The Cats of Punchbowl Farm.

Garden City, New York:: Doubleday & Company, 1964.. 1st U.S. Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: cloth binding, pale green with dark green at the spine; owner's name; a Good+ book, with a Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Description: Several black and white photo illustrations. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Punchbowl Farms' largest crop may not be cats, but the Siamese and Burmese cat families who have the run of the farm are certainly its most delightful product. With love humor, and insight, Monica Edwards introduces some o the numerous felines she has welcomed into her home on the farm. There is Freyni -- a brave old cat who not only overcame a crippling disability, but learned to trade on her former ailment. Thistledown, charming but empty headed; aside from husbands and children, her main interest was murder. Vashti was an accomplished huntress. In a few easy lessons, she learned the art of retrieving for a human hunter; Vashti was probably the only Siamese gun-cat in England. Pardos was the sissy of the group. A Burmese male, he should have been fearless and wild, but a wriggly millipede was enough to make him ill. Monica Edwards, proprietor of Punchbowl Farm and an expert storyteller, relates these true tales of her cats' experiences with warmth and understanding.''