Eliot, T.S.

Ezra Pound His Metric and Poetry. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1917 [1918], first edition, frontispiece, original boards, collector's folding box, [Gallup A2], splitting at gutter and spine; Poems. New York: Aldred A. Knopf, 1920, first American edition, original boards, collector's folding case, [Gallup A4b], lacking spine; Journey of the Magi. Faber & Gwyer, [1927], first edition, original wrappers, [Gallup A9a]; For Lancelot Andrewes. Faber & Gwyer, 1928, first edition, original cloth, [Gallup A12a], lacking spine; Four Quartets. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1943, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, [Gallup A43a], reader's annotations, price-clipped dust-jacket; The Waste Land – A Facsimile... Faber & Faber, 1971, number 301 of 500 copies, original cloth, slipcase; together with 15 others comprising Gallup A4b, new spine; A15b; A21c; A23, lacking spine; A25a; A32b (2 copies); A33a; A35a; A39; A43a, extensive reader's annotations; A64b; A66b (3 copies) and 3 later reprints, many worn, several with reader's annotations (24)

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