MOVIE CATS.

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,and no clip to dw/dj - publisher's price to rear panel/corner of dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated, colour+b/w montage'd artwork by Susan Herbert, illustrated front panel of dw/dj with white lettering,rear panel b/w line illustration; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - possibly unread? Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain black cloth boards with impressed printer's device (2 dolphins) to centre of upper board and bright, crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a white headband and immaculate plain dark blue endpapers.UK, slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,4-63pp [paginated] includes 5 sections comprising The Sirens, The Comedians,The Musicals,Historic Spectacles and Drama & Romance containing 57 illustrations, 27 in colour with accompanying punning or humorous text - all by Susan Herbert - and all called for. Plus [unpaginated] b/w line illustrated title page,and b/w line illustrated section separator pages. Susan Herbert's innovative and witty feline renderings of cats in human situations,from Shakespearean drama to masterpieces of Western art have won her a large and admiring public.Now she draws on her lifelong fascination with the movies to give us a series of scenes from classic films - all with cats playing the leading roles.Painting in her familiar and highly popular style,she presents an irresistible array of well-known characters,from the silent films of the 1920's through big-budget musicals and the lure of the Wild West to contemporary hit films.Here are flirting, dancing,detecting,and menacing cats: a beguiling flower seller in Covent Garden,a seductive older woman and a young graduate,a hard-boiled private eye with a falcon.... See also rja1646 - 'Impressionist Cats',rja26997 + rja391711 copies of 'Medieval Cats' and rja451913 'OPERA CATS' for other author/artist titles available. For other titles of similar interest and/or subject see my book ID's rja32718 (Janis Mitchell: THE HAMSTER BALLET COMPANY) and rja681617 (Zoe Stokes: ZOE'S CATS.) Susan Herbert (1945–2014),freelance artist,studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art,University of Oxford.Having worked and painted for the English National Opera and the Theatre Royal,she now specializes in limited edition prints of theatrical animals,and exhibits frequently. By the close of the 1970's, she had become a freelance artist, with work permanently displayed at the Theatre Royal and Kings Circus Gallery, both in Bath. During the 1980's, she broadened her interests, exhibiting miniatures in the United States (1984) and producing a set of limited edition prints and cards (1989). A major exhibition of her work was held in 1990 at the Crypt Gallery, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London. Her international popularity was confirmed by a touring exhibition, which began in Tokyo in 1995. Author and illustrator of 'The Cats Gallery of Art'(1990), 'The Cats History of Western Art'(1994), 'Diary of a Victorian Cat' (1991), Impressionist Cats' (1992), 'The Cats Gallery of Western Art' (1994), 'Medieval Cats' (1995), 'Pre-Raphaelite Cats' (1999), 'Shakespeare Cats' (1996), 'Opera Cats' (1997), 'The Cats Gallery of Western Art' (2002,a compilation of 1990 & 1994 volumes) and 'Movie Cats' (2006).
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