What is a Classic? by T. S. Eliot

First Edition, first impression. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. 8vo, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (215 x 139 mm). vii + 39 [3]. Black cloth boards lettered in gold down the ...

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. 8vo, 8 1/3 x 5 3/4 inches (219 x 147 mm); 190 pp., + 1 leaf of music, and verso with cast of first Edinburgh Fe...

Two one-page letters on Faber & Faber stationery, SIGNED by T. S. Eliot. The first, dated 1 December 1949 is double sided, 10 1/4 x 8 inches (266 x 204 mm) in envelope 4 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches (110 x 133 mm). The second is dated 23 August 1950, one sided, 8 x 6 7.8 inches (204 x 174 mm) in envelope 4 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches (110 x 133 mm). Typed in black and red ink, central vertical and horizontal folds, with no sign of wear. The accompanying envelopes show minor signs of wear and the back flap of the first envelope is partially torn. Fine. These two typewritten letters were addressed to Robert Cecil Bald (1901 – 1965), an Australian scholar of English Literature, who taught at Cornell University starting in 1937 and then at the University of Chicago from 1952 to 1965. They attest to a cordial exchange between a poet and a scholar, and the rich network of contacts that Eliot had both as an author and as the long-time editorial director at Faber & Faber in London (1925-1965). In the first letter, dated 1 December 1949 with a Cornell University address, Eliot declines an offer...

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. The title of this book of light verse is given by Ezra Pound's friendly nickname for Eliot "Old Possum." In 195...

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934 8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (190 x 132 mm); pp. vii + 408, printed in Old Style type on wove paper; pen and ink drawings (33 head-pieces and 35 ...

Beautiful illustrated Edition of this humorous short story in verse with Cruikshank's illustrations including frontispiece. This second edition was issued the same year as the first, with the imprint Alfred Miller...

First edition, Phaidon Press, 2006. Hardcover Eliot Noyes: A Pioneer of design and architecture in the age of American Modernism This book presents E...

'Four Quartets' first edition book by T.S. Eliot New York Harcourt, brace and company, 1943.

An original framed Victorian Era Chromolithograph motto print, circa late 1800s-early 1900s. The phrase, “What is Home Without a Mother” is brightly printed on paper with a type f...

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1 Volume. Charles Eliot Norton, The New Life of Dante Alighieri. Bound in full red morocco with the cover displaying a gilt-tooled border. The spine displays raised bands and ornate ...