OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS by T. S. Eliot. Illustrations by Edward Gorey. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1982. Stated first edition, 2nd printing. 8.25" x 5.75" hardcover containing 56 pages. Book is in excellent clean condition. Prior owner gift notations on the front free endpaper. Original price-clipped dust jacket is clean with some scattered fade and a few closed small edge tears. Jacket is protected in a fresh mylar sleeve.