cats

NY, Sterling, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Acclaimed artist and naturalist Jim Arnosky has created a breathtaking and informative reference on the subject, filled with intricately drawn prints from creatures both wild and domestic, as well as large-scale paintings of the animals in their environment. Best of all, many of the tracks are true to size, so children can compare the trace left by a big-footed polar bear (whose paws act as snowshoes in its icy environment) with that of a small bird. Adding to the eye-catching illustrations are four awesome gatefolds that display paintings of a bobcat, wolf, deer and a variety of hoofed animals right next to their prints. And the featured menagerie includes bighorn sheep and goats, chipmunks and rabbits, grizzlies and brown bears, horses and burros, domestic cats and dogs and even slithering reptiles!

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.