The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- SIGNED Original wrappers
- Chicago: Poetry Magazine, 1915
Chicago: Poetry Magazine, 1915. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST APPEARANCE OF ELIOT'S "PRUFROCK", a landmark event in modern poetry. This publication in the June 1915 issue of Poetry Magazine precedes the book edition by two years. At the urging of Ezra Pound, the foreign editor of Poetry Magazine, Harriet Monroe agreed to include "Prufrock" by the unknown T.S. Eliot in the June issue of her magazine. It was Eliot's first publication of a poem outside of a school or university.
IN: Poetry Magazine, Vol VI, No. III. Edited by Harriet Monroe. Chicago: Seymour, Daughaday and Company, 1915. Octavo, original printed wrappers; custom box. Wrappers with a little wear at top of spine; very faint stain at bottom edge of front wrapper and touch of foxing at top. Text clean. An outstanding copy - extremely rare in such good condition.
IN: Poetry Magazine, Vol VI, No. III. Edited by Harriet Monroe. Chicago: Seymour, Daughaday and Company, 1915. Octavo, original printed wrappers; custom box. Wrappers with a little wear at top of spine; very faint stain at bottom edge of front wrapper and touch of foxing at top. Text clean. An outstanding copy - extremely rare in such good condition.