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Price: US$38.46 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo.,68 pp. ownership name to front free endpaper, marginal liquid splash stain to p 51 also affecting p 50 but otherwise very good in original black cloth with gilt titles to spine, light shelf wear, very good minus Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Tombland Bookshop, Norwich, NFLK, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover without dust jacket in good condition. From the collection of Ian Angus, British Librarian and a scholar on George Orwell, whose name and date are penned to FEP. Boards are marked, and edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Page block is tanned and blemished. Pastedowns and endpages are also tanned, with spots of foxing noted on the pastedowns. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
T S ELIOT. AFTER STRANGE GODS A Primer of Modern Heresy. Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1934.
Price: US$56.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The three Page-Barbour Lectures delivered at the University of Virginia 1933. Black cloth with gilt to spine. Pages untrimmed, some unopened. Clean throughout with no markings or inscription. 14.5 x 22.5cms with 68pp. We regret we are not able to dispatch orders to Denmark. All profits to Amnesty International.
Seller: Books for Amnesty, Malvern, Great Malvern, United Kingdom
Eliot, T. S.. After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy. Faber and Faber, London, 1934.
Price: US$64.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pages clean and bright, large previous owner inscription on front endpaper, foxing to endpapers, boards and binding tidy, dust jacket in poor condition with chipping with loss to edges and spine. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$67.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Black cloth binding with gold stamped spine. 68pp. Front tips well worn, 1 inch piece of spine cloth lacking at top, small loss at spine bottom. Bookstore label from Shakespeare and Co. Paris, Sylvia Beach on back pastedown!!!!! Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Valley Books, AMHERST, MA, U.S.A.
ELIOT, T.S. (1888-1965). After Strange Gods. London: Faber and Faber, 1934, 1934.
Price: US$76.92 + shipping
Description: [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.68. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, some leaves untrimmed. Toning to pages and edges of texblock, spotting to endpapers, scuffing to publisher's black cloth. Very good. T.S. Eliot was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. He was considered to be one of the 20th Century's major poets and a key figure in the Modernist poetry movement.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Eliot, T.S.. After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy. Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1934.
Price: US$121.79 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Scarce hardcover; first edition, first printing. Good condition. The Page-Barbour Lectures at the University of Virginia, 1933. The plastic protected jacket is marked, tanned and worn, with nicks and chipped portions, most notably affecting the text on the front upper edge and spine head. Parts of the jacket have been reinforced with paper on the inside. Light marks and wear to the hardcover. Minor foxing on the page block and rough cut pages. Previous owner's name penned on FEP. The binding is sound; all text is clear. CM
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. 68pp (mostly uncut). Near fine. Tight, quite nice first edition of these three broad-ranging lectures. Lovely copy of this scarce title.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$128.20 + shipping
Description: Very Good in Very Good- Dust Jacket (owner's name on FFEP; DJ edges worn with chips and tears). DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover.
Seller: Much Ado Books, Alfriston, SUSSE, United Kingdom
Eliot,T.S. After Strange Gods:A Primer of Modern Heresy.. Faber & Faber, London, 1934.
Price: US$145.98 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Page-Barbour Lectures at the University of Virginia 1933.Previous Owners Insc.ffep.Small Booksellers Label inside front cover.Some light foxing to endpapers.
Seller: A Small Bookshop, ELMHURST, VIC, Australia
Price: US$196.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 68 S. Orig.-Leinenband. Ein gut erhaltenes Exemplar mit nur leichten Gebrauchsspuren.
Seller: Antiquariat Rolf Bulang, Dautphetal, Germany
Price: US$220.38 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Published. 68pp. d.w. Bound in black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. d.w.sl.stained, chipped, and sunned at spine. Boards sl.stained. Edges somewhat foxing and sl.spotted, e.ps.somewhat foxing, pages light foxing. 22.6x15cm. [f0887-170979]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
Eliot, T. S.. After Strange Gods.. Faber., London, 1934.
Price: US$256.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 68pp. 'A Primer of Modern Heresy.' Book is clean and tight, wrapper is unclipped butchipped, minor losses, soiled spine. 2nd edition in November. This copy from the library of Rev. Prebendary Gerard Irvine with his signature (October 1939), also inserted signed Christmas card from Valerie Eliot to Irvine (1979) 300g
Seller: EmJay Books, Bradford., United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: States "First Published in February MCMXXXIV" on CP. Former owner's name and "Scottland April 1991" penned on ffep. Owner's blind stamp also embossed on title page. Covers show light wear at corners. Jacket faded to pinkish white and 95% complete with several small tears at edges. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 68 pages
Seller: Oddfellow's Fine Books and Collectables, Topeka, KS, U.S.A.
ELIOT, T. S.. AFTER STRANGE GODS: A Primer of Modern Heresy.. London: Faber and Faber., 1934.
Price: US$448.70 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Original black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt sharp, the contents clean throughout. Lower and fore-edges untrimmed. Very light scattered spots to endpapers. In the lightly rubbed dustwrapper, a little darkened to the spine, with a few nicks and chips to spine tips, edges and corners. Not price-clipped (3s. 6d. net to the front flap). A very presentable copy of Eliot's controversial 1933 Page-Barbour Lectures. Eliot delivered the three lectures published as 'After Strange Gods' as the Page-Barbour Lectures at the University of Virginia in 1933. The lectures pick up the implications the earlier essay, 'Tradition and the Individual Talent', written fifteen years earlier and collected in 'The Sacred Wood' (1920). The tradition addressed in that essay was literary; by the early thirties Eliot (a recent convert to Christianity) was more concerned with cultural traditions, and those of religion in particular, the lectures diagnosing a "weakness of modern literature, indicative of the weakness of the modern world in general", as the jacket has it. Written, as Jeffrey Meyers notes, "during a period of intense emotional turmoil and personal guilt" surrounding the breakdown of Eliot's first marriage, the published lectures are best known today for having been withdrawn by the author after a single reprint and having never been reissued. This may or may not have been owing to a passage which is difficult not to see as an expression of anti-semitism, a passage which may or may not have been symptomatic of emotional turmoil. The lectures are also notable for containing Eliot's harsh opinions on Hardy and Lawrence ("Hardy is condemned and Lawrence appears as a suppôt de Satan" he wrote to Paul Elmer Moore in 1933). Describing himself in 1928 as "classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in religion", Hardy, an atheist, was for Eliot, "a powerful personality uncurbed by any institutional attachment or by submission to any objective beliefs". It is an opposition presented at its starkest in these lectures. Published 22 February 1934, 3000 copies were printed (Gallup A25a). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$514.25 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's black cloth, titles to spine gilt, with the dust jacket; some minor spotting to the end leaves as usual but a very good copy in the little rubbed and slightly faded dust-jacket with a couple of pieces of internal tape. A review copy with Faber's slip laid in annotated by the reviewer for his article. Gallup A25a 3000 copies.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom