For your consideration is a piece from my personal collection I'm hesitant to offer.  "Beautiful Joe" First Edition.  1894 printing in exceptional condition.  Collector-grade, if not museum grade.  Not perfect, but likely one of the best examples in existance for the first Canadian author to sell over a million copies (a woman in the 19th C at that!). 

Beautiful Joe A Dog Story by Marshall Saunders HC/ VG, Spine has edge wear but VERY minimal. First Edition 1893. Published by Charles H. Banes 1894. Hardcover. Book Condition: VG. No Jacket. First edition, first issue, scarce in this condition, gilt lettering on tan linen boards, photographic frontispiece. Marshall Saunders is the pseudonym for Margaret Marshall Saunders. Beautiful Joe is the real name of a real dog, whose story she became familiar with while visiting her brother and his fiance Louise Moore. The Moores had some years earlier rescued Beautiful Joe from a vicious master who had cruelly beaten him and cut off his ears and tail. So moved was she in the presence of this abused animal, that she wrote a manuscript about his life, from an autobiographical perspective of the dog. It was the first Canadian book to sell more than one million copies. Throughout the rest of her life Saunders championed women s and animal rights, spoke out on social problems and was a passionate advocate of kindness to animals. For many decades Margaret Marshall Saunders was Canada's best known and best loved writer of childrens stories. 

Condition as shown is not perfect, but above reproach.  Collector or museum-grade considering the age/scarcity.  Please see photos to judge for yourself.  Thanks for looking!