[Rarebooks] FS: First Issue of T. S. Eliot's FOUR QUARTETS, price reduced

Charles Agvent charles at charlesagvent.com
Wed Apr 4 15:30:55 EDT 2018


Price reduced to $1600 NET

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. The 
scarce true first edition 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) $2,000.00

https://www.charlesagvent.com/shop/agvent/006282.html

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