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Louis Wain. The Man Who Drew Cats. With a section on the nature of Louis Wain’s illness by Dr D.L.Davies.
by (WAIN, LOUIS) DALE, RODNEY:
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- Hardcover
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London. William Kimber. 1968 1st.. 8.5 x 7.5 inches. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. spine slightly faded. Not price clipped. With proetive plastic wrap). Mild foxing to edges. Owners’ labels and colour picture pasted to front endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. 204 pp. With b/w portrait frontis and b/w illustrations and photographs. Biography of the man whose cat pictures made him famous. Includes a section on the nature of his illness, as demonstrated by the increasingly complex and bizarre versions of his cat portraits.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Title
- Louis Wain. The Man Who Drew Cats. With a section on the nature of Louis Wain’s illness by Dr D.L.Davies.
- Author
- (WAIN, LOUIS) DALE, RODNEY:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London. William Kimber. 1968 1st.
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHIES/LETTERS/DIARIES Art Biography Dustwrapper First Edition Cats Louis Wain
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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