What is a Classic? by Eliot, T.S - 1945

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1946. First Edition, Third Impression. Hardcover. Thin Octavo, 32 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine beige with black lettering. Moderate plus age toning exteriorly with few instances of chipping to the head/tail edges. Price clipped front flap. Text block has light tone to the edges and few stains interiorly. Slight cracking to the gutter at pages sixteen to seventeen. First edition, third impression. 1373382. FP New Rockville Stock.

Faber & Faber, 1950. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1950. 32 pages. Purple jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering.Ex-libris copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges. Loss to jacket edges. Jacket edges have been trimmed.

London, England: Faber & Faber, 1944. 32 pp. Bright blue boards with gold lettering on spine only. There is minor rubbing to the extremities and minor wear to the corners. Binding is square and tight. The dust jacket is unclipped, wth pencilled-in price of .75 cents. Toning throughout the jacket, plus several tears and .5" holes. The interior pages are clean and unmarked. This is a publication of Eliot's speech given at the Virgil Society iin 1944. Eliot was the society's first president, having served from 1943-1944.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Fair. Octavo.

London: Faber & Faber, 1945 pp 32 Internally very good with slight browning, binding firm, cover sound but spine rather faded. Pics available

London: Faber & Faber, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Octavo. Fine/VG- (small dust jacket spine top chip). In Mylar cover. Printed on quality handmade paper. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.

FABER AND FABER, 1945-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Clean copy in good condition.

Faber & Faber, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Faber & Faber 1945. First edition. Condition: Very Good. Clean copy - tight Harcover binding with clear and complete text. Includes a fine original Dust Jacket. Includes a plastic protection over the dust jacket.

London: Faber & Faber, 1945. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Second impression of the second issue. Slim octavo. 32pp. Light edgwear and binding just a bit cocked, about near fine in modestly soiled about very good dust jacket with wear along the topedge, a lightly toned spine, and a small chip at the crown. Also present is the about very good unprinted glassine dust jacket with a lightly toned spine, bit of loss at the crown, and several small chips and tears (some along the spine). Noted English poet Geoffrey Hill's copy with his owner signature on the front fly.

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

London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1944. Advance proof, first edition. 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue wrappers with titles in black; some soiling to wraps, partial splitting. Edmund Blunden's initials in pencil on upper and his annotations on p. 8 and p. 12, housed in a collector's blue clamshell box with gilt title label on spine, made by Arthur Johnson; a good copy with an interesting association. Advance proof, first edition. 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Edmund Blunden's copy. Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) was an English poet, author, and critic known for his writing about World War I. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature six times. Gallup A45