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The Confidential Clerk
by Eliot, T.S
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good Plus
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. This is a Near Fine copy of the First American Edition (stated First Printing). Black cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Clean text; 159 pages, with a page listing the cast of the first thatrical production. Previous-owner sticker on the Title Page, else a Fine copy. The dustjacket is Very Good (Plus) - unclipped, but shows a tiny bit of edgewear and the spine has faded to an even light brown (lettering still bright). In an archival plasticprotector.. First American Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004020
- Title
- The Confidential Clerk
- Author
- Eliot, T.S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Theatre/Drama;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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