SILAS MARNER: THE WEAVER OF RAVELOE
by ELIOT, George
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Rear hinge with paper split but binding firm, early owner name at top of half-title page; tear along rear joint and small tears to spine tips, cloth a bit darkened. Very Good. Publisher's cinnamon cloth: Carter's A binding with 16-page Blackwood catalog and 4-page Carlyle catalog bound... Read More
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THE MILL ON THE FLOSS
by ELIOT, George
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1963. hardcover. Text block slightly cocked resulting in uneven page edges. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. Wray Manning. Octavo (6-1/2" x 10") bound in a rugged woven fabric with a leather spine label stamped in gold. Introduction by David Daiches. Copy #1087 of 1500 illustrated with 24 full-page color plates after oil... Read More
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THE MILL ON THE FLOSS
by ELIOT, George
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1963. hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Wray Manning. Octavo (6-1/2" x 10") bound in a rugged woven fabric with a leather spine label stamped in gold. Introduction by David Daiches. Illustrated with 24 full-page color plates after oil paintings by Wray Manning. Of a total of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist... Read More
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THE MILL ON THE FLOSS
by ELIOT, George
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1963. hardcover. Small university bookplate on the front pastedown. Slight sunning to spine, small nick to leather spine label. Near Fine in about Fine slipcase with some sunning to outside edges. Wray Manning. Octavo (6-1/2" x 10") bound in a rugged woven fabric with a leather spine label stamped in gold. Introduction by... Read More
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NOTES TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF CULTURE with TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)
by ELIOT, T. S
London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1948). First Edition. Hardcover. Back of letter pasted at top to front endpaper with folds from mailing; bookplate on front pastedown with smaller adhesive remnant below it from removed item along with a small bookseller's label. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Second impression, published two months after the first. Tipped to... Read More
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THE FAMILY REUNION. A PLAY
by ELIOT, T. S
London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1950). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name in ink on front endpaper which is a little foxed. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. Sixth Impression, but INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the title page where Eliot has crossed out his printed name: "Inscribed for/Mrs. Ann Cooper/by T. S. Eliot/4. ii. 64."
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TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)
by ELIOT, T. S
London, 22 December 1953. Letter. Central vertical and horizontal folds with staple holes to one upper corner. Fine. One-page letter on both sides of Faber & Faber stationery SIGNED by the poet. Addressed to Anne Munro-Kerr of London's League of Dramatists. In part: "I am not quite clear, I am afraid, as to how we have been dealing... Read More
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TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)
by ELIOT, T. S
London, 29 September 1955. Letter. Some wrinkling, mailing crease. Near Fine. A 1-1/2-page single-spaced letter on both sides of 6-7/8" x 8" Faber & Faber stationery SIGNED by the poet on the verso. Addressed to poet Margaret Stanley-Wrench. In full: "I have not been able to lay my hands on the letter which you say I wrote to... Read More
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FOUR QUARTETS
by ELIOT, T. S
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, (1943). First Edition. Hardcover. Some soiling, little wear to corners, spine dull; lengthy inscription in an unknown hand on the front free endpaper with scattered pencil checks in the text. In what is now acknowledged to be the first issue dustwrapper with a $2.00 price and nine titles listed at rear. Very Good... Read More
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ARCHIVE OF 15 TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs) and Related Material to Henry Rago, the Editor of POETRY Magazine
by ELIOT, T. S
London, 1957 - 1959. Letters. Minor soiling and expected wear. Near Fine. A series of 15 TYPED LETTERS SIGNED as "T. S. Eliot" to poet and editor of POETRY Magazine, Henry Rago, all but one on Faber and Faber stationery. The letters, which span the dates 7 January 1957 through 23 October 1959, primarily concern Rago's invitation to... Read More
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THE WASTE LAND
by ELIOT, T. S
New York: Boni & Liveright, (1922) [i.e., 1923]. First Edition. Hardcover. Mostly unopened. Small stain to the top of the rear panel of the dustwrapper with a corresponding dulling and minor discoloration to the black cloth beneath, tiny blind-stamp of a bookseller to the bottom of the front free endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. Stiff... Read More
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TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)
by ELIOT, T. S
London, 20 December 1951. Letter. Two holes punched in left margin, ink stamp in upper right. About Fine. One-page single-spaced letter on Faber & Faber stationery SIGNED by the poet. Addressed to Charles Ede of The Folio Society Limited thanking him for suggesting a special edition of some of Eliot's poems. "But the copyright in my work is... Read More
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COLLECTED POEMS 1909 - 1962
by ELIOT, T. S
New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, (1971). Centenary Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Later printing of this collection of Eliot's work.
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SELECTED ESSAYS 1917 - 1932
by ELIOT, T. S
London: Faber & Faber, (1932). First Edition. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown; postage stamp of Eliot tipped to front endpaper. A nicer than usual copy with the vellum maintaining a rich blue color and the spine mildly faded with some discoloration at the heel not affecting the gilt lettering. Near Fine in remnants of original glassine and scarce... Read More
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THE CLASSICS AND THE MAN OF LETTERS
by ELIOT, T. S
London: Oxford University, 1942. First Edition. Printed wraps. Spine lightly sunned, otherwise Fine. Printed light blue wraps, 27 pages. Gallup A40: 5017 copies. A later copy with the "t" on the title page weakly registered but still noticeably visible.
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ASH WEDNESDAY
by ELIOT, T. S.
London: Faber & Faber Limted, (1933). Second Edition. Hardcover. Mild foxing to endpapers, minor occasional foxing to text. Toning to boards with light wear to spine tips. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. A nondescript copy but for the fact that it is INSCRIBED by Eliot to his niece on the title-page: "Inscribed for/Theodora Eliot Smith/by T. S. Eliot."... Read More
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SIGNED CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR CARD
by ELIOT, T. S. (Barnett FREEDMAN)
(London): (Faber and Faber), [1946]. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. Barnett Freedman. One sheet folded into fours (6-3/4" x 9-1/2") drawn and lithographed by Barnett Freedman "for directors and members of Messrs Faber & Faber to send to their friends," printed by the Curwen Press. SIGNED by T. S. Eliot beneath the greeting inside. The cover depicts the... Read More
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THE DICK GIBSON SHOW
by ELKIN, Stanley
New York: Random House, (1971). First Edition. The book and dustwrapper have suffered from water damage at the bottom, only faintly visible but with the pages wavy at the bottom corner. There is some bleeding from the color of the covers to the dustwrapper as well. Good at best in like dustwrapper but with a great association from a... Read More
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PARKTILDEN VILLAGE
by ELLIOTT, George P
Boston: Beacon Press, (1958). First Edition. Hardcover. Bumped upper front corner. Short closed tear to bottom of front panel of dustwrapper. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Novelist, poet, and critic's first book.
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SYMBOLA HEROICA. Multo ... de Gallicae lingua in Latinam conversa
by [EMBLEM BOOK] PARADIN, Claude and SIMEONI, D. Gabrielis
Lyons: Plantin Press (C. Raphelengius), 1600. Hardcover. Marginal loss to the title and page following with loss of a few letters resulting from small holes in the center of those pages; some general toning or occasional unobtrusive staining but text quite clean; lacking endpapers. Binding a bit soiled but solid. Very Good. Small octavo (3" x 4-1/2") in... Read More
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
by EMERSON, Ralph Waldo
Concord, 4 November n.y. [1867?]. Letter. Typical folds from mailing. About Fine. A 2-1/4-page letter on a 9-3/4" x 7-3/4" sheet of paper folded in half, addressed to [Cyrus Augustus] Bartol regarding a change of dinner party plans with Charles Eliot Norton and Katharine Louisa Russell, Viscountess Amberley on account of the death of Governor John Albion Andrew... Read More
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THE POEMS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON
by EMERSON, Ralph Waldo
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945. Hardcover. Rubbing and some scratches to the spine. Very Good in a Very Good slipcase. Richard and Doris Beers. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") bound in full black sheepskin leather, grained and crushed, with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine; 256 pages. Selected and edited with a commentary by Louis... Read More
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A HISTORICAL DISCOURSE, DELIVERED BEFORE THE CITIZENS OF CONCORD, 12TH SEPT. 1835 with A HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF CONCORD
by EMERSON, Ralph Waldo with SHATTUCK, Lemuel
Concord: G. F. Bemis/John Stacy, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. The Shattuck title page reinforced at the gutter. Near Fine, neatly rebacked retaining the original spine. Original blindstamped publisher's dark brown cloth containing in this order: Shattuck's HISTORY OF CONCORD (viii, 392 pages with folding map); an offprint REVIEW OF A HISTORY OF CONCORD FROM THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW,... Read More
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PHOTOGRAPH OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON
by [EMERSON, Ralph Waldo] HAWES, Josiah Johnson & SOUTHWORTH, Albert Sands
@1880s. Framed Photograph. Not examined out of the frame but appears to be Fine. Fine portrait of Emerson, image size 8-1/2" x 12-1/2" matted and framed to an overall size of 15" x 20". On the rear of the frame are two labels from Holman's Print Shop of Boston, circa 1940, on which is stated the following: "This... Read More
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THE ESSAYS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON
by EMERSON, Ralph Waldo
San Francisco: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Hardcover. Upper corners slightly bumped. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Folio (9" x 13-1/2") bound in cloth-backed blue paper boards. Contains both the First and the Second Series of Emerson's masterful essays with a critical introduction By Edward F. O'Day. Copy #432 of 1500 beautifully designed, printed in red and black, and... Read More
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