Charles The Story of a Friendship by Joseph, Michael

Michael Joseph, 1946. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1946. Tenth Impression. 91 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white plates. Clean pages and plates with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards.

Michael Joseph, 1946. Hardcover. Good. 1946. 91 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.

Michael Joseph Ltd, 1945. Hardcover. Good. 1945. Ninth Impression. 92 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.

Michael Joseph Ltd, 1945. Hardcover. Good. 1945. Ninth Impression. 91 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

London England: Michael Joseph. Very Good/No Jacket. 1943. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo Hardcover Hardcover. First Edition. Charles. The Story of a Friendship. Previous owners name to inside cover. Slight foxing to end inside covers through age. This is the story of a Siamese cat who shared the author's life for nearly thirteen years. Michael Joseph confesses that he acquired Charles O'Malley as an unworthy gesture of indepdence towards his tortoiseshell tabby Minna Minna Mowbray, up to then the haughty and indisuputed head of his household. The gesture was a failure but it had an unexpected results, for Charles was to prove the best loved of all the author's cats. Illustrated. 92 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .