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The Confidential Clerk
by Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965)
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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DeLand, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good.
Black cloth boards lettered in gold down the spine. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. The White Dust Jacket printed in brown and black is with price and is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has shelf handling and mild age-fading, small rubs on the corners and spine tips. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall. 160 pages. First American Edition.
Ref: Gallup, A-64
. 'The dialogue of The Confidential Clerk has a precision and a lightly felt rhythm unmatched in the writing of any contemporary dramatist.' [Times Literary Supplement] The Confidential Clerk was first produced at the Edinburgh Festival in the summer of 1953.
Background Information:
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
Black cloth boards lettered in gold down the spine. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. The White Dust Jacket printed in brown and black is with price and is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has shelf handling and mild age-fading, small rubs on the corners and spine tips. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall. 160 pages. First American Edition.
Ref: Gallup, A-64
. 'The dialogue of The Confidential Clerk has a precision and a lightly felt rhythm unmatched in the writing of any contemporary dramatist.' [Times Literary Supplement] The Confidential Clerk was first produced at the Edinburgh Festival in the summer of 1953.
Background Information:
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
Synopsis
A modern verse play that touches on the sources of longing and the need to be loved. "Never has Eliot's apparently effortless prosody been more precise.... He has achieved complete mastery of words" (Kirkus Reviews). "It is a wise, witty, elegant play whose characters speak finely and shrewdly" (Chicago Sunday Tribune).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA]
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014693
- Title
- The Confidential Clerk
- Author
- Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965)
- Format/Binding
- Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- Comic Verse
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