The Confidential Clerk: A Play
by Eliot, T. S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine, 1st USA edition, with good unclipped d/j (some fading on spine and marks on front); black boards clean, gilt titling
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1954. 1st USA. hardback. Near fine, 1st USA edition, with good unclipped d/j (some fading on spine and marks on front); black boards clean, gilt titling on spine bright; pages clean and unmarked with tight binding. . 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Eliot's penultimate play first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953. A drawing room farce of mistaken identity.
Synopsis
A modern verse play that touches on the sources of longing and the need to be loved. "Never has Eliot's apparently effortless prosody been more precise.... He has achieved complete mastery of words" (Kirkus Reviews). "It is a wise, witty, elegant play whose characters speak finely and shrewdly" (Chicago Sunday Tribune).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC38459
- Title
- The Confidential Clerk: A Play
- Author
- Eliot, T. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine, 1st USA edition, with good unclipped d/j (some fading on spine and marks on front); black boards clean, gilt titling
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st USA
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Pages
- 160
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st USA, drama, Nobel, TSEliot
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
Terms of Sale
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