cats

Hardcover. Hungary, Petofi Printing House, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial laminated boards. Color illustrations by Emma Heinzelmann. Spine and corners rubbed. Translated by Judith Elliott. Covers slightly splayed. The Terrible Seven cats terrify nine dogs, all called Louis in what was perhaps the most frightful conflict since cat and dog wars began.

Softcover. NY, Knopf, 1st ARC, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 70 pages. Uncorrected proofs in blue printed wrappers, the second collection, third book by this MacArthur Fellowship winner. Pub material stapled in; other than staples and minor scratching (from staples). Clean.

Hardcover. New York , Philomel, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginatd. Hardcover with dust jacekt. Color illustrations by Thomas Locker. Tight copy.

Hardcover. France, Diffusion Glenat, 1st, N/A, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sunfading to dust jacket spine. An otherwise very clean, unmarked copy. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLYLEAF.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Gretchen Schields. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR. Clean, tight copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color throughout by Emma Chichester Clark. When Cissy Lavender house sits for Mr. William Holly's cats and dog, she finds a multitude of things to do and write to him about.

Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop Publishing , 3rd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering, paste-down photo front cover. Top edge gilt, 284 pages, b&w photo plates. A charming Victorian book about the felines in our lives. One plate loose, front hinge tender. Overall, a clean, bright copy. Copyright page states 3rd thousand.

Hardcover. New York , Norton, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 59 pages, b&w line drawings by Paul Kennedy. In an unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear.

Softcover. Blairgowrie Scotland, Three Cats Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 53 pages, illustrated. A collection of memories collected from nine inhabitants of this Scottish town. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Brown. In Venice, city of cats and canals, a little striped cat is befriended by a canal boatman's son and gets a name and a home. Library binding, some tape residue to boards but no stamping, clean interior.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 5th pr., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Brown. Ex-lib with stamping on half-title page, remnants of pocket, date due on back endpaper, dust jacket flaps with chunks gone where pasted to boards. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tears.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Chipping on dust jacket. Illustrated by Kate Seredy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 59 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated from original black & white "Free Hand Cuttings" by Ann Eliza Sample. Standard age darkening to front cover pastedown. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 118 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B/w illustrations by Tomi Ungerer. Ex-lib with minor stamping, envelope residue on rear end paper.

Hardcover. Philadelphia , Westminster Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice, unclipped dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Howard N. Watson. Clean copy.

Softcover. Oakland CA, PM Press;, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 336 pages. The first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction. As the young created new styles in music, fashion, and culture, pulp fiction shadowed their every move, hyping and exploiting their behavior, dress, and language for mass consumption and cheap thrills. With their lurid covers and wild, action-packed plots, these books reveal as much about society's deepest desires and fears as they do about the subcultures themselves. Featuring approximately 400 full-color covers, many of them never before reprinted, along with 70 in-depth author interviews, illustrated biographies, and previously unpublished articles, the book goes behind the scenes to look at the authors and publishers, how they worked, where they drew their inspiration and--often overlooked--the actual words they wrote. It is a must read for anyone interested in pulp fiction, lost literary history, retro and subcultural style, and the history of postwar youth culture.

Hardcover. Safari Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 254 pages. Great African Trophies is a photographic showcase of some of the greatest game trophies ever taken on the Dark Continent, and it includes elephants, buffaloes, the big cats, spiral-horned antelopes, and dozens of other magnificent animals. The focus is on animals that rank in the top five of each species in the Safari Club International and Rowland Ward record books, but also included are historic, unlisted, and little-known trophies, along with their stories. This book is a feast for the eyes for anyone who loves African wildlife, and it contains the best available historical and modern photos of superlative African game animals, as well as the tales--many never before told--of the hunters who were fortunate to connect with them. The photos are accompanied by a description of where, when, and how the animal was taken, and the book provides, if possible, the details of the hunt and how it unfolded. Clean copy still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate, Revised Ed., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 168 pages. Many cans of tuna have been opened and emptied since the collection's first mostly black-and-white edition, in 1981; the revised edition adds more color art as well as coverage of classics including The Cat in the Hat, Bill the Cat, and pets penned by B. Kliban and Edward Gorey. The volume covers cartoon depictions of the cat dating back to 1100 B.C., though the bulk of the images date to the 20th century. Brief essays about printing, literature, contemporary society, and other historical facts are interspersed with the goods selections from the comics themselves. Editor Whyte is a publisher who founded the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco.

Softcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate, Revised Ed., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 168 pages. Many cans of tuna have been opened and emptied since the collection's first mostly black-and-white edition, in 1981; the revised edition adds more color art as well as coverage of classics including The Cat in the Hat, Bill the Cat, and pets penned by B. Kliban and Edward Gorey. The volume covers cartoon depictions of the cat dating back to 1100 B.C., though the bulk of the images date to the 20th century. Brief essays about printing, literature, contemporary society, and other historical facts are interspersed with the goods selections from the comics themselves. Editor Whyte is a publisher who founded the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco.

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Errol Le Cain. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. Three poems from Eliot's rollicking ode to felines, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, are gloriously and elegantly illustrated by Le Cain. ``Growltiger's Last Stand,'' ``Of the Awefull Battle of the Pekes and Pollicles,'' and ``The Song of the Jellicles'' spring to life with Le Cain's stylish paintings that match and extend each verse of the rich text. Sinister Siamese arranged in triangles represent Growltiger's foe ``armed with toasting forks and cruel carving knives''; chaos reigns as the Pugs and Poms ``Bark bark bark bark/ Bark bark BARK BARK/ Until you can hear them all over the Park''; suave black-and-white cats ``like to practice their airs and graces/ And wait for the Jellicle Moon to rise.'' The clean typeface and layout make Eliot's poetry take center stage framed by the wonderful illustrations.

Hardcover. London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 79 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Richard Bentley, William Blake, and Kathleen Hale. Clean, tight copy.

NY, Dutton Children's Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Judith Byron Schachner. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. Dust jacket with light wear to top edges, price clipped. When Mother Holly leaves to do errands, she warns Cat to behave himself. But faster than a cat can pounce, he is up to his whiskers in trouble! One crazy mishap leads to another, until the little cottage is in a very messy state. Cat is busily tidying up when he hears Mother Holly coming up the path. He spies a tiny piece of corn on the floor and quickly swallows it. But it's no ordinary corn, and suddenly Cat notices that he is making a very curious rumbling sound.

Hardcover. New York, Capital Publishing Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with cardboard pages and metal ring binding. Bell attachment missing. Moderate soil to board pages. Light rubbing.

Hardcover. NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 112 pages. Sepia-toned drawings by James Pearsall. In this intimate autobiography, a gorgeous Siamese feline pours her heart out to Douglass Parkhirst, who digs cat lingo purr-fectly. As the cat matures and goes out on her own, she describes her adventures in a bachelor's apartment, her jealous fits over one of her master's female admirers, her first encounter with a mouse, plus many other newsy tidbits that will delight sophisticated cat lovers. Clean copy.