[Rarebooks] FS: T. S. Eliot SELECTED ESSAYS with letter to Louis Untermeyer

[Charles Agvent]

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ELIOT,  T.  S. SELECTED ESSAYS (Louis Untermeyer's copy with  a  TYPED
LETTER  SIGNED  from  Eliot). New York: Harcourt,  Brace  and  Company
(1932).  First  Edition.  Gallup A21c.  Provenance:  Louis  Untermeyer
(letter  from Eliot, note on flyleaf). LOUIS UNTERMEYER'S COPY OF  THE
FIRST  AMERICAN  EDITION, WITH A TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) FROM  ELIOT
dated  15  February  1933: "...I am afraid I can't help  with  Knopf's
Chapbook  series...  I  simply have no poem whatever which I  care  to
have  published in this way at present." Eliot also refers to an apple
which  he  hoped  Untermeyer  enjoyed, adding  "you  would  have  been
welcome  to one apiece." Evidently a less risky fruit than the  peach.
Housed  in  a  handsome,  custom quarter morocco  clamshell  box.  The
letter  is  inserted into an envelope tipped to the front  endpaper. A
newspaper  clipping of a John Crowe Ransom review of an Eliot book  is
tipped  to the front pastedown. The spine is faded. Very Good, lacking
the dustwrapper but in a Near Fine case.                      $1500.00

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