OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original yellow cloth with red illustration to the upper board and titles to spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a bump to the bottom edge, the cloth clean, with some toning to the spine and board edges. The contents, with a little spotting to the endpapers, are otherwise clean and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the good, rubbed and nicked dustwrapper, which is a little chipped at the head of the spine, has several closed tears at the lower folds and is somewhat darkened, spotted and marked to the panels. Not price-clipped (3s 6d net to the front flap).

The basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical 'Cats', and subsequent film adaptations. Just 3,005 copies of the first edition were printed. (Gallup A34a).