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SELECTED ESSAYS 1917-1932
by Eliot, T.S
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Bookplate on the front free-endpaper and minor tape ghosts on both front and rear endpaper. Usual fading to spine, but otherwise
- Seller
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Derry, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1932. Signed Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front free-endpaper and minor tape ghosts on both front and rear endpaper. Usual fading to spine, but otherwise nicer than usual copy, nearly fine, with no bowing at all to the boards. Lacking the original glassine wrapper. Housed in a handsome custom-made slipcase with Art Deco pattern.. Signed Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 115 copies numbered and signed by Eliot, of which this is copy #53. 8vo, full blue vellum, t.e.g., uncut pages. PLEASE NOTE that all our First Editions are also First Printings, unless we specifically note otherwise. All our dust jackets are protected in clear mylar covers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50807
- Title
- SELECTED ESSAYS 1917-1932
- Author
- Eliot, T.S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Bookplate on the front free-endpaper and minor tape ghosts on both front and rear endpaper. Usual fading to spine, but otherwise
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Signed Limited First Edition
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- poetry, essays, signed, mmb
Terms of Sale
Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
Please note that all items are offered subject to prior sale. All our books are FIRST EDITIONS and FIRST PRINTINGS unless noted otherwise. All dust jackets are protected in clear mylar covers. All books are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 10 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
Biblio member since 2005
Derry, New Hampshire
About Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
Modern first editions - mainly American and English - many of the books being signed; poetry, poetry broadsides, and press books. Most of our holdings are modern and fairly contemporary, and feature both mainstream and genre fiction (e.g. contemporary literature, detective & science fiction), with emphasis on notable writers and literary prize-winners in both prose and poetry.
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- Fine
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- Uncut Pages
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- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Glassine Wrapper
- A thin, partially transparent or translucent paper covering often used ...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
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