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Siamese Cat books
Collier, Marjorie McCann: Siamese Cats: A complete pet-owner's manual
£9.00 1st/1992. Paperback copy, vg, spine uncracked.
Tenent, Rose: The book of the Siamese Cat (2nd, 1951) - NB no dustjacket!
£10.50 2nd edition, 1951, NO DUSTJACKET, just plain brown cloth covers (photo shows a copy with the cover, as without it is just a big brown rectangle!). Not particularly rare; good condition, though the boards are faded on the corners. The copy is very clean inside, and the photos are excellent.
Wade, Phyl: The Siamese Cat£
22.00 1st/1934, Methuen, London. Hard cover. No dust jacket; good sound, clean copy inside with foxing only on the endpapers. Covers a bit smutty.
Wade, Phyl: The Siamese Cat
£25.00 Second, revised, edition, Methuen, London, 1937. Hard cover. Original dust jacket in excellent condition, not price-clipped, but sadly a round cup-stain on the front! Some tape repairs to the edges of the cover
Wade, Phyl: The Siamese Cat
£10.00 Second, revised, edition, Methuen, London, 1937. Hard cover. No dust jacket; rather grotty cover with damp stains, but the interior clean and sound.
Rare and antiquarian cat books
Barton, Frank Townend: The Cat, its points and management in health and disease
£45.00 1st/1908. Flyleaf brittle, spine a bit bumped and rubbed, cover slightly dirty but contents very clean and bright.
Buckworth-Herne-Soame, Evelyn: Cats long-haired and short
£22.00 1st/1933. Facsimile dustjacket, book rather foxed.
de Bary-Saunders, A: your Cat, its care and Treatment (1st/n.d.)
£55.00 1st/Undated; the author was writing in the 1920s. Top and botom of spine and corners rubbed, slightly loose binding
Jennings, John: Domestic and Fancy Cats
£50.00 1st paperback/1901; back cover damaged, large area of corner missing; cover dirty but in good condition (apart from tear) but rather dirty
Jennings, John: Domestic and Fancy Cats
£22.00 2nd/1906. Second paperback edition; spine damaged, one page torn.
Jennings, John: Domestic and Fancy Cats
£125.00 1st/1893. Rare hardback first edition in good condition, slightly bumped, binding a bit loose.
Mivart: The Cat
£75.00 1st/1881. Ex-library copy, corners bumped, otherwise vg
Repplier, Agnes: The Fireside Sphinx
£27.00 1st/1901; spine bumped top and bottom, rubbed. Front reasonably good, binding remains firm, bright, attractive gilt border and motif on the front panel
Simpson, Frances: The Book of the Cat (1903)
£375.00 1st/1903. A very good copy, in extremely fine condition, gilt-edged pages; spine and corners only slightly bumped. 'Deluxe' version. Erratum slip still in place, and tissue protection for colour plates also untouched and remarkably unfoxed. [This copy has a protective plastic cover which looks a little wrinkled in the pictures] (Type 1 copy, see full description for details)
Simpson, Frances: The Book of the Cat (1903)
£300.00 1st/1903. Extremely rare paper-cover copy; covers and pages mostly loose, but the entire book complete except for the last page of the last chapter (probably someone didn't pick it up carefully enough!). (Type 5 copy, see full description for details)
Simpson, Frances: The Book of the Cat (1903)
£270.00 1st/1903. Quite a nice copy; top of spine missing but binding otherwise good. Front picture a bit scratched. Contents good and clean, binding a bit loose but otherwise OK. Gold titling nice and bright on cover; colour plates intact, and with protective tissue to all except the frontispiece. (Type 3 copy, see full description for details)
Simpson, Frances: The Book of the Cat (1903)
£230.00 1st/1903. First letter of title on cover rubbed; white mark from damage on back (se pic); title page loose and rather edge-damaged. Frontispiece still in place, but binding coming apart at this point. Protective tissue still in place for colour plates. (Type 3 copy, see full description for details)
Simpson, Frances: The Book of the Cat (1903)
£180.00 1st/1903. A rather battered copy of type (2). (see details for explanation). Rather grubby and rubbed on the front - quit a lot of the gilding has rubbed off, and the bottom right corner is rather creased, however the binding is very sound. Protective tissue to colour plates removed. A good 'reading' copy. (Type 2 copy, see full description for details)
Simpson, Frances: The Book of the Cat (1903)
£180.00 1st/1903. A bit grubby on the front, and gilding a bit rubbed, but the back is clean. The hinges are quite worn at top and bottom, and there is some looseness inside, worse in some places than others. Protective tissue to the colour plates has been removed, but a replacement piece has been put with the frontispiece. (Type 2 copy, see full description for details)
Wade, Phyl: The Siamese Cat
£27.00 1st/1934. Good copy, but dustjacket scuffed, brittle and damaged: top half of spine missing and rear detatched. Not price-clipped. In a protective plastic jacket. (See books on Siamese for cheaper copies.)
Wade, Phyl: The Siamese Cat
£35.00 1st/1934. Excellent copy (near perfect), excellent dustjacket but some chips to the spine and rubbing on corners (in preservation cover). Not price-clipped. In a protective plastic jacket. (See books on Siamese for cheaper copies.) Some rather lovely 1930s press clippings about Siamese included inside the back cover.
Wade, Phyl: The Siamese Cat
£27.00 1st/1934. Good copy, but dustjacket very battered, brittle and damaged: bottom half of spine missing, front torn but complete, back very chipped but still attached; price-clipped. In a protective plastic jacket. (See books on Siamese for cheaper copies.). Includes 2 typewritten pages about Abyssinians.
Wade, Phyl: The Siamese Cat
£39.00 1st/1934. Good copy, near perfect dustjacket, price-clipped, chipped at top of spine. Excellent clean copy with only one or two mould marks on the fore-edge. (See books on Siamese for cheaper copies.).
Wade, Phyl: The Siamese Cat
£34.00 1st/1934. Good copy, moderately good dustjacket, price-clipped and lower edge of front damaged with a large piece pissing, though OK otherwise.. Excellent clean copy with minor foxing on the top edge and to the endpapers. (See books on Siamese for cheaper copies.).
General cat books
Alderton, David: Cats
£7.00 1992. Softback, slightly bumped top edge, but otherwise good condition.
Broadwood, Tschudi: Catwise and Kittenish
£7.00 1st/1959. Good condition, no dustjacket.
Burger, Carl: All about Cats
£11.00 1st/1966. Good condition, issued without dustjacket.
Crew, Frank: Devoted to Cats
£7.00 1st/1954. Dj creased but mostly intact; book and binding vg.
Eustace, May and Towe, Elizabeth: Fifty Years of Pedigree Cats
£21.00 1st/1967. dj a bit cracked and chipped, but otherwise intact, book vg.
Fairchild, L H and Helen: Cats and All about them
£19.00 2nd/1947. Book vg, dustcover chipped.
Harman, Ian: Cats for Pets and Show
£9.00 1st/1948. dustjacket damaged (see picture); interior good though a little browned by age (rather acid paper); protective wrapper.
Henderson, G N and Mead, N St C: Cats: an intelligent owners’ guide
£8.00 1st/1966. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Pocock, Robine: The Burmese Cat
£15.00 1991. Paperback, very good condition.
Pond, Grace: The Observer’s Book of Cats (3rd/1961)
£5.00 3rd/1961. DJ a bit grubby (but not bad considering its age) and has some small tears, the worst visible in the illustration. The hard binding is immaculate; very bright and clean. Interior and stitching tight and vg.
Pond, Grace ed.: The Complete Cat Encyclopedia
£8.50 1st/1972. vg, some ageing to pages (browning), lots of newspaper cuttings interleaved.
Simmons, Eleanor Booth: Cats
£17.00 1st/1935. spine faded, but otherwise vg.
Suehsdorf, Adie, photos by Walter Chandoha: The Complete book of Cats
£8.00 1st/1956. Good copy, dustjacket slightly chipped on top edge. Wrapped in plastic cover (mark at top of picture shows paper stuck on the surface of the plastic)
Taylor, David: The Ultimate Cat
£17.50 4th/1990. vg, dustjacket vg though slightly shelfsoiled at bottom edge
Verhoef-Verhallen, Esther J J: Encyclopaedia of Cats
£8.50 2nd/1998. As new. dustjacket pristine.
Wright, Michael and Walters, Sally, eds: The Book of The Cat
£9.00 1st/1980. softback, vg condition.