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New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1951. Gray hardcover binding square and tight, bumped corners, a bit of rubbing along edges. Nameplate fep. Pencil name ffep. 213 pages. DJ is tattered with large part of spine missing. Tape repairs, closed tears, and staining. Protected from further damage in clear plastic jacket. James, a rake of a cat, and his timid brother MacArthur, are dissatisfied with their home - they feel they are not cared for as a cat deserves and the servants don't treat them with proper reference. So, out into the world they go, leaving their comfortable world behind. Full of unpredictable charm and wisdom, a sense of humor, and a sense of the 'fitness' of things. A great characterization of cats.. Illus. by Bacon, Peggy. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Stated. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Poor.

New York: Longmans, Green and Co.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1951. First American Edition. Hardcover. [a good sound copy, slight bumping to the upper corners, minor soiling to edges of text block, tiny bookseller's name rubber-stamped on front endpaper (Farrow's Bookshop, Waterville, Maine); the jacket shows some wear along the top and bottom edges and the spine folds, and some surface scuffing on the lower right area of the front panel]. (line drawings) The title characters are a pair of brothers, with a quite satisfactory domestic situation -- except that it's taken a markedly unsatisfactory turn, as "their domestic staff, a pair of humans by the name of Thompson, [who] in their humble way were happy and contented, considering themselves fortunate in the service of two such gentlemanly employers as James and Macarthur. Yet, of late, there had been a distinct falling-off in the quality of the service," to which household crisis the feline brothers are discussing… Read More