Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

by T. S. Eliot

$24,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

London: Faber and Faber, 1939. First edition of T. S. Eliot's whimsical collection of poems about feline psychology and sociology. Inscribed by the author, though Elliot's name not signed, To Edith with love / Christmas 1939 . A warm and personal inscription. Though impossible to prove, this might be inscribed to avant garde poet Edith Sitwell, one cannot say for certain. Elizabeth Salter in The Last Years of a Rebel: A

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