ELIOT, T.S. Four Quartets. 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered black cloth; dust jacket, tanned, corners clipped retaining price, several small tape repairs along top edges of verso mending short closed tears; ownership signature to front flyleaf. First edition, first impression with "first American edition" on the verso of the title-page. Preceeds 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. Connolly, The Modern Movement 92; Gallup A43a. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1943)