Touch Not The Cat.

STEWART, Mary.

Item Number: 96208

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1976.

First edition of one of Mary Stewart’s best-known novels. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Dean Rath and Gavin with my love and admiration, Mary Stewart.” Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Mark Gerson.

Mary Stewart herself described Touch Not the Cat as "a modern adventure story spiced with romance (or romance spiced with adventure; it depends whether you are advertising it for men or for women)"; it was the highest selling book of 1976.