FOUR QUARTETS
- 1944
1944. London: Faber and Faber, (1944). Original tan cloth, with dust jacket.
First English Collected Edition -- of what Cyril Connolly called "the most important poem since Yeats's THE TOWER and, as many think, of the century." The four pieces ("Burnt Norton," "East Coker," "The Dry Salvages" and "Little Gidding") had all been pamphlets issued separately in the UK in 1940-1942; however, per this dust jacket, "The author... has always intended them to be published as one volume, and to be judged as a single work." (The American collected edition was published in 1943, but due to unskilled wartime labor, many page margins were incorrect -- so all but 788 copies (to preserve copyright) were destroyed.) This is a fine copy (light foxing on the endpapers); the price-clipped jacket is nearly fine as well (no wear, but again some light foxing). Gallup A43b; Connolly Modern Movement 92.
First English Collected Edition -- of what Cyril Connolly called "the most important poem since Yeats's THE TOWER and, as many think, of the century." The four pieces ("Burnt Norton," "East Coker," "The Dry Salvages" and "Little Gidding") had all been pamphlets issued separately in the UK in 1940-1942; however, per this dust jacket, "The author... has always intended them to be published as one volume, and to be judged as a single work." (The American collected edition was published in 1943, but due to unskilled wartime labor, many page margins were incorrect -- so all but 788 copies (to preserve copyright) were destroyed.) This is a fine copy (light foxing on the endpapers); the price-clipped jacket is nearly fine as well (no wear, but again some light foxing). Gallup A43b; Connolly Modern Movement 92.
Details
Title
FOUR QUARTETS
Author
Eliot, T.S.
Condition
Unknown
Date
1944