The Book of Cats

The Book of Cats

Edited by George MacBeth and Martin Booth

P.G Wodehouse’s Webster, Saki’s Tobermory, Kipling’s Cat That Walked By Himself, Eliot’s Macavity, DonMarquis’s mehitable: short stories from Patricia Highsmith, Roy Fuller and Giles Gordon: the clssics of Walter de la Mare, W.W. Jacons and Edgar Allan Poe: the cats of Robert Southey, Theohile Gautier and Theodore Roosevelt: the observations of Aldous Huxley, Henry Fielding and Mark Twain: paintings by Bonnard, Goya, Picasso, Chagall, Hockney and Douanier Rousseau.

In al, a rich, affectionate medley of prose, poetry and picture, assembled by George MacBeth and Martin Booth, in praise of that most elusive and fascinating of creatures –the cat.

Paperback – 353 pages

UK 1979 (1980 reprint)

Previous owners name on inside front cover - otherwise very good condition