Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, First Edition (119 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Thus. Super copy of this reprint with and extra poem added. Clean and bright. The dust jacket is similarly fabulous albeit price clipped.

Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print (number line on copyright page 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Hardback copy in dark blue cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine, gold gilt illustration to front boards. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 64pp. Colour illustrations throughout 9both full page and within text). Not library copy, no inscriptions. (64/7).

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Scheffler, Axel (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first printing thus (correct number string) Large Octavo hardback, 64 pp Colour illustrated. Fine condition in Very Good + unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions.

Edward Gorey (illustrator). First edition thus. Black boards clean. DJ has a small amount of age wear but nothing major (unclipped). Contents clean. Binding tight. NO scribbles/inscriptions of any kind.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Nicholas Bentley (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1962 first edition. The classic cat verse with illustrations by Nicholas Bentley and from which the later musical was based. Small owner's inscription dated 1963 otherwise clean interior with all pages tight in binding, covers clean and unscuffed.

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Pictorial Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Nicolas Be ntley (illustrator). 1st Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. In Very Good Condition. No Notes, Names or Markings. No Torn Or Folded Pages. With Very Minor Wear Corners and Edges. For More Information On Condition. Please View All Images. Book Bundle Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. T.S Elliot - 1st Edition 1974 - 64 Pages The Whitsun Weddings. Philip Larkin - Later Printing - 46 Pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Gorey, Edward (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st printing of the Edward Gorey edition. Binding tight. Text block has no marks or writing. Light shelf wear to covers. Satisfaction guaranteed. Selling quality books online for 30 years. Ships in 24 hours carefully wrapped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION THUS, first printing. Octavo (23 x 19cm), pp.[8]; 64. Publisher's blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine and upper, cat endpapers. Dust-jacket designed by Ken de Silva, with printed price of £14.99 to front flap. Internally fine. Some rippling to the dust-jacket and water staining to reverse at the foot. Very good. T. S. Eliot's classic feline collection here presented with superb new illustrations by renowned illustrator Axel Scheffler.

First Edition. Near fine pamphlet copy; wrappers very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall: tight, bright and clean. Physical description; 24 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 14 x 23 cm. Subjects; Drama 20th century. Theatre; 20th century. Cats; musical. Musicals; 20th century. Musicals; programmes. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Spiral bound softcover, brief gift inscription, very good. Illustrated by Edward Gorey.

First Edition. Near fine pamphlet copy; wrappers very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall: tight, bright and clean. Physical description; 24 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 14 x 23 cm. Subjects; Drama 20th century. Theatre; 20th century. Cats; musical. Musicals; 20th century. Musicals; programmes. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Nicolas Bentley, Illustrator (illustrator). 1st Edition. Solid hardcover book with wonderful full color illustrations by Nicolas Bentley. Eleventh impression (so stated). Clean beige cloth boards with two dancing cats (in hats) on cover, red lettering on spine. Light soiling to spine (water mark). No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Previous owner prize bookplate on front fixed endpaper from St. Anthony's School in Hampstead. 64 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Published by Faber & Faber, London 1943 (5th imp) Clean and bright. Single letter 'S' in red to ffep. No other marks or inscriptions. Clean cloth covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Edward Gorey (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1982 Hardcover "H" printing. Interior has gift inscription on ffep. Otherwise interior clean. Binding tight. Boards clean. Dust jacket clean. Protected in mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Gorey, Edward (illustrator). 1st Edition. About the book: Hardcover with jacket. First Edition, Fifth Printing. Both book and jacket are in very good condition. Non-authorial "sweet 16" inscription inside front boards. Additional photos available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A superb clean, bright FIRST EDITION, First Printing (2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1) with the 2 CDs included in their original packets, attached at beginning and end. All appear unopened and unread. No markings or inscriptions. Some very slight indeed rubbed areas to laminate. Contents immaculate. Overall, appears virtually as new. FREE p&p within the U.K. Additional postage may be requested from buyers outside the U.K. where necessary. (25% of all proceeds from FARRAGO sales donated to the Motor Neurone Disease Association).

Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. Edward Gorey (illustrator). [8], 56 pages. Illustrations. The text has been reprinted from its original publication. The illustrations are new with this edition. Eliot's famous collection of nonsense verse about cats-the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. This edition features pen-and-ink drolleries by Edward Gorey throughout. Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright. He is considered to be one of the 20th century's greatest poets, as well as a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. His use of language, writing style, and verse structure reinvigorated English poetry. He is also noted for his critical essays, which often re-evaluated long-held cultural beliefs. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work, and marry there. He became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39 and renounced his American citizenship. Eliot first attracted widespread attention for his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" from 1914 to 1915, which, at the time of its publication, was considered outlandish. It was followed by The Waste Land (1922), "The Hollow Men" (1925), "Ash Wednesday" (1930), and Four Quartets (1943). He wrote seven plays, notably Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949). He was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry". In 1939, Eliot published a book of light verse, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. ("Old Possum" was Ezra Pound's friendly nickname for Eliot.) The first edition had an illustration of the author on the cover. In 1954, the composer Alan Rawsthorne set six of the poems for speaker and orchestra in a work titled Practical Cats. After Eliot's death, the book was the basis of the musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber, first produced in London's West End in 1981 and opening on Broadway the following year. Edward St. John Gorey (February 22, 1925 April 15, 2000) was an American writer, Tony Award-winning costume designer, and artist, noted for his own illustrated books as well as cover art and illustration for books by other writers. His characteristic pen-and-ink drawings often depict vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Victorian and Edwardian settings. He illustrated works as diverse as Bram Stoker's Dracula, H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, and T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Throughout his career, he illustrated over 200 book covers for Doubleday Anchor, Random House's Looking Glass Library, Bobbs-Merrill, and as a freelance artist. In later years he produced cover illustrations and interior artwork for many children's books by John Bellairs, as well as books begun by Bellairs and continued by Brad Strickland after Bellairs' death. He made a notable impact on the world of theater with his designs for the 1977 Broadway revival of Dracula, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Costume Design and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Scenic Design. In 1980, Gorey became particularly well known for his animated introduction to the PBS series Mystery! In the introduction of each Mystery! episode, host Vincent Price would welcome viewers to "Gorey Mansion" An Original Harvest/HBJ Book [stated]. Presumed first printing thus.

Spiral Bound. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. Gorey, Edward (illustrator). 1st Edition. This is a New and Unread copy of the first edition (1st printing). Drawings by Edward Gorey. Spiral Bound. Unused and New.

1st edition / 1st printing hardback with dust jacket As New small quarto 64pp., illusts., New edition of Eliot's masterpiece with new illustrations by Axel Scheffler.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Nicolas Bentley (illustrator). 1st Edition. 5th impression of this first illustrated edition published in December 1948 as stated. Full cloth with color vignette to cover and titles in red to spine, includes 14 full page full color plates and text illustrations in black by Nicolas Bentley. Original illustrated dust jacket with chips and tears (mostly to spine) and toning. While the jacket is in rough shape it is now protected in mylar and has done a brilliant job of keeping the book clean and in excellent condition. Very short contemporary gift inscription to front free endpage, no other markings. The color plates are clean and vibrant.

Pictorial Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Errol Le Cain (illustrator). First American Edition. Pictorial boards, bumping to corners, last few pages with tiny corner bends; matching dust jacket with light wear to spine ends and corners, original price intact ($12.95). Growltiger's Last Stand, The Pekes and the Pollicles and The Song of the Jellicles from Old Possum's Book of Practicle Cats. Illustrated with jolly, detailed color artwork by Errol Le Cain. Size: Small Oblong 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Axel Scheffler (illustrator). First printing thus. Fine in an about fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Edward Gorey (illustrator). 1st Edition. 29th Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1939, 2nd impression. Small thin Quarto. 45pp. Original yellow cloth. Minor markings and edge wear. Binding square and tight. Clean internally. A 'Very Good' copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley (illustrator). Fourteen color plates. First edition thus. Very good in a very good, price clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, 3rd impression, 1940. Book in good condition, some slighty discoloration to top and bottom of boards. Corners sharp, slight bumping to spine ends. Text block rough cut, no insgriptions. Some tanning to early pages. Dustjacket intact save for slight chips at front top and bottom corners.Some discoloration and spine is a little darkened, see photos. Overall great condition for an 85-year old book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Edward Gorey (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1982 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, hardcover with dust jacket, First Edition with Edward Gorey illustrations, DJ has edge wear and sun faded spine, small spot on fore-edge, pages are clean and unmarked, 56 pages.