Jun 17, 2015 - Sale 2388

Sale 2388 - Lot 129

Price Realized: $ 422
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
ELIOT, T.S. Ara Vos Prec. Initials and colophon by Edward Wadsworth. 4to, original black cloth boards and yellow cloth spine, front cover detached, spine chipped, scuffed, paper spine label rubbed and browned with loss of letters; with 8-page printed poem "Perch' lo non Spero" [offprint?] as it appeared with French translation on facing pages in the Spring 1928 issue of Commerce, that subsequently comprised Part I of Ash Wednesday (1930), mounted to front free endpaper. [London:] The Ovid Press, [1920]

Additional Details

first edition, number 235 from a total issue of 264 copies. The title is incorrectly printed on the half-title and title pages (Ara Vus Prec), but correct on spine as in all copies. Gallup A4a.