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Four Quartets (Robert Giroux's Copy)
by T.S. Eliot
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Waccabuc, New York, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge, England: The Rampant Lions Press, 1996. Decorative Boards. Fine. An immaculate copy of this lovely 1996 fine press edition of Eliot's "Four Quartets". Published out of Cambridge by the Rampant Lions Press in an edition of 200 copies, this copy is marked at the limitation as #72. A clean, Fine folio, in its patterned boards and its deckled fore and bottom-edges. And housed in a pristine copy of the unprinted salmon card slipcase. Also includes not only the publisher's original prospectus but also a handwritten letter (on The Rampant Lions Press letterhead) from Sebastian Carter, the book's designer and printer, to T.S. Eliot's legendary American editor (at both Harcourt, Brace and Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Robert Giroux. A wonderful association and provenance.
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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- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22715
- Title
- Four Quartets (Robert Giroux's Copy)
- Author
- T.S. Eliot
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Rampant Lions Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, England
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- rare poetry, rare fine press poetry, rare T.S. Eliot, rare editions of Eliot's Four Quartets, the Rampant Lions Press
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
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