OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS
Written by T.S. Eliot
Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley
Published by Faber & Faber
in 1940
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OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS
Written by T.S. Eliot.
Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley.
Stock no. 1831030
1959.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
a collection of whimsical light poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology. Cream cloth with red title to spine and picture of two cats dancing to front cover. Colour illustrations, 50 pages. Ninth impression. Some foxspots to cloth boards. Name & date in ink to front endpaper. Blue ink smudges to page 37 and facing illustration (Macavity: The Mystery Cat) - not too bad. Else contents are clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is grubby and browned, worn at top & tail of spine with slight loss.
Front cover
Contents
- The Naming of Cats
- The Old Gumbie Cat
- Growltiger's Last Stand
- The Rum Tum Tugger
- The Song of the Jellicles
- Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer
- Old Deuteronomy
- The Pekes and the Pollicles
- Mr. Mistoffelees
- Macavity: the Mystery Cat
- Gus: the Theatre Cat
- Bustopher Jones: the Cat about Town
- Skimbleshanks: the Railway Cast
- The Ad-dressing of Cats