SPARK**, MURIEL::Loitering with Intent.
- gebrauchtes Buch 1981, ISBN: 9780370309002
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy two-tone (black+grey) cat's face illustrated dw/dj and white+grey lettering; w… Mehr…
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy two-tone (black+grey) cat's face illustrated dw/dj and white+grey lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.All corners and both head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely rubbed with reciprocal miniscule loss.Top+fore -edges lightly,sporadically foxed/ spotted,contents though are bright,tight,clean and unaffected.Publisher's bright, clean,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xivpp+4-144pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements, editor's introduction,5 chapters,b/w line illustrated chapter opening illus by assorted artists/illustrators,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication and contents list/table. Selections from many famous authors and poets,as well as from newspaper articles,from proverbs,superstitions,myths,and old wives' tales explore this most fascinating and mysterious of man's animal companions and add up to a wide-ranging account of the cat in real life,the cat in history,the cat's place in man's various religions,the cat in literature,and the amazing world of the cat fanciers. For centuries men have found this small animal,with its intelligence and independent spirit,an intriguing pet.What is it about cats that led a whole nation to worship the animal as a god,that struck terror in the hearts of men and women of medieval times,that inspired hundreds of anonymous and famous writers to describe and attempt to understand the creature,and that has driven modern man to accord the cat respect and affection which borders on the worshipful attitude of ancient Egyptians? Anthologist Ann Currah has chosen some of the finest and funniest of the vast literature on cats to try to answer some of these questions,and has added her own cogent observations and remarks to make a book that's good for reading straight through or for dipping into.This edition is now out-of-print as the publisher ceased trading in the late 1980's. William Kimber himself,worked for Hutchinson for about 17 years before founding "William Kimber & Co" in 1950.It specialized in aviation,war memoirs,autobiographies and motor-racing titles until 1973 when "Haunted Cornwall" took off and the Ghost Stories became another specialty. The company was bought by Thorsons in 1988,and therefore ceased publishing under that name. William Kimber was purchased by Thorsons in 1988 and therefore ceased publishing under that name. Thorsons was purchased by William Collins in 1989.William Collins became wholly owned by News Corporation in 1990,and was then incorporated into HarperCollins Publishers. 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Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with miniscule reciprocal creases.Top edge slightly aged/toned but clean and foxing-free;fore-edge considerably cleaner with a few tiny,tiny smudges; contents bright,tight and clean,near pristine.Unblemished,plain orange paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip with immaculate plain white endpapers with no sign of off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-221pp includes half-title+title pages,and 12 chapters. One day (30 June 1950, to be precise) Fleur Talbot was sitting in a graveyard in Kensington,writing a poem,eating a sandwich,in need of a job,and despite all that had happened feeling how wonderful it was to be a woman and an artist in the middle of the twentieth century.Ten months earlier she had found a job - and a very odd one too.She was hired by Sir Quentin Oliver,head of the Autobiographical Association (non-profit making),to assist people of very minor eminence to write accounts of their lives.The half dozen or so members of the Association all suffer from nostalgia,paranoia and a transparent craving to appear likeable, but,eccentric though they may be,they are less puzzling than Sir Quentin himself.Is he a harmless snob or a dangerous manipulator of other people's lives, a psychological Jack the Ripper? For Fleur,engaged in writing her first novel,Warrender Chase,this is,naturally,an absorbing question.Before a year has passed,during which the amazing characters who surround her give her exotic food for thought,even more fantastic questions present themselves. Who is mad and who is sane? Is truth stranger than fiction and,harder to answer,which is which? 'I do dearly love a turn of events,' Fleur confesses at one point;and the slightly sinister,wildly funny story she tells provides rich chances for her,and us,to relish the taste of the unexpected. 'Loitering with Intent' returns to the London scene of some of Muriel Spark's earlier triumphs.For sheer inventiveness and entertainment it must rank as one of her very best books.See also rja2110, rja2113 - rja2115 inclusive (rja2115 - another copy.) for other Muriel Spark titles. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.BODLEY HEAD,1981., 5<