Eliot, Thomas Stearns, a large collection, comprising:
£440
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
Ara Vus Prec. [London]: The Ovid Press., [1920]. First edition, 4to, limited to 264 copies, out-of-series copy, modern calf-backed black cloth, dampstaining throughout, [Gallup A4]; [Idem] Dante. London: Faber & Faber, 1929. First edition, original pictorial boards, spine worn with loss, [Gallup A13]; [Idem] Ash-Wednesday. London: Faber & Faber, 1930. First trade edition, dustwrapper worn with significant loss, [Gallup A15a]; [Idem] Charles Whibley, a memoir. [London: H. Milord, O.U.P., 1931 [1932]. First edition, original grey wrappers, [Gallup A20a]; [Idem] Sweeney Agonistes. London: Faber & Faber, 1932. First edition, dustwrapper somewhat spotted, several tears; [Idem] The rock. London: Faber & Faber, [1934]. First edition, original grey paper wrappers slightly rubbed, slightly discoloured, [Gallup A26a]; [Idem] Essays ancient & modern. London: Faber & Faber, 1936. First edition, dustwrapper worn with loss, [Gallup A31a]; [Idem] Collected poems 1909-1935. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., [1936]. First American edition, dustwrapper frayed, [Gallup A32b]; [Idem] The family reunion. London: Faber & Faber, 1939. First edition, dustwrapper frayed and slightly soiled, [Gallup A33a]; [Idem] Old possum's book of practical cats. London: Faber & Faber, 1940. First edition, third impression, dustwrapper discoloured; [Idem] Elizabethan essays. London: Faber & Faber, [1941]. First edition, dustwrapper chipped at head, [Gallup A27a]; [Idem] Points of view. London: Faber & Faber, 1941. First edition, dustwrapper, [Gallup A38]; [Idem] Four quartets. London: Faber & Faber, [1944]. First English edition, dustwrapper somewhat soiled, [Gallup A42b]; [Idem] What is a classic ? London: Faber & Faber, [1945]. First edition, ordinary issue, dustwrapper worn with significant loss, [Gallup A45b]; [Idem] The cocktail party. London: Faber & Faber, 1950. First edition, dustwrapper slightly frayed, [Gallup A55a]; [Idem] Poetry and drama. London: Faber & Faber, 1951. First English edition, dustwrapper, [Gallup A57b]; [Idem], & G. Hoellering The film of Murder in the Cathedral. 1952. Dustwrapper, [Gallup A29i]; [Idem] The confidential clerk. London: Faber & Faber, 1954. First edition, first issue with "Ihad" on p.7, dustwrapper frayed at head and tail of spine, [Gallup A64a]; [Idem] The elder statesman. London: Faber & Faber, [1959]. First edition, dustwrapper, [Gallup A70a]; [Idem] Collected plays. London: Faber & Faber, [1962] First collected edition, dustwrapper discoloured, [Gallup A72]; [Idem] To criticise the critic. London: Faber & Faber, [1965]. First edition, dustwrapper slightly frayed, [Gallup A76a]; [Idem] The waste land, a facsimile and transcript of the original drafts including the annotations of Ezra Pound. London: Faber & Faber, 1971. 4to, number 55 of 500 copies, original cloth, slip case; and 8 others (2 Penguin editions, 2 volumes of The Letters, Gallup's Bibliography, Inventions of the March Hare, ex-library copy of Poems written in early youth; & Gekoski catalogue no. 3) (32)