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ORLANDO (THE MARMALADE CAT) GOES TO THE MOON Hale, Kathleen. Illustrated by Hale, Kathleen. Stock no. 816903 John Murray. 1st ed . 1968. Very good condition with no wrapper. The penultimate story in the Orlando series. Orlando and his family decide to go to the moon to escape the rainy summer. A delightful story. Blue pictorial boards. Colour & b/w lithographs throughout depicting their adventures. Corners lightly worn. Covers scuffed. Front cover has heavy scouring mark across Orlando's red suit. Contents are beautiful, clean and bright. 0719518180 Price: £375.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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MOTHER GOOSE IN CATLAND No author listed.Illustrated by Wain, Louis. Stock no. 816680 Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. Circa. 1920. Good condition. Nursery rhymes accompanied by Louis Wain's illustrations of cats. Beige pictorial cardwraps. Large colour pictorial onlay depicting Mother Goose to front, Red & black illustration of Miss Muffet to rear cover. Colour frontis "Where are you going to, my pretty maid?". Red, black & white illustrations throughout. 16 pages not including frontis. Covers and contents crinkled from damp. Covers worn at edges and browned. Contents neatly re-sewn to covers. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Frontis re-attached and damp-stained but picture still bright. Contents grubby. Price: £200.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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JOLLY CATS PAINTING BOOK No author listed.Illustrated by Wain, Louis. Stock no. 816681 Geographia Ltd. Circa. 1910. Almost very good condition. Small format. Pictorial paperwraps. A painting book to copy Louis Wain's style. 12 pages including covers. Covers a little grubby and marked. A few small chips to edges of covers. Re-sewn neatly. Three images are coloured in, the rest are clean and untouched. A few tiny closed tears to margins. A nice copy of a scarce title. Price: £200.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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PUSSIES AT WORK No author listed.Illustrated by Wain, Louis. Stock no. 816682 Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. Circa. 1900. Almost very good condition. Father Tuck's Little Pets series. R.T. & S No. 6647. Pictorial cardwraps. Untearable, linen backed paper. 16 pages including covers. Four full page chromolithographs. 10 Blue, black and white pictures to text. Backstrip missing exposing linen which is not frayed. Covers a little scuffed and creased but still nice and bright. Front joint a little weak. Neat inscription in pencil to top edge of first page. Light browning to pages. Chromoliths in excellent condition. A lovely copy of a scarce title. Price: £400.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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MOTOR DAYS IN CATLAND WITH LOUIS WAIN No author listed.Illustrated by Wain, Louis. Stock no. 816684 Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. Circa. 1910. Almost very good condition. Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd No. 9253. Father Tuck's "Wonderland" Series. Oblong format. Green pictorial cardwraps. Four full page colour illustrations. 10 two tone illustrations. Printed on green card. Spine repaired with green cloth. covers lightly creased. Paper of covers chipped at lower horizontal edges and also lifting a little from the boards. Joints broken but held together by the reverse of the repaired spine. Writing in pencil to the lower margin of one colour illustration. First two and last two pages lightly affected by damp. A nice copy of a very scarce Wain title. Price: £600.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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THE LUCKY BLACK CAT No author listed.Illustrated by Wain, Louis. Stock no. 816686 Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. Circa. 1900. Good condition. Untearable. Father Tuck's Wonderland Series. Pictorial cardwraps. Four full page colour pictures. 10 Yellow/black/white illustrations to text. Book slightly affected by damp and thus a little crinkled/warped. First and last page starting to come unglued from the covers. Front cover is a little faded by damp at vertical edge (not bad). Colour plates are beautifully clean and sharp. Light page browning with just a few margin marks. A reasonable copy of a scarce title. Price: £600.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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PUSS IN BOOTS No author listed.No illustrator listed. Stock no. 816679 Raphael Tuck & Sons. Circa. 1890. Very good condition. Raphael Tuck & Sons book No. 837. Small format. Lightly shapped top edges and vertical edges. Pictorial cardwraps. Front cover shows puss putting his boots on. Four beautiful full page colour chromolithographs, line drawings to text. 12 pages. Covers a little grubby and scuffed but still bright to front. Pages lightly browned with a few minor foxspots. Chormoliths are beautifully clean and bright. One chromolith has a small closed tear to middle of vertical edge. A super copy of a scarce book. Price: £150.00 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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MR TWINK TAKES CHARGE Hurt, Freda. Illustrated by Langley, Nina Scott. Stock no. 815730 Epworth Press. 1st ed . 1954. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. More tales of the inscrutable feline detective. Mr. Twink is a black cat. This is the second in the series of nine tales. Green boards, black title to spine & vignette to front. B/w illustrations. Bookplate to front endpaper. Wrapper is a little grubby with worn corners. Price: £220.00 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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CAT'S CRADLE Byron, May. Illustrated by Wain, Louis. Stock no. 629215 Blackie & Son Ltd. 1st ed . 1908. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. A Picture-Book for Little Folk. Green cloth spine, green paper boards with pictorial onlay to front. White pastedowns, endpapers are first and last pages of book. 6 full page colour illustrations of cats plus colour illustrations to every page, again, of Wain's unmistakable anthropomorphic cats, accompanied by a rhyme. First rhyme is 'Father'. Covers discoloured to grey and grubby. Edges rubbed, corners worn. Lower corner of pictorial onlay has slight loss. Joints slightly pulled. Grubby marks throughout. Price: £350.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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CAT'S CRADLE Byron, May. Illustrated by Wain, Louis. Stock no. 629216 Blackie & Son Ltd. Circa. 1909. Good condition with no wrapper. A Picture-Book for Little Folk. Grey pictorial paper boards depict mother cat with ball of yarn sitting next to kitten in a cradle. Dark grey endpapers. 6 Full page colour illustrations of cats plus colour illustrations to every page of rhyme. A later reprint (the first being 1908) with rhymes in a different order: First rhyme is Playtime in Pussy-Town. Backstrip missing. Edges rubbed, corners worn. A few marks and surface paper wear to covers. 0.25" loss to top of spine. Inscription in pencil to front endpaper. One or two minor crayon marks. Grubby finger marks throughout. Centre spread and verso has tape repair at middle edge for 5". Still a nice copy of a scarce Louis Wain book. Price: £300.00 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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ALL SORTS OF COMICAL CATS Bingham, Clifton. Illustrated by Wain, Louis. Stock no. 629220 Ernest Nister. 1st . 1902. Almost very 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. Covers fairly heavily scuffed and scratched but still attractive. Corners lightly worn. Endpapers browned. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Colour frontis shows two kittens playing cats cradle with mother in despair behind them next to a table with green cloth. Some neat colouring. A few closed tears to some margins which have been neatly repaired with clear tape. Centre page is starting to work loose from binding. Still a respectable copy of a Louis Wain book. Price: £300.00 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 |
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FULL OF FUN Bingham, Clifton. Illustrated by Wain, Louis. Stock no. 629222 Ernest Nister. 1st . 1908. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Nister No. 2000. Red cloth spine. Pictorial front cover depicting cat with kittens. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations every page, mostly of cats. Corners & edges worn with surface paper loss. Loss of paper from plain rear paper covered board at spine edge revealing cloth spine and a little board. Front joint pulled. New rear endpaper. A few margin marks else a clean copy of a scarce item. Price: £160.00 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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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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BIMBO AND TOPSY Blyton, Enid. Illustrated by Gee, Lucy. Stock no. 813628 George Newnes Ltd. 1st ed . 1943. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Green cloth, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. Top of spine bumped. Inscription in pencil to front endpaper. Page edges are browned, with the odd foxspot. Wrapper is edge-chipped with surface paper damage, mainly to top of spine. Price: £160.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
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DAYS IN CATLAND Burnaby, Arthur. Illustrated by Wain, Louis. Stock no. 627756 Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. 1st ed. 1912. Good condition. A Father Tuck's Panorama. Oblong format. 4 plates in concertina form that fold out to create a large panorama with 14 numbered card figures of cats, and corresponding numbered slits in the panorama to insert the cat figures. On the reverse is a rhyme by Arthur Burnaby with b/w illustrations also by Wain. Concertina folds worn leading to two pages being detached and last page fold fragile but holding. Edges rubbed. All figures present and in place. Light page bronwing. Colour illustrations and figures nice and bright. Price: £800.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book |
