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THE ADVENTURES OF FRISKERS AND HIS FRIENDS
Written by Marian Isabel Hurrell. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 1405778
Published by Robert Culley. circa 1920. Almost very good condition.

Brown boards with dark titles to spine and front cover. Pictorial onlay to front cover. 16 coloured illustrations (including cover) 161 pages. Small format. 5.5" x 4". Corners bumped. Board edges rubbed. Spine re-covered. Dated inscription in ink to front endpaper. Front joint cracked. Endpapers browned. Foxing throughout. Some grubby marks to verso of some plates. All plates present.

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JONES OF COLORADO
Written by Ralph Steadman. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman.
Stock no. 1608670
Published by Ebury Press. 1st 1995. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Steadman visits his friend hoping to avoid distractions and finish a new book. Instead, he met Jones and succumbed utterly to the cat's sly charm. He decided to buy a brand-new sketchbook - and this is the result... ISBN: 0091809452. SIGNED by author on title page. Price-cut wrapper has a small closed edge tear and 'signed copy' stickers.

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THE POBBLE AND THE RUNCIBLE CAT
Written by Muriel Lamb. Illustrated by Virginia Smith.
Stock no. 1405650
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1976. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Pobble and his great friend, the Runcible Cat, had a great many extraordinary, exciting and often quite frightening adventures after Pobble lost his toes... Yellow boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. 88 pages. ISBN: 0216900492. A little bumping to top and bottom of spine. Red marks to the top of the text block otherwise contents are excellent. Price-cut dustwrapper is edge worn and rubbed with a couple of small tears.

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CAT & CANARY
Written by Michael Foreman. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 1405642
Published by Andersen Press. 1st 1984. Almost very good condition.

Tall format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 086264075X. SIGNED by author to half title page. Top of spine badly bumped. Corners and bottom of spine a little bumped. Surface paper damage to rear pastedown. Small closed tear to rear endpaper. Contents very good.

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A KITTEN CALLED MOONLIGHT
Written by Martin Waddell. Illustrated by Christian Birmingham.
Stock no. 1405532
Published by Walker Books. 1st 2000. Nearly fine condition.

A story about a lost kitten and how a little girl and her mummy rescued him from the sea. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 9.5 x 11" ISBN: 0744561833. Spine a little bumped. Contents fine.

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JACK AND HIS FRIENDS
Written by Noel Hope. Illustrated by Gertrude M. Bradley.
Stock no. 1208273
Published by Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1910. Very good condition.

Or, Cat And Dog Life. Dark blue embossed cloth, gilt title to front cover, gilt title block to spine. B/w illustrations. 189 pages plus Salvation Army booklist to rear. Spine bumped with small tears at top. Corners bumped. Rear cover slightly marked. Salvation Army prize plate to front endpaper. Foxing to prelims and page margins.

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CATS AND DOGS FOR LITTLE FOLKS
No author listed. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham; Cecil Aldin; Rosa C. Petherick; G.W. Goss; et al..
Stock no. 1315538
Published by Blackie And Son Limited. Good condition.

Cloth spine. Pictorial front board shows two children, two cats and two dogs. Colour & b/w illustrations including double page spreads in colour by Aldin, and two b/w pages by Rackham. Spine has slight loss at top and 2" loss at base. Corners are worn, covers slightly edge rubbed. Foxspots and fingermarks to contents. Old tape marks to inner margins of frontis and title-page and old tape repairs to last page. Prize plate to verso of title-page (which is the belongs to page). Some margin tears.

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SUCH FUN
Written by Norman Gale; Grace C. Floyd; et al. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 2119056
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine with black title. Father Tuck's 'Children's Own' Library. Colour frontis. Two-tone illustrations by Wain throughout - all pussy cats! Bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Scuffing and chipping along cover edges. Front board is a little bowed. Name in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing and grubby marks, mostly to endpapers and page margins.

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THE STORY OF MISS MOPPET
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1504915
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1969. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Beige boards with red titles and pictorial onlay. Small format. Colour illustrations. 34 numbered pages. ISBN: 0723206120. A little bumping to spine and corners. Crease to top corner of front cover. Covers and onlay slightly grubby. Homemade bookplate to verso of front endpaper. A few fox spots to contents. Price-cut dustwrapper is edge worn, grubby and foxed.

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OSCAR THE GUARDIAN CAT
Written by Chiara Valentina Segre. Illustrated by Paolo Domeniconi.
Stock no. 2117940
Published by Ragged Bears Limited. 2015. Fine condition.

Large format. Pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Oscar is no ordinary cat! He lives at Hope House; there are 73 bedrooms and a large park to play in. ISBN: 9781857144642. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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SKIPPYJON JONES: CLASS ACTION
Written by Judy Schachner. Illustrated by Judy Schachner.
Stock no. 1811221
Published by Dutton Children's Books. 1st 2011. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large oblong format. A Skippyjon Jones story. Skippyjon Jones is a little kitty. Matt pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 9780803738850. Pictorial wrapper is lightly edge-creased and a little grubby.

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DAME WIGGINS OF LEE AND HER SEVEN WONDERFUL CATS
Written by John Ruskin. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1314808
Published by George Allen. 1st thus 1885. Very good condition.

A Humorous Tale Written Principally by a Lady of Ninety. Dark green cloth, gilt vignette & title to front. 22 woodcuts in b/w taken from the hand coloured edition of 1823, 4 of the illustrations are by Kate Greenaway. 20 pages. Plain endpapers. Spine and corners bumped, small splash mark to lower edge of rear cover. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers lightly browned. Foxing and fingermarks to contents but generally they are clean. Joints are cracked but binding still tight.

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