SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER—Cats Cradle (HC) "One of our finest writers"

Description: • For your consideration: • A (RARE) 1960 UK HARDCOVER (First Edition Thus) of: • “THE CAT’S CRADLE BOOK” (Chatto & Windus, 1960) (Hardcover, First Edition Thus) • BY SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER • One-time contributor to THE NEW YORKER who’s had four of her novels—four!—reissued by the prestigious NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS (NYRB)—but not this gem. • “SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER’s brilliantly varied and self-possessed literary production never quite won her the flaming place in the heavens of repute that she deserved.” —JOHN UPDIKE • “SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER was one of our finest writers.” —NEIL GAIMAN • ABOUT THIS TITLE: • “From generation to generation, says MISS TOWNSEND WARNER, mother cats have told their kittens stories. But since ethical standards of a cat are not precisely those of a man, human readers, now presented with a selection of fifteen such narratives, will not always discover the morals quite where they might expect them…. With her well-known perception and wit, MISS TOWNSEND WARNER takes a cat’s-eye-view of creation.” —THE PUBLISHER• “One of the great British novels of the twentieth century: a narrative of extraordinary reach, power and beauty.” —SARAH WATERS, THE GUARDIAN • “People who think this book is for children have quite a surprise in store for them. It is a collection of highly sophisticated animal tales, a cat’s ARABIAN NIGHTS, unexpurgated and worldly. The stories are a curious mixture, part AESOP, part allegory, with a dash of THE NEW YORKER thrown in…. It will appeal to people who like their fantasy mixed sophistication.” —ROSEMARY C. BENET, THE SATURDAY REVIEW • “What a fabulous quirky constantly inventive writer SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER was! I am already a massive fan of her writing, and THE CAT’S CRADLE BOOK collection is really something quite different.... The premise essentially is to tell us the stories, that have been passed down from cats to their kittens for generations. Fairy-tales from cats.... It is a shame that this collection remains out of print, although this pretty 1960s edition of a collection first published in 1940 seems widely available from the usual places, a perfect gift for a fairy-tale loving cat person....” —HEAVENALI (BLOG)• “A charming thing.... Stories of mice and phoenixes and ravens and cats and humans, exquisite of their kind handled with fanciful delicacy and witty sagacity.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS• “The perspective is wonderfully feline, and though it took me a little while to adjust to a very different worldview I am so glad that I did…. There is lovely use of language, there is wit, and there is usually more than a simple story…. This is a collection of short stories like no other, I loved it, and I suspect that those who live with cats and love fine writing might love it even more.” —BEYOND EDEN ROCK (BLOG)• “THE CAT’S CRADE BOOK finds her at the height of her powers…. WARNER offers a range of hilarious, grim, stunning, frequently KAFKAESQUE narratives that defiantly refuse to resolve into simple morals…. WARNER carries DOROTHY PARKER’s kind of brittle, elegant wit to its apotheosis. And her quiet feminism…still strikes home…. Eminently quotable.” —PAUL DI FILIPPO, THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION • ABOUT THE AUTHOR:• “Stands alongside VIRGINIA WOOLF and ELIZABETH BOWEN as one of the finest British fiction writers of her century, and she also achieved distinction as a poet. To put it bluntly, SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER is much too good to miss.” —MAUD ELLMAN, “THE HISTORY OF BRITISH WOMEN’S WRITING (1920–1945, VOL. 8)” • “There is surely no writer today, man or woman, to be placed beside her.” —GEORGE PAINTER, LISTENER • “SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER is perhaps the most unjustly neglected of all the modern masters of fiction.” —TIM WALKER, NEWS-PRESS • “The intelligence of her writing has sometimes resulted in her fiction being misunderstood as difficult, and has perhaps lost her readers; she’s certainly one of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past 100 years.” —SARAH WATERS, THE GUARDIAN • “TOWNSEND WARNER’s writing is witty, occasionally malicious, often fanciful to the point of magical realism, lyrical and melancholy.” —A GALLIMAUFRY (BLOG) • “[Her] stories induce the sort of pleasure that spreads outwards long after they have been read, like ripples from a flung stone.” —THE TIMES (LONDON) • “If a convenient pigeonhole could be found for her…no doubt we would be in the flood of a WARNER revival.”—ELEANOR PERENYI • “The charm, the wit and the speculation make [her writing]...very remarkable.” —GEORGE STEINER, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT • “Playing the game of choosing the century’s finest writers, England’s literary pundits conspicuously failed to mention SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER. The omission was, frankly, bizarre…. Shame on the list makers, then, for such aberration. It’s almost as bad as leaving JANE AUSTEN out of a roundup of early 19th-century British novelists.” —MIRANDA SEYMOUR, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “Each of her novels is an unprecedented world.” —DAVID CARROLL SIMON • “An artist blessed with a poised, felicitous command of language and the ability to portray both the ordinary and the odd with charming, compassionate wit.” —MICHIKO KAKUTANI, NEW YORK TIMES •• For more details, about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “THE CAT’S CRADLE BOOK” AUTHOR: SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Chatto & Windus (London), 1960 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing Thus ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 1940 CONDITION of DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS. Price (15s) is NOT clipped. Top of spine is chipped as are top corners. At times: faint shelf-wear on edges. DJ is lightly aged but is still bright and clean. (Now protected in a Brodart archival cover.) CONDITION of BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD PLUS. Spine is tight. Cover boards are clean. Edges are faintly discolored. Corners are sharp. Top and bottom of spine are very lightly smushed—with minor discoloration. Text-block edges are clean. Previous owner’s name and a date appear in ink at the top of (front) endpaper pastedown. Pages are clean and bright. ••• SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be packed with care before being shipped in a sturdy and cushioned box. Thank you! ••• *********** ***********FLAPPINCAT/\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe that being good to our customers is good business.” *********** *********** HOUSERULES (Our Promises to You)1. GENERAL ATTITUDE. We are grateful that our customers choose to trust us with their business. We aim for our gratitude, and respect, to permeate every part of how we do business with you. 2. GENERAL TREATMENT. 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Price: 125 USD

Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina

End Time: 2024-11-19T01:28:07.000Z

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