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CAT'S COMPANY
Written by Michael Joseph. Illustrated by B.F. Dolbin.
Stock no. 1329219
Published by Geoffrey Bles. 1st 1930. Very good condition.

10 x 7.5". Blue cloth. Gilt titles. Delicate b/w sketches by celebrated continental artist, Dolbin. Pages untrimmed. A celebration of cat stories. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Some light marks to covers. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Heavy foxing to page edges and to prelims. Some light fingermarks.

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TIBBER
Written by William Mayne. Illustrated by Jonathan Heale.
Stock no. 1329214
Published by Walker Books. 1st 1986. Nearly fine condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Story about a cute cat. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0744505356. Foxing to top edge of textblock. Slight fading to spine.

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DJIBI THE KITTEN
Written by Felix Salten; Raya Levin. Illustrated by Walter Linsenmaier.
Stock no. 1329186
Published by Transatlantic Arts Ltd.. 1st 1946. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A beautifully written story of the life of a kitten. Translated by Levin. Red cloth. Black & white illustrations. Slight bumping to spine. Small mark to rear cover. Inscription in ink and small booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Foxing to contents. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn with a tape repair to top of spine on verso.

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GOBBOLINO THE WITCH'S CAT
Written by Ursula Moray Williams. Illustrated by Paul Howard.
Stock no. 1329171
Published by Kingfisher. 1st thus 2001. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Kingfisher Modern Classics series. Blue boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. With a foreword by Joan Aiken. ISBN: 0753406306. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Contents fine. Minimal rubbing to wrapper edges.

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THE MCGUFFIN
Written by C.B. Poultney. Illustrated by Winifred Martin.
Stock no. 1329147
Published by Richard Lesley & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1945. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A Cat and Dog Life. A further collection of Mr. Poultney's popular sketches featuring Tim McGuffin, Esq., the black Aberdeen and Titus the cat, his partner in crimes of all kinds. Blue cloth, white titles. B/w illustrations. 64 pages. Slight fading to cover edges. Contents clean. White dustwrapper is grubby and edge chipped with old tape repairs (glue stains from tape). Tear to lower edge of front panel has been evidence of an old tape repair (tape no longer present).

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TAI-LU TALKING
Written by Shelagh Fraser; Billy Thatcher. Illustrated by Janet Grahame Johnstone; Anne Grahame Johnstone.
Stock no. 1329066
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st 1952. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth. Coloured frontispiece depicting "The Princess Tai-Lu". 126 pages, b/w illustrations. An account by this noble Siamese Cat of exciting incidents and adventures in which she has been involved. Based upon the television series, and Children's Radio Programme, in which The Princess Tai-Lu has featured. Spine and corners bumped. Damp staining to cover edges. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper (green ink). Page edge browning and foxing else contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn and grubby. Old tape marks to wrapper flaps.

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TAI-LU FLIES ABROAD
Written by Shelagh Fraser; Billy Thatcher; Gilbert Harding. Illustrated by Kenneth Rowell.
Stock no. 1329062
Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd. 1st 1955. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards. Full page b/w illustrations on coloured paper. Further adventures of the noble Siamese Cat, Tai-Lu. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Browning to endpapers, foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly edge chipped, lightly foxed to spine.

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CAT'S TALES
Written by Lynton Lamb. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb.
Stock no. 1329061
Published by Faber & Faber Limited. 1st 1959. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

He was called Cat quite simply because there had been so many cats before him where Andrew lived that the family had run out of names... Lovingly illustrated in b/w drawings. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, black vignette to front cover. Spine and corners bumped. Endpapers browned. Foxing to textblock. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn with slight loss to spine and tape repaired tear to base of spine.

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THE IMPROBABLE CAT
Written by Allan Ahlberg. Illustrated by Peter Bailey.
Stock no. 1329048
Published by Puffin Books; The Penguin Group. 1st 2002. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Small format. Red boards, gilt title to spine and gilt decoration of cat before a fire to front. B/w illustrations. 107+ pages. 'Something happens in this story which I can't account for. Something crazy - impossible - horrific'... ISBN: 0670912891. Slight damp stains to top edge of rear cover. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed, faded to spine and grubby to rear panel.

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COMIC & CURIOUS CATS
Written by Angela Carter. Illustrated by Martin Leman.
Stock no. 1329018
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1979. Very good condition.

Each page starts with 'I love my cat with a... and goes through all the letters of the alphabet. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0575025921. SIGNED by the artist to top margin of title-page. Previous owners name in pencil to top of front free-endpaper. Foxspots to contents. Spine is bumped and faded.

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THE LITTLE CATS ABC BOOK
Written by Martin Leman. Illustrated by Martin Leman.
Stock no. 1329001
Published by Victor Gollancz. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition.

Fat cats, thin cats, sleepy cats, shy cats, all in brilliant colours. With rhyming couplets for each letter. A beautiful book. Glazed pictorial boards. Unpaginated. 10.25 x 9". ISBN: 0575055944. Pale browning to spine. Some light foxing to contents.

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THE CHURCH MOUSE
Written by Graham Oakley. Illustrated by Graham Oakley.
Stock no. 1328999
Published by Templar Publishing. 1st thus 2008. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Oblong red boards. The first Church Mouse book, superbly illustrated in colour. Modern Classics Series. ISBN: 9781840115666. One small foxspot to rear pastedown. Top edge of textblock is very slightly dusty. Dustwrapper spine is slightly faded.

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