Book of Cats - Hardcover

The Book of Cats

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Very slight shelf wear to edges of D/J. For all lovers of cats, the editors, poets both, have compiled The Book of Cats, an entertaining and affectionate portrait of those mysterious animals. Here are to be found the famous cats - P. G. Wodehouse's Webster, Paul Gallico's Tough Tom, Saki's Tobermory, Rudyard Kipling's Cat that Walked by Himself, Christopher Smart's Cat Jeoffrey, T. S. Eliot's Macavity, Don Marguis' mehitabel, Thomas Gray's Favourite Cat (Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes). There are new short stories specially commissioned from various authors. And around them all in a rich choice of drawings, painting and photograph - the cats of England, America, India, China, France, Italy, the cats seen by Kipling, Goya, Picasso, Gainsborough, Joseph Low, Chagall, David Hockey, Douanier Rousseau, Gustave Dore. In a brilliant and decorative arrangement of prose, poetry and picture, cats are seen, in every one of their nine lives, as fascinating creatures which have engaged the respect and love of great writers and artists since time began. Illustrated. 288 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). Artikel-Nr. 104522

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