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WOODHOUSE S C. Two Cats At Large A Book Of Surprises. George Routledge, London, 1910.

Price: US$1300.17 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 24pp. Undated but1910. Pictorial boards, slightly grubby and worn on the edges. 20 coloured plates.Repaired short tears to the edges of pages 8, 18, 20, 23, not encroaching on the pictures. A nice copy of a very scarce title.

Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom

Woodhouse, S.C. Louis Wain (illustrator). Two Cats at Large. A Book of Surprises. George Routledge & Sons Ltd, London, 1910.

Price: US$1750.00 + shipping

Description: Publisher's quarter red cloth over full color pictorial boards. Quarto (10 1/8 x 8 1/4 in; 258 x 212 mm). Twenty-four verso-only leaves with twenty large full color illustrations by Louis Wain. Small closed tears to bottom edge of leaves 19 and 22, small tears to half title at staples, boards a little soiled, and scuffed at edges. Otherwise a very good copy of this extremely scarce Wain title. One of the more colorful Wain titles. "In 1910, Routledge published Two Cats at Large, a 'book of surprises, by Louis Wain, with verses by S.C. Woodhouse.' Two kittens, Albert and Tom, meet various strange-looking monsters on their travels, including the Gollifrog, the Grabberchox and the Salleyinouralleygator. There are some very strange-looking cats in this book as well" (Dale). Dale 204.

Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.