The Confidential Clerk: A Play
by ELIOT, T.S
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Pahiatua, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. Faber and Faber, London, 1954. First edition ("Ihad" for "I had" on p.7) in first state dustwrapper (priced 10s 6d on the front flap). Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. Ghost of a pencil price to fep. very light foxing to prelims, hardly worthy of a mention. Slight fading to cove at top and bottom of spine. Dust Jacket condition: Fair. Not price clipped. Chips to top and bottom of back strip. Nicks at all leading corners.
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
- The Secret Bookshop (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013868
- Title
- The Confidential Clerk: A Play
- Author
- ELIOT, T.S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- lit
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