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London: Fabar and Faber, 1945. First Edition . Cloth. Good. Bound in light blue cloth, no dw, 32 pp. Binding is faded.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1946. First Edition, Third Impression. Hardcover. Thin Octavo, 32 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine beige with black lettering. Moderate plus age toning exteriorly with few instances of chipping to the head/tail edges. Price clipped front flap. Text block has light tone to the edges and few stains interiorly. Slight cracking to the gutter at pages sixteen to seventeen. First edition, third impression. 1373382. FP New Rockville Stock.

Faber & Faber, 1950. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1950. 32 pages. Purple jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering.Ex-libris copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges. Loss to jacket edges. Jacket edges have been trimmed.

London: Faber and Faber, 1950. Fourth printing. Hardcover. Very Good +. 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; light wear to corners and ends of spine. Covers very clean, binding tight, text very clean with PO's bookplate on front pastedown. Copyright pg uncut. Poetry. RGR.

London: Faber and Faber, 1945. 2nd. Imp. . Cloth. G to Vg. Bound in light blue cloth, no dw, printed on hand made paper, 32pp.

London: Faber, 1945. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 32pp. Library binding of red cloth, gilt titling to the spine. This book was formerly in a reference library, with occasional stamps and labels; overall, this book is in good to very good condition.

London: Faber & Faber, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. With jacket. 32 pp. Light inscr. to front pastedown, else book and jacket clean and sound. VG+ / VG Essays

London: Faber & Faber, 1946. 3rd imp.. Very Good. octavo. hardback with dust jacket 32pp., Neat ownership signature o/w a nice copy in bright blue boards in a rather chipped dust jacket with loss

FABER AND FABER, 1945-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Clean copy in good condition.

London: Faber & Faber Ltd. 1945. First Edition; 2nd Impression. Hardcover. Very Good in Boards. Owners name William H. J. Kennedy Jr's name inked in and penciled in inscription to FEP. Small book store to sticker to FEP. .

Faber & Faber, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Faber & Faber 1945. First edition. Condition: Very Good. Clean copy - tight Harcover binding with clear and complete text. Includes a fine original Dust Jacket. Includes a plastic protection over the dust jacket.

London: Faber & Faber, 1945. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Second impression of the second issue. Slim octavo. 32pp. Light edgwear and binding just a bit cocked, about near fine in modestly soiled about very good dust jacket with wear along the topedge, a lightly toned spine, and a small chip at the crown. Also present is the about very good unprinted glassine dust jacket with a lightly toned spine, bit of loss at the crown, and several small chips and tears (some along the spine). Noted English poet Geoffrey Hill's copy with his owner signature on the front fly.

London: Faber and Faber, 1945. First Edition, Second Impression. Near fine/Very good. 8vo; 8 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches (218 x 135 mm); 32 pp., printed on heavy laid paper, lower edges uncut. Bright blue/turquoise cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine, light bumping on corners and tail of spine. Cream dust jacket printed in black and red, price clipped, a little thumbed and faded, extremities of dust jacket frayed with small chips at head and tail of spine panel. Bookseller ticket pasted inside front cover, Melbourne, Australia. [Gallup A45b]. This is the text of the first Annual Address to the Virgil Society, of which T. S. Eliot was the First President, 1943/44. Eliot sets out to define that the classic is a work that reflects the maturity of a culture. Indeed, he argues that "[a] classic can occur only when a civilization is mature; when a language and a literature are mature; and it must be the work of a mature mind." From the estate of Robert Cecil Bald (1901 - 1965), an Australian scholar of English… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 1946. Third impression, first published the year before. 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth. Near fine in very good dust jacket (spine panel toned, old tear at head with loss of W). Third impression, first published the year before. 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Signed. "... we have no classic age, and no classic poet, in English; that when we see why this is so, we have not the slightest reason for regret; but that, nevertheless, we must maintain the classic ideal before us." Signed by the author on the title page ("T.S. Eliot"). Gallup A45