The Cats on Hutton Roof. [Author SIGNED copy.**]

UK,16mo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten,black ink signature - without dedication to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial artwork by Peter Warner,illustrated front panel of dw/dj with white lettering and a b/w line illustration to rear panel,with black lettering; all with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top +fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark green cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,16mo HB+ dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,1-338pp [paginated] includes 24 chapters - each with b/w line illustrated chapter headpiece by Peter Warner,profuse other b/w line illustrations throughout the text and the book also by Peter Warner, acknowledgements,info on cats, author and the illustrator Registered Feline Charity info page; plus [unpaginated] b/w line vignetted half-title page,author SIGNED title page which is also vignetted,and the same for the dedication page, and 8pp blanks at the rear of the book. Author's 3rd book in a proposed quartet.See my book ID's rja32889 and rja612516 for the first 2 titles which precede this title. This is the third book in the moving and true story of what happened to the cats of Moon Cottage.The author is happily ensconced within the safe haven of Moon Cottage with her husband his son and their three cats Fannie,Titus and Pushkin.But things happen to enable a dream to come true for Marilyn and her nusband,Michael.A move to the country is on the horizon.However, the stuff that dreams are made of does not always suit the cat's in one's life because,as all cat-lovers will recognise, cats hate change. As in the earlier books the author combines humour,a little sadness and her own particular brand of enthusiasm while studying the issues raised by cohabiting with felines.In this book she tackles too the problem of realising a dream only to find that the dream is not necessarily the perfection it was imagined to be.Feline bereavement,reproduction,jealousy,passion, love,laughter, tenderness,wildlife in general and in particular village life in Cumbria are all discussed in Mailyn's wonderful and much-loved honest style.Above all she reminds us of the truth of why cats matter. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.