Accession number
PML 198709
Creator
Bryan, Ashley.
Published
New York : Atheneum, 1985.
Credit line
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe Acquisitions Fund, 2021.
Notes
"Text set by Linoprint Composition ... Printed by Connecticut Printers ... Bound by Bookbinders, Jersey City, New Jersey ... Typography by Mary Ahern"--Title page verso.
Description
[4], 42, [2] pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on half-title page: "To Matthew, Bright Wishes! Purrum, purrum, purrum, Ashley Bryan, April 1987"; also inscribed on title page: "Love Ashley Bryan."
Provenance
Matthew.
Summary
Cat and Rat are friends, but when Rat tricks Cat into letting him play the cat drum, which only cats may play, Cat protects his drum in the only way he can, by swallowing it, and that is how he got his purr.
Binding
Green cloth, lettered in gold, in pictorial dust jacket.
Classification
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