Author: Todd, Ruthven
Title: Space Cat; Illustrated by Paul Galdone
Description: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 8.2 in. x 6.1 in. pp. 72.Turquoise boards with black title and space cat with jetpack to front, and black title to spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Some spotting/discoloration to rear board, and light sunning to book's spine. Very light rubbing and sunning to dustjacket. Small chips to top/bottom of dustjacket spine. Previous owner's signature to front free endpaper. Ruthven Campbell Todd (1914-1978) was a Scottish scholar, poet and author, in US from 1947-1958, and then Majorca; his most important nonfiction work, Tracks in the Snow: Studies in English Science and Art (1946), effectively argued the imaginative power - when conjoined - of the two subtitled categories, instancing at length the work of William Blake (1748-1827) and John Martin; as R T Campbell, he wrote several detective novels, beginning with Unholy Dying (1945) [none contain fantastic elements, and are not listed below]; and as Todd, two metaphysical tales, both labouring under the 1930s misconception that Franz Kafka wrote allegories. The quest plot of Over the Mountain (1939), which takes its protagonist into a kind of Lost World, is heavily consanguinous with a search for political self-understanding; the protagonist of the surrealist The Lost Traveller (1943), stranded (perhaps posthumously) in a strange Dystopia, finds himself ordered to quest for a brace of auks, becoming - at the moment of his (final?) death - one himself. In his introduction to the 1968 reprinting of the latter, Todd recognized influences from Wyndham Lewis to Rex Warner. The Space Cats sequence for children, beginning with Space Cat (1952), features a runaway Cat who stows away on a Spaceship. (from Encyclopedia of Science Fiction). Ill.: Paul Galdone. Very Good /Very Good .
Keywords: Paul Galdone
Title: Space Cat; Illustrated by Paul Galdone
Description: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 8.2 in. x 6.1 in. pp. 72.Turquoise boards with black title and space cat with jetpack to front, and black title to spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Some spotting/discoloration to rear board, and light sunning to book's spine. Very light rubbing and sunning to dustjacket. Small chips to top/bottom of dustjacket spine. Previous owner's signature to front free endpaper. Ruthven Campbell Todd (1914-1978) was a Scottish scholar, poet and author, in US from 1947-1958, and then Majorca; his most important nonfiction work, Tracks in the Snow: Studies in English Science and Art (1946), effectively argued the imaginative power - when conjoined - of the two subtitled categories, instancing at length the work of William Blake (1748-1827) and John Martin; as R T Campbell, he wrote several detective novels, beginning with Unholy Dying (1945) [none contain fantastic elements, and are not listed below]; and as Todd, two metaphysical tales, both labouring under the 1930s misconception that Franz Kafka wrote allegories. The quest plot of Over the Mountain (1939), which takes its protagonist into a kind of Lost World, is heavily consanguinous with a search for political self-understanding; the protagonist of the surrealist The Lost Traveller (1943), stranded (perhaps posthumously) in a strange Dystopia, finds himself ordered to quest for a brace of auks, becoming - at the moment of his (final?) death - one himself. In his introduction to the 1968 reprinting of the latter, Todd recognized influences from Wyndham Lewis to Rex Warner. The Space Cats sequence for children, beginning with Space Cat (1952), features a runaway Cat who stows away on a Spaceship. (from Encyclopedia of Science Fiction). Ill.: Paul Galdone. Very Good /Very Good .
Keywords: Paul Galdone
Price: US$ 140.00 Seller: Aardvark Books
- Book number: 86160
- Book number: 86160