Author: Eliot, T.S.
Title: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Description: [New York], Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1939. Hardcover. Light gray cloth boards with black spine lettering; orange dj with black lettering and illustration; 46 pp, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates. 1st American edition. "The title-leaf, printed on orange paper, lettered by the author and with his pictorial design, is inserted [tipped in]." These playful verses by a celebrated poet have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were gathered for publication in 1939. As Valerie Eliot has pointed out, there are a number of references to cats in T.S. Eliot's work, but it was to his godchildren, particularly Tom Faber and Alison Tandy, in the 1930s, that he first revealed himself as "Old Possum" and for whom he composed his poems; later inspired Andrew Lloyd Webber's legendary musical "Cats. Good- (foxing and soiling spots to boards; age toning overall, soiling spot along top of block that extends very slightly to page edges. DJ is worn, soiled and torn.) .

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