ELIOT, T. S.

£375 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. First illustrated edition of Eliot's nonsense verse, colourfully imagined by Nicolas Bentley. Eliot composed the whimsical poems throughout the 1930s, often including them in letters to his godchildren. The first edition was published in 1939.

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