May 14, 2019 - Sale 2508

Sale 2508 - Lot 100

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
ELIOT, T.S. Four Quartets. 8vo, publisher's black cloth, top corners bumped; dust jacket, tanned, small chips including to spine panel head touching first letter in author's name, few small abrasions; ownership inscriptions and bookplate to front pastedown and flyleaf. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1943)

Additional Details

first collected edition, first printing preceeding the first English edition. This first issue was suppressed due to incorrect margin spacing and is one of 788 remaining copies (of 4165 printed, 3377 were destroyed). In the first issue dust-jacket priced at $2.00 and listing 9 titles on the rear panel. Gallup A43a.