A first edition of 250 copies of this work was printed in1985, in English, under the title "When the Cat's Away" by Kickshaw Editions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book consists of an erotic story in which part of the text has red type outlining a penile shape rising and falling as the tale proceeds. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The pages are designed to appear like embroidered quilts. The funny, macabre story is about Mary Ann who becomes a veritable human human torch as the tale unravels. The illustations and typography are both plays on the ideas of quilt-making. So named because each sheet looks like an old fashioned, cross-stitched sampler. It is about Mary Ann, born 1909. We meet her on the first page surrounded by dozens of cross-stitched pictures which later reappear as her gloomy story unfolds. They include a flatiron, a goat, a pig, a sinister man on a bicycle, etc., in a wide range of pastel colours: black is absent until her obituary on the last page. From her life and hard times, Mary Ann could have appropriately been called Calamity Jane but while her tale is desperate, its telling and illustrating is a frivolous delight. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Villiers De L'Isle-Adam (1838-1885) was a author ivolved in the French symbolist movement who wrote a number of Cruel Tales. This story translated by Crombie has to do with one of a hard working spinster sister who errs by falling in love. It is illustrated with drawings by Sheila Bourne. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a fictional biography of a man from his birth to age 80 years when he is near death. Several typefaces are employed to simulate the aging process. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book unfolds into seven booklets bound by six plastic spiral bindings. The images deal with the dogs and their owners living in Le Havre. This is the deluxe edition printed on Arches paper. The Sackner Archive holds another copy of this book that is printed in an French. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.