Pamela and James Mason (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. gladys emerson cook (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo, illustd, 158pp, orig wine red cloth spine with cream flecked boards, binding vg clean and tight, couple of old names to front end paper, contents vg clean and tight, in dustwrapper which is a bit edge rubbed top and bottom NOT price clipped and little aged, but a good wrapper which is in a clear removable protector, good tight copy of this hard to find work, images can be sent. Book.

Signed by contributor, Mary Carter Roberts, and inscribed to her sister. Near Fine, with light foxing to endpapers; in a Very Good dust jacket with light edgewear. Contents: Plutarch's Lives, by Donald and Louise Peattie; The Slum Cat, by Ernest Thompson Seton; Biograhy, by Ezra Zistel; Object of Love, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; The Far-Sighted Cat, by John V. A. Weaver and Peggy Wood; Tom Ivory, The Cat, by Mary-Carter Roberts; Mister Youth, by Sophie Kerr; Feathers, by Carl Van Vechten; The Stuff of Dreams, by Helen Dore Boylston; The Ninth Life, by Mazo de la Roche. From dust jacket: Never berfore has there been gathered between the covers of a book a more notable collection of stories about and concerning cats. James and Pamela Mason have selected them with the best of taste, and the magnificent drawings by Gladys Emerson Cook help to make this book a collector's item. Beginning with Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's memorable Object of Love, and ending with the poignant biography, Feathers by Carl Van Vechten, the reader of this elegant book will feast on stories of Persian cats and alley Toms, Maltese, coons, tabbies and kittens in shades from ebony black to brown, orange, smoke and pure white. He will read of cats in their fascinating moods and personalities. Plutarch's Lives, by Donald and Louise Peattie, is a never-to-be-forgotten tale of a pampered Persion left by fate to fend for herself in the wild mountains of Carolina. Here is Sophie Kerr's Mister Youth, a classic example of the serene dignity and absolute independence of a cat. A cat's indomitable courage in the face of overwhelming odds is the subject of the Ninth Life by Mazo de la Roche. Any person who does not have a strong aversion to cats will spend some very entertaining hours with this material and, needless to say, it is the perfect gift for anyone who owns or likes cats. Illustrated, Cats, Cat Stories, Literature. bb/lh.