Bonhams 1793 : ELIOT (T.S) Poems, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of the author's second book of poetry, Hogarth Press, 1919

Poems, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "capitaux" on page 13 uncorrected, occasional spotting, sewn in publisher's orange and green marbled wrappers, with title label printed in black, totally untrimmed at head and foot (leading to some creasing and chipping), wrappers detached and split at spine [Gallup A3], 8vo, Printed and Published by L. & V. Woolf at the Hogarth Press, Hogarth House, Richmond, 1919

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FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF ELIOT'S SECOND BOOK OF POETRY. Some 250 copies were hand-printed by Virginia and Leonard Woolf at the Hogarth Press, following a visit by Eliot to Hogarth House in November 1918 to show them some of the poems. Copies were bound up in wrappers designed by Roger Fry and Gallup states that these were of varying texture and design, the earliest copies with a red printed label. This copy, from the Library of Henry Graham Dakyns, has a black printed label, and the texture of the untrimmed wrappers is that of wallpaper.

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