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Four Quartets
by Eliot, T. S
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1943. First edition in book form. 39pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth with a gilt stamped title on the spine (title faded). Stamped 'Review Copy' on the front endpaper. Gilt on spine faded. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Neat pencil sketch on rear free endpaper. *With a supplied dust jacket. A few small pieces of tape to the reverse of the jacket. $2.00 price on dust jacket, nine titles listed on the rear flap. 4" closed tear along fold of front inside flap. Very good in a very good dust jacket. T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "Four Quartets" in 1948. The "Four Quartets" were first published individually from 1936 to 1942, and in book form in 1943. Eliot's masterpiece reveals the cyclical nature of life through images and themes interlaced throughout the four poems.
Synopsis
The last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in “The Waste Land.” Here, in four linked poems (“Burnt Norton,” “East Coker,” “The Dry Salvages,” and “Little Gidding”), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. It is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56790
- Title
- Four Quartets
- Author
- Eliot, T. S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition in book form
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- T. S. Eliot; hardcover; Nobel Prize; DAVID NIELSON; SANFRANCISCOMAP2019 & LAX2019 & SEATTLE2019; BOSTON2019; PASADENA2020; LondonFirsts2020; amvbf2; CALIFORNIA2022; NEWYORKABAA2022; palmsprings2022; LA/SEATTLE2023; californiafairs2024
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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