[Eliot, T.S.- Association Copy, In Dust Jacket] Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

London: Faber and Faber, 1939.

First Edition. Original yellow cloth pictorial vignette on cover stamped in red, spine with red lettering. In the unrestored and unclipped yellow dust jacket with enchanting cover illustration of cats climbing a ladder. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, Stephen Spender's Copy, noted novelist and essayist whose work focused on social injustice and class struggle. With his bookplate. Book is fine, wrapper near fine. Eliot published four of Spender's poems in†T1930 (in the Criterion, and later, Spender's first standalone work,†Poems, in 1933) Spender recalled: "At our first luncheon [T.S. Eliot] asked me what I wanted to do. I said: 'Be a poet.' 'I can understand you wanting to write poems, but I don't quite know what you mean by "being a poet,"' he objected."†A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.†.

Price: $2,500.00   Item #6071