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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair.

, 140 pages, [4] page publishers catalogue at rear, illustrated with 12 colour plates (including frontispiece) along with various black and white line drawings throughout the text, some of which have been hand coloured by a previous owner Early Edition , binding loose, wear to head and tail of spine and edges of boards, corners of boards bumped and rounded, scuffing to face of boards with large stain to front board, front hinge cracked, page edges tanned, minor foxing in places, one plate detached, colouring of line drawings by previous (young) owner, overall in fair condition , brown cloth spine, pictorial card covers, decoration and titles on front, black titles on spine , octavo, 24.5 x 19 cms Hardback ISBN.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First American Edition. 144 pages. Undated - appears to be circa 1920. Frequent dainty black and white illustrations in text. Frontispiece missing but all of the eleven other divinely illustrated colour plates are present. Blue boards and backstrip handsomely adorned with gilt lettering and decorations. Front free endpaper removed. Title page loose but present. Hinges open. Binding weak. Despite its numerous considerable deficiences this copy retains substantial charm. Please note that the 10th plate appears at page 110 rather than page 114 as stated in the list of colour plates. Harbour, Jennie (illustrator).…

Zustand: Very good. London, Paris, New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., circa [1910-1917]., [1910-1917]. Very good. - Quarto, 10-5/8 inches high by 7-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in color pictorial boards backed with a red cloth spine, with a bright color illustration by R. J. Wealthy on the front cover. The covers are slightly rubbed and soiled and the corners are bumped. [50] unnumbered pages, with a full-page color frontispiece by Louis Wain and 49 vignettes, 14 of which are colored or tinted. Of the 49 vignettes, 34 are signed "Louis Wain" in the print and 15 are unsigned. The title page vignette is by "E. Ledward". The front hinge is cracked and the pages are slightly darkened. An early owner's inscription, dated "1917" is penned on the front endpaper. Very good. First edition.Though not listed as one of the book's illustrators, the majority of the illustrations are by Louis Wain and most are amusing depictions of cats & kittens.[Raphael Tuck No. 823]. RARE.…