Space Cat Meets Mars [Larry Mcmurtry Collection] Ruthven Todd Children's,Illustrated,Larry Mcmurtry Collection,Signed

Ruthven Todd. Paul Galdone, illustrator.Space Cat Meets Mars.New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957. Scribner's library edition. Inscribed by Ruthven Todd to FFEP. Octavo. 72pp. Illustrated. Publisher's pictorial cloth-covered boards, original dust jacket. Scribner's Library Binding, as explained on the jacket flap: It is Smyth sewn with concealed muslin reinforcement. The sturdy pyroxylin-impregnated cloth over hard-rolled binder's board is washable, damp proof, and soil resistant. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. . Extremities gently rubbed, barely bumped, slight fading to head and foot of spine, but strikingly bright covers and tight binding; dust jacket sunned to spine, worn at folds, chipped with areas of loss to head of spine, torn and creased to lower corner of front flap. A near fine copy in a good jacket. LMM-177