The Rock by Eliot, T.S - 1934

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co, 1934 Hardback without dustwrapper. 8vo. pp86. Oig. cloth, red title label to spine. Internally VG with a few letters inked in on pp7, 9 & 13 where they must have been absent as a printing flaw. Externally G+ with some soiling to front board & partial loss and abrasion to title label on darkened spine. Former-owner's bookplate to front pastedown.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. In grey jacket over tan cloth, 8vo, 86pp. (fading and toning to jacket extremities, sm. nick to jacket at upper tip, name and notes to endpapers, sm. stain to upper board).

0: Faber 2nd impression. Fair. Hardcover. 1934. pp 86 very faint foxing plain grey paper on boards blue title on spine .

London : Faber & Faber, 1934. 1st edition, 2nd printing. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original title-blocked paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 86 pages; 19 cm. Notes: A pageant play written for performance at Sadler's Wells Theatre on behalf of the Forty-five Churches Fund of the Diocese of London. Subjects: Drama; Screenplays; Theatre; American writers, 20th century.

Faber & Faber, London., 1934. First edition. Wrappers issue. Small octavo. 86 pages.Endpapers faintly spotted. Tail of spine a bit bumped. Very good.

London: Faber & Faber, (1934). First edition. "Written for Performance at Sadler's Wells Theatre 28 May - 9 June 1934 on Behalf of the Forty-five Churches Fund of the Diocese of London." Softcover issue (also issued in hardback). 12mo gray, printed paperwraps with flaps. Cover edges tanned, foxing to fore edges and blanks, some rubbing and light creasing to spine; altogether about very good.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934. First American Edition. First Printing, one of 1,500 copies. Octavo (19.5cm); boards bound in beige linen, with red printed paper label at upper spine; dustjacket; [ii],[7],8-86,[8]pp. Tiny vintage booksellers label to lower front endpaper, with three tiny ink check marks at margins on pp.7,14, and 30; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unpriced, lightly edgeworn, with some gentle sunning to extremities, and two closed tears along the upper edge; Very Good+. GALLUP A26b.

London: Faber and Faber, 1934. First Edition, Third impression. Near fine/Near fine. Small 8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 inches (190 x 125 mm); 86 pp. Original grey paper-covered boards, blue lettering on spin; original grey dust jacket with white and red lettering, unclipped (price of 2s. 6d. net) with minimal toning and only one small tear in the rear flap panel, else very fresh interior pages evenly toned but clean and binding tight. [Gallup A26a]. This pageant play with words by T. S. Eliot and music by Martin Shaw was first performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London on 28 May 1934. In a prefatory note Eliot disclaimed full responsibility for the text, saying "I cannot consider myself the author of the "play", but only of the words which are printed here." By Eliot's account, the text was written in collaboration with director E. Martin Browne and R. Webb-Odell. It was part of a massive project to fund the construction of forty-five new churches in the Anglican diocese of London. The director E. Martin… Read More

Faber & Faber, London., 1934. First trade edition. Small octavo. 86 pages. One of 500 copies issued in boards. A further 500 were issued in wrappers.Faint hint of darkening to edges of covers. Fine in very good indeed, slightly chipped dustwrapper..

London: Faber & Faber Limited,, 1934. First edition, first impression, one of 1,000 copies in boards (issued simultaneously with 1,000 copies in wrappers). One of the earliest of Eliot's works to be more-or-less dominated by Christian doctrine (and created in collaboration with a veritable synod of churchmen), The Rock envisages the modern era with Eliot's characteristic brand of scornfully sweeping bitterness. Octavo. Original white blue-speckled boards, spine lettered in blue. With dust jacket. Spine and extremities lightly toned, light spotting to edges and to initial and final leaves, a near-fine copy in very good jacket, lightly toned and soiled, trivial peripheral nicks, tiny split to spine panel, price intact and without repair. Gallup A26a.