cats

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Delightful chronicle of a cat named Revey- a red tiger with white shirt, white shoes & splotch of red on nose - and the story of a year in his life & how very much Revey (& his siblings) are intrigued with snow. All told with b&w photos by the author.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 59 pages, illustrated in 2-colors by Alden A. Watson. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 56 pages, b&w graphic novel drawn by Burns. No dj issued. Fusing the unsettling kitsch of EC horror comics, the storytelling sensibility of Euro-classics like Tintin, and the astute observations about young adults that made Black Hole so engrossing, Burns has turned out a haunting first chapter in what promises to be a spellbinder. The opening pages flip among the various realities of Doug, a young man recovering from a head injury of some kind with only a box of pills and some strawberry Pop-Tarts to speed his recovery. Flashbacks and dreams switch among various scenes: Doug and his hypocrite father; a wild party gone awry when Doug's crush object's crazy (but unseen) boyfriend goes on a rampage; and, most mysteriously, another world--found behind a hole in a brick wall--where dead cats live, worms weep, and a giant hive rules a grim city of deformed creatures. Burns's control of the story is masterful--the recurring imagery make it unclear just which is the reality and which is the dream. His sharply delineated art captures a grotesque yet sympathetic view of kids thrust far beyond a world that they can control or even understand.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing, 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cream color cloth stamped in black with a color paste-down illustration on cover. Color frontispiece, 4 b&w plates by Ralph Carlyle Prather. Worn copy, previous owners notation on prelim page.