Felicity Bast Editor (5 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. STATED FIRST EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. From the outset I did not intend this to become a "Complete Book of Cat Poems" but have attempted instead, with feline fastidiousness, to make this a highly selective book of poems about cats. A number of famous chestnuts have been brusquely excluded, displaced by poems with which, exotic though some of them may seem, I felt instantly at home. There are poems here in which.feline traits are highly allegorized (the medieval Persian "Gorby and the Rats," for example, as well as La Fontaine). Some, from sources as disparate as medieval China and early 20th century Britain, focus on the Bad Cat (the mutual seduction of our two species are complicated indeed); a few craftily invoke the cat as a metaphor for the human condition. But despite the ubiquity of subject--"the beautiful Cat which endures"--the poems are remarkably individual. Just so, as all cat owners understand, every cat is unique, a personality in its own exquisite right, as beautiful, knowable, and yet ultimately mysterious as a good poem. Illustrated by Robert Clyde Anderson. Anderson, Robert Clyde (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Used: Very Good. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. STATED FIRST EDITION. Fine copy, price lable removed front cover.

Condition: FINE. First printing. An anthology of poems ranging from ancient China and Japan to Mother Goose and modern writers. Among the contributors are Stevie Smith, William Butler Yeats, Vita Sackville-West, Nancy Willard, William Carlos Williams, Pablo Neruda, Han Shan, Issa, Denise Levertov, J. R. R. Tolkien, John Montague, Thom Gunn, Edward Lear, Walter de la Mare, Vikram Seth and others. Illustrated with drawings by Robert Clyde Anderson. xv, 144 pp. Small square format. Fine in illustrated boards in a near fine dust jacket with a circular cutout (creasing to bottom edge of front cover of dj). …

hardcover. Condition: New. Anderson, Robert Clyde (illustrator).