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Eliot T.S.. Poems 1909-1925. Faber and Faber, London, 1925.
Price: US$29.28 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Faber and Faber, London, 1925. First edition book, fourth impression. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards, much wear to spine and boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Modernist poet whose poetry was often fragmentary and overlapping. Very clean text pages,some student pencil notes on certain pages. Shipping weight 300 gr.
Seller: finestfinds.ch, Geneva, Switzerland
T. S. Eliot. Poems 1909 - 1925 [First Edition]. Faber & Gwyer Ltd, 1925.
Price: US$169.83 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1925. First Edition. 99 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Includes Eliot's seminal work, 'The Waste Land'. Rough-cut edges. Mild cracking to gutters, on occasion; however binding remains firm with all pages attached. Pages remain bright with minimal tanning. More pronounced tanning to free endpapers and pastedowns. Blue pen marks to top right corner of front free end paper. There are light pencil annotations to The Waste Land, pages 65-92. Minor creasing and slight tearing to edges, as expected. Occasional thumb-marking. Boards have light edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Spine is presentable with noticeable crushing and tanning. Light splits to spine edges with minor loss and fraying. Minor loss to spine label. Faint white marks and scratches overall. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Eliot, T.S.. Poems 1909-1925. Faber & Gwyer Ltd, London, 1925.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. First Edition, one of 1460cc. Offsetting to prelims, ink name on front free endpaper, spine sunned, paper title label darkened, extremities lightly worn with a tiny tear to the head of the spine, small resin [?] spot at bottom of front, else a very good example in publisher's blue cloth; lacking the jacket. An absolute banger that contains Prufrock and Other Observations, The Waste Land, and the Hollow Men among others. Gallup A8.
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.
ELIOT, T.S.. Poems 1909-1925. Faber & Gwyer, London, 1925.
Price: US$966.20 + shipping
Description: First edition - one of 1460 copies (Gallup A8). After six previous publishers, Eliot's first book for the firm with which he subsequently became indelibly associated. To the first appearance here under the Faber imprint of The Waste Land, Eliot added the dedication to Ezra Pound (borrowed from Dante): "il miglior fabbro". A very good copy with some light offsetting to endpapers in the scarce dustwrapper which is rather rubbed at extremities, somewhat soiled, browned at spine and missing small chips from head and base of spine and corners (not affecting any lettering).
Seller: Peter Grogan, London, United Kingdom
Eliot, T.S.. POEMS 1909-1925. Faber & Gwyer, London, 1925.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: 98pp. Cloth, paper spine label. Trace of offset from jacket flaps to endsheets, slight darkening, otherwise a very good copy, in good dust jacket with darkening to the spine panel and perimeter of upper and lower panels, and an internal mend along a split in the upper spine fold. First edition, ordinary issue. One of 1460 copies printed, in addition to eighty-five deluxe, signed copies. It is here that Eliot's dedication of "The Waste Land" to Ezra Pound is first printed. Uncommon in dust jacket. GALLUP A8a.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
ELIOT, T.S.. Poems, 1909-1925. Faber & Gwyer Limited, London, 1925.
Price: US$4030.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London, Faber & Gwyer Limited, 1925 [first edition]. Octavo, [iv] (first leaf blank), 99 pages. Blue cloth with the printed paper title-label on the spine; all edges uncut; covers lightly flecked and mottled, with slight loss to silverfish to the cloth on the bottom edges and the top turn-ins; small patch of discolouration to the spine (where the price was clipped from the spine of the dustwrapper); offsetting to the endpapers; paper lightly toned; a very good copy (internally near-fine) with the dustwrapper sunned and price-clipped on the spine, lightly marked with minimal light surface loss to silverfish, with one tiny closed tear. This collection includes some of Eliot's best-loved poems, including 'Prufrock', 'The Waste Land', and 'The Hollow Men'. 'The dedication to "The Waste Land" ['For Ezra Pound, il miglior fabbro'] (which appears as an autograph inscription in the copy of the first edition given by T.S. Eliot to Ezra Pound) is first printed here' (Gallup A8a, noting 1460 copies and a publication date of 23 November 1925).
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Eliot, T. S.. Poems 1909-1925. Faber & Gwyer Ltd, London, 1925.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing of this early collection of poems, which contains Prufrock, The Waste Land and the first appearance of The Hollow Men. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with paper title label to spine. Near Fine with light mellowing to cloth color, particularly on the spine. Pages toned and lightly foxed, offsetting to endsheets. In a Very Good dust jacket with toning, light soiling, small losses at corners and spine ends, and a short closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
ELIOT, T.S.. POEMS 1909-1925. Faber & Gwyer, 1925.
Price: US$5797.18 + shipping
Description: First edition. Original blue cloth, white paper title label to spine printed in black, in printed dust jacket. Neat bookplate to front pastedown. A near fine copy, with some foxing to the page edges, in a near fine dustwrapper, which shows a little general dustiness and trivial wear to the corners but is uncommonly bright and crisp. Eliot's important early collection which marked the start of his association with Faber, and collects all the key early works including Prufrock, The Waste Land and The Hollow Men. A scarce book in dustwrapper, particularly one so well preserved.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Eliot, T. S.. Poems: 1909-1925. Faber & Gwyer LTD, London, 1925.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited edition, one of 75 copies [of 85 total] signed by T. S. Eliot and issued two months after the first edition. Demi-octavo. Bound in publisher's original white linen boards stamped in blind on the covers and in gold on the spine; lacking the glassine wrapper. Near Fine. Cloth toned, spine gilt rubbed. Pages toned, and several brown stains affecting several preliminary sheets. Housed in a custom cloth chemise case. Gallup A7b.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Eliot (T.S.). Poems, 1909-1925.. Faber & Gwyer, 1925.
Price: US$16103.29 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 19/85 LARGE PAPER COPIES signed by the author, pp. [ii], 99, 8vo, original white buckram, bevelled edges, backstrip lettered in gilt and slightly browned with a few tiny spots towards foot, a couple of faint handling marks and a tiny scuff towards foot of upper board, edges untrimmed and uncut, free endpapers faintly browned, in custom dropback box of matching cloth, very good. The first of Eliot's trade publications to be issued in a signed, limited edition. Notable as the first printing of 'The Waste Land' to include the dedication to Ezra Pound, and the first appearance in book-form of 'The Hollow Men'. (Gallup A8b)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
ELIOT, T.S.. Poems, 1909-1925. Faber & Gwyer Limited, London, 1925.
Price: US$16795.01 + shipping
Description: London, Faber & Gwyer Limited, 1925 [1926, first edition, signed deluxe issue]. Demy octavo, [iv] (first leaf blank), 99 pages. Original white buckram lettered in gilt on the spine; sides bordered in blind; all edges uncut (and the first opening unopened); spine lightly sunned; rear bottom corner tip very lightly bumped; hand-made paper a little cockled at the edges (as expected); endpapers lightly browned; assuredly, a near-fine copy. Number 1 of 85 copies of the deluxe issue on hand-made paper, signed by T.S. Eliot (and only 75 copies were offered for sale). This collection includes some of Eliot's best-loved poems, including 'Prufrock', 'The Waste Land', and 'The Hollow Men'. Gallup A8b (noting a publication date for this issue of 6 January 1926).
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia