NMLP P-030441 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

T.S. Eliot · Faber & Faber (London) · 1939

UK Faber 1939 with Eliot's own cover design is the true first, preceding the US Harcourt, Brace edition (1939) and the 1940 Bentley-illustrated edition.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-030441 for "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" by T.S. Eliot (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-030441, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).