ELIOT, T.S.

Four Quartets

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. Second Printing, one of 3,500 copies. Octavo (22cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-39,[1]pp. Light wear to spine ends, else a clean, Near Fine copy. In the second printing dustjacket, with six blurbs on rear panel; price-clipped, edgeworn, lightly toned and dust-soiled, with wear to spine ends, and a small tear to upper front joint; Very Good.

The entire printing consisted of 4,165 copies, of which 3,377 were destroyed by the publisher because of a printing error. A second printing was issued later the same year, but those copies do not bear the statement "First American edition" on verso of title page. GALLUP A43a. 90348.

Price: $100.00

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