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Moore, Marianne. Selected Poems. Faber & Faber, London, 1935.
Price: US$49.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1935. London. With an introduction by T. S. Eliot. Purple cloth covers are a bit dirty along edges. Minor wear at corners. Gold lettering along the spine remains clear and vivid but cloth is faded to brown. Binding and hinges all are strong and good. No dust jacket but now has a protective mylar cover. Inside, end pages have an owner name in script and small, refined bookplate pasted in. Small Grolier Book Shop sticker on lower edge. Rough page edges as published. Pages clean, except on one poem "Those Various Scalpels" along which a previous owner has marked accents and # of syllables for each line - in pencil. A nice copy overall of a respected mid-20th century poet. Significantly, a woman poet - there were not many published to the degree Moore was.
Seller: The Bookery, Rochester, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$136.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 184 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. No dust jacket.
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
MOORE, Marianne; T.S. Eliot, intro. Selected Poems. Faber and Faber Limited [1935], London, 1935.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Description: Second (ca. 1943) binding issue (see below). Octavo (22.75cm.); publisher's plum cloth, gilt-lettered spine, in yellow dust jacket printed in red and black; 142pp. Jacket spine quite toned, additional toning to top edge of rear panel, else Very Good or better. Contemporary ownership bookplate to front pastedown. ABBOTT A4b; GALLUP B26b.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
MOORE, Marianne; T.S. Eliot, intro. Selected Poems. Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1935.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, second binding -- full plum-colored cloth. Book is fine, pages uncut (so you will have to open them), free of all markings, no spotting or foxing. Jacket is very good -- spine darkened as always with these yellow jacket. A nice period copy -- good in the hands, as we used to say.
Seller: Blue Sky Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
MOORE, Marianne.. Selected Poems.. Faber and Faber, London., 1935.
Price: US$160.35 + shipping
Description: Uncorrected proof copy of the first U.K. edition. Differs in a few instances from the published version. Unprinted wrappers with printed label on front. 140 pages. Eight-page Introduction by T.S. Eliot. The selection of poems was made by the author herself and comprises everything she wanted to preserve from her output so far. Printers' inkstamp (Robert Maclehose & Co.) on front free endpaper.Covers faintly tanned at the edges and slightly creased. Very good indeed.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
MOORE, Marianne.. Selected Poems.. Faber and Faber, London., 1935.
Price: US$160.35 + shipping
Description: First U.K. edition. Octavo. 142 pages. Eight-page Introduction by T.S. Eliot. The selection of poems was made by the author herself and comprises everything she wanted to preserve from her output so far. Printers' inkstamp (Robert Maclehose & Co.) on front free endpaper.Some tanning to endpapers. Near fine in very good dustwrapper a bit tanned at the spine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
MOORE, Marianne. Selected Poems. Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1935.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, English issue, first issue binding. Introduction by T.S. Eliot. Octavo. 142pp. Red cloth. Contains the first appearance of T.S. Eliot's eight-page introduction. Very near fine, bright copy in very good spine-toned dust jacket, with light wear at tips of spine. Cyril Connolly, *The Modern Movement: 100 Key Books from England, France and America 1880-1950,* #81.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
MOORE, Marianne. Selected Poems. Faber and Faber, London, 1935.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Uncorrected proof of the first English edition. Introduction by T.S. Eliot. Lacking the wrappers, and handbound into boards, owner's mark on the front pastedown, boards splayed, a very good copy. Scottish printer's rubberstamp on the front flyleaf: "From Robert MacLerose & Co. Ltd. 30 Nov. 1934 University Press, Anniesland, Glasgow." *Connolly 100.*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.