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KATIE KITTEN
No author listed. Illustrated by Violet M. Williams.
Stock no. 1314800
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Father Tuck Little Book No. 31. Small format (4.25 x 4"). Pictorial boards. Cute colour illustrations. Slight rubbing to cover edges. Dustwrapper is lightly browned, grubby and edge worn.

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TIDDLES OR THE VANISHING CAT
Written by Diana Noel. Illustrated by Margaret Milnes.
Stock no. 1314654
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. Very good condition.

A Tuck Book. Large pictorial stiff card covers. Colour illustrations. Tiddles devours a pot of Vanishing Powder... Covers ever so slightly edge worn. Page corner tips very slightly creased. Staples rusty. Contents clean.

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TINKER, TAILOR
Written by Edric Vredenburg. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 1314506
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1914. Good condition.

Brown cloth spine, brown paperboards. Front cover has vignettes of cats with central pictorial onlay of a cat tailor sewing on a patch. 12 wonderful colour plates and numerous b/w drawings - all of cats! 136 pages plus 4 page publication list. Spine and corners bumped and worn with slight loss of paper covering to lower front corner. Some light wrinkling to paper covering on covers. Name in ink to front pastedown. Foxing and light fingering to contents, light pink stain to inner margin of last plate (affecting the illustration slightly). A very desirable copy of a scarce Wain title. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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A PEEP INTO CAT-LAND
Written by Aimee De V. Dawson; et al. Illustrated by Constance E. Howell.
Stock no. 1314249
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. 1st 1890. Very good condition.

Life sketches by Howell with descriptions by Dawson and others. Cloth spine, pale green pictorial boards. Floral decorated endpapers. 32 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine bumped and slightly rubbed. Corners worn. Covers have a few light scratch marks at edges. Endpapers lightly browned. Grubby fingermarks to page margins otherwise contents clean.

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PUSSYCATS AND BOW-WOWS
No author listed. Illustrated by Gilbert Haldane Dodd.
Stock no. 1313583
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. circa 1915. Good condition.

Untearable pages, mounted on cotton cloth. Large format. Green cloth with gilt title and pictorial onlay to front cover. Colour illustrations plus multi-colour text and text illustrations. Includes the rhyme "Three Little Kittens" and a story "The Dog's Party". Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers slightly grubby. Endpapers replaced. Inscription in ink to title-page. Title-page and first text page separated at lower corner, some page creases and grubby marks to contents.

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MAX AND THE MISSING MEGASTAR
Written by Terrance Dicks. Illustrated by Toni Goffe.
Stock no. 1712313
Published by Piccadilly Press. 1st 1992. Fine condition.

A Cat Called Max. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. 51 pages. ISBN: 185340103x.

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PUSS IN BOOTS
Written by Charles Perrault. Illustrated by Gunars Krollis.
Stock no. 1503061
Published by Liesma Publishers. Slightly better than good condition.

Translated from French by Michelle MacGrath. Also contains story called The Fairy. Large format 11.75 x 9". Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Creasing and bubbles to laminate on covers. Lower corners creased. Spine bumped and faded. Two small numbers stamped on verso of last text page. Contents generally clean but have slight musty smell.

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THE JOLLY KITTEN BOOK
Written by R.M. Ballantyne. Illustrated by F.A. Williams.
Stock no. 2114788
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1926. Almost very good condition.

Cloth spine; pictorial front cover. 2 colour plates, plus other b/w plates and illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Binding is starting to become a bit weak in places; front joint is partially cracked. Foxing to pages.

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NICHOLAS THOMAS AND TIMOTHY No. 6
Written by Kitty Styles. Illustrated by Mary Kendal Lee.
Stock no. 1710945
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1954. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Colour pictorial glazed boards. Colour illustrations. Wrapper spine faded. A little edge wear to book and wrapper.

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JONES OF COLORADO
Written by Ralph Steadman. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman.
Stock no. 1312669
Published by Ebury Press. 1st 1995. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good 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 Steadman to half-title with some slight transfer of ink to free-endpaper opposite. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is ever so slightly edge rubbed causing very slight grubbiness.

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NICHOLAS THOMAS AND TIMOTHY No. 4
Written by Kitty Styles. Illustrated by Mary Kendal Lee.
Stock no. 1109393
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

The fourth book of adventures. Colour pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and cover edges. Name and address in belongs to box (pencil). Wrapper is edge-torn and chipped - couple of inch loss to top of spine; large tears and creasing; some marks.

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THE ADVENTURES OF PETER PUSS
Written by G.F. Christie. Illustrated by G.F. Christie.
Stock no. 2114317
Published by Rudd & Co.. Very good condition.

Paperwraps. Colour illustrations. Staples to spine have rusted. A little creasing to covers; a few grubby marks.

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