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FOUR QUARTETS
by ELI0T, T.S
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/price-clipped dj
- ISBN 10
- 0151330530
- ISBN 13
- 9780151330539
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace, ( 1947 ). Later printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/price-clipped dj. 8vo, 39 pages, black cloth, gilt titles; short closed tear in dj, also a scratch in the black portion of the top panel, bright
Only 788 copies of the first impression of 4165 survived destruction on account of bad margins. That remnant was kept to preserve copyrights and for review purposes [Gallup 2d, A43a note]. "The FOUR QUARTETS, the most important poem since Yeats' 'The Tower', and as many think, of the century, were written over ten years. ... Although Eliot had long taken leave of modernism as a creed, and disapproved of poetry as a substitute for religion, he had retained the modern advances in technique evolved by him and Pound and the QUARTETS preserve the melodic line, the intricacy of thought and shape which is the high point of his technique applied to what are really religious and philosophical meditations - Connolly, THE MODERN MOVEMENT, 92." Printing code is [g.3.47].
Only 788 copies of the first impression of 4165 survived destruction on account of bad margins. That remnant was kept to preserve copyrights and for review purposes [Gallup 2d, A43a note]. "The FOUR QUARTETS, the most important poem since Yeats' 'The Tower', and as many think, of the century, were written over ten years. ... Although Eliot had long taken leave of modernism as a creed, and disapproved of poetry as a substitute for religion, he had retained the modern advances in technique evolved by him and Pound and the QUARTETS preserve the melodic line, the intricacy of thought and shape which is the high point of his technique applied to what are really religious and philosophical meditations - Connolly, THE MODERN MOVEMENT, 92." Printing code is [g.3.47].
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0006518
- Title
- FOUR QUARTETS
- Author
- ELI0T, T.S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- price-clipped dj
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- ISBN 10
- 0151330530
- ISBN 13
- 9780151330539
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- ( 1947 )
- Keywords
- poetry, t. s. eliot four quartets modern movement
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About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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