Dick Whittington and His Cat, illustrated by Alan Howard. Faber and Faber, 1967. Hardback, with attractively illustrated original dust jacket, very slightly torn and scuffed in places, unpaginated. Many charming colourful illustrations. Condition: Fair £24.99 A beautifully illustrated childrens book from the 1960s. It tells the traditional British tale of how the desperately poor young Dick Whittington accrued great riches and became Mayor of London. In this version he travels to Africa and meets thesmiling old savageAfrican King Mabbamoolee, whose kingdom suffers from a plague of rats. Dick lends him his talking cat Scat for one whole year. (Scat relishes the prospect of catching all those rats.) In exchange, King Mabbamoolee gets his slaves to load the ship on which Dick had travelled withtwenty-five barrels crammed with jewels, some as big as doveseggs, with ivories and gold nuggets, with boxes cut out of solid diamonds and felled with moonstones and emeralds. Its no