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FOUR QUARTETS.
by Eliot, T. S
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Owner name to front free endpaper, else about fine in jacket with chips to spine ends, loss to upper right corner of front panel
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., (1943). Second printing of the first edition. Hardcover. Owner name to front free endpaper, else about fine in jacket with chips to spine ends, loss to upper right corner of front panel. 39 pp., octavo, original black cloth, gilt spine title, jacket.
Second impression of the first edition following the publlsher's recall of most of the first impression due to poor printing quality. No edition statement or publisher code on copyright page, front jacket flap price is $2.25, rear jacket panel lists 6 titles. Collects the previously individually-published poems Burnt Norton; East Coker; The Dry Salvages; Little Gidding. The US collected edition precedes the UK edition. Gallup (1st ed.) A44.
Second impression of the first edition following the publlsher's recall of most of the first impression due to poor printing quality. No edition statement or publisher code on copyright page, front jacket flap price is $2.25, rear jacket panel lists 6 titles. Collects the previously individually-published poems Burnt Norton; East Coker; The Dry Salvages; Little Gidding. The US collected edition precedes the UK edition. Gallup (1st ed.) A44.
Synopsis
The last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in “The Waste Land.” Here, in four linked poems (“Burnt Norton,” “East Coker,” “The Dry Salvages,” and “Little Gidding”), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. It is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism.
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- Chanticleer Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23862
- Title
- FOUR QUARTETS.
- Author
- Eliot, T. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Owner name to front free endpaper, else about fine in jacket with chips to spine ends, loss to upper right corner of front panel
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second printing of the first edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1943)
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