The Track of the Cat

Van TILBURG CLARK, Walter

Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1950

About this Item

FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Green cloth, spine lettered in red. Sunning and offsetting to spine, edges tanned and heavily foxed. Foxing to endpapers and prelims, POIs to front pastedown and ffep, else, clean, despite the poor paper stock. In the original dust jacket: price-clipped, spine darkened, spine ends frayed, chips to corners, toned and rubbed. Good+/ good+ Unusual. The track of the cat at which the typographically punning dust jacket hints is the tread of a cattle-killing panther in the snowscape of northern California, with the ranching brothers getting closer and closer as they try to hunt it in a blizzard."You can take it as a symbolic, universal drama of man [sic] against an implacable Evil Principle, forever stalking him [sic]" (Saturday Review of Literature). Seller Inventory # 2154

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Track of the Cat

Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd, London

Publication Date: 1950

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition