Description
Signed first edition of Elephi: The Cat with the High IQ by Jean Stafford, with a hand-drawn cat illustration.
Octavo, [vi], 76pp. Black cloth covers, title in black on white cloth spine. Stated “First Printing, 1962” on copyright page. Solid text block, fine condition. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $3.50 retail price on front flap, fine condition.
Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “To Burt / from Mrs. A.J. Liebling / Miss Jean Stafford,” with a cat drawing.
Jean Stafford (1915-1979) received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford in 1970.
