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Old possum's book of practical cats / by T.S. Eliot ; drawings by Edward Gorey.
Van Pelt Library PS3509.L43 O55 1982
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
- Series:
- Harvest/HBJ book
- A Harvest/HBJ book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cats--Poetry.
- Cats.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Lask Poetry Collection.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lask, Thomas (donor) (RBC copy)
- Welsch, Erwin K. (former owner) (Welsch Eliot Collection)
- Harves, Carol Anne (donor) (Welsch Eliot Collection)
- Physical Description:
- 55 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.
- Summary:
- These playful verses by a celebrated poet have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were gathered for publication in 1939. As Valerie Eliot has pointed out, there are a number of references to cats in T. S. Eliot's work, but it was to his godchildren, particularly Tom Faber and Alison Tandy, in the 1930s, that he first revealed himself as "Old Possum" and for whom he composed his poems.
- Contents:
- The Naming of Cats 1
- The Old Gumbie Cat 5
- Growltiger's Last Stand 9
- The Rum Tum Tugger 13
- The Song of the Jellicles 17
- Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer 21
- Old Deuteronomy 25
- The Pekes and the Pollicles 29
- Mr. Mistoffelees 33
- Macavity: The Mystery Cat 37
- Gus: The Theatre Cat 41
- Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town 45
- Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat 49
- The Ad-dressing of Cats 53
- Cat Morgan Introduces Himself 56.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Dr. Myron Portenar and Anne Jaffe Portenar.
- Welsch Eliot Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Carol Anne Harves.
- ISBN:
- 015668568X
- OCLC:
- 7977212
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