’s… by Dorothy Canfield Fisher – 1907 – 838 pages Page 399 – no other information here – let me know if you find what it says!
late 1800s
Sunshine and Stream written & illustrated by NC Bishop-Culpeper
A Victorian Board Book from the Late 1800s. Violet, Jack, Robin, and Mary were four children who lived in London square. Every spring they delighted in the coming of their summer holiday to their Uncle John, and the old house on the river. Three dogs were waiting for the arrive of the children, The biggest was Brunette, called for short Brownie , a brindle Bull Mastiff, with a dreadfully fierce-looking face, but who was the gentlest and best tempered dogs. Then came Lena, a lemon and white Clumber Spaniel, with a soft and gentle face, and a pretty heart-shaped mark on her forehead; her chief fault was greediness, and she ate so much that she became very fat and lazy. Her daughter, Spot, was the youngest of the party, and called so from the yellow spot on her head; she was very fond of her mother.
Book measures 7″ x 10″ and has 33 pages. The drawings are in sepia.There are fourteen full page illustration, blank on the reverse and all pages have illustration many including the dogs in a brown tone.
Information from listings on eBay & ABEbooks Feb 2008