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1 T.S. Eliot Between the Covers

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3 X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Charles Whibley's Copy BALZAC, Jean-Louis Guez [and] W.T. Esq. [William Tyrwit]. The Letters of Mounsieur de Balzac. London: Richard Clotterbuck First English edition, and first edition of this translation by William Tyrwit. Quarto. [24], 401 [i. e. 410], [4] pp.; 19 cm., with the small bookplate of Charles Whibley ("Sum Caroli Whibley") on the front pastedown. Very good in early 18th century full speckled calf, with the spine professionally re-backed on leather, and with a small chip to the bottom edge of the title page, resulting in the loss of the first three numbers of the date (only the 4 of the date 1634 is present), the chip restored with antique laid paper. The text pages are clean and tight, with a contemporary owner's signature (circa 1650) in neat ink on the stub of a binder's blank. The celebrated book collector Charles Whibley ( ) is best known as the man who recommended to Geoffrey Faber that he hire T.S. Eliot. Scarce. # $1000 KREYMBORG, Alfred, edited by. Others: an Anthology of the New Verse. New York: Alfred A Knopf First edition. Good with the top one half inch of the spine missing, tears at the top and bottom of the spine, light edgewear, in a good dustrapper with tears and chips along the spine, some tape reinforcement along the interior of the spine, edgewear, soiling. Contributors include T.S. Eliot, Alfred Kreymborg, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, William Carlos Williams, others. # $75 X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX [ELIOT, T.S.]. Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry. New York: Alfred A. Knopf First edition. Rose-colored paper-covered boards stamped in gilt. Fine, lacking the unprinted dustwrapper. One of 1000 copies of Eliot's second book, issued anonymously. Collector John Quinn's copy with his bookplate on the front pastedown. A lovely copy. # $850

4 (MOORE, Marianne) KREYMBORG, Alfred, editor. Others: An Anthology of the New Verse (1917). New York: Alfred A Knopf First edition (1917 edition, with an entirely new selection of poems). Boards a bit soiled, very good in near very good dustwrapper with some modest chipping and a long internal repair. Includes contributions by Maxwell Bodenheim, T.S. Eliot, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, and others. # $150 Allen Tate's Copy ELIOT, T.S. Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf First edition. Rebound in full burgundy leather gilt. Mottling to the leather, some slight finger smudges in the text, a very good copy. Early ownership Signature of Allen Tate ("Orley Allen Tate. June 6th, E.H."). In late 1921 Donald Davidson invited Tate to attend informal meetings of like-minded literary men including John Crowe Ransom, who then launched the magazine The Fugitive in In the same year Hart Crane sent a letter to Tate in which Crane cited similarities to Eliot in a Tate poem that appeared in The Double Dealer. The comment, according to David Havird, prompted Tate to purchase Eliot's Poems (1920). Immediately he recognized his affinity with the older poet: "This man, though by no means famous at that time, was evidently so thoroughly my contemporary that I had been influenced by him before I had read a line of his verse." During his last semester at Vanderbilt, Tate, with his roommate and lifelong friend Ridley Wills, wrote The Golden Mean, a parody of the much loved poem, The Waste Land. This admiration spurred Tate's rejoinder to an attack on Eliot by Ransom, which permanently damaged their relationship. Despite the rather unsympathetic binding, an exceptionally important association copy reflecting the effect of Eliot on Tate, an effect that carried through to many other young American poets as well. # $2,500

5 ELIOT, T.S. Poems London: Faber and Gwyer First edition. Contemporary owner name on the front fly, very slight foxing, spine label whole but uniformly darkened, and slight wear at the crown, a sound and pleasing very good or a little better copy lacking the dustwrapper. # $650 ROTH, Samuel, edited by. Two Worlds Monthly: Two Volumes. New York: The Two Worlds Publishing Company First editions. Two volume set. Rust colored cloth with paper labels on spines. Top edge gilt. Good only with shaky binding, extensive water stains on cloth covers, spine labels mostly chipped. Five hundred sets of this series have been bound, numbered and Signed at the end of the prelude by the editor, this set is number 65. A literary quarterly which published Ulysses by James Joyce, without his consent and subsequently caused an uproar. This two volume set also includes works by D.H. Lawrence, Heinrich Heine, Arthur Schnitzler, Carl Sandburg, A.E. Coppard, Arthur Symons, Waverly Lewis Root, T.S. Eliot, and many more. # $450 BLACKMUR, R.P. T.S. Eliot. (New York): Reprint from The Hound & Horn First separate edition. Stapled wrappers. One staple pulled through, light edgewear to the wraps, a very good or better copy. # $225

6 ELIOT, T.S. The Sacred Wood. New York: Alfred A. Knopf First American edition thus, with a new preface by Eliot. Bottoms of the papercovered boards rubbed, else very near fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with a modest chip on the front panel, two very small chips on the rear panel and a faint stain in the front gutter. A book seldom found in jacket, this is a handsome copy. # $500 CROSBY, Harry. The Collected Poems of Harry Crosby: Chariot of the Sun; Transit of Venus; Torchbearer; [and] Sleeping Together. Paris: Black Sun Press First editions thus. Four volumes, complete. Chariot of the Sun, with Introduction by D.H. Lawrence; Transit of Venus, with Preface by T.S. Eliot; Torchbearer, with Notes by Ezra Pound; and Sleeping Together, with a Memory of the Poet by Stuart Gilbert. Octavos. Fine in original printed wrappers, and fine glassine dustwrappers, in near fine original red cloth publisher's slipcase with a little sunning. Set number 54 of 500 numbered sets. # $3,200

7 Beckett's First American Book Appearance (Anthology) (BECKETT, Samuel). PUTNAM, Samuel, Maida Castelhun Darnton, George Reavey and J. Bronowski, edited by. The European Caravan: An Anthology of the New Spirit in European Literature. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam First edition. Introductions by André Berge, Massimo Bontempelli, Jean Cassou, and E. Giménez Cabellero. Light foxing, near fine in a slightly spinetanned, near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tears and tiny nicks. Contains the first book appearance of Samuel Beckett in the United States. Additional contributors include W.H. Auden, H.D., T.S. Eliot, Dorothy Richardson, William Empson, Nancy Cunard, Hugh MacDiarmid, Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia, Jean Cocteau, Robert Desnos, Blaise Cendrars, and others. Stated as Part I, this was the only volume published. An attractive copy of an important anthology. # $750 ELIOT, T.S. The Use of Poetry. Cambridge: Harvard First American edition. Old, small bookstore label and a little offsetting from the jacket design on the endpapers, near fine in very good plus, price-clipped dustwrapper that is tanned at the spine and extremities, but has no appreciable chips or tears. A nice copy of this series of lectures delivered by Eliot at Harvard. # $450 $315 (Anthology) TYLER, Parker. Modern Things. New York: The Galleon Press (1934). First edition. Slight abrasion at the top of the page edges, near fine in good or better dustwrapper with some invisible repairs at the folds. Contributions by T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, E.E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein, Harold Rosenberg, H.R. Hays, Paul Eaton Reeve, Joseph Rocco, Lionel Abel, Charles Ford, Carl Rakosi, Louis Zukofsky, Raymond Larsson, and Parker Tyler. # $125

8 ELIOT, T.S. The Rock: A Pageant Play Written for Performance on Behalf of the Forty-Five Churches Fund of the Diocese of London. London: Faber and Faber (1934). First edition, hardcover issue. Tiny label of The Poetry Book Shop, fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy of a fragile and uncommon title. # $500 ELIOT, T.S. Murder in the Cathedral. London: Faber and Faber (1935). First complete edition, slightly preceded by an acting edition. Very slight offsetting on the front fly, still fine in fine dustwrapper. # $800 MOORE, Marianne. Selected Poems. London: Faber and Faber (1935). Uncorrected proof of the first English edition. Introduction by T.S. Eliot. Lacking the wrappers, and handbound into boards, owner's mark front pastedown, boards splayed, a very good copy. Scottish printer's rubberstamp on front flyleaf: "From Robert MacLerose & Co. Ltd. 30 Nov University Press, Anniesland, Glasgow." Connolly 100. # $475

9 ELIOT, T.S. Essays Ancient and Modern. London: Faber and Faber (1936). First edition. Tiny owner's signature front fly, else fine in spine-tanned, very good dustwrapper with a couple of short nicks and tears. # $200 ELIOT, T.S. The Family Reunion. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. (1939). First American edition. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with very light wear at the spine ends, rear panel is age toned. # $125 (ELIOT, T.S.). Partisan Review: May- June, New York: Partisan Review Volume VII, no. 3. Fine in very good, sunned wrappers. This issue features pieces by T.S. Eliot and Katherine Anne Porter. # $50 ELIOT, T.S. The Idea of a Christian Society. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1940). First American edition. Ex-library with spine faded, thus good only, lacking the dustwrapper. # $20

10 ELIOT, T.S. The Classics and The Man of Letters. London: Oxford University Press First edition. 12 mo. Stapled printed wrappers. A little agetoning, else near fine. The text of an address delivered to the Classical Association. # $65 ELIOT, T.S. The Waste Land and Other Poems. London: Faber & Faber (1942). Third printing. Penciled ownership signature of the poet Coman Leavenworth, else fine in printed wrappers and about very good dustwrapper with tanning and tears on the spine. # $35 ELIOT, T.S. Four Quartets. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1943). Second impression of the American edition. Tiny owner's name, else fine in near fine, modestly age-toned dustwrapper. 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. Connolly 100. # $475 Partisan Review Spring 1944 Volume XI Number 2. New York: Partisan Review Very good with wear along the spine, covers are soiled, light edgewear, in wrappers. Includes contributions by Mary McCarthy, T.S. Eliot, George Orwell, James Agee, Alex Comfort, and others. # $20

11 A Wreath of Christmas Poems. Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions (1944). First edition. Contributors include T.S. Eliot, Rilke, Milton, Chaucer, Dante, Virgil. Off-setting to the endpapers in priceclipped, sunned self wrappers thus very good. # $35 FOUCHET, Max-Pol. Ecrivains et poetes des Etats-Unis d'amerique. Paris: Editions de la Revue Fontaine First edition thus. Very good in tanned wrappers, in a very good, chipped dustwrapper. This is the first book-form printing of a collection of poems and essays originally published in two issues during wartime in Algiers, including works by T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore and many others. # $75 THORP, Williard (T.S. Eliot). The Poetry of T.S. Eliot. [Charlotteville]: University of Virginia First edition. [8]pp. Fine in wrappers. Program for a lecture in the series McGregor Room Seminars in Contemporary Poetry and Prose. # $50

12 MARCH, Richard and TAMBIMUTTU. T. S. Eliot A Symposium. London: Editions Poetry First British edition. Near fine in a very good dustwrapper with edgewear and a tear at the top of the front panel. # $30 (Anthology) (T.S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, W.H. Auden, Lawrence Durrell, Wyndham Lewis, Marianne Moore). T.S. Eliot: Nobel Prize Winner for Literature 1948, A Symposium. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company (1949). First American edition. Compiled by Richard March and Tambimuttu. Near fine with offsetting on the end papers, a newspaper article tipped to the front fly and previous owner's inscription in near fine, lightly worn dustwrapper. # $20 ELIOT, T.S. [Vinyl record]: The Harvard Vocarium Records: T.S. Eliot Reading His Own Poems [Side A] Triumphal March. [Side B] Difficulties of a Statesman From Collected Poems [space]. Cambridge, Massuchettes: Harvard Film Service First edition. Original 78 r.p.m., 12-inch record in original plain paper sleeve. Fine copy in slightly worn sleeve. Original audio recording, produced for the Poetry Room at Harvard College Library. The Harvard Vocarium label was developed by Frederick C. Packard Jr. in the early 1930s, in an effort to take advantage of the recent technology to bring to life the voice of the poet. The label was a great success, producing over 100 records during its roughly 20 year history. By the time of its demise in the early 1950s other companies began to followed suit. The collection was fittingly among the first inductee to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. Gallup E5d. # $450

13 ELIOT, T.S. From Poe to Valery. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1948). First edition. Printed papercovered boards. A couple of abrasions on the spine else near fine. Privately Printed for Friends of the Author and Publisher. One of 1500 copies. # $85 GIVENS, Seon, edited by. James Joyce: Two Decades of Criticism. New York: Vanguard Press (1948). First thus. Very good minus with spine faded, spine ends and corners frayed, chip on bottom edge of rear cover, lacking the dustwrapper. Contributions by Eugene Jolas; Frank Budgen; Irene Hendry; Richard Levin; Charles Shattuck; James T. Farrell; Hugh Kenner; T.S. Eliot; and more. # $25 ELIOT, T.S. Selected Poems. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Press (1948). Reprint. Very good in wrappers with some soiling along the spine. ink stamp on the title page. # $15 UNGER, Leonard edited by. T.S. Eliot: A Selected Critique. New York: Rinehart (1948). First edition. Near fine with light wear at the spine ends, in a very good, price clipped, dustwrapper with wear at the spine ends, an ink notation under the author's photograph on the rear panel. # $15

14 ELIOT, T.S. Notes Towards the Definition of Culture. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company First American edition. Fine in a nice, near fine dustwrapper with some very light rubbing, and a few exceptionally tiny tears on the rear panel. # $85 ELIOT, T.S. The Undergraduate Poems of T.S. Eliot published while he was at college in The Harvard Advocate. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Harvard Advocate (1949). First edition. Stapled wrappers. A trifle age-toned, else fine. One of 1000 copies. # $85 ELIOT, T.S. Selected Essays. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co. (1950). New edition, with four additional essays. Fine in good, price-clipped dustwrapper with some tanning, light stains chips and rubbing. Connolly 100. # $50 $35 ELIOT, T.S. The Cocktail Party. London: Faber and Faber (1950). First edition, first state. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper with one short, closed tear. Laid in is a program for the original London production of the play. A fresh and bright copy. # $375

15 ELIOT, T.S. The Cocktail Party. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1950). Later printing. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with pen strike on front panel. # $35 ELIOT, T.S. Program for: The Cocktail Party. La Jolla: La Jolla Playhouse (1950). Fine in stapled wrappers. Program from the La Jolla Playhouse production of Eliot's challenging verse play, which starred Dennis King, Estelle Winwood and Julie Haydon. # $125 HALL, Donald (editor). The Harvard New York: Twayne Advocate: Anthology. Publishers, Inc. (1950). First edition. Fine in very good, edgeworn, rubbed dustwrapper. Advance review copy with slip laid in. Includes the undergraduate writing of T. S. Eliot, Norman Mailer, E.E. Cummings, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Wallace Stevens, and others. # $35 POUND, Ezra. The Letters of Ezra Pound, New York: Harcourt, Brace (1950). First edition. Edited by D.D. Paige. Preface by Mark Van Doren. Near fine with corners and spine ends bumped in a very good dustwrapper with a very light water wrinkle to the edges.there are three hundred eighty four letters contained in this collection, covering the period from 1907 to Correspondence to William Carlos Williams, Professor Felix Schelling, T.S. Eliot, George Santayana, Marianne Moore, Laurence Binyon, W.H.D. Rouse, E.E. Cummings, John Crowe Ransom, and Ernest Hemingway. # $75

16 RUSSELL, Peter. An Examination of Ezra Pound. (Norfolk, Connecticut): New Directions [1950]. First edition. Small name stamp front fly, modest sunning to the spine, near fine lacking the dustwrapper. Includes essays by T.S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell, Allen Tate, Ernest Hemingway, Wyndham Lewis, and others. # $20 ELIOT, T.S. Poetry and Drama: The Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture, Harvard University, November 21, London: Faber & Faber (1951). First edition. Offsetting to rear blanks from a clipping, boards sunned and offset, a good only copy lacking the dustwrapper. However Inscribed by Eliot "To Dorthea Merriman from T.S. Eliot. 21. ix. 51." The recipient was the wife of distinguished Harvard historian and diplomat Roger B. Merriman. # $1,750 ELIOT, T.S. Poetry and Drama. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press First American edition. Very good with a very good dustwrapper. # $75 KAZIN, Alfred (editor). F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Man and His Work. Cleveland: The World Publishing Company (1951). First edition. Near fine with slightly bumped spine in slightly rubbed dustwrapper with edgewear to the spine. Includes selections from Gertrude Stein, Edmund Wilson, T.S. Eliot, and John Dos Passos. # $30

17 BRADBROOK, M.C. T.S. Eliot. London: Longmans (1951). Second printing. Near fine in wrappers. A biography of T.S. Eliot. # $25 BLACKMUR, R.P. Unappeasable and Peregrine: Behavior and the Four Quartets. [NY: Fordham University 1951]. Offprint from vol. XXVI, no. 100 of Thought: Fordham University Quarterly. One inked correction, else fine in very good, sunned wrappers. Blackmur's analysis of T.S. Eliot's poem Four Quartets. # $150 ELIOT, T.S. Old Possums Katzenbuch: Englisch und Deutsch. Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag (1952). First German edition. Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley. Text in both German and English. Slight foxing to the endpapers, slight browning to the page edges, near fine in near fine dustwrapper. # $150 ELIOT, T.S. Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats. (New York): Harcourt, Brace and Company (1961). Later printing with code [M.9.61] on copyright page. Near fine with spine ends lightly bumped in a very good dustwrapper with spine and edges faded, closed tears on top front panel edge. # $50

18 ELIOT, T.S. and George Hoellering. The Film of Murder in the Cathedral. London: Faber and Faber (1952). First edition in first state, mauve binding. Fine in fine dustwrapper that has a very slightly darkened spine. # $50 ELIOT, T.S. and George Hoellering. The Film of Murder in the Cathedral. London: Faber and Faber (1952). First edition in second state binding blue boards with spine stamped in red and silver. Slight spotting to the boards, near fine in a nice near fine dustwrapper. # $50 (Anthology) ANDERSON, Sherwood, Djuna Barnes, Hart Crane, T.S. Eliot, Ben Hecht, Ernest Hemingway, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Wil-liam Butler Yeats. The Litter Review Anthology. New York: Hermitage House, Inc First edition. Edited by Margaret Anderson. Fine with light offsetting on the front end papers in very good dustwrapper with a taperepaired tear on the front panel. # $30 ELIOT, T.S. The Three Voices of Poetry. London: Published for the National Book League by the Cambridge University Press First edition. Stapled printed wrappers. Fine. A long essay which was delivered as the annual lecture of England's National Book League and in which Eliot delineates the modes of poetic composition. A lovely, as new copy. # $125

19 ELIOT, T.S. The Three Voices of Poetry. London: Published for the National Book League by the Cambridge University Press First edition. Stapled printed wrappers. Slightest soiling, very near fine. A long essay which was delivered as the annual lecture of England's National Book League and in which Eliot delineates the modes of poetic composition. # $75 ELIOT, T.S. Selected Prose. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, Ltd. (1953). Reprint. Near fine in wrappers. # $12 (Anthology) CONNOLLY, Cyril, edited with an introduction by. The Golden Horizon. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1953). First edition. About fine in very good or better dustwrapper with a scrape tear on the spine and a little rubbing. A compilation of articles from the influential magazine including contributions by Dylan Thomas, Stephen Spender, George Orwell, Randall Jarrell, Bertrand Russell, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Augustus John, Duncan Grant, E.E. Cummings, Denton Welch, W.H. Auden, Antonia White, Octavio Paz, and many more. # $65

20 SPENDER, Stephen and Melvin J. Lasky, edited by. Encounter: January 1962, Vol. XVIII, No. 1. London: Encounter Ltd First edition. Printed wrappers. Near fine with light age-toning and wear to extremities. Featuring: "The White Man's Burden" by D.J. Enright, "Uncle Grant" by Reynolds Price, "Some Letters" by George Orwell, "A Change of Air" by W.H. Auden, "The Saginaw Song" by Theodore Roethke, "Out of Breath" by Thom Gunn, "Miss Harriet Weaver" by T.S. Eliot, and many others. # $20 DREW, Elizabeth. T.S. Eliot: The Design of his Poetry. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode Reprint. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $35 ELIOT, T.S. The Three Voices of Poetry. New York: Cambridge University Press First American edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper which is slightly age-toned at the spine. A long essay which was delivered as the annual lecture of England's National Book League and in which Eliot delineates the modes of poetic composition. Gallup A63b. # $75 POUND, Ezra. Literary Essays of Ezra Pound. (Norfolk, Connecticut): A New Directions Book (1954). First American edition. Edited with an Introduction by T.S. Eliot. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper. # $65

21 ELIOT, T.S. The Confidential Clerk: A Play. London: Faber and Faber (1954). First edition ("Ihad" for "I had" on p.7) in first state dustwrapper (priced 10s 6d on the front flap). Fine in fine dustwrapper. A bright and fresh copy. # $450 ELIOT, T.S. The Confidential Clerk. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. (1954). First American edition. Advance Review Copy with slip tipped-in. Faint offsetting from review slip else fine in a bright, very lightly rubbed near fine dustwrapper. # $125 $87.50 ARROWSMITH, William, and Joseph Bennett, edited by (Ezra Pound ("Cantos 85"), Wyndham Lewis, T.S. Eliot,). The Hudson Review: Volume VII, Number 4, Winter New York: The Hudson Review First edition. Small octavo. Scattered printed foxing to printed wraps with crease to corner light spine wear very good. Contributors include Ezra Pound ("Cantos 85"), Wyndham Lewis (Monstre Gai), T.S. Eliot (A Note on Monstre Gai), and others. # $15

22 (Anthology) MORRIS, John, editor. From The Third Programme: A Ten-Years' Anthology. London: Nonesuch Press First edition. Near fine with some foxing to the endpapers in a near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with a tear at the top of the crown. The first book appearance of the texts of several selections from the influential BBC radio program, including poetry by V.S. Pritchett and Stevie Smith, a round-table discussion between Pritchett, Elizabeth Bowen and Graham Greene, and short pieces by T.S. Eliot, Thomas Mann, E.M. Forster, André Gide and many others. # $100 (Anthology) FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Crack-Up: With Other Uncollected Pieces, Note-Books and Unpublished Letters. (New York: New Directions Books 1956). First edition, English issue. Edited by Edmund Wilson. With letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe, and John Dos Passos. Essays and poems by John Rosenfeld, Glenway Wescott, John Dos Passos, John Peale Bishop, and Edmund Wilson. Fine in attractive, near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with small nicks and tears. The English issue utilized the later American printing with an applied label on the recto of the half-title. # $300 (Anthology) FITZGERALD, F. Scott (edited by Edmund Wilson). The CrackUp: With Other Uncollected Pieces, NoteBooks and Unpublished Letters. (New York: New Directions Books 1956). Reprint. With letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe, and John Does Passos. Essays and poems by John Rosenfeld, Glenway Wescott, John Dos Passos, John Peale Bishop, and Edmund Wilson. Near fine with light age toning to the covers in wrappers. # $14

23 ELIOT, T.S. The Frontiers of Criticism: A Lecture Delivered at the University of Minnesota Williams Arena on April 30, [np]: (University of Minnesota) (1956). First edition. Near fine in stapled wrappers with some very light wear to the edges. Lacks mailing envelope. # $75 BREIT, Harvey. The Writer Observed. Cleveland: The World Publishing Company (1956). First edition. Fine in attractive very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with some spotting on the spine. Nicely Inscribed by the author to an early mentor, the scholar and author Henry Goddard Leach. Interviews and articles about major authors including William Faulkner, John O'Hara, W. Somerset Maugham, T.S. Eliot, Truman Capote, Norman, Mailer, Evelyn Waugh, Angela Thirkell, Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, Aldous Huxley, Alan Paton, E.E. Cummings, Joyce Cary, Noel Coward, Ray Bradbury, Ernest Hemingway, Saul Bellow, Arthur Koestler, and others. # $125 ELIOT, T.S. On Poetry and Poets. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy First American edition. Fine in a dustwrapper with a little scuffing along the spine else fine. # $60

24 Inscribed by "Myra Buttle" to Charles Purdom PURCELL, Victor as Myra Buttle. The Sweeniad. Welwyn Garden City, Herts: The Broadwater Press, Limited First edition, preceding the Sagamore trade edition. Octavo. Red cloth gilt, without dustwrapper as issued. The gilt lettering is a bit faded, a faint dampstain on the boards, a very good copy. Complimentary slip from Myra Buttle laid in. A satire of T.S. Eliot, printed for private circulation. Laid in is a one page Autograph Letter Signed to Buttle from English author and drama critic Charles Purdom in the year of publication, whose arch tone sounds like he was in on the joke: "Dear Miss Buttle, You were a very good girl to send me a copy of The Sweeniad & not at all an ordinary girl to have made so well deserved an examination of the great Sweeney. It is writing of himself at his best. Similar personal attention to his so-called plays would be much appreciated by me. He is the nothingness of our age, great ability with waste of soul. Your book gave me great pleaseure. I hope you are sleeping well. Yours sincerely, C.B. Purdom." Also laid in is a similarly arch two page Autograph Letter Signed from "Myra Buttle": [in part] "How very kind of you to write to me so encouragingly about The Sweeniad!... Perhaps one of these days I may have a bang at the so-called plays too. The Response I am getting is very heartening, Bertrand Russell is enthusiastic... Graham Greene (surprisingly enough) sends me a post-card with 'Bravo' on it." Buttle goes on to reveal the answer to a riddle in the text. # $450 PURCELL, Victor as Myra Buttle. The Sweeniad. Welwyn Garden City, Herts: The Broadwater Press, Limited First edition, preceding the Sagamore trade edition. Octavo. 66pp. Red cloth gilt, without dustwrapper as issued. Very good with the spine ends bumped and a water stain on the bottom edge of the boards. A satire of T.S. Eliot, printed for private circulation. # $125

25 (ELIOT, T.S.). Edited by Neville Bray- brooke. T.S. Eliot: A Symposium for his Seventieth Birthday. London: Rupert Hart-Davis First edition. One corner bumped, else fine in foxed, near fine dustwrapper. # $50 PASCAL, Blaise. Pascal's Pensees. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company (1958). First thus. Wrappers. Introduction by T.S. Eliot. Light age-toning, else near fine. A Dutton Paperback, D18. # $10 (Anthology) SILBERMAN, James H., edited by. The Dial Fall New York: The Dial Press First edition. Near fine in spine faded wrappers. Contributors include Vance Bourjaily, Philip Roth, Herbert Gold, Ellen Currie, Nelson Algren, Richard Power, and T.S. Eliot. # $75 ELIOT, T.S. The Elder Statesman: A Play. London: Faber and Faber (1959). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a one inch tear on the front flap. A beautiful copy. # $150

26 ELIOT, T.S. The Elder Statesman. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy (1959). First American edition. Owner name else near fine in rubbed, very good price-clipped dustwrapper. # $50 ELIOT, T.S. Geoffrey Faber London: Faber and Faber (1961). First edition. Fine in papercovered boards. One of 100 numbered copies of this rare little memorial address, this copy is unnumbered, press lettered "out of series," and is unsigned. # $1,500 [CORSO, Gregory, Anselm Hollo and Tom Raworth]. The Minicab War. London: Matrix Press [1961]. Wrappers. Fine. Anonymously printed pamphlet devoted to the battle between established cab companies and minicabs with interviews, probably fabricated, with T.S. Eliot, John Betjeman, and others. 250 copies printed in either white or blues wrappers (priority unknown), this the issue in white. Wilson A7. # $125

27 ELIOT, T.S. and Igor Stravinsky. Anthem (The dove descending breaks the air): for chorus a cappella. London: Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers First edition. One leaf folded to make four pages. Very slight age-toning else fine, in a worn and torn envelope from the publisher. A memorial to Eliot, Stravinsky sets Part IV of Little Gidding to music. Scarce. # $375 (Anthology) PHILLIPS, William and Philip Rahv, edited by. The Partisan Review Anthology. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1962). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with some very light wear to the ends of the spine and edges of the panels. Contributors include: T.S. Eliot, Clement Greenberg, Irving Howe, Andre Malrauz, Paul Tillich, Jaques Maritain, James Baldwin, Alfred Kazin, Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, Stephen Spender, Lionel Trilling, Gore Vidal, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, James Purdy, Elmore Schwartz, Agnus Wilson, Allen Ginsberg, Horace Gregory Robert Lowell, Dyland Thomas and William Carlos Williams. # $45 Festival of Poetry 1963: Souvenir Pro- gramme. (London: Poetry Book Society) First edition. Wrappers. Fine. Includes an introduction by T.S. Eliot, and poems by Stevie Smith, C. Day-Lewis. Christopher Logue, and others. # $25

28 GIVENS, Seon, edited by. James Joyce: New York: Two Decades of Criticism. Vanguard Press (1963). Augmented edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. Contributions by Eugene Jolas; Frank Budgen; Irene Hendry; Richard Levin; Charles Shattuck; James T. Farrell; Hugh Kenner; T.S. Eliot; and more. Signed by the editor. # $85 ELIOT, T.S. Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley. London: Faber & Faber First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $200

29 HUGHES, Ted, Peter Woodcock, Pete Seeger, James Michie, Siegfried Sassoon, Laurie Lee, Edwin Muir, John Clare, T.S. Eliot, Louis MacNeice, Richard Lovelace, Ewan MacColl, Charles Causley, Aylen, Adrian Mitchell, Dylan Thomas, Lee Hays, Jeremy Taylor, Walter de la Mare, Robert Graves, Harry Graham, and Edward Lucie-Smith) AYLEN, Leo, produced by. Manchester: British Books Plays Poems. Broadcasting Corporation / C. Nichollas & Company First edition. Cover and drawing by Peter Woodcock. Small quarto. 47pp. Stapled wraps. tiny bump to one corner, else fine. A book supplement to a BBC Radio school program during the summer of 1965 with contributions from Ted Hughes ("Stealing Trout on a May Morning"), Pete Seeger, James Michie, Siegfried Sassoon, Laurie Lee, Edwin Muir, John Clare, T.S. Eliot, Louis MacNeice, Richard Lovelace, Ewan MacColl, Charles Causley, Aylen, Adrian Mitchell, Dylan Thomas, Lee Hays, Jeremy Taylor, Walter de la Mare, Robert Graves, Harry Graham, and Edward Lucie-Smith. # $35 (ELIOT, T.S.). Order of Service in Memory of Thomas Stearns Eliot. Born 26th September 1888 Died 4th January (London): Westminster Abbey / (The Hove Shirley Press Ltd) Stapled self-wrappers. 12pp. Just about fine. Order of service for Eliot's funeral service: prayers, hymns (some by Eliot), and a reading from Eliot's work by Sir Alec Guinness. Scarce. # $1000

30 (ELIOT, T.S., Sylvia Plath). Poetry Book Society Bulletin No. 44. (London: The Poetry Book Society) Broadsheet. A single sheet printed both sides. Fine. Includes a memoriam for T.S. Eliot by Stephen Spender, and an article on Plath's Ariel by Ted Hughes. # $200 ELIOT, T.S. To Criticize the Critic: Eight Essays on Literature & Education. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1965). First edition. Near fine with come stains in the gutters, in a very good dustwrapper with age toning and a small wrinkle along the top edge of the rear panel. # $16 Catalogue of Nineteenth Modern First Editions, Copies, Autograph Letters Manuscripts. London: Sotheby Century and Presentation and Literary & Co First edition. Printed wrappers. Fine. Sale July 12th, to July 13th, Comprising: Auden, Betjeman, Sir Winston Churchill, T.S. Eliot, Ian Fleming, Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, and many others. # $18 (ELIOT, T.S.) LYTLE, Andrew edited by. The Sewanee Review. Sewanee, Tennes-see: University of the South First edition. Volume LXXIV Number 1, Winter, Very good with edgewear, in wrappers. Special T.S. Eliot issue edited by Allen Tate. # $45

31 TATE, Allen, edited by. T.S. Eliot: The Man and His Work. New York: Delacorte Press (1966). First edition. Advanced Reading Copy with publisher's letter and black and white photograph of the editor and T.S. Eliot laid in. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with small chip on top edge on rear panel. A critical evaluation by twenty-six distinguished writers. # $20 (ELIOT, T.S.). READ, Herbert. T.S.E. A Memoir. Monday Evening Papers: No. 5. (Middletown, Connecticut): Center for Advanced Studies Wesleyan University (1966). First edition. Stapled wrappers. A touch of age-toning, else fine. A memoir of T.S. Eliot. # $35 ELIOT, T.S. Ezra Pound: Metrica e Poesia. Milano: All'Insegna del Pesce d'oro First edition. Wrappers with wraparound band. Fine. One of 2000 numbered copies. # $100 ELIOT, T.S. Poems Written in Early Youth. London: Faber and Faber (1967). Uncor-rected proof of the first British edition (previously published in Sweden in an edition of twelve copies). Fine in orange printed wrappers. A very attractive copy. Poems written between the ages of 16 and 22. # $250

32 ELIOT, T.S. Poems Written in Early Youth. London: Faber and Faber (1967). First English edition. Originally published in 1950 in Stockholm in an edition of twelve copies. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Poems written between the ages of 16 and 22. Lovely copy. # $100 ELIOT, T.S. The Complete Plays of T.S. Eliot. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World (1967). First American edition. Fine in fine price-clipped dustwrapper with a touch of rubbing. # $35 Bulletin Of The New York Public Library: Volume 72, January-December, 1968, Number 10. New York: The New York Public Library First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. Featuring: A hitherto unpublished essay on Robert Browning by James Thomson, The lost manuscripts of T. S. Eliot by Donald Gallup, and more. # $25 LEVY, William Turner and Victor SCHERLE. Affectionately, T.S. Eliot: The Story of A Friendship Philadelphia: Lippincott (1968). First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. # $35

33 GALLUP, Donald. T.S. Eliot: A Biblio- graphy. London: Faber and Faber Limited (1969). First edition. Fine in find dustwrapper. # $150 GALLUP, Donald. T.S. Eliot: A Biblio- graphy. London: Faber & Faber (1970). Reprint of the revised and expanded edition. Owner name front fly, annoatations in ink in the text, very good in price-clipped, fine dustwrapper. # $50 AIKEN, Conrad. The Clerk's Journal. New York: Eakins Press Folio. Fine in fine slipcase with just a touch of soiling. One of 300 numbered copies Signed by the author. An unpublished poem written in 1911, together with a memoir of Harvard, Dean Briggs, and T.S. Eliot, and a facsimile of the manuscript. A lovely, letterpress edition. # $85

34 AIKEN, Conrad. The Clerk's Journal. New York: Eakins Press Folio. Tiny stain to foredge and touching the edge of the rear flap else fine in fine dustwrapper. One of 2000 numbered copies of this unpublished poem written in 1911, together with a memoir of Harvard, Dean Briggs, and T.S. Eliot, and a facsimile of the manuscript. A lovely, letterpress edition. # $25 ELIOT, T.S. The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. (1971). First edition. Edited and with an introduction by Valerie Eliot. A bit cocked, some soiling on the bottom edge, else near fine in a near fine, price clipped dustwrapper with a short tear near the crown and some rubbing on the panels. # $45 ELIOT, T.S. [Vinyl record]: "The Waste Land" and Other Poems Read by T.S. Eliot. New York: Caedmon (1971). First edition. Original 33 1/3 rpm vinyl album, photo of author on front and rear along with essay by Richard Howard. Fine in original shrinkwrap with price sticker. # $45 ELIOT, T.S. [Vinyl record]: T.S. Eliot Reading Poems and Choruses. New York: Caedmon (1971). First edition. Original 33 1/3 rpm vinyl album, photo of author rear. Tanned at the perimeter of front with spot and rubbed on rear about very good plus. # $75

35 MATTHEWS, T.S. Great Tom: Notes Towards the Definition of T.S. Eliot. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers (1974). First edition. Fine in near fine, gently worn dustwrapper. # $30 HALL, Donald. Remembering Poets: Reminiscences and Opinions. New York: Harper & Row (1978). First edition. Near fine with a very light paperclip impression left on top edges of pages up to title page in near fine price-clipped dustwrapper. Four of the finest poets of the twentieth century: Ezra Pound, Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, and Robert Frost. # $40 BRINNIN, John Malcolm. Sextet: T.S. Eliot & Truman Capote & Others. (New York): Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence (1981). First edition. Fine in fine, lightly age-toned dustwrapper. # $30 BUSH, Ronald. T.S. Eliot: A Study in Character and Style. New York: Oxford University Press First edition. Foxing to the foredge, else near fine in good fine dustwrapper with a little offsetting on the front flap, and tears on the rear panel. # $15

36 MILLER, John edited by. Voices Against Tyranny: Writing on the Spanish Civil War-On the 50th Anniversary of the Event. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons First edition. Introduction by Stephen Spender. Fine in wrappers. Contributors include W.H. Auden, Andre Malraux, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Thomas Mann, John Dos Passos, George Orwell, Pablo Picasso, Stephen Spender, Dorothy Parker, Salvador Dali, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, T.S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, Ezra Pound, others. # $15 ELIOT, T.S. Growltiger's Last Stand. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux/ Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1987). First American edition. Fine in glossy pictorial boards in a fine dustwrapper. # $35 ELIOT, T.S. The Letters of T.S. Eliot, Volume I San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1988). First edition. Volume I only. Edited by Valerie Eliot, T.S. Eliot's second wife and widow. Illustrated. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $50 ELIOT, T.S. Eeldrop & Appleplex. (Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England): The Foundling Press First separate edition. Fine in decorated wrappers. One of 500 copies. # $70

37 HALL, Donald. Their Ancient Glittering Eyes: Remembering Poets and More Poets. New York: Ticknor & Fields Uncorrected proof. Features Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, among others. Rear wrapper slightly creased else fine. # $18 HORGAN, Paul. Tracings: A Book of Partial Portraits. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1993). Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to a noted poet: "for J.D. McClatchy from Paul Horgan, well-met! 1993." A collection of biographical portraits including Greta Garbo, T.S. Eliot, Thornton Wilder, Edmund Wilson, Somerset Maugham and others. # $85 (ELIOT, T.S.). The Staff of Quill and Brush, Inc. Bibliography, First Edition and Price Guide (APG - Author's Price Guide Series). Dickerson, MD: Quill & Brush (current) edition. 27 page bibliography and price-guide. A thorough guide to identifying and collecting first editions, advance copies, limited editions, etc. The AUTHOR PRICE GUIDES (APGs) include a facsimile of the author's signature; a brief biographical sketch; an up-todate list of the author's first editions (American and British) with entries for limited and trade editions; number of copies printed (if available); how to identify the first edition; and estimated values. You can view the Instructions For Use (also included with your order) which shows a sample listing and complete instructions for identifying first editions of the author's works, at article_images/instructionsforuse.pdf The APGs are offered here AS PDF FILES. # $20.50

38 WALSH, T.J., compiled by. A Tribute to Wilfred Owen. (No place: No publisher no date circa 1960). First edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Slightest of age-toning, easily fine. Contributors include Benjamin Britten, Edmund Blunden, Herbert Read, Stephen Spender, C. Day Lewis, T.S. Eliot, Siegfried Sassoon, and others. # $75

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