[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Limited T. S. Eliot First Edition: ASH WEDNESDAY

[Charles Agvent]

ELIOT, T. S. ASH WEDNESDAY. New York/London: Fountain Press/Faber & 
Faber, 1930. First Edition. Printed at the Curwen Press. Copy #388 of 
600 numbered copies SIGNED by the poet of one of the great religious 
poems of the modern era: "Teach us to care and not to care/Teach us to 
sit still." Precedes the ordinary edition by a few days. Nice, clean 
copy inside and out. Owner name of Paul D. Collins, dated March 1932, on 
the front endpaper. Gilt strong and clear. We have handled several 
copies of this title over the years, and this is one of the nicest. In 
the original plain cardboard slipcase which is darkened and lacking the 
top edge. About Fine, lacking the cellophane wrapper but with 
slipcase. 		$2,000.00

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