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London : Faber & Gwyer, [1927]. First edition. A poem, with a striking coloured illustration by E. McKnight Kauffer. Printed at the Curwen Press and numbered 8 in the Faber Ariel Poems series.
Crown 8vo. [8]pp. Coloured illustration. Original yellow wrappers, lettered in black, and with a Kauffer design in black on the upper wrapper; a few faint signs of age, but a very good copy of a fragile production. Gallup A9a.

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London : Oxford University Press, 1931. First edition. The English Association Pamphlet No. 80. Not separately published in the USA.
Royal 8vo. (16)pp. Original grey wraps, printed in black; just a touch tanned, but a very good copy indeed of a fragile production. Gallup A20a.

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London : Oxford University Press, 1942. First edition. Eliot's presidential address to the Classical Association. Not published in the USA.
Pott 4to. (28)pp. Original pale blue wrappers, lettered in black; a little sunned; some very minor rubbing and a few tiny spots, but a very good copy of a fragile wartime item. Gallup A40.

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London : Faber & Faber, (1951). First British edition.
Demy 8vo. (36),[iv]pp. Original red cloth, lettered down spine in gilt; slight spotting of edges and prelims; mild tanning of endpapers, but a very good, bright and unworn copy in the original blue dust-jacket, printed in red - just slightly dulled. Gallup A57b.

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[Chichester : Friends of Chichester Cathedral, 1965]. Second edition. Eliot's 1951 lecture (here incorrectly dated 1954).
Crown 8vo. 16pp. Original black and white photographic stapled wraps; just slightly rubbed, but a very good copy. Gallup A58n.

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London : Cambridge University Press, 1969. First edition. Browne was the director of the original productions of all T.S.Eliot's plays and his account includes both a personal and professional account of the production history - with many passages from the evolving text of the plays.
Royal 8vo. (xvi),(350)pp. Original cloth; very slightly bruised, but a very good copy in a lightly rubbed and price-clipped dust-jacket.

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London : Merlin Press, (1966). First edition in English. An analysis of the work by the French poet and critic. Translated by Claire Pace and Jean Stewart.
Demy 8vo. x,128,[ii]pp. Original boards; very good in dust-jacket.

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London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1950). First British edition. "The first comprehensive interpretation of the poetry".
Post 8vo. 256pp. Original cloth; very lightly sunned at foot of spine, faint spotting of fore-edge, but very good in lightly marked and slightly torn dust-jacket.

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London : Faber & Faber, (1971). First edition. Draws on some previously unpublished Eliot material.
Demy 8vo. (256)pp. Original cloth; faint spotting of edges, but a very good and bright copy in a slightly nicked and lightly soiled dust-jacket.

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London : Athlone Press, 1979. First edition.
Demy 8vo. [xii],148pp. Original boards; very good in slightly bruised and faintly scuffed dust-jacket.

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London : Cohen & West, (1960). First edition. A review copy, with the publishers' slip loosely inserted.
Demy 8vo. [2},(xiv),222,[ii]pp. Original cloth; very good in slightly frayed and tanned dust-jacket.

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London : Oxford University Press, 1935. First edition. "Should dispel for all time the superstition that Eliot's poetry is needlessly obscure" (Horace Gregory).
Demy 8vo. xvi,(160)pp. Original cloth; faint tape-marks to endpapers, but a very good, bright and unworn copy.

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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (1984). First edition. "A rich and valuable study that no student of Eliot can afford to ignore" (John D. Margolis).
Crown 4to. (xxii),(138)pp. Original cloth; a touch bowed, but very good in just slightly rubbed dust-jacket.

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New York : Rinehart & Co., (1948). First edition. An exhaustive compendium of early critical commentary - from Conrad Aiken, Richard Aldington, E.M.Forster, F.R.Leavis, Ezra Pound, John Crowe Ransom, I.A.Richards, Delmore Schwartz, Allen Tate, Edmund Wilson, Yvor Winters, W.B.Yeats and many more.
Foolscap 4to. (xx),478pp. Original cloth; lightly bruised; inscription on front free endpaper, but a good and sound copy in a lightly worn and reinforced dust-jacket.

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London : Fortune Press, (1948). First edition.
Demy 8vo. (66)-[but 64]pp. Original brown cloth, lettered up spine in gilt; slightly marked and spotted; neat contemporary ownership in pencil; but a nice copy in a slightly rubbed and very slightly chipped dust-jacket. D'Arch Smith 601.

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