Four Quartets

by Eliot, T S

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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London: Faber, 1940. FIRST EDITIONS: East Coker 1940, Burnt Norton and The Dry Salvages 1941, Little Gidding 1942. Softcover octavo, pp. 15, [1]; 15, [1]; 15, [1]; 16. Stapled plain card wraps in harlequin colours. Covers lightly surface soiled and partially sunned, with a little minor creasing; rust at staples to all aside from Little Gidding which is sewn.… Read more about this item
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. First American Edition, Second Issue, Second State Dust Jacket. Hardcover. Octavo, 39 pages; VG/G+; spine back with beige lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price cut; dust jacket has chips missing to head and tail of spine, chip to upper edge of front cover, corners; cracking to gilt on board… Read more about this item
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1943
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1944
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London: Faber and Faber 1944. 8vo. First Combined Edition. 44 pp., Full black morocco binding with gilt lettered spine. Minor warping to the boards and bubbling to the endpapers. Some wear to the front hinge. Minor scattered ink marks, particularly affecting the extremities. . Very Good. Full Morocco. First Collected Edition. 1944.
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London: Faber & Faber, 1960. First edition, Signed/Limited. Very near fine with a few light, small specks spine in near fine publisher's slipcase, with light rubbing to extremities.. Marbled paper-covered boards over white vellum spine, in matching publisher's slipcase. Signed by T.S. Eliot. Limited to 290 copies, of which this is #189.
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1943
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. First Edition, first impression. Fine/Near fine. 8vo, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (215 x 139 mm). vii + 39 [3]. Black cloth boards lettered in gold down the spine. White dust-jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer, printed in black, cream and grey; unclipped ($2.00). On verso of title-leaf: ..."first American… Read more about this item
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1943
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Harcourt, Brace & Company. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1943. First American Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. 0151330530 . ****Spring Sale! The current price reflects a 20% discount off the regular price, while the item lasts. Sale ends April 2, 2024*****; 3rd printing, June 1943. Black cloth cover has light wear to corners and sine caps and … Read more about this item
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London: Faber and Faber, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Faber and Faber, 1944 [first English edition]/ 1943 (first collected edition). Octavo, 44 pages, printed on translucent wove paper watermarked 'A. Millbourn & Co | British Handmade'. Original tan cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; top edge cut, leading and bottom deckle edges only lightly cut;… Read more about this item
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Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1943. Hbk, 39pp, second impression, near fine price-clipped second-state dustjacket with six titles on rear panel, faint strips of toning to rear panel top and side, very slight rubbing to the edge of the heel of the spine-strip, now in protective sleeve, fine, crisp, black cloth boards with bright gilt titles, copyright page… Read more about this item
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New York: a harvest book Harcourt, brace and world Inc., after last copyright 1971. later printing. Trade Paper. Good. copyright 1943 by T.S. Eliot copyright 1971 byEsme Valerie Eliot Four Quartets A Harvest/HBJ book Author Thomas Stearns Eliot Edition reprint Publisher Harcourt, Brace, 1943 ISBN 0156332256, 9780156332255 Length 39 pages Subjects Poetry American General Poetry /… Read more about this item
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Faber,, [1944]. 8vo., First Edition thus, free endpapers lightly spotted; beige cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly browned dustwrapper. First collected edition, published a year after the US edition. Collects Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, Little Gidding (1939-1942). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Gallup A44b.
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1943
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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… Read more about this item
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Faber and Faber. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 1952. 9th Impression. Hardback. Dust jacket covered in archival film, slightly chipped top and bottom of spine and allong rear panel which bears some red staining, unclipped, back quite bright, cloth covered boards, bottom and top of spine bumped with very slight split, previous owner's dedication on… Read more about this item
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1943
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943 First edition, second issue, without the edition note on the copyright page and without code designations in brackets used in subsequent printings; in the first state dust jacket with the $2.00 price listed in the upper corner of the inside flap and the nine titles listed in bold print on the back panel,… Read more about this item
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1943
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New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1943. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Third Printing with [c-6-43] on the copyright page. Very Good in an about Good jacket with nine titles on the back, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned, partially split down the spine, chips at the edges. Black buckram, bumped at the edges and corners, with gilt lettering on the… Read more about this item
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1944
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London: Faber & Faber, 1944. 1st. hardback. Good, 1st edition, with clipped d/j in reasonable condition (some foxing and bumping on top edge). sSandy-coloured boards, clean. Pages clean and crisp with no markings (good condition for war-time rationed paper); binding creased open in middle and slight tearing (from original cutting) on two pages.. 8vo (230 x 150 /… Read more about this item
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