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In Print Books
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Anthology
The
Big Book for PEACE
Contributions by Lloyd Alexander, Natalie
Babbit, John Bierhorst, Steven Kellogg, Myra Cohn Livingston, Lois Lowry,
Milton Meltzer, Katherine Paterson, Marilyn Sachs, Yoshiko Uchida, Mildred
Pitts Walter, Nancy Willard and Charlotte Zolotow. Illustrations
by Jon Agee, Thomas B. Allen, Barbara Cooney, Diane and Leo Dillon,
Leonard Everett Fisher, Thacher Hurd, Trina Schart Hyman, Steven Kellogg,
Jerry Pinkney, Ted Rand, Allen Say, Maurice Sendak, Ben Shecter, Marc Simont,
Teri Sloat, Paul O. Zelinsky and Dirk Zimmer. Dutton, 1990.
Special feature here for the story by Natalie Babbit about the rich man
leaving his entire estate to his cat to run a Home
for Wandering Cats because his four children fought over everything.
First edition. Beautiful condition. F/F $20
Clymer, Eleanor
Clymer,
Eleanor. Horatio's Birthday.
Illustrated by Robert Quackenbush. Atheneum, 1976. Horatio
finds a friend to make him feel young again.
First edition, ex-library copy. G+/VG-. $8

Hale, Kathleen
Orlando
is a famous British cat illustrated by Kathleen Hale in huge oversized
books from the 40's with wonderful illustrations. They've been out-of-print
for eons, but there was a reprint in the UK in the early '90s, which
are now again out-of-print.
Hale, Kathleen. Orlando (the Marmalade Cat) Keeps a Dog.
London: Frederick Warne: 1949. 1990 reprint. Large quarto:
10.5" x 14.5" and in excellent condition. F/F <SOLD>
Hale, Kathleen. Orlando (the Marmalade Cat) Buys a Farm.
London: Frederick Warne: 1942. 1991 reprint. Large quarto:
10.5" x 14.5" and in excellent condition. F/F <SOLD>
Hale, Kathleen. Orlando (the Marmalade Cat) and the Water
Cats. London: Jonathan Cape: 1972. Smaller quarto:
8" x 11" with clear taped spine, missing paper to top inch of spine, and
worn at edges. G+. <SOLD>
Kamen, Gloria
Kamen, Gloria. Second-Hand Cat. Athaneum,
1992. Used hardback, VG-. $6
Kent, Jack
Kent,
Jack. The Fat Cat: A Danish Folktale.
Scholastic, 1971. A Danish fable about a greedy cat eats the
porridge he was asked to mind, and the little old lady too. He then
proceeds to eat everyone who unfailingly asks, "What have you been eating,
my little cat? You are so fat." At least there's a woodcutter
at the end of the fable, just like in Little Red Riding Hood.
Used paperback. VG. <SOLD>
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan
Museum of Art. Curious Cats: In Art and Poetry.
Atheneum, 1999. Featuring my favorite artistic cat on the cover:
I begged for this Met poster for Christmas when I was a kid, and had to
assure my mother I wouldn't "outgrow" it hanging on my bedroom wall.
I haven't. New hardback book, $16.
Newberry, Clare Turlay
Newberry's
charcoal rendering of cats and kittens are among the best for cat essence.
She knows cats. Alas, most of these are out-of-print.
Again.
Newberry, Clare Turlay. Smudge.
Smithmark, 1948. 1998 new hardback, <SOLD>
Newberry, Clare Turlay. Mittens.
Smithmark, 1936. 1998 new hardback, <SOLD>
Newberry, Clare Turlay. Herbert the
Lion. Smithmark, 1931. 1998
new hardback, <SOLD>
Newberry, Clare Turlay. April's Kittens.
Smithmark, 1940. Caldecott Honor Book. 1998 new hardback, $17
Newberry, Clare Turlay. Babette.
Smithmark, 1937. 1998 new hardback, <SOLD>
Seuss, Dr.
Well,
why not? He is, after all, a very famous cat....
Seuss, Dr. The Cat in the Hat.
Random House Beginner Book, 1957. New hardback, $8
Seuss, Dr. The Cat in the Hat Comes
Back. Random House Beginner
Book, 1958. New hardback, $8
Tan, Amy
The author of The Joy Luck Club wrote a wonderful
tale of a naughty little Chinese cat.
Tan, Amy. The Chinese Siamese Cat.
Illustrated by Gretchen Schields. Macmillan, 1994. New hardback,
$16
Williams, Garth (illus.)
Wahl,
Jan. Push Kitty. Illustrated
by Garth Williams. Harper and Row, 1968. This poor cat
had to live through all kinds of costuming and transportation attrocities.
However, the illustrations by Garth Williams are sympathetic to
the cat's plight, and very amusing.
Very out-of-print. Ex-library copy, stamps on front free endpaper,
otherwise a nice copy. G+/VG-. <SOLD>
Young, Ed
Ed Young has written and illustrated some of today's best children's
books, with beautiful stories and gorgeous illustrations. I recommend
all of his work.
Yound, Ed. Cat and Rat: The Legend of the Chinese Zodiac.
Henry Holt, 1995. New hardback, $16
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