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New York: Dutton, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition stated. Hardcover in "tweed" paper covered boards stamped in maroon. 125 pp. Illustrated by the author. Fine in fine dust jacket with a mere hint of wear at the tips. Sandy Wilosn, who wrote the book, lyrics, and music for the Broadway hit "The Boy Friend", here offers… Ler mais sobre este item

Riverhead Hardcover, 1995. First edition. Hardback. Fine/fine. First edition, first printing. Slim hardcover volume, unpaginated (aprox 62), with illustrations by Frances Lerner. Fine in fine dust jacket. A charming ode to cats in which Michaels portrays for the reader eating cats, sleeping cats, walking cats, and thinking cats---the unfathomable creature as we've never before quite seen it. … Ler mais sobre este item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Hardcover in light grey cloth stamped in gilt with an image of a cat, over pink spine lettered in gilt. xi+ 305 pp. with chater heading drawings by Susanne Suba. Generally fine, all gilt bright, cute bookplate on the front pastedown featuring a black cat atop a small stack of… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition stated. Fine, fresh example in equally fine dust wrapper. 18mo. (4 1/2" x 6") hardcover in black cloth. (28) pp. Illustrated with color (and occasionally black and white) reproductions of cat-involved paintings and other artwork. The images are matched with witty titles letter by letter.… Ler mais sobre este item

New Yorka nd London: Macmillan, 1894. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition and first thus containing Leffingwell's essay on vivisection. 12mo. in olive green cloth with spine lettered in gilt and front cloth lettered and lined in black. x+ 176 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher's ads at rear. A tight example, few tiny spots to… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition, first printing with letter line beginning with "A". Fine in ifne dust jacket. Hardcover. Unpaginated (78 pp.). Ralph Steadman's unmistakable artwork deomonstrates the story of Jones, a cat that the artist met when he visited his friend Hunter S. Thompson at Owl Farm, his mountain home high… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Scholastic Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First printing. A fine, fresh, unimpeachable example in equaly fine dust jacket. Slim oversized volume in color illustrated hardcovers. Unpaginated (34 pp.). Illustrated in color with the strikingly inventive collage artwork of Meyers (who earlier book "Harlem" was a Caldecott Honor Book). A New York City stray black cat… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Dutton, 1955. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. 125 pp.With 54 illustrations by the author. Very good, some light edge stains that show on the outer margins of a few text pages. In very good, price clipped dust jacket. Playwright and humorist Sandy Wilson (best remembered for the music and lyrics… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston: Little Brown, 1996. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Slim oversized hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. 27 pp. with index. "This book exposes the hidden life of cats and reveals their sinister mission on earth". Illustrated with hilarious schematic drawings and laugh-out-loud explanations.

New York: Crown, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket. Slim oversized hardcover, illustrated endpapers. Unpaginated (44 pp.). Each facing full page reproduces one of Ivory's beautiful paintings of cats---not only her own but also examples of rare species--in exotic settings from ancient Egyptian to Oriental, lying languidly on sumptous rugs and quilts and romping amid… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Outing Publishing, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Hardcover in tan cloth lettered and decorated in black and brown. 261 pp. Color frontispiece "Coal Devils on a Coal Tree" by Charlles Livingston Bull and additional illustrations in the text by Neal Thruslow and A.E. Cedarquist. Very good. Vintage bookplate and well as a Christmas,… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Souvenir Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First printing. A fine, fresh, unused copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 192 pp. Illustrated with photographs by William Gooddy. The author moved to an old stone Provence farmhouse surrounded by fields, vinyards and olive groves, its cool green garden a riot of roses, wistaria and jasmine. She had… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Harper Collins, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 303 pp. with index. In July, 1987, a man was sitting on his porch when a neighbor stormed onto his property chasing one of his tenants with a broom. The porch man's dog, Bandit, bit the neighbor. Six weeks… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Villard, 2002. Later printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in fine dust jacket, Signed by Katz on the title page., Hardcover. 200 pp. Second printing. In his previous book, Katz wrote of the strength and support he found in the massive forms of his two yellow Labs agd six and seven. A breeder who read the book contacted… Ler mais sobre este item

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1991. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First trade edition. A fine, frsh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 118 pp. An American mother spends a year in France with her daughters, aged eight and eleven. They soon fall in love with a regural visitor to their favorite cafe---a rather odd-looking fellow… Ler mais sobre este item

London and New York: Longmans, Green, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First edition (stated) . Hardcover on ochre cloth; map endpapers. xv+ 368 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Fine in very good dust jacket with U.S. price intact. Cecil Webb was the Superintendent of the Dublin Zoo and here teels of his lifelong, worldwide travels in… Ler mais sobre este item

Garden City: Junioer Deluxe Editions, 1964. Book Club. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Hardcover. 221 pp. with color frontispiece and additonal drawings by Lilian Obligato. Though a book club title, the first in this format and with Obligato's illustrations. Fine, bright copy in equally fine dust jacket, unusual in this condition. The classic story of beloved collie Lassie. From her puppyhood,,… Ler mais sobre este item

Edinburgh and London: Adam and Charles Black; Longman, Rees, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1839. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo in attractive modern dark brown rice-paper covered boards, custom slipcase. (1), half-title+ xii+359 pp. A generally clean copy, bit of foxing to the prelims and title, occasionally in the text. The companion volume to Audubon's massive four-volume "Birds… Ler mais sobre este item

Harcourt, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition stated and with code line"ABCDE". Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 143 pp. Illustrations by Marguerite Dorian. A philosphical fireside tale of the curiously named female cat Thomas Gray, who found herself at Cambride University helping a historian of mathematics with his research. Based on the true story of a… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Arco, 1977. Third printing. Fine. Oversized spiral bound in glossy illustrated hardcovers. 79 pp. with glossary of terms. Illustrated throughout with photos and diagrams. Complete guide, written in easy-to-follow, lucid style, to grooming your setters and spaniels. Fine.