The Poet's Cat: An Anthology compiled by Mona Gooden.
by GOODEN, Stephen & Mona
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About This Item
London: George Harrap & Co Ltd, 1946. No. 86 of 110 copies, signed by Stephen and Mona Gooden. Copper engraved title page and tailpiece by Stephen Gooden. Printed in Fournier type on Millburn & Co. hand-made paper. 8vo., original quarter black calf with white buckram sides, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Housed in the original card slipcase. A very good copy, slipcase grubby but intact.||Includes 70 cat poems including the obvious works by Thomas Gray, Keats, Shelley, Christina Rossetti, Swinburne and T S Eliot alongside work by Yeats, Verlaine, De La Mare, Edward Thomas, Harold Munro, Baudelaire, FRances Cornford, Dorothy L Sayers, Vita Sackville-West &c.| A perfect gift for a cat lover
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- SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Poet's Cat: An Anthology compiled by Mona Gooden.
- Author
- GOODEN, Stephen & Mona
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Harrap & Co Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- Cat;Pets;Poetry Book,Illustrated
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