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The Confidential Clerk
by Eliot, T. S
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
First edition, first impression (Faber and Faber, 1954).
Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Very good with small Ex Libris and Foyles stickers to front paste-down and previous owner name and date to front endpaper. First issue with 'Ihad' on p. 7. The original and unclipped dust jacket has some toning to spine panel with several nicks to edges and lower panel hinge. A very good copy overall.
Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Very good with small Ex Libris and Foyles stickers to front paste-down and previous owner name and date to front endpaper. First issue with 'Ihad' on p. 7. The original and unclipped dust jacket has some toning to spine panel with several nicks to edges and lower panel hinge. A very good copy overall.
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
- Fine Book Cellar Ltd.
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1476183138857
- Title
- The Confidential Clerk
- Author
- Eliot, T. S
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Date Published
- 1954
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Eliot, First, Confidential Clerk
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions;
Terms of Sale
Fine Book Cellar Ltd.
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Fine Book Cellar Ltd.
Biblio member since 2015
Chelmsford, Essex
About Fine Book Cellar Ltd.
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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