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Sitwell Edith. POPULAR SONG. London Faber and Gwyer Limited [1928], 1928.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, number 15 of the Ariel Poems. With cover design, page boarders and a colour pictorial frontispeace by Edward Bawden. Pamphlet, original yellow paper wrappers vividly decorated in black on upper wrap, wrappers stiched with thin thread. 2 leaves. A well preserved copy of this delicate printing, the wrapper partially separated along spine and minorly toned. Edith Sitwell is regarded as one of the great promoters of the Modernist movement in literature. She despised much of the work published in GEORGIAN POETRY and therefore began editing WHEELS, an anti-Georgian literary magazine. She quickly developed a reputation as an eccentric and controversial figure. Her poetry and prose was published extensively between 1915 and 1947. By the early 1950s changes in the Movement caused her to fall out of favor, but she remained a considerable public figure inside and outside of literary circles until her death in 1964. This is one of the Ariel Poems, a numbered series of works by new poets. The series included works by such notibles as T.S. Eliot, Edmund Blunden and Thomas Hardy.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Eliot, T.S.; Kauffer, E. McKnight (illus). A Song for Simeon. Faber & Faber, London, 1928.
Price: US$55.10 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: wraps with flaps, unpaginated front cover scuffed and torn Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Eliot, T. S.. A Song for Simeon; Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. Faber & Faber, London, 1928.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 (183 x 120 mm). Cover title, 4 pp, including one color illustration by E. McKnight Kauffer. Stab-stitched blue laid paper wrapper printed in black on pages i and iv (series title and no.), folded over heavy blanks. Wrapper partially but neatly separated at the seam, and seam very lightly discolored, but otherwise clean and crisp No. 16 of the Ariel Poems [Gallup A11a]. This is one of the early "Ariel Poems" series published by Faber & Gwyer (later ones by Faber & Faber) which included each one poem by T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot OM,1888 - 1965) accompanied by a color illustration done by one of several artists who contributed to the series. Each was printed in a run of 3000 to 5000 copies. 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.
Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.
Eliot, T. S.. A Song for Simeon. Faber & Gwyer Limited, London, 1928.
Price: US$128.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Undated (but 1928). 2pp text plus series list. Color frontispiece. Minor light wear to the covers with a small redish blotch at left side of the front cover Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Allen's Bookshop, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
ELIOT, T.S.. A Song for Simeon.. Faber and Gwyer, London., 1928.
Price: US$994.53 + shipping
Description: First edition. Boards. Number 16 of the Ariel Poems. A two page poem. One full-page colour drawing by E. McKnight Kauffer\b0. Printed at the Curwen Press on hand-made paper.Number 477 of 500 numbered large-paper copies signed by the author and bound in boards.Interesting pictorial bookplate on front pastedown. Covers a bit toned at the edges. Very good.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Eliot, T.S.. A SONG FOR SIMEON . DRAWING BY E. McKNIGHT KAUFFER. Faber & Gwyer, London, 1928.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Eliot, T. S.; Kauffer, E. McKnight (artist). A Song for Simeon. London: Faber & Gwyer Ltd., 1928.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 500 numbered large paper copies printed on English hand-made paper and signed by Eliot. Hardcover, bound in paper covered boards. Edges of the cover discolored, else fine.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Eliot, T.S.. A Song for Simeon. Faber & Gwyer, London, 1928.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed Limited Edition of 500 copies printed. This is number 141 SIGNED by T.S. Eliot on the limitation page. The book is bound in the publisher's paper boards and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A beautiful copy SIGNED by the author. We buy SIGNED T.S. ELIOT First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.