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Eliot, T. S.. Essays Ancient And Modern. Harcourt, Brace And Company, New York, 1936.
Price: US$27.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 203pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Allen's Bookshop, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
ELIOT, T.S.. Essays Ancient and Modern. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1936.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Small octavo. x, 203pp. Dark blue cloth stamped in gold. Contemporary owner name on front fly with a tiny bookseller ticket on rear pastedown, penciled underlining and notations throughout, very good, lacking the dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
ELIOT, T. S.. Essays Ancient and Medern.. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1936.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: vii, 203 pp. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth in dust jacket. First American edition. Near fine (slightest of sunning to edges of cloth) in a jacket with small chips at the corners and some scuffing and rubbing to the spine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Eliot, T.S.. Essays Ancient and Modern. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1936.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good + navy cloth with gilt lettering at spine. Light rub at front cover with pagination edges lightly toned & a bit of dust soil top. In a Very Good + price-clipped dust jacket with some fairly light white stains & a short errant ink mark at front cover. Interior quite bright, snug & unmarked. Presents rather handsomely yet. First American printing.
Seller: Et Al's Read & Unread Books, Wausau, WI, U.S.A.
ELIOT, T. S. ESSAYS ANCIENT AND MODERN. Harcourt, Brace and Company (1936), New York, 1936.
Price: US$62.50 + shipping
Description: Gallup A31b. Gutters and pastedowns darkened from reaction to glue. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with a slightly darkened spine and a small chip at the top of the front panel
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
ELIOT, T.S.. Essays Ancient and Modern. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1936.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Second issue binding with dark blue cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine title. [Gallup A31b]. Octavo. vii, 203pp. Edges lightly foxed, scattered foxing on some pages, small bookstore label on front pastedown, very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket moderately browned and faded on the spine with one-inch chip on front panel with slight loss of lettering and few short creased tears.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5 1/8 X 7 1/2 Inches. 203 PP. Stated "First American Edition" on the copyright page. Front flap price-clipped. A bit of mottling to boards. Light discoloration to DJ and book gutters. An attractive, tight copy despite the flaws.
Seller: Back in Time Rare Books, ABAA, FABA, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
Eliot, T.S.. Essays Ancient and Modern (first printing). Harcourt Brace & Co., New York, 1936.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Harcourt Brace & Co. New York. 1936. 202 pages. First edition; 1st printing. Book would grade Near Fine if not for a couple of fray hairs at crown; which could easily be trimmed if desired. Binding and hinges are strong; endpapers are clean; pages are tight. Navy cloth panels are clean as are gilt titles on backstrip. $2.50 price intact on rear DJ flap. DJ shows chipping at corner folds; and at foot and crown. DJ spine is darkened. A nice copy in VG- dj.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST AMER. EDITION, first printing. Full blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, jacket has been price clipped and there is modest wear. Endpapers age toned. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall a VERY GOOD PLUS book in a VERY GOOD PLUS brodart protected dust jacket. A good gift. Photos available upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
Eliot, T. S.. Essays ancient and modern. Harcourt Brace and Co, New York, 1936.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [3], 203; fine copy in an unclipped dust jacket with a small chip out at the top of the spine costing the letter "T" in T. S. Eliot. Includes five essays not previously published. Gallup A31b.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
ELIOT, T.S.. Essays Ancient and Modern. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1936.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition. Small octavo. 203pp. Dark blue cloth stamped in gold. Contemporary owner name on front fly else fine in lightly spine-toned very good or better price-clipped dust jacket with tiny nicks at the foot of the spine. An attractive copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Eliot T.S.. Essays Ancient And Modern. Harcourt Brace and Company, NY, 1936.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition; a fine copy, just a small bump on front board, in a fine DJ, in the first issue binding of slightly lighter blue cloth.
Seller: Walt Barrie Rare Books, gleneden beach, OR, U.S.A.
Eliot, T. S.. Essays Ancient and Modern. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1936.
Price: US$210.00 + shipping
Description: vii, 203pp. Original blue cloth lettered in gold on the spine panel. Includes five previously uncollected essays. Tiny scar to fore edge. A bright, fine copy in fine, price-clipped dustjacket. ; Octavo.
Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
T.S. Eliot. Essays Ancient and Modern. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1936.
Price: US$995.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Original blue gilt cloth, fine in a near fine grey and red dust jacket, small clip to one flap else fine, this is a rare early collection of essays, this is the 1st American edition so stated, follows rigiht after the Faber editions of the same year, and it is signed in ink by T.S.Eliot on the title page during his visit to St. Louis, his hometown in the late 1950's.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.