May 18, 2016 - Sale 2416

Sale 2416 - Lot 138

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
ELIOT, T.S. A Practical Possum. 8vo, original pale green printed wrappers, sewn, mild fading to edges, otherwise fine. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Printing Office, 1947
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scarce limited edition, number 35 of 80 copies, as stated "at the request of the author, no copies are for sale." The edition size was reduced from 80 to 60 by the calling-in of copies, which were sent to Eliot for disposal. "Printed, from the manuscript in the T.S. Eliot Collection at Harvard under the direction of Philip Hofer by a class of student printers" (Gallup). A clean, unmarked example. Gallup A47.