Journey of the Magi by Eliot, T.S - 1927

London: Faber & Gwyer Ltd, 1927. First Edition. Very Good. Edward McKnight Kauffer. 12mo, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 (183 x 120 mm). Cover title, 4 pp, including one color illustration by E. McKnight Kauffer. Stab-stitched yellow paper wrapper printed in black on pages i (color frontispiece) and iv (series title and no.), folded over heavy blanks; back wrapper neatly separated at the seam, but wrapper clean and crisp. No. 8 of the Ariel Poems [Gallup A9a]. This is one of the early "Ariel Poems" series published by Faber & Gwyer (later ones by Faber & Faber) which included each one poem by T. S. Eliot accompanied by a color illustration done by one of several artists who contributed to the series. Each was printed in a run of 3000 to 5000 copies. From the estate of Robert Cecil Bald (1901 - 1965), an Australian scholar of English Literature, who moved to the US to teach at Cornell University in 1937 and was then a professor at the University of Chicago from 1952 to 1965.

London: Faber and Gwyer, 1927. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. First Edition. Darkened and rubbed overall, discreet split at top two inches of the spine, tiny spot of loss to the bottom corner of the front, else very good in publisher's French fold wraps. Two page poem with cover and preceding illustration by McKnight Kauffer. Number 8 of the Ariel Poems. Gallup A9a.

[London: Faber & Gwyer, 1927].. Pictorial yellow boards. Illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer. Very slight sunning and dust smudging to boards, otherwise about fine. First edition, limited issue. One of three hundred and fifty numbered copies, printed on Zanders handmade paper and specially bound. Published as Ariel Poem 8. Unlike the majority of titles in the Ariel Poems, the deluxe issue of this title was not issued signed by Eliot. GALLUP A9b.