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Brooklyn: Pierrepont Press, [1969].. Gilt gray cloth. Fine in slightly dust- smudged and faintly marked slipcase. First edition. Copy 'A' of 26 lettered copies, from a total edition 330 copies, all signed by the author. Precedes the edition published in 1980 as TUUMBA 25.

[Philadelphia: The Artist, 2005].. Oblong octavo. Open-sewn decorated paper over stiff wrappers. Accordion fold. Decorative onlay. A fold or two slightly awry, otherwise fine in folding cloth clamshell case. Copy #3 of five copies, signed by the artist. Panels of text printed in bold on translucent plastic, intersewn with two panels of material fabricated from dried, pressed fruit, with a smaller panel of the same material affixed to the upper board.

Cranbrook, Kent, 1971.. 7 leaves. Carbon typescript, on rectos only, with light corrections, signed in full at conclusion. Very good. The poet's summary of Eliot's career, talent and achievement, accompanied by an a.l.s., "13 viii 71," one page, octavo, in response to a solicitation of a contribution to APEX ONE magazine, and forwarding the essay. Accompanied by a copy of the issue in which it appeared, whole #2, Feb. 1974.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920.. 63pp. Tan boards, printed in dark brown. Tasteful private bookplate on pastedown, very slight wear at crown of spine, otherwise unusually fine, without the uncommon dust jacket. First U.S. edition, consisting largely of the occasionally revised poems published earlier in the month as the Rodker edition of ARA VOS PREC, with a couple of substitutions. GALLUP A4b.

New York: House of Books, 1954.. Plum cloth, lettered in gilt. Trace of sunning to spine, otherwise fine in glassine wrapper. First edition. Published as the twelfth volume in the Crown Octavo series. Copy #249 of three hundred numbered copies, in addition to twenty-six lettered copies for presentation, all signed by the author. GALLUP A65.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1917.. 31pp. Rose boards, stamped in gilt. Portrait of Pound by Gaudier-Brzeska. Spine somewhat sunned, gilt lettering with a slight patina, boards faintly dust-soiled, small bump toward crown of spine, but a very good, clean copy, without the usual foxing to the verso of the frontis. Lacking the plain tan paper shipping wrapper. First edition of Eliot's anonymously published second book, superintended by John Quinn as a promotional for LUSTRA. According to Gallup, one of one thousand copies printed -- however, the frequency with which copies turn up - particularly in light of the attrition rate one would expect for a book so delicate - can't help but suggest the edition may have possibly been a bit larger. GALLUP (ELIOT) A2.

[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.

London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928.. Pale gray boards, lettered in gilt. Color frontis. Modest dust-toning to edges of boards, otherwise a very good, internally fine copy. First edition, limited issue, of Ariel Poem number 16. Copy #81 of five hundred numbered copies, printed on large handmade paper, specially bound, and signed by the author. GALLUP A11b.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.. 12mo. Cloth and marbled boards. Trace of shelf-rubbing at edges, otherwise a very good, or better, copy without dust jacket. Second edition, with a new Preface by Eliot. This is the uncommon U.S. issue bound up from UK sheets. One of only 500 copies thus, and consequently somewhat less than common. GALLUP A5b.

Cambridge: The Harvard Advocate, [1949].. Narrow octavo. Printed wrapper. Fine. First (unauthorized) edition. One of one thousand copies printed (of which 750 copies were briefly withdrawn from circulation, then subsequently released piecemeal or in lots into the hands of a few antiquarian booksellers). GALLUP A53.

London: Faber & Faber, 1930.. 75pp. Large octavo. Cloth, t.e.g. Endsheets faintly offset (as usual), otherwise a near fine copy in very slightly chipped cellophane wrapper, in typically darkened, edgeworn slipcase. First edition, limited issue. One of 350 numbered copies, specially printed and bound, and signed by Eliot. The work of a Nobel Laureate translated by another Nobel Laureate. GALLUP A16b.

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1954.. 39pp. Gilt lettered cloth. Typographic private bookplate on pastedown, otherwise fine in dust jacket. First US (and first clothbound) edition. One of 3000 copies printed -- less than half the number of the UK edition that were printed. Eliot's National Book League Annual Lecture delivered 19 November 1953. GALLUP A63b.

Cambridge: Harvard Film Service, [ca. 1934].. 12" 78 rpm phonograph record, enclosed in plain contemporary sleeve. Signs of having been played, with a few light surface rubs, but very good or better. The sleeve has a note ('A-') on one panel. The first phonograph recording by Eliot cited by Gallup, but at slight variance due to the assertion of having been produced by the Harvard Film Service. Gallup's entry explicitly cites Harvard University Press. This copy bears the numbers "P-990 SS 5052" and "P991 SS5053." GALLUP E5a.

London: Faber & Faber, [1929].. 69pp. Pictorial boards. Offset from jacket flaps on endsheets, otherwise a fine copy, in a very good or better first state dust jacket with a trace of sunning, some minute nicks and a 2.5 cm closed tear in the lower panel at the bottom edge. First edition, trade issue. Published in Faber's "The Poets on Poets" series. The binding and dust wrapper designs are by Rex Whistler. GALLUP A13a.

[London: Faber & Faber, 1930].. 12mo. Sewn pictorial blue wrapper. With two illustrations by Kauffer. Wrapper a bit dust- darkened, two tiny marginal smudges, very good. First edition, trade issue, of Ariel Poem number 29. This issue preceded the limited issue by more than a week. GALLUP A17b.

London: Faber & Gwyer, 1925.. 98pp. Cloth, paper spine label. Trace of offset from jacket flaps to endsheets, slight darkening, otherwise a very good copy, in good dust jacket with darkening to the spine panel and perimeter of upper and lower panels, and an internal mend along a split in the upper spine fold. First edition, ordinary issue. One of 1460 copies printed, in addition to eighty-five deluxe, signed copies. It is here that Eliot's dedication of "The Waste Land" to Ezra Pound is first printed. Uncommon in dust jacket. GALLUP A8a.

[London: Faber & Faber, 1931].. Pictorial wrapper. Wrapper and color frontis by E. McKnight Kauffer. Fine. First edition, trade issue, issued as Ariel Poem #35 (2000 copies printed). This issue preceded the limited issue by a couple of weeks. GALLUP A19a.

London: The Ovid Press, [1920].. Quarto (29 X 23 cm). Quarter yellow-tan cloth and black cloth over boards, paper spine label, edges untrimmed. Label darkened, bookplate in corner of front pastedown, inner hinges cracking slightly, but a very good copy. First edition, the second state of the binding for the ordinary issue. Decorated with opening initials and colophon by E.A. Wadsworth. From an edition specified as consisting of a total of 264 copies, this is copy #130 and is printed on heavy, untrimmed handmade paper. Ostensibly, there were to be ten unnumbered copies for review, but "the frequency with which unnumbered copies appear would indicate that a good many more than the unscheduled ten were so issued" - Gallup. A subset of the edition was bound with reversal of signature 'C' with the consequent disruption of pagination, and were printed on a slightly lighter weight Whatman paper, with edges trimmed. See Gerald Cloud's informed commentary on the internal and binding variants of this, the… Read More

Cambridge: The Harvard Advocate, [1949].. Narrow octavo. Printed wrapper. Fine. First (unauthorized) edition. One of one thousand copies printed (of which 750 copies were briefly withdrawn from circulation, then subsequently released piecemeal or in lots into the hands of a few antiquarian booksellers). GALLUP A53.

New York: Boni & Liveright, [1922].. 64pp. Small octavo. Flexible black cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine sunned, a few spots of dulling to the cloth sizing, but a good, sound copy. Second "edition" (i.e. second impression). Copy #987 of one thousand numbered copies. The reading 'mount in' on page 41, line 339, remains uncorrected in this second impression. The first printing was formally published on 15 December 1922 and copies were distributed early in 1923. GALLUP A6b. MODERN MOVEMENT 30b.