The Confidential Clerk - A Play.
by ELIOT, T.S
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- first
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- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Faber and Faber., 1954. First edition. Octavo. 136 pages. The author's fourth verse play. Laid in is an 8-page programme for the 1953 Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue production of the play with Denholm Elliott in the main role. Near fine in very good indeed dustwrapper a little rubbed at the edges. The programme is folded once and creased.
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 Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ELIOTTS024116
- Title
- The Confidential Clerk - A Play.
- Author
- ELIOT, T.S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber.
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
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