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Lot 178

ELIOT (T.S.)
Four Quartets, proof copy, Faber and Faber, 1944; and others (6)

22 – 23 June 2022, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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ELIOT (T.S.)

Four Quartets, typescript proof copy, occasional spotting, stapled in publisher's blue printed wrappers, vertical crease where previously folded, 4to, 1944; Marina [number 29 of the Ariel Poems], NUMBER 286 OF 400 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 2 full-page illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer, publisher's blue boards, 8vo, 1930; [Four Quartets] East Coker, 1940; Burnt Norton, 1941; The Dry Salvages, 1941; Little Gidding, 1942, separately published first editions, some foxing to East Coker, publisher's stiff wrappers, some soiling and fading, East Coker with wrappers detached, 8vo, Faber and Faber (6)

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Provenance: M.W. Connor, early ink signature on half-title of typescript proof.

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