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n.p. 1962-1975. An extraordinary, unique collection of manuscript poems by fifty-three of the most distinguished post-war poets. All of the poems are signed by the poets and many have personal inscriptions to Eric White and his wife Dodo. Two volumes. Fifty-seven autograph poems, and one drawing on seventy-eight pages. Loosely inserted in volume one are ten typed or autograph letters signed from some of the poets (including Larkin, Betjeman and one from Eliot's secretary at Faber written only months before the poet's death) and a list of contents in White's own hand. Loosely inserted in the second volume are two typed poems signed "Ken", copies of a menu for a dinner on 11th November 1975 and seemingly organised by Ted Hughes and a splendid photograph of White, Ted Hughes and a bull. Volume one is bound in maroon half morocco and red cloth and volume two in full cloth. Heavy wove cream paper with watermark WSH which is the mark of W.S.Hodgkinson of Wookey Hole. So good is the paper that in his letter… Read More

London, The Egoist Ltd, 1917. . First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's buff wrappers printed in black, strip of toning to the lower wrapper, small scuff to the middle of the back strip, some tiny loss to the foot, rear hinge repaired, otherwise a distinctly superior copy of a cornerstone collection by any standards, of any era; housed in a quarter leather, cloth box. Egoist - under the direction of Ezra Pound - produced in wartime conditions just 500 copies. They were not built to last and copies in unrestored condition are genuinely uncommon. Gallup A1; Connolly, The Modern Movement 30a; Hayward 33.

London: The Egoist Press, 1917. Original wraps. Very Good. The 1917 true 1st edition, limited to 500 copies, of T.S. Eliot's first published book. A slim, fragile volume physically but one that set the poetry world ablaze upon publication. Seen as a seminal bridge toward Modernism, Eliot's voice in this debut work is an exemplar of stream of consciousness and foretells his exalted place --along with that of Ezra Pound's-- in Modernist sensibilities. Solid and VG in its unassuming beige wrappers, with one small closed tear and very light scuffing and soiling along the panels. Light chipping as well --with about 30% loss-- along the spine. Internally, the text is very clean, the pages bright-white. Small, neat signature at the foot of the title page ("Mitchell Dawson", Chicago poet and patron of the arts, 1890-1956), otherwise no markings internally to speak of. 12mo, 40 pgs. Also includes a handsome custom box (blue cloth, green leather title label).

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First Edition, First Printing, Second State. Cloth. Fine/fine. First edition, second state of The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, in the publisher's second state dust jacket.. Octavo, [6], [9]-64pp. Publisher's flexible black cloth boards, title stamped in gilt on spine and front cover. Includes the publisher's glassine wrapper in fine condition. This copy is largely unopened. From a limited edition of 1000 copies, this being number 161, with stamp in 5mm font on colophon. Housed in custom black cloth clamshell, title on spine in gilt. Publisher's second state dust jacket, lacking the period after the text in the boxed announcement, salmon paper, $1.50 on spine, fine condition. This issue of Waste Land is the second state text, with "mount in" on page 41 and the "a" is dropped from water on page 22. (Gallup A6a) A beautiful example. First published in December of 1922, the first copies were issued with "mountain" spelled correctly on page 41, line 339; but in later… Read More

FABER, 1961. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. London: [Printed at the Officina Bodoni for] Faber & Faber, 1961. Limited edition, number 17 of 300 numbered copies signed by the author. Large quarto. 52, [1, blank], [1, limitation] pages. Bound by the Chelsea Bindery in full black morocco, single gilt rule to boards, titled and ruled in gilt to spine with two raised bands, gilt single-line edge roll, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt and trimmed, other edges untrimmed..

New York. Boni and Liveright. 1922 Gilt titled black cloth over flexible boards. 8vo. First Edition,First state with "Mountain" correctly spelled on page 41. Universally recognized as the single most important poetical work of the 20th Century, the first edition of the Wastland was limited to a printing of 1,000 numbered copies, 500 of which were in the "first state" or first run of the press. This copy is a "bastard" or un-numbered copy. There are few titles of modern literature which surpass the magnitude of collectibility and historical significance of this masterwork. A very rare copy. Cover is the slightest bit dusty, minor offset to prelims, chipping to several page edges due to poor cutting (not affecting text), Spine cracked but firm.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition, first printing (and the first hardcover edition). Fine in just about fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. Housed in quarter morocco gilt and cloth clamshell case. Eliot's masterpiece, an elaborately constructed lyric meditation on time and the nature of experience, memory, and consciousness. One of the principal poetic works of the century. Only 788 copies of this printing survived the publisher's recall for poor printing quality. An especially fresh copy. *Connolly 100*.

London: Faber & Faber, 1950. First edition of Eliot's most popular play published in his lifetime. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his sister, "Marian Eliot from Tom." The recipient, Marian Cushing Eliot was the sister of T.S. Eliot and his favorite. Light rubbing, near fine in near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional association. The Cocktail Party was written while Eliot was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1948. It was first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1949. In 1950 the play had successful runs in London and New York theaters (the Broadway production received the 1950 Tony Award for Best Play.) It focuses on a troubled married couple who, through the intervention of a mysterious stranger, settle their problems and move on with their lives. The play starts out seeming to be a light satire of the traditional British drawing… Read More

Faber and Faber, London., 1936. First edition. Octavo. 191 pages.Inscribed by the author on the title-page: ''Inscribed for Christopher Fry in affection and esteem - T.S. Eliot''. The recipient's ownership signature, dated 1936, is on the front free endpaper. A highly significant association copy, bringing together the two greatest English language verse dramatists of the century. It is presumably the case that the book was inscribed several years after it was first acquired by Fry, as the latter once told the theatre critic Michael Billington, 'I first met Eliot in 1939, and I remember asking him what I could do in wartime that didn't mean shooting people. He suggested the fire service, but I told him that I had no head for heights. Eliot said, ''You must specialise in basements.'' ' From the condition of the book it must be assumed that it was consulted by Fry on numerous occasions: damage to backstrip repaired; covers marked and rubbed; good; no dustwrapper. Read More

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1960. Later printing of Eliot's beloved collection of whimsical feline poems which served as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 megamusical phenomenon Cats. Octavo, original yellow pictorial cloth, illustrated by T. S. Eliot. Association copy, inscribed by the author to portrait painter Sir Gerald Kelly on the front free endpaper, "For Gerald Kelly with the warm regards & admiration of the author of these verses and the illustrator, T.S. Eliot (O.P.)" Eliot and the recipient, Gerard Kelly, struck up a close friendship back in the early 1920s, and in 1960 Kelly was commissioned to paint a portrait of Eliot, which is now on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institute. Eliot has amended two poems with blue ink: 'Of The Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles...' (line 6 reading 'They will now and again join in to the fray' corrected to 'Or now and again they join in to the fray') and 'Shimbleshanks: The Railway Cat' (line 56 reading 'In the watches of… Read More

Surrey: Printed and Published by Leonard and Virgina Woolf, 1923. First British edition, printed by the Woolfs in an edition of ca. 460 copies, from type hand-set by Virginia. 35, [1, blank], [1, ad] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue paper wrappers, printed label with rules above and below text. Spine defective, some fading to boards, scattered foxing. Good. Boxed. First British edition, printed by the Woolfs in an edition of ca. 460 copies, from type hand-set by Virginia. 35, [1, blank], [1, ad] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The Hogarth Press Waste Land. Virginia and Leonard Woolf had published Eliot's Poems (1919) as the fourth book of their Hogarth Press, and they printed the first English edition of The Waste Land, from type set entirely by Virginia (she wrote to a friend on 8 July 1923 that she had completed the task). The book was published in September and sold out less than two years later. Gallup identifies three states of the label, assigning no priority. The blue patterned paper wrappers are fragile, as here. An… Read More

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1954. First edition. 127 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue buckram with gilt titles on the spine, in crisp unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed on the flyleaf, a fine copy in a custom cloth wrapper and morocco spine label. First edition. 127 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Presentation Copy. This collection was originally issued by Penguin Books in 1948. This is the first edition published by Faber and Faber, and includes 'The Waste Land'. Inscribed "with best wishes from T.S. Eliot". Gallup A50X

1960. First Edition. Signed. ELIOT, T.S. The Four Quartets. London: Faber and Faber, (1960). Tall quarto, original cream and marbled paper boards, original marbled slipcase. $6200.Signed limited edition of this highspot of 20th-century poetry, number 102 of 290 copies signed by Eliot, beautifully printed at the Officina Bodoni in Verona.The Officina Bodini was founded in 1922 by Hans Mardersteig and named for Giambattista Bodoni, the great eighteenth-century Parma printer. In 1923 the Italian government granted the press the sole right to use the original Bodoni matrices housed in the Biblioteca Palatina. ""Mardersteig's approach was closer to that of the early scholar printers like Aldus Manutius or Robert Estienne than to the dilettantes of the Arts and Crafts Movement; the result has been that Officina Bodoni books have a value far above their success as examples of fine printing: they areÂ…designed to be read."" (Cave, 177). First published in four separate parts during World War II, The Four… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, 1950. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt, fine in worn and tattered dust jacket; in red morocco-backed drop box. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Presentation from Eliot to Allen Tate. With the error at page 29, line 1 "here" for "her." A remarkable association copy, with the following pre-publication presentation inscription from Eliot to his American friend and admirer, poet and critic Allen Tate: "To Allen Tate from T.S. Eliot 6 iii 50." Publication day was March 9, 1950 for English edition and March 10, 1950 for the American. Gallup A55

London: R. Cobden-Sanderson, 1926. First edition, 300 copies printed. xv, [1], 99 pp. 8vo. Original black cloth with white paper spine label, gray dust jacket printed in black. A few chips and minor toning to jacket, faint crease to inscribed leaf. First edition, 300 copies printed. xv, [1], 99 pp. 8vo. Dedication copy. Dedication copy, inscribed by the author, the mother of T.S. Eliot, to Eliot's sister: "Marian C. Eliot / With dear love / from / Mother." The book is dedicated: "To My Children." T.S. Eliot wrote the introduction to the book and helped arrange for its publication. An educator, social reformer, and a published writer of essays and poems, Charlotte Champe Stearns Eliot (1843-1929) never fulfilled her own literary ambitions, but encouraged Eliot in his. She wrote to her son while he was still at Harvard: "I hope in your literary work you will receive early the recognition I strove for and failed. I should so have loved a college course, but was obliged to teach before I was nineteen… Read More

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original black cloth lettered in gold on front cover and spine. In the extremely scarce dust jacket that is identical to that of the first edition, Although second edition stated, this is actually the second impression published from the first-edition type. "mount in" on page 41 was not corrected. No 661 of 1000 copies printed. Both book and dust jacket are in very fine, almost mint condition. Mostly unopened. This is a stunning copy of Eliot's landmark poem that is considered to be one of the most important poems of the 20th century. Google 'Ceebe100' to watch a video of this book..

1945. First Edition. Signed. ELIOT, T.S. What Is a Classic? An Address delivered before the Virgil Society on the 16th of October 1944. London: Faber & Faber, (1945). Slim octavo, original light blue cloth, supplied dust jacket. $5200.First edition, ordinary issue, presentation copy, of this presidential address delivered to the Virgil Society in 1944, inscribed in the year of publication to Eliot's beloved first spiritual counselor, a longtime Anglican vicar who served at St. Stephen's in Kensington, where the deeply religious Eliot worshipped and served as churchwarden during the final decades of his life: ""To Fr. Eric Cheetham from T.S. Eliot. Ash Wednesday 1945.""""In his 1944 Presidential Address to the Virgil Society, Eliot placed the Latin poet 'at the center of European civilization'"" (Yeats Eliot Review). Eliot argued—perhaps inspired by British classicist and scholar Jackson Knight—that Virgil was a sort of proto-Christian, embodying what Eliot saw as Christian values (e.g. a sense… Read More

The First UK printing published by Faber and Faber, London in 1935 (The first complete edition, having been slightly preceded by an acting edition). The BOOK is in near Fine condition. Some light spotting to the blank end-papers and a little toning to the text-block. Free from inscriptions. Some pages remain uncut. A very small tear to the lower edge of pages 7 and 9 which is likely to have been a production fault in the cutting of the pages. The WRAPPER is complete and is in exceptional condition. Just a a hint of toning to the spine. The red colouring to the spine remains unfaded. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. The book has been signed (without dedication) by the author to the title page. The book is housed in a custom solander box with marbled inserts, gilt titling and a silk tie. A very sharp copy. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. First edition, second issue, no. 886 of 1000 copies, this copy with number 2 mm in height, a dropped in line 339 (p. 441). 64 pp. [First leaf is a blank]. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth over stiff boards titled in gilt. Very good plus (slight rubbing, extremities bumped). First edition, second issue, no. 886 of 1000 copies, this copy with number 2 mm in height, a dropped in line 339 (p. 441). 64 pp. [First leaf is a blank]. 1 vols. 8vo. The Landmark Modernist Poem. T.S. Eliot, whose literary reputation was established with his first book in 1917, was awarded the annual literary prize of The Dial magazine for The Waste Land in 1922 by publisher Scofield Thayer, a friend and classmate from Milton Academy and Harvard. Thayer's aim was to establish Eliot and American literature among the vanguard of modern cultural activity. "It did not hurt that 1922 also saw the long-heralded publication of Joyce's Ulysses, or that in 1923 Eliot linked himself and Joyce with Einstein in the… Read More

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First edition. Copy 391 of 1000. Original flexible black cloth, one of 500 copies so bound (the first binding issue). "Mountain" is correctly spelled on p. 41. Covers and margins mildly damp stained. Gallup A6a; Woolmer 28.