COLETTE. The Pussy. Novel. Paris : Bernard Grasset, [1933]. - In-12, amateur white suede-backed boards, first board decorated with a cut and pasted black cat and a dark green leather label bearing the author's name and the title of the book written by hand, in a silver painted frame and underlined by black lines, vertical band between two black fillets on the left edge, smooth spine including Colette's name written by hand, and a dark green leather piece bearing the title handwritten in silver, cover and spine preserved (period boards). First edition. Copy of the press service, enriched with this letter from Colette to Lucie Delarue-Mardrus on the false title : " to Lucie // Delarue-Mardrus, // her friend // Colette " Copy in a curious amateur binding of the time, perhaps made by Lucie Delarue-Mardrus . The spine of the cover has been glued to the binding, the body of the book is detached from the spine .