The Post Office Cat [Inscribed and Signed]

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1976]. First Edition with full number line. Slim oblong quarto; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($6.95); 30pp.; color illus. throughout. Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page.

Lovely children's book based on the true story of Clarence, the cat who came to live at Her Majesty's Post Office in 1868 to help put down a mail-mutilating mouse infestation. The work was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal for historical fiction.