The Confidential Clerk
by Eliot, T.S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Orig. blue cloth spine lettered in gilt. Very good in nicked and spine darkened dust wrapper
- Seller
-
ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth spine lettered in gilt. Very good in nicked and spine darkened dust wrapper. 136 pages. 22 x 14 cm. 10. 6d. price noted on dust wrapper. Last page with The Cast of the First Production at the Edinburgh Festival, 1953. Owner inscription free endpaper dated 1954.
Synopsis
A modern verse play that touches on the sources of longing and the need to be loved. "Never has Eliot's apparently effortless prosody been more precise.... He has achieved complete mastery of words" (Kirkus Reviews). "It is a wise, witty, elegant play whose characters speak finely and shrewdly" (Chicago Sunday Tribune).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23093
- Title
- The Confidential Clerk
- Author
- Eliot, T.S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Orig. blue cloth spine lettered in gilt. Very good in nicked and spine darkened dust wrapper
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- Theater
- Bookseller catalogs
- Drama;
Terms of Sale
Royoung bookseller, Inc.
All books returnable 10 days of invoice date with prior notification
About the Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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ardsley, New York
About Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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