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After Strange Gods; A Primer of Modern Heresy, by T. S. Eliot – FIRST EDITION

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After Strange Gods; A Primer of Modern Heresy. The Page-Barbour Lectures at the University of Virginia. London: Faber and Faber, 1934. First Edition. 8vo, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches (221 x140 mm); 68 pp. Black cloth boards lettered in gold down the spine, fore edge and bottom edge untrimmed. Pink dust jacket printed in black and blue, with extremity wear, two large chips at head of spine and bottom right corner, closed tear along the spine panel, which is sunned. Owner's name and date in pencil on ffep. [Gallup A25a]. A collection of 3 lectures delivered by Eliot at the University of Virginia in 1933, the Page-Barbour lectures that year. In them he asserts that the weakness of modern literature is a religious weakness, and some critics have read in them some tones of antisemitism. 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. Condition: Near Fine / DJ: Very good
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    Height: 7.49 in (19 cm)Width: 5.01 in (12.7 cm)Depth: 0.4 in (1 cm)
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    1934
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use. Minor losses.
  • Seller Location:
    Middletown, NY
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    Seller: BH11231stDibs: LU8340241451072

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