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T.S. Eliot – The Four Quartets – All Four First Issue Softcovers – East Coker/Burnt Norton/Dry Salvages/Little Gidding – Housed in slip case
£950.00
FIRST EDITIONS: East Coker 1940, Burnt Norton and The Dry Salvages 1941, Little Gidding 1942. Softcover octavo, pp. 15, [1]; 15, [1]; 15, [1]; 16. Stapled plain card wraps in harlequin colours. Covers lightly surface soiled and partially sunned, with a little minor creasing; rust at staples to all aside from Little Gidding which is sewn. Scattered light foxing to East Coker (some browning to the edges and a little chipping to back-strip) and Burnt Norton; ownership inscription to Burnt Norton on the front flap and to first page of The Dry Salvages. With ‘Little Gidding V’ published by Mint in 1980. A very good set overall. While Burnt Norton was originally published with a collection of Eliot’s early works in 1936, this edition is the first time it was printed separately, and the other titles were published for the very first time in this edition, preceding the book issue of Four Quartets in 1943. Housed in custom-made slip case.
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FIRST EDITIONS: East Coker 1940, Burnt Norton and The Dry Salvages 1941, Little Gidding 1942. Softcover octavo, pp. 15, [1]; 15, [1]; 15, [1]; 16. Stapled plain card wraps in harlequin colours. Covers lightly surface soiled and partially sunned, with a little minor creasing; rust at staples to all aside from Little Gidding which is sewn. Scattered light foxing to East Coker (some browning to the edges and a little chipping to back-strip) and Burnt Norton; ownership inscription to Burnt Norton on the front flap and to first page of The Dry Salvages. With ‘Little Gidding V’ published by Mint in 1980. A very good set overall. While Burnt Norton was originally published with a collection of Eliot’s early works in 1936, this edition is the first time it was printed separately, and the other titles were published for the very first time in this edition, preceding the book issue of Four Quartets in 1943. Housed in custom-made slip case.
