[Rarebooks] FS - T.S. Eliot/East Coker 1st

[GREENFIELD BOOKS]

*ELIOT, T. S.,/ EAST COKER/*. Faber and Faber, London. 1940. 1st 
edition, wrappers, 8vo, pp. 15. Original stapled card covers show wear 
at spine and are a bit darkened. Corners slightly turned. Contents 
clean. A good plus copy.

"East Coker" is the second of four poems which, together, are known as 
"Four Quartets". They were published individually from 1935 to 1942, and 
first published together, in book form, in 1943. Eliot considered "Four 
Quartets" to be his masterpiece, even though their appeal was to a more 
limited audience than most of his other poetry. Each poem, running to no 
more than several hundred lines, makes demands upon the reader that 
often exhaust one's intellectual energy. Nevertheless, they are great 
poetry and formed a substantial contribution to the justification for 
the Nobel Prize for literature awarded to Eliot in 1948. Copies of the 
rather fragile first printing are seldom seen, and usually in well-worn 
condition. Our copy has the former owner's name and a date (1940), 
written lightly in pencil (and thus easily erased, if so desired), on 
the top right of the front free endpaper.

Price: $200.00.

Terms of sale - the price is in US funds. Payment by check or credit 
card. Postage and packing charge is $7.50. Returnable within seven days 
of receipt if not as described.

 
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