Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault. A Picture Book Illustrated by Barry Wilkinson.
first edition
1969 · Cleveland
by Perrault, Charles. Illustrated by Barry Wilkinson.
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1969. First American Edition. Oblong octavo, full-color illus. boards (hardcover), full-color illus. endpapers, unpaginated [26] pp. Fine, in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From dust jacket: When the miller died, he left nothing at all to his youngest son except -- of all things -- a cat. Unhappy with his meader lot, the boy despaired of ever earning a livelihood for himself. But, to his surprise, the cat spoke up and offered to help him, in return for only a sack and a pair of boots. With these he proposed to seek his young master’s fortune. And from his fist visit to the king, bearing a plump white rabbit as a gift, to the mysterious disappearance of the fearsome ogre, Puss proved himself to be the most ingenious of cats and a treasure indeed. Charles Perrault first set down this delctable tale in 1697; its rollicking humor made it an instant and perennial favorite. Now at last if finds its perfect expression in a translation which follows closely PErrault’s original version, and in Barry Wilkinson’s warm and gleeful illustrations, which reinterpret for today’s children the vitality and beauty of seventeenth-century France in striking design and glowing stained-glass colors. (Inventory #: 61174bd)