T.S. Eliot – The Four Quartets – All Four First Issue Softcovers – East Coker/Burnt Norton/Dry Salvages/Little Gidding – in custom-made case

The four separately published poems comprising ‘Four Quartets’: ‘East Coker’, ‘Burnt Norton’, ‘The Dry Salvages’ and ‘Little Gidding’, issued by Faber and Faber in London, with first publication dates of 1940, 1941, 1941 and 1942 respectively.

In the original yellow, blue-green, pale blue and mauve printed wrappers. The wrappers show some toning, surface marking and wear to the edges, with creasing and small chips particularly to ‘East Coker’ which has some internal spotting. House together in a burgundy case.

Eliot’s great sequence of meditations on time, memory and faith, presented in its original separate pamphlet format. An attractive collecting format for one of the defining poetic works of the twentieth century.