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What is a Classic? An Address delivered before the Virgil Society on the 16th of October 1944
by Eliot, T.S
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- Signed
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- Blue cloth. Near fine in very good dust jacket (spine panel toned, old tear at head with loss of W)
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber, 1946. Third impression, first published the year before. 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth. Near fine in very good dust jacket (spine panel toned, old tear at head with loss of W). Third impression, first published the year before. 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Signed. "... we have no classic age, and no classic poet, in English; that when we see why this is so, we have not the slightest reason for regret; but that, nevertheless, we must maintain the classic ideal before us."
Signed by the author on the title page ("T.S. Eliot"). Gallup A45
Signed by the author on the title page ("T.S. Eliot"). Gallup A45
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- James Cummins Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 365461
- Title
- What is a Classic? An Address delivered before the Virgil Society on the 16th of October 1944
- Author
- Eliot, T.S
- Format/Binding
- 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Blue cloth. Near fine in very good dust jacket (spine panel toned, old tear at head with loss of W)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third impression, first published the year before
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- American
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- Literature;
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