The Pastor's Cat and Other People by Dailey, Edward Vincent - 1955

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Bruce Publishing Company, 1955. Book. Illus. by Edward F. Johnson and "Shep". Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Bruce Publishing Company, 1955. First Edition . Good/Very Good+. Edward F. Johnson and "Shep". First Edition in unclipped original dust jacket. Red cloth boards with black cat illustration on cover is unworn, has slight soiling to front board fore-edge. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Slight foxing to endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. All text pages clean and bright with delightful illustrations by Edward F. Johnson, with cat sketches by "Shep". 146 pages. Clean dust jacket is not price clipped (2.75 on front inside flap), has one small faint spot (size of a pea), one 1" closed edge tear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Twenty-one stories by Monsignor Edward Vincent Dailey - an enchanting cross-section of humanity, including chronic drifters, the poverty-stricken, cagey cadgers, and always and everywhere the ordinary folk who somehow proved to be the most interesting of all. In the lives of all these people he found one thing in common -- God's never failing grace..