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Eliot, T. S.; Scheffler, Axel.
The Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. [Signed and doodled by Axel Scheffler]
Publisher: Faber and Faber, London;
Date of Publication: 2009
Stock Code: 12491
First edition thus, with full numberline. Small quarto, pp. [8], 64. Illustrated throughout. Bound in cornflower blue publisher’s cloth with gilt vignette to upper board and gilt titles to spine, with pictorial cat endpapers. In the original unclipped pale blue pictorial dust-jacket. An exceptionally clean & neat copy. Near fine. Eliot’s much loved cat poems newly imagined with super colour illustrations by the acclaimed children’s illustrator, Axel Scheffler, best known for illustrating the Gruffalo and Zog series. With Scheffler’s signature and an original humorous cat sketch dated “Edinburgh 25.8.2017” to foot of title-page. £180.00