Daisy Eckersley — Cat O&Apos;Nine Lives

London, Peter Lunn, 1946 . First edition. Cloth. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this charming children's tale about a cat, illustrated by the prominent 20th century poster designer Tom Eckersley. The very scarce first edition, first impression of this work, in the original price clipped dust wrapper designed by Eckersley.A very scarce work from pioneering British graphic designer Tom Eckersley, known for his modernist approach to poster design. Influenced by European avant-garde movements, his work spanned public information campaigns, commercial advertising, and wartime propaganda, with commissions from London Transport, the BBC, the General Post Office, and various government departments. Illustrated with a frontispiece and thirteen full page illustrations on colour paper, with further vignette monochrome illustrations, all the work of Eckersley. Collated, complete.This volume presents the story of the first cat to establish the legend that cats have nine lives, and the text is authored by his wife, Daisy Eckersley. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, exceptionally bright, with small mark to head of front board. Minor losses of paper to dust wrapper back strip head and tail, with small loss to head and tail of rear wrap, with light handling marks to rear wrap, and with three minor closed tears to front wrap tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright, Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Tom Eckersley. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.