[Rarebooks] FS: Rachel Carson quotes T. S. Eliot

[Charles Agvent]

One of over 100 interesting items to be included in our HOLIDAY 2008 
Catalogue to be posted on our web site next week.  Included will be 
beautifully bound classics, signed books, poetry, illustrated books, and 
the unusual, such as this:

CARSON,  Rachel [T. S. ELIOT]. AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION  SIGNED.  Seven
lines  from  T.  S. Eliot's poem The Dry Salvages, part  of  the  FOUR
QUARTETS,  completely in Rachel Carson's hand and SIGNED by her  "with
all  good  wishes." In full: "'The river is within us, the sea is  all
about  us;/The sea is the land's edge also, the granite/Into which  it
reaches,  the beaches where it tosses;/Its hints of earlier and  other
creation:/The  starfish,  the hermit crab, the whale's back  bone;/The
pools  where  it offers to our curiosity/The more delicate  algae  and
the sea anemone.'/T. S. Eliot."  This quote is the source of the title
to  Carson's  best known book after SILENT SPRING, THE SEA AROUND  US.
Carson  has  written the quotation on a white  double-weight  3-1/2" x
5-3/4"  custom-made collector's card, similar in look to an invitation
card,  and  has  INSCRIBED  it  to   Roger  Harris,  who  headed  soil
conservation  efforts  in  Minnesota in the 1950s. There  is  a  small
pencil  date  of  1/58  on the verso, likely the  time  the  card  was
written. Fine, unusual piece.                                 $1500.00


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