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ELIOT, T.S. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats * Four Quartets. 8vo, publisher's cloth, small gouge on front cover edge of Cats, four leaves with closed tears and creases; Quartets with spine gilt rubbed off and one signature split; Cats in dust jacket, corners clipped, v-shaped tear to bottom of front cover panel with loss of a few letters. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1939); (1943)
first american editions, later impressions. each inscribed for Allen Hawkridge and dated "7.vi.47" with first title signed "Old Possum," the second with Eliot's signature. Gallup, A34b; A43a.
