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Eliot, T.S.. ARA VUS PREC. The Ovid Press, London, 1920.

Price: US$2850.00 + shipping

Description: Quarto (29 X 23 cm). Quarter yellow-tan cloth and black cloth over boards, paper spine label, edges untrimmed. Label darkened, bookplate in corner of front pastedown, inner hinges cracking slightly, but a very good copy. First edition, the second state of the binding for the ordinary issue. Decorated with opening initials and colophon by E.A. Wadsworth. From an edition specified as consisting of a total of 264 copies, this is copy #130 and is printed on heavy, untrimmed handmade paper. Ostensibly, there were to be ten unnumbered copies for review, but "the frequency with which unnumbered copies appear would indicate that a good many more than the unscheduled ten were so issued" - Gallup. A subset of the edition was bound with reversal of signature 'C' with the consequent disruption of pagination, and were printed on a slightly lighter weight Whatman paper, with edges trimmed. See Gerald Cloud's informed commentary on the internal and binding variants of this, the first book-length publication of the Ovid Press. GALLUP A4a. Cloud, JOHN RODKER'S OVID PRESS A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY, A5.

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