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The Sacred Wood.: Essays on Poetry and Criticism.
by ELIOT, T. S
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- Hardcover
- first
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Methuen,, 1920. First edition, first impression, of the first of Eliot's important literary studies. This collection of 20 essays contains one of Eliot's most important prose works, "Tradition and the Individual Talent", first published in The Egoist. This copy is in the second issue of the jacket, in use from 1921, with the subtitle on the front panel and "Books by A. Clutton-Brock" in place of "Companionable Volumes by E. V. Lucas" on the back panel, as well as with Clutton-Brock's What is the Kingdom of Heaven listed in the sixth edition. Octavo. Original blue cloth, lettering to spine in gilt and front board in blind, bottom edge untrimmed. With dust jacket Slight lean to spine, rubbing to extremities, faint offsetting to endpapers; remarkably bright unclipped jacket, spine toned, nicks to edges, discreetly repaired split inside rear joint up from the foot: a near-fine copy in very good jacket. Gallup A5a.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 155289
- Title
- The Sacred Wood.
- Author
- ELIOT, T. S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Methuen,
- Date Published
- 1920
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Peter Harrington
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