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The Confidential Clerk.: A Play.
by ELIOT, T. S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber Ltd,, 1954. Presentation copy to fellow playwright First edition, first impression, presentation copy to the French novelist and playwright Georges Duhamel, inscribed by the author a month after publication on the front free endpaper: "à Monsieur Georges Duhamel en hommage à l'ecrivain et l'homme de la part de T. S. Eliot 8.4.54". Duhamel had served as a surgeon during the First World War and his works are known for their depiction of human suffering and for their aversion to industrialisation. Eliot used a quotation by Duhamel to open his article "Reflections on vers libre", published in the New Statesman in 1917. The Confidential Clerk was first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in August 1953, and was published in March 1954. This copy is the first issue with "Ihad" uncorrected on page 7. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Spine lightly sunned, slight crease to rear pastedown, else a very good copy in the dust jacket, a few minor soiling marks, spine panel lightly sunned. Gallup A64a.
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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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 130104
- Title
- The Confidential Clerk.
- Author
- ELIOT, T. S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Faber and Faber Ltd,
- Date Published
- 1954
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
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London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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