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Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: 54 [1] pp. Folio, publisher's quarter vellum and marbled boards, t.e.g. (lacking the publisher's slipcase). First of this edition; No. 156 of 290 copies signed by T. S. Eliot. Institutional bookplate on pastedown (and letter of withdrawal laid in); library stamp on rear pastedown. Slight rubbing at the corner tips; otherwise clean and fine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Eliot, T.S.. Four Quartets. Faber & Faber, London, 1960.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: Marbled paper-covered boards over white vellum spine, in matching publisher's slipcase. Signed by T.S. Eliot. Limited to 290 copies, of which this is #189. Very near fine with a few light, small specks spine in near fine publisher's slipcase, with light rubbing to extremities.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Eliot, T.S.. Four Quartets. Faber and Faber, London, 1960.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: LIMITED EDITION of 290 copies printed. This copy is authentically SIGNED by T.S. Eliot. The book is in great shape and is bound in the original publisher's white vellum with marbled boards. The binding is tight with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. The publisher's slipcase is ORIGINAL with light wear to the edges. A sharp copy in collector's condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Eliot, T. S.. FOUR QUARTETS. Faber & Faber, London, 1960.
Price: US$5012.23 + shipping
Description: Pp. 54+[2](blank, colophon); narrow demy 8vo; qr. parchment with gilt rule, spine lettered in gilt, marbled papered boards; t.e.g., others uncut; within matching marbled papered slipcase, edges slightly rubbed; housed in a later custom made brown cloth wrap-around portfolio with ribbon pull and a matching brown cloth outer slipcase (a trifle marked) with gilt lettered black leather title label on spine; Faber & Faber, London, 1960. Edition limited to 290 numbered copies, signed by the author. Barr 63. Galllup A43c. *Printed by Giovanni Mardersteig on the handpress of the Officina Bodoni in Verona. From the collection of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label on the upper pastedown of the portfolio above the label of previous owner Kenneth A. Lohf (who was the Rare Book and Manuscript Library Director at Columbia University for 25 years). 'In the ninth impression (July 1952) of the Faber & Faber trade edition of Four Quartets, through an error at the printers the section number V for "Burnt Norton" was printed at the top of page 12 rather than in its proper place. This misprint was corrected in about half the impression (10,000 copies) by a cancel leaf (pp. 11-12). Unfortunately Giovanni Mardersteig set his edition from one of the incorrect copies and the final 5 lines of section IV of "Burnt Norton" consequently appear here as the first lines of section V. An "Erratum" slip, measuring 8.3 x 12.1 cm, was prepared but was not used, in deference to the printer's wishes' [Gallup p. 74]. According to Barr [p. 23], Eliot 'knowing the Officina Bodoni's high reputation', had said he had no need to see proofs of this edition.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
ELIOT T.S.. Four Quartets. , 1960.
Price: US$6200.00 + shipping
Description: "ELIOT, T.S. The Four Quartets. London: Faber and Faber, (1960). Tall quarto, original cream and marbled paper boards, original marbled slipcase. $6200.Signed limited edition of this highspot of 20th-century poetry, number 102 of 290 copies signed by Eliot, beautifully printed at the Officina Bodoni in Verona.The Officina Bodini was founded in 1922 by Hans Mardersteig and named for Giambattista Bodoni, the great eighteenth-century Parma printer. In 1923 the Italian government granted the press the sole right to use the original Bodoni matrices housed in the Biblioteca Palatina. "Mardersteig's approach was closer to that of the early scholar printers like Aldus Manutius or Robert Estienne than to the dilettantes of the Arts and Crafts Movement; the result has been that Officina Bodoni books have a value far above their success as examples of fine printing: they are designed to be read." (Cave, 177). First published in four separate parts during World War II, The Four Quartets "were the first of Eliot's poems to reach a wide public (they were seen as a unifying force in the war years), and they succeeded in communicating in modern idiom the fundamentals of Christian faith and experience" (Drabble, 364). Fine condition."
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Eliot, T.S.. Four Quartets. Faber and Faber, London, 1960.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION. A beautiful copy SIGNED by T.S. Eliot. This is number 229 of 290 copies printed on the hand-press of the Officina Bodoni in Verona and signed by the author on the limitation page. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a wonderful copy with the ORIGINAL publisher's slipcase with an acetate dustcover to protect the book. We buy SIGNED T.S. Eliot First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.