Author: T. S. Eliot
Title: Old Possum&Apos;S Book of Practical Cats
Description: London, Faber and Faber, 1940 . First edition. Cloth. The first illustrated edition of T. S. Eliot's famous poetry collection concerning feline psychology and sociology, in the original dust wrapper. First published the previous year, this is the first impression of the first illustrated edition.In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.A collection of whimsical poems from T. S. Eliot, written under the assumed name of 'Old Possum', a name Eliot used in letters to his godchildren.This anthology forms the basis of Andrew Lloyd Webber's famous 1981 musical 'Cats', and contains fifteen poems, including 'The Rum Tum Tugger', 'The Song of the Jellicles', 'Old Deuteronomy', and 'Mr Mistoffelees&apos.First published in 1939, this work was quickly reissued in 1940 with the illustrations of Nicholas Bentley, the famed British author and illustrator best known for his humorous cartoon drawings in books and magazines in the 1930s and 1940s.Illustrated with fourteen full colour plates, and numerous further vignette illustrations. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with back strip and board perimeters lightly age toned. Dust wrapper age toned to back strip. Loss of paper to back strip head and tail, with further area of loss to back strip centre. Small closed tears and chips to head of rear wrap. Small closed tear to head of front wrap. Light marks to front wrap. Tape repairs to dust wrapper reverse at back strip tail and head of rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Nicolas Bentley. Very Good Indeed/Good.

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