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ELIOT, T.S. What Is a Classic? 8vo, publisher's light blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, mottled stains to top of front and rear boards; dust jacket, spine panel darkened with small nicks to head and foot, few other small nicks primarily to top edges; oval-shaped discoloration to recto of front flyleaf. London: Faber & Faber, (1940)
first edition, ordinary issue, presentation copy: "Inscribed for Huntington Cairns by T.S. Eliot." Cairns was a lawyer, author and book collector. He was a friend of many writers, including H.L. Mencken and Ezra Pound, his archive at the Library of Congress. Gallup A45b.
