LOT:93 | Eliot (T.S.) Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, first edition, 1939.

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Eliot (T.S.) Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, first edition, 1939.

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Eliot (T.S.) Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, first edition, some spotting to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine faded, extremities rubbed, repaired to verso, 8vo, 1939.

⁂ Overall a very good copy of Eliot's book of light verse, the basis for Lloyd Webber's musical 'Cats'.

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Eliot (T.S.) Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, first edition, some spotting to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine faded, extremities rubbed, repaired to verso, 8vo, 1939.

⁂ Overall a very good copy of Eliot's book of light verse, the basis for Lloyd Webber's musical 'Cats'.

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