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T. S. Eliot. Ash-Wednesday. Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1930.
Price: US$51.33 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Quite a few tears to dust jacket, book in clean condition.
Seller: siop lyfrau'r hen bost, Blaenau Ffestiniog, United Kingdom
Eliot, T. S.. Ash Wednesday.. Faber and Faber Ltd. London, 1930.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The book is bound in orange/brown boards with bright gilt letters on the spine & front cover + bright gilt design on the front cover. There is very light wear on the spine tips & cover corners. Light browning to the fore-edge of the pages. The contents are clean & unmarked, the binding is tight. States: "First Published in MCMXXX".
Seller: Richard Peterson-Bookseller, Kingston, ON, Canada
Eliot, T. S.. Ash Wednesday. Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1930.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book appears moderately read with light wear at covers, edges and extremities due to age and shelving. Pages are a bit tanned due to age, but OW a tight, solid and square looking copy of this classic work by one of the 20th century masters in it's first trade edition. 21 pages + endpapers.
Seller: West Portal Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Eliot T. S.. ASH-WEDNESDAY. Faber and Faber, London, 1930.
Price: US$172.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 21 pages. Pages very lightly yellowed at edges, v/g condition. Endpapers lightly soiled at spine. Brown cloth, gilt title on upper cover. Nice copy. VG+
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Eliot, T. S.. ASH-WEDNESDAY. Faber & Faber, London, 1930.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Fine in good-only dust jacket with considerable wear, tape repair (inside and out), 3/4-inch chipped from top of spine affecting "T. S." and small holes in spine, one of which affects "AY" in title. Still, scarce in any dust jacket.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
ELIOT, T[homas] S[tearns].. Ash-Wednesday.. London Faber & Faber Ltd, 1930.
Price: US$211.75 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's brown cloth, trophy and titles to upper board and titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt other untrimmed; a very nice copy indeed. The opening stanzas of the title poem amongst the finest words Eliot ever wrote. Gallup A15a.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
ELIOT, T[homas] S[tearns].. Ash-Wednesday.. London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1930., 1930.
Price: US$222.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. pp. 21. mid-brown gilt-stamped cloth. Fine in defective & repaired dw. First Trade Edition. 2000 copies printed. Connolly 65.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Eliot, T. S.. Ash Wednesday: Six Poems. Faber & Faber, London, 1930.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo, 7 5/8 x 5 inches (192 x127 mm); 21 pp. Brown cloth boards stamped in gold on front cover and on spine; t.e.g., others untrimmed. Dust-jacket printed in green, black, and red, with design by Edward Balden, price clipped, spine panel fragile and split, several chips and small tears to the top edge and bottom rear corner. Bookseller ticket pasted inside front cover; small script pencil notes on rear jacket flap and some pages. [Gallup A15b]. In 1927 T. S. Eliot converted to Anglicanism and became a British citizen, thus renouncing his American nationality. "Ash-Wednesday" is the first long poem he wrote after his conversion. Published in 1930, it deals with the struggle that ensues when a person who has lacked faith acquires it. Sometimes referred to as Eliot's "conversion poem", it is richly but ambiguously allusive, and deals with the aspiration to move from spiritual barrenness to hope for human salvation. Eliot's style of writing in "Ash-Wednesday" showed a marked shift from the poetry he had written prior to his 1927 conversion, and his post-conversion style continued in a similar vein. His style became less ironic, and the poems were no longer populated by multiple characters in dialogue. Eliot's subject matter also became more focused on his spiritual concerns and his Christian faith. (Raine, Craig. T. S. Eliot. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006) 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.. Ash Wednesday. The Fountain's Press and Faber & Faber, New York & London, 1930.
Price: US$1539.92 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small 8vo. Pp 28, Original cloth with title within decorative border to front cover. Teg. Binding shows a little very light marking. A small number of scribbled penciled lines to rear free endpaper; these have been erased but still just show. No.96/600 copies printed at the Curwen Press and signed by the author.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
T.S. Eliot:. Ash-Wednesday.. printed for Faber and Faber at the Curwen Press,, London:, 1930.
Price: US$1796.57 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 28pp. Copy #72 of the 200 copies signed by Eliot which were printed for Great Britain, a further 400 being printed for the Fountain Press in America. 20.5x15cms, in the original binding of blue cloth, titled and decorated in gilt. With its glassine dust jacket with plain paper ends to retain the flaps: this is slightly wrinkled, has small closed tears at the spine head, and a small tear with loss to the spine foot, which have resulted in some very slight fading to the spine ends, as can be discerned in the photograph. The book itself is fine and bright throughout, though with some toning to the inner portion of the free endpapers which had not been in contact with the flaps of the jacket. It has been kept in its battered and split, and presumably original, tan slip-case, which has protected it well. Unusual to have the jacket and case still present, however the 90+ years have treated them. A beautiful copy. (More photographs of this book can be seen on my website)
Seller: Chapel Books, Westleton, SFK, United Kingdom
Eliot, T.S.. ASH-WEDNESDAY. Fountain Press / Faber & Faber, New York & London, 1930.
Price: US$1850.00 + shipping
Description: Blue cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Usual slight offset to endsheets, ting 1930 ownership inscription in upper fore- corner of the front pastedown, otherwise, a bright, clean copy, near fine, though wanting the glassine wrapper and slipcase. First edition, limited issue. One of six hundred numbered copies, printed on handmade paper at the Curwen Press and signed by the author. The poems "represent the first fruits of Eliot's conversion (1927) after the despair of "The Hollow Men" and are among his most beautiful lyrics" - Connolly. GALLUP A15. MODERN MOVEMENT 65.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$4491.43 + shipping
Description: First edition, signed limited issue, number 87 of 600 copies signed and numbered by the author. Of these, 200 were offered for sale in the United Kingdom and the rest exported to the United States. The UK trade issue appeared five days later on 29 April in a run of 2,000 copies, and the same number of copies were printed for the US trade issue in September. Gallup A15a. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, titles to front board within quatrefoil gilt, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. With original glassine dust jacket and brown card slipcase. Minor bumps to upper corners, endpapers toned; with the scarce glassine jacket, this example notably preserving the original paper flaps, and together with the original slipcase sometime repaired with tape to spine: a near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom