I have here for sale a book entitled OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS by T S Eliot, Nicholas Bentley drew the pictures. Published in November 1940, this is the First Illustrated Edition. The First Edition was in September 1939. This is the book upon which the musical, CATS was based.  It features short rhyming stories about 14 different cat characters accompanied by full page colour illustrations, so 14 in total.  Includes all our favourites like Mr Mistoffelees, Rum Tum Tugger, Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer, Bustopher Jones and Skimbleshanks, to name a few.

Cream cloth hardboards with a colour illustration of Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer to the front cover.  Red title lettering to the spine.  A few small marks to the cloth , boards firm.  Bookplate to the front endpaper for Walter Sidney Scott.  Pages clean and firmly bound.  51 pages, 22 cm x 16 cm.

We have over 2000 items in our Ebay shop on a wide range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if and anything else takes your fancy.

Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK.  If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.