[Rarebooks] FS: And the fire and the rose are one

[Charles Agvent]

ELIOT, T. S. FOUR QUARTETS. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 
(1943). First Edition. One of only 788 copies of the first impression 
with the words "first American edition" on the copyright page. Scarce 
true first of a seminal collection as most of the printing run was 
destroyed due to poor quality. Gallup A43a; Connolly, One Hundred Modern 
Books 92. Some soiling, little wear to corners, spine dull; lengthy 
inscription in an unknown hand on the front free endpaper with scattered 
pencil checks in the text. In what is now acknowledged to be the first 
issue dustwrapper with a $2.00 price and nine titles listed at rear. 
Very Good in a Near Fine dustwrapper. (#006282) $2,500.00

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, unremembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always —
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flames are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.
--- T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding


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