Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T S Eliot, illustrated by Nicholas Bentley 

Introduced by Anne Brichto of Addyman Books in Hay-on-Wye 

Jellicle Cats are dancing across my desk. T S Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats has brought joy to many. This edition illustrated by Nicholas Bentley is the best. 

This early one is £30 but we have a first edition in a wrapper which I am about to price and catalogue which will be about £200.

All of T S Eliot works are collectable in first edition form but the two that we get asked for the most are The Four Quartets and this.

First edition of Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, published by Faber & Faber in 1939.

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats is the basis of the musical Cats.