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Murder in the Cathedral
by T.S. Eliot
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 86 pages. Jan. 1936 note by TSE describes this as a "second edition," compared with the version in which the play was produced at the Canterbury Festival in June 1935. 8vo, black cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine, minimal shelf wear with sharp corners, isolated dust stains on a few pages, in aged-toned DJ with small losses at crown, other light shelf wear, old price sticker on front panel, all flaps appear clipped but decoratively - $2.25 price on front flap is not clipped. A former owner's name sticker affixed to ffep, underscoring in pencil observed in two places.
Synopsis
T. S. Eliot's verse dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature The Archbishop Thomas Becket speaks fatal words before he is martyred in T. S. Eliot's best-known drama, based on the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1170. Praised for its poetically masterful handling of issues of faith, politics, and the common good, T. S. Eliot's play bolstered his reputation as the most significant poet of his time.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AEB-280
- Title
- Murder in the Cathedral
- Author
- T.S. Eliot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Date Published
- 1936
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- DRAMA, THOMAS BECKET, CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- English literature; Drama; T.S. Eliot;
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Berthoff Books
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
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