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Four Quartets
by Eliot, T. S. [Thomas Stearns]
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Las Vegas , Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943 First printing of the first edition, first issue, with the First American Edition statement listed on the copyright page, 1 of 788 copies, black cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt; in first state dust jacket with heavy block letters to 9 titles listed on rear panel through listing of "Old Possum's Book" and the publisher's original price of $2.00 listed in the upper corner of front flap [Gallup A43a].
Light edge wear and small bookseller sticker to back paste-down, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with mild paper loss (primarily at spine ends and corners), a closed tear at crown of spine, a short closed tear to middle of upper front cover and to lower front spine-fold, age-toning to spine and covers, and a crease/closed tear to bottom front panel, else fine.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Idler Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022991
- Title
- Four Quartets
- Author
- Eliot, T. S. [Thomas Stearns]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Poetry, Literature, American Poets, Classics.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Idler Fine Books
Biblio member since 2003
Las Vegas , Nevada
About Idler Fine Books
We specialize in First Editions in Fiction, Poetry, Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery, many signed first editions and limited editions.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
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