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PONSONBY AND HIS FRIENDS Herbertson, Agnes Grozier. Illustrated by Soper, Eileen. Stock no. 560404 Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st ed . 1934. Nearly fine condition in a dustwrapper in good condition. Blue cloth. Full page b/w illustrations and text drawings. A story about cats. One page has a small closed edge-tear. Attractive pictorial wrapper chipped at edges. A lovely copy of this scarce Soper title. Price: £95.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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THE CUDDLY-KITTY BOOK Anderson, Anne & Wright, Alan. Illustrated by Anderson, Anne & Wright, Alan. Stock no. 573917 Thomas Nelson and Sons. 1st ed. 1920. Very good condition with no wrapper. The Nursery Zoo series, The Second Cage. Red cloth boards with large pictorial onlay to front cover. One page of text facing one full page colour illustration printed one side of page only. Book: book plate to front endpaper. Contents fine. Corners rubbed. A lovely book. Price: £98.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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CARBONEL AND CALIDOR Sleigh, Barbara. Illustrated by Front, Charles. Stock no. 626728 Kestrel Books. 1st ed. 1978. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Being the Further Adventures of a Royal Cat. The third book about John, Rosemary and Carbonel. Light blue boards, b/w illustrations. Ex-lib. Dustwrapper is stuck to covers and has library label stuck to front panel and spine with a little surface paper loss to front panel. Library stamp to front endpaper else contents clean.0722654189 Price: £100.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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LES CHATS Champfleury, . Illustrated by Delacroix, Eugene & et al.. Stock no. 626059 J. Rothschild. 3rd. 1869. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Histoire, Moeurs, Observations, Anecdotes. 52 illustrations. 3rd edition. Text in French. Burgundy cloth, gilt title to spine. 7.25 x 4.75". xvi + 287 pages. Covers unevenly faded. W.H. Smith Library label to front cover. Slight loss to top of spine. Illustration by Manet missing (common!). Name in ink to front endpaper and title page. Stitching exposed on hinges opposite title page and index at rear. A few margin marks but contents generally clean. Price: £100.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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ALL SORTS OF COMICAL CATS Bingham, Clifton. Illustrated by Wain, Louis. Stock no. 629224 Ernest Nister. 1st ed . 1902. Good condition with no wrapper. Nister No. 742 Brown cloth spine, pictorial paper front board with blue title. Blue patterned endpapers. Mounted colour frontis. Numerous b/w and two-tone illustrations of cats. Edges rubbed, corners worn. Top & tail of cloth spine have slight loss. Boards scuffed. Endpapers amateurishly repaired. Front endpaper is glued to blue card and blue card visible at joint. Rear endpaper is missing and replaced by same blue card. Frontis is strengthened at all edges with wide clear tape not affecting the illustration itself. Contents are quite grubby with finger marks and page browning. One double spread detached. Many pages have a small closed tear to lower margin. A reasonable copy. Price: £100.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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CATS IN CONCORD Tovey, Doreen. No illustrator listed. Stock no. 629488 Chivers Press. 2001. Slightly better than very good condition with no wrapper. When Doreen Tovey's beloved siamese sealpoint cat Saphra dies, she cannot bear the thought of getting another cat. So when she is offered a kitten as a successor to Saphra, she puts as many obstacles in the way as possible... Large print. Mauve pictorial glazed boards with white titles. 162 pages. A couple of air bubbles in laminate at lower half of front cover. Otherwise a fine copy.0754044122 Price: £100.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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MERRY MOTORISTS PAINTING BOOK No author listed.Illustrated by Wain, Louis. Stock no. 816685 Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. Circa. 1910. Poor condition. Father Tuck's Painting Books. Book No. 3531. Oblong format. Pictorial cardwraps. Four pictures to copy. Instruction for Young Artists to inside front cover. Covers and first page detached. Cover edges worn and chipped. Book has been affected by damp and is crinkled and has a large dampstain on the blank pages. Small bookworm hole to first half of book. Three pictures neatly completed, last picture only partially completed. Last page to copy is almost detached and has loss to inner margin approx 1.5" x 0.75" not affecting the actual image. A good working copy of a scarce title. Price: £100.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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PUSS IN BOOTS No author listed.Illustrated by Andre, R.. Stock no. 816683 McLoughlin Bros.. 1st ed . 1888. Almost very good condition. Young Folks Series. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. 6 full page chromolithographs. 14 pages. Book has been affected by damp so that the covers and pages are lightly crinkled. Spine is rubbed and worn. Vertical edges of cover has slight surface paper loss. Heavy foxing to text. Chromoliths are beautifully clean and sharp. A lovely copy of a scarce title. Price: £100.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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ORLANDO THE MARMALADE CAT: A SEASIDE HOLIDAY Hale, Kathleen. Illustrated by Hale, Kathleen. Stock no. 734417 Country Life Ltd. 1st ed . 1952. Very good condition in a dustwrapper in good condition. Very large format. Cloth spine with blue pictorial boards. Colour lithographed illustrations. Corners worn, edges slightly rubbed. Spine slightly bumped. Endpapers lightly foxed. Some grubby finger marks to page margins. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Tiny bookseller sticker to front pastedown. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped and has a small piece missing to top front corner. Overall, a very nice copy protected by original wrapper. Price: £110.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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A HISTOCHEMICAL ATLAS OF TISSUE OXIDATION IN THE BRAIN STEM OF THE CAT Friede, Reinhard L.. No illustrator listed. Stock no. 626373 Hafner Publishing Company. 1st ed. 1961. Very good condition with no wrapper. This work was conducted partly in the Bioacoustics Branch, Aero Space Medical Laboratories, Wright Air Development Center, Dayton, Ohio and partly in the Laboratory of Neuropathology, Neuropshychiatric Institue, University of Michigan. Text in English & German. Very large format, blue cloth, gold titles. Covers a little scuffed & creased. Contents fine. Price: £120.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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THE ROBBER KITTEN Disney, Walt. Illustrated by Disney, Walt. Stock no. 734975 Dean & Son Ltd. 1st ed . 1935. Very good condition with no wrapper. Large oblong format. Pictorial boards with yellow spine. 46 pages. Full-page colour and b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Covers a little grubby. Inscription in pencil to front pastedown. Light page browning and foxing to margins. A few corner tips (tiny) creased. A nice copy of this scarce Disney title. Price: £120.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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THE KITTEN'S GARDEN OF VERSES Herford, Oliver. Illustrated by Herford, Oliver. Stock no. 577746 Bickers & Son. 1st ed 1. 1911. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Green paper boards, black titles & vignette to front cover. Delightful b/w illustrations accompanying poems. 59 pages. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers lightly browned. One or two hinges lightly pulled. Matching dustwrapper unevenly browned. A lovely copy, scarce in original wrapper. Price: £120.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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ORLANDO THE MARMALADE CAT A TRIP ABROAD Hale, Kathleen. Illustrated by Hale, Kathleen. Stock no. 591932 Country Life. 1st ed. 1939. Good condition with no wrapper. Large format. Colour pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Backstrip is almost entirely missing. Cover edges and corners are very worn and bumped. Grubby marks and some scuffing to covers. Front joint is partially cracked. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. A couple of repaired margin tears to a couple of pages. Some grubby finger marks to outer page edges and some page margins. A little creasing to page edges. Still a good working copy of this book. Price: £120.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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THE FELIX ANNUAL ADVENTURES OF THE FILM CAT No author listed.No illustrator listed. Stock no. 565302 Daily Sketch & Sunday Graphic Ltd.. Circa. 1928. Good condition with no wrapper. Pale blue cloth spine. Colour pictorial front board shows Felix sitting on the planet Jupiter. Colour frontis. B/w and two-tone illustrations. Front joint cracked. Foxing to prelims and last few pages. Corners very worn. Spine faded. Price: £125.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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THE FELIX ANNUAL No author listed.No illustrator listed. Stock no. 588849 E. Hulton & Co. Ltd.. Circa. 1924. Very good condition with no wrapper. Yellow boards with black and orange writing. Felix character to front looking at reading and pointing his 'thumb' behind him. Picture Stories of the Famous Film Cat. Colour plates and b/w cartoon strips. New Spine, done in brown. Corners are worn. Some scuffing to covers and grubby marks. Names in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers. Colour plates are bright. A couple of page margin tears. A nice copy of an early Felix Annual. Price: £125.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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ORLANDO THE MARMALADE CAT: KEEPS A DOG Hale, Kathleen. Illustrated by Hale, Kathleen. Stock no. 729988 Country Life Ltd. 1st ed . 1949. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper. Very large format. Cloth spine, plum pictorial boards. Colour lithographed illustrations. Corners bumped and worn, edges slightly rubbed. Foxing to endpapers. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and torn with loss. Price: £130.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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BIMBO AND TOPSY Blyton, Enid. Illustrated by Gee, Lucy. Stock no. 813620 George Newnes Ltd. 1st ed . 1943. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Green cloth, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. Top and tail of spine faded. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Pages lightly browned with odd foxspot. Pictorial wrapper is grubby with slight loss to corners and top and tail of spine. Red title to wrapper spine is faded. Price: £140.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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THE DEMON CAT Cole, C.W. & Ralston, W.. No illustrator listed. Stock no. 577736 Simpkin, Marshall & Co.. Circa. 1889. Good condition with no wrapper. One calm moonlight night, whilst peacefully slumbering on the ocean at anchor, a lubberly coaster ran foul of us... A Naval Melo Drama. Large oblong format. Pictorial boards. 4 full-page colour illustrations plus b/w pictures. The amusing story of a Naval cat that comes to a sticky end! Spine and corners worn. Edges rubbed. Covers grubby. 2.5 inch split to top of spine. Front endpaper and half-title page detached. Last page browned. Some page edges lightly worn and a few marks to contents but generally a clean copy. Price: £150.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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MERRY TIMES WITH LOUIS WAIN Black, Dorothy & Floyd, Grace C. & Gale, Norman. Illustrated by Wain, Louis. Stock no. 629217 Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. 1st ed . 1916. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Father Tuck's Golden Gift Series. Red cloth spine. Colour pictorial boards. Front cover shows a cat and dog. Colour frontis. Two-tone illustrations throughout, mainly cats. Lower edges lightly rubbed, corners worn. 1.75" crease to lower rear cover corner. Covers exceptionally clean & bright, just a few scuff marks. Front joint cracked. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few foxspots to prelims and last few pages. 1" closed tear (no loss) to top margin of frontis. A few light finger marks to contents. A nice copy. Price: £150.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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THE LOUIS WAIN NURSERY BOOK No author listed.Illustrated by Wain, Louis. Stock no. 629223 James Clarke & Co.. 1st ed . 1902. Good condition with no wrapper. Cream paper boards with red title to front, two tone illustration of cat holding a kitten and rocking three kittens in cradle to front. Many b/w illustrations on Wain's anthropomorphic animals especially cats. Backstrip missing. Boards marked, edges rubbed, corners worn. Last three pages detached due to worn spine. Joints cracked. A few margin marks else a clean copy. Price: £150.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
