Leap-frog. by WAIN, Louis, Artist

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Good. INSCRIBED BY EDWARD WESTON on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1947 stated 1st printing. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, G+/VG- dustjacket, with closed tears and chipping along the panel edges and at the lower tip. Still though, a presentable, attractive copy. Oblong quarto, crisp black-and-white reproductions thruout. THIS COPY ALSO INCLUDES A KODAK COLOR PRINT OF WESTON AND 2 OF THE CATS FROM WILDCAT HILL LAID-IN. Signed by Author.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925-1928. First edition. Limited to 177 copies, signed by the author on the frontispiece of volume I and with usual cat's paw. This set being number 100. Illustrated with 50 maps and 1500 illustrations. Frontispieces with tissue guards. Four quarto volumes (10 3/4 x 8 1/8 inches; 273 x 206 mm). Volume I covers "Cats, Wolves, and Foxes", Volume II covers "Bears, Raccoons, Badger, and Weasels", Volume II covers "Deer, Antelope, Buffalo, Sheep, and Peccary" and Volume IV covers "Squirrels, Rabbits, Armadillo, and Opossum." Uniformly bound in quarter brown cloth over tan cloth. Front boards double-ruled in gilt with animal head gilt central device. Spines lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Overall near fine, which is unusual for such a large heavy set. Ernest Thompson Seton was a naturalist, artist, writer, and lecturer and also one of the key founders of the Boy Scouts of America, authoring their… Read More

London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1912. WAIN, Louis. Days in Catland with Louis Wain. [London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, n.d., ca. 1912]. Father Tuck's Panorama. Oblong quarto. Panorama consisting of four chromolithographic panels with fourteen numbered slots and fourteen numbered cut-out cat figures to fit into the slots. "The Pictures are made up by arranging the cut out Figures in different parts of the Scenery" (back cover). The scenes depict: Bedtime; Helping Mother in the Kitchen; Cat's Tea Party; The School Room. With verse by Arthur Burnaby and five line drawings by Louis Wain on the verso of two panels. Original color pictorial front cover. Front cover with creases at both lower corners, and a repaired closed tear at the lower outer corner. Hinges reinforced. Some very minor soiling. Still an excellent example of a very rare Louis Wain panorama, with very bright illustrations and all parts present. Chemised in a quarter morocco slipcase. One of only three Louis Wain panoramas, the others being… Read More

Early original watercolor. 8 1/2 by 10 5/8 inches; mat size 14 1/2 x 16.

Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1931. SCARCE in lovely collectible dust jacket, which retains on the front flap the uncut publisher's bookmark. Fine in Very Good dust jacket, small chips at corners and spine ends, light soiling. "The life story of Peter, a domestic cat that renounces civilization and roams the woods and fields after the manner of his tawny forebears." Wonderful illustrations, including illustrated end pages, by Ralph Carlyle Prather. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Good. INSCRIBED BY EDWARD WESTON on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1947 stated 1st printing. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, G+/VG- dustjacket, with closed tears and chipping along the panel edges and at the lower tip. Still though, a presentable, attractive copy. Oblong quarto, crisp black-and-white reproductions thruout. THIS COPY ALSO INCLUDES A KODAK COLOR PRINT OF WESTON AND 2 OF THE CATS FROM WILDCAT HILL LAID-IN. Signed by Author.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925-1928. First edition. Limited to 177 copies, signed by the author on the frontispiece of volume I and with usual cat's paw. This set being number 100. Illustrated with 50 maps and 1500 illustrations. Frontispieces with tissue guards. Four quarto volumes (10 3/4 x 8 1/8 inches; 273 x 206 mm). Volume I covers "Cats, Wolves, and Foxes", Volume II covers "Bears, Raccoons, Badger, and Weasels", Volume II covers "Deer, Antelope, Buffalo, Sheep, and Peccary" and Volume IV covers "Squirrels, Rabbits, Armadillo, and Opossum." Uniformly bound in quarter brown cloth over tan cloth. Front boards double-ruled in gilt with animal head gilt central device. Spines lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Overall near fine, which is unusual for such a large heavy set. Ernest Thompson Seton was a naturalist, artist, writer, and lecturer and also one of the key founders of the Boy Scouts of America, authoring their… Read More

London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1912. WAIN, Louis. Days in Catland with Louis Wain. [London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, n.d., ca. 1912]. Father Tuck's Panorama. Oblong quarto. Panorama consisting of four chromolithographic panels with fourteen numbered slots and fourteen numbered cut-out cat figures to fit into the slots. "The Pictures are made up by arranging the cut out Figures in different parts of the Scenery" (back cover). The scenes depict: Bedtime; Helping Mother in the Kitchen; Cat's Tea Party; The School Room. With verse by Arthur Burnaby and five line drawings by Louis Wain on the verso of two panels. Original color pictorial front cover. Front cover with creases at both lower corners, and a repaired closed tear at the lower outer corner. Hinges reinforced. Some very minor soiling. Still an excellent example of a very rare Louis Wain panorama, with very bright illustrations and all parts present. Chemised in a quarter morocco slipcase. One of only three Louis Wain panoramas, the others being… Read More

Early original watercolor. 8 1/2 by 10 5/8 inches; mat size 14 1/2 x 16.

Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1931. SCARCE in lovely collectible dust jacket, which retains on the front flap the uncut publisher's bookmark. Fine in Very Good dust jacket, small chips at corners and spine ends, light soiling. "The life story of Peter, a domestic cat that renounces civilization and roams the woods and fields after the manner of his tawny forebears." Wonderful illustrations, including illustrated end pages, by Ralph Carlyle Prather. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.