A Book of Cats and Creatures
by Ruth Manning-Sanders (1886-1988)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0525267735
- ISBN 13
- 9780525267737
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
127 pages with frontispiece and illustrations by Robin Jacques. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's red cloth with silver lettering in brown label to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. It's not only black cats that have magic properties: here are all kinds of cats and other creatures, and some of them started life as something, or someone quite different. In these folk tales from all over the world, Ruth Manning-Sanders' direct style of storytelling keeps readers spellbound, wondering whether these lovable everyday animals are always just what they appear to be! Condition: Fine in like jacket.
Synopsis
A Book of Cats and Creatures is a 1981 anthology of 18 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L0965
- Title
- A Book of Cats and Creatures
- Author
- Ruth Manning-Sanders (1886-1988)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0525267735
- ISBN 13
- 9780525267737
- Publisher
- E P Dutton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
- Size
- Royal octavo
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