Four Quartets [First Edition. First printing] - [d.7.43]






Book Description
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943.
First edition, first printing. Octavo. Publisher’s black cloth, spine gilt. In the scarce first issue dust jacket, priced $2.00 on front flap, with nine titles listed at the rear panel. Printer’s code d·7·43 at copyright page.
References: Gallup A43a; Connolly, The Modern Movement: One Hundred Key Books no. 93.
Dealer Notes
One of only 788 copies of the first impression, most of which were rejected or destroyed owing to poor production. This true first American edition gathers for the first time Eliot’s four late masterpieces — Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding — often described as the summit of twentieth-century English verse.
Condition: The book itself is in Fine condition, remarkably fresh, apparently unread, with clean and uncreased pages, bright and square. The dust jacket is about Very Good, with losses at head and foot of spine and small edge chips; not price-clipped, retaining the original $2.00 price. Jacket panels complete with some toning and wear, but the original design remains strong.
Price as stated. Shipping: Insured and tracked shipping included to the UK and all EU countries. Otherwise, individually addressed.
Condition: The book itself is in Fine condition, remarkably fresh, apparently unread, with clean and uncreased pages, bright and square. The dust jacket is about Very Good, with losses at head and foot of spine and small edge chips; not price-clipped, retaining the original $2.00 price. Jacket panels complete with some toning and wear, but the original design remains strong.
Price as stated. Shipping: Insured and tracked shipping included to the UK and all EU countries. Otherwise, individually addressed.
Author
T.S. Eliot
Date
1943
Binding
hardcover with dustjacket
Publisher
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company
Condition
Fine with about Very Good dustjacket
Pages
39
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