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OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS
Written by T.S. Eliot. Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley.
Stock no. 1831030
Published by Faber & Faber. 1959. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

a collection of whimsical light poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology. Cream cloth with red title to spine and picture of two cats dancing to front cover. Colour illustrations, 50 pages. Ninth impression. Some foxspots to cloth boards. Name & date in ink to front endpaper. Blue ink smudges to page 37 and facing illustration (Macavity: The Mystery Cat) - not too bad. Else contents are clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is grubby and browned, worn at top & tail of spine with slight loss.

THE BEASTLY BIRTHDAY BOOK
Written by Nicolas Bentley. Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley.
Stock no. 1313082
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1934. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Quotations from works as diverse as those of Chaucer, Chesterton, Binstead and Byron. Grey cloth with red title to spine and vignette to front cover. 182 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Spine slightly browned and light foxing to edges of covers. Endpapers partially browned, some foxing. Contents unused. Heavy foxed dustwrapper is also very browned to spine and and rear panel edges, is edge worn with loss and section of loss to top of spine and front panel.

NICHOLAS BENTLEY'S BOOK OF BIRDS
Written by Nicolas Bentley. Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley.
Stock no. 666622
Published by Andre Deutsch. 1st 1965. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A Avian Alphabet. B/w pictures. Humourous rhymes. Spine a little bumped, slight fading to boards. Wrapper edge-worn and grubby. Contents fine.

LOBBY LOBSTER
Written by Barbara Hastings. Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley.
Stock no. 688117
Published by Faber & Faber. 1ST 1943. Very good condition.

Pictorial boards, grey cloth spine. Bright colour pictures plus line drawings. Covers slightly grubby. Corners rubbed. Contents bright and clean.