Eliot, Thomas Stearns
£400
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
[Four Quartets]: East Coker, 1940; Burnt Norton. 1941; The dry salvages. 1941; Little Gidding, 1942. First separately published editions, 8vo, original yellow, green, pale blue and mauve paper wrappers, Burnt Norton with glass rim stain and ownership inscription to upper wrapper, East Coker somewhat spotted and with inscription to upper wrapper; and duplicate copies of The Dry Salvages and Burnt Norton (6)
Footnote
Note: East Coker, The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding first appeared in the journal New English Weekly in 1940, 1941 and 1942 respectively. Burnt Norton was first published in the poet's Collected Poems (1936). Gallup A37, A36c, A39, A42