160 pages, well illustrated (many in color), cloth, dust jacket, very good. 8-1/2" x 11-1/2". Signature on front blank endpaper of Joyce Curtis, sister to former Maine governor Kenneth Curtis. From the foreword: A book which sets out primarily to entertain, by word and picture---to portray the cat not only in his everyday moods and activities, but also in less familiar guises and surroundings. The approach is serious, but not solemn; the manner light-hearted, but not facetious. It attempts to set the cat in his proper perspective, against the backcloth of past events and in the changing pattern of life today. Contents include: Children and Cats, The Cat and the Moon, The Pattern of Cats, A Cat May Look On a King, The Naming of Cats, How To Fall On Your Feet, Matthias and Atossa, The Precursors of Cats, The Thing from Outer Space, The Cat's Sagacity.

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