The Book of Cats edited by George MacBeth and Martin Booth. S/C. 349 pp.postage R50

Published in 1979 by Penguin Books. The edges of the softcover are slightly bend and the spine edges lightly scuffed, but the cover is otherwise in good condition. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. With 16 colour illustrations of famous cat paintings and dozens of charming black and white illustrations. With an index of authors and artists.

A treasury of the most wonderful tales and poems of cats by famous writers like Ted Hughes, Rudyard Kipling, Dorothy L. Sayers, Walter de la Mare, P.G. Wodehouse, Mark Twain, Paul Gallico, Paul Verlaine, T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley and Patricia Highsmith. The stories and poems are divided into 8 parts: Cats Youth, Cats Meat, Cats Games, Cats Love, Cats Magic, Cats Killings, Cats Age and Cats Death.