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T. S. Eliot. Dante [The Poets on the Poets - No. 2]. Faber & Faber, London, 1929.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" In grey boards with pictorial upper board, 8vo, 69pp. (slight fading / toning to extremities, some foxing to page edges).

Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.

Eliot, T.S.. DANTE. Faber & Faber, London, 1929.

Price: US$120.00 + shipping

Description: Small Octavo in plastic covering; G+; Boards strong, corners soft; Beige spine with black text; Spine shows major chipping on head and tail edges, and an open tear down the length of back spine, exposing lower boards, with a closed tear down front of spine which is pasted at the bottom; chipping and/or dinging on corners and edges, stains on front and back covers; Text block is age toned with shadowing on both end papers and paste-downs, otherwise clean, text legible, pages durable; pp 69. Shelve under Front Counter. 1273822. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

Eliot, T.S.. Dante. Faber and Faber, London, 1929.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover. First Edition. 69pp. Offsetting to endpapers, ink name on front free endpaper, closed tear to rear joint, else very good in publisher's illustrated boards; lacking the jacket.

Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.

T. S. Eliot. Dante [The Poets on the Poets - No. 2]. Faber & Faber, London, 1929.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" In pictorial grey jacket over grey boards with pictorial upper board, 8vo, 69pp. Early jacket with 3s.6d. price. (slight toning to extremities, endpapers browned from offset).

Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.

Eliot, T.S.. Dante. Faber & Faber, London, 1929.

Price: US$253.53 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1929. First edition. 69pp. This is the second volume in the publisher's 'Poets on the Poets' series - a series of essays by contemporary poets on their predecessors. This essay by T.S. Eliot is not an academic 'introduction'; it is a personal account of the way in which the author, over many years, arrived at his understanding and appreciation of Dante. The book is bound in the original grey paper covered boards with black titling and black titling and decoration by Rex Whistler on the front board. The case of the book is in very good plus condition with light bumping to the spine ends. The contents are tight and clean with partial offsetting to the free endpapers. There is a neatly written inscription dated 1930 on the front free endpaper. The unclipped dustwrapper bears the same design by Rex Whitstler as on the front board of the book and has some shelf wear with light soiling and the spine is browned. The top edge is rubbed with some creasing and small pieces are missing from the corner tips. Pieces are missing from the bottom spine corners and up to about 1/2" is missing from the top of the spine. The edges have a few small tears, mostly around the top of the spine, and the larger of these have been repaired on the reverse with tape.

Seller: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

T. S. Eliot. The Poets on Poets: Dante. Faber and Faber, London, 1929.

Price: US$305.54 + shipping

Description: A smart first edition of this essay on Dante by T. S. Eliot, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. First edition. Written as part of Faber's The Poets on the Poets series - number two. A personal account of the author's understanding and appreciation of the works of Dante, an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. Written by T. S. Eliot, an English poet, essayist, playwright, critic, and editor. With dust wrapper artwork by Rex Whistler, a British artist known for his murals and society portraits. In the original pictorial paper covered card. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Original price clipped dust wrapper is sound with shelf wear and light chipping to the extremities resulting in minor loss to the head and tail of the spine. Sunning to the spine and the odd mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Eliot, T.S .. DANTE. Faber & Faber, London, 1929.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Description: 69pp. Pictorial boards. Offset from jacket flaps on endsheets, otherwise a fine copy, in a very good or better first state dust jacket with a trace of sunning, some minute nicks and a 2.5 cm closed tear in the lower panel at the bottom edge. First edition, trade issue. Published in Faber's "The Poets on Poets" series. The binding and dust wrapper designs are by Rex Whistler. GALLUP A13a.

Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.

ELIOT, T. S.; wood engravings by HERMES, Gertrude. ANIMULA. London: Faber and Faber., 1929.

Price: US$643.58 + shipping

Description: Signed and numbered limited large-paper edition printed on English hand-made paper (issued nineteen days after the first trade edition). Printed at the Curwen Press. One of 400 copies, this being no. 142. Original yellow paper-covered boards lettered in brown to the front panel. Lower and fore-edges untrimmed. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. The yellow boards are a little soiled, the spine tips a touch rubbed. Limited edition of 400 copies of which this example is hand-bumbered 142 and signed by T. S. Eliot in black ink to the limitation page. 'Animula', no. 23 in the series of Ariel Poems issued by Faber and Faber, is the third of Eliot's six contributions to the series. The title, 'Animula', can be translated as 'little soul', or the 'simple soul' of the poem's first line (a quotation from Dante's Purgatorio XVI). Like many of the Ariel poems, 'Animula' alludes to Christmas, but the poem is woven from a rich web of allusions, from the Emperor Hadrian via Byron and Walter Pater, to the mysteries of the Eucharist. The poem is illustrated with two wood engravings by the English artist, Gertrude Hermes (1901-83), the second in colour. This colour image, of a juggling, naked Hermes (with distinctly rendered genitalia) was apparently responsible for copies of the book being seized by US Customs officers in 1932. (Gallup A14b). 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

ELIOT, T. S. (Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965). Dante [The Poets on the Poets]. Faber and Faber, London, 1929.

Price: US$835.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, ordinary copy (there was also a signed, limited edition of 125 copies), in the first-issue dust jacket (without excerpts from reviews on front flap and back panel). Crown 8vo: [8],11-69,[1]pp. Publisher's grey decorated paper-covered boards, spine and upper cover printed in black, top edge stained blue (some copies were stained green); matching dust jacket with marvelous design by Rex Whistler, priced 3s / 6d. A superlative example, virtually pristine inside and out (jacket's spine panel almost imperceptibly toned), one of only 2,000 copies. Gallup A13a. Second in the short-lived Faber series The Poets on the Poets, preceded by Vita Sackville-West's appreciation of Andrew Marvel and followed by Lascelles Abercrombie's Wordsworth. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.

ELIOT, T. S.. Dante. Faber & Faber, London, 1929.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A near fine copy. Original illustrated boards with matching dust jacket design by Rex Whistler. The jacket is price-clipped and has some light toning along the edges and some loss at the head of the spine. Laid in is signature of Eliot on a fragment of a typed letter. Gallup A13.a. Near Fine / Very Good.

Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.