christopher cat collaboration countee cullen (3 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. First paperback edition. Originally published during Cullen's stint as a junior high school teacher, where he mentored James Baldwin, and when he wrote two books for young adults including this witty and engaging novel based on his own cat. Narrated by the cat, with suspense, life reflections, and humor as the cat tries to avoid losing his ninth and final life. A lovely paperback collectible by the cornerstone Harlem Renaissance poet, playwright, novelist and early writer of racial identity and injustice. Very tight, square and probably unread, a minute scratch and a tiny surface rub to the rear cover, else near fine in glossy stiff-card wraps with front cover photo-illustration of a kitten & butterfly; code 09189 and .95c price to the front cover, all page edges red. Mass-market paperback.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Paperback. Curtis Books. Collection of stories about Christopher Cat and his nine lives. Very good condition. Faint edge-wear on front and back covers. Reader's crease along spine-edge of front cover. Spine has slight slant. Two reader's creases down spine. Yellowing on spine-edge of back cover.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Robert Reid Macguire. Tall octavo. Contemporary owner name front fly, a little spotting on the foredge else near fine in very good price-clipped dust jacket with modest chips on the spine ends and a split at the frotn spine-fold. Children's book by the noted African-American poet, of a cat reminiscing about its previous eight lives. Scarce.