Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Very good indeed. Spine lightly browned. Bookseller's label inside front board. Hardback. No dj.
Seller: Treasure House Books, Franschhoek, WCAPE, South Africa
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Book has moisture damage to rear board in the form of wrinkling of the cloth. Front hinge is separating exterior. Pages are fine with no foxing or tanning. Jacket is separated at the front hinge. Spine is quite darkened. But a true first. A good re-furbish candidate or a place holder until another better copy is found.
Seller: Indian Hills Books, Blountville, TN, U.S.A.
T S Eliot. Sweeney Agonistes: Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama. Faber and Faber, London, 1932.
Price: US$20.61 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition, first printing 8vo edition. Blue paper-covered boards, red to spine, worn and partially detached spine, edges toned, back hinge loosened, binding else sound, light toning to gutters, very good internally thereafter.
Seller: Anne Godfrey, Pwllheli, United Kingdom
Price: US$24.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue cloth on boards with red titles; light rubbing and soilings. Spine: 3cm of top skin missing, foot with thin wear Edges: light foxings. Eps: name 27/6/35 and another signature. Frontsi: owners bookplate. Contents: just a couple of faint old spots/ or small yellowed smudge, couple of small thin marks. Binding is VG. 31p Dj: jacket separated at spine and at spine of rear flap. Soiling & rubbing. Head of front jacket with small section missing. Top-edge with small open wear, tears and chips. Head & foot spine and to head & foot of flaps spines with small open wear, tears & chips. Small price-cut to all four corners.
Seller: BOOKMARK, Auckland, New Zealand
Price: US$33.15 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: grey cloth, red lettering, 31 pp, inscribed by owner to front endpaper, cloth soiled, spine torn with a piece missing Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Eliot, T. S.. Sweeney Agonistes. Faber and Faber, London, 1932.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Book appears well read with some wear at edges and chipping at upper and lower spine tips. There is a previous owner's inscription on the fep. Dust jacket is missing chunks at upper and lower spine, upper and lower front cover, and rear cover at the tips. It is not price-clipped, however, but has seen better days. OW a tight and square copy of this thin collection by Nobel prize winner Eliot, subtitled 'Fragments Of An Aristophanic Melodrama'. 32 pages + endpapers.
Seller: West Portal Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$36.46 + shipping
Description: 31 p. First edition. - Exlibris of Geoffrey G. Briggs. - Spine torn in the joint and with a small missing piece at the bottom. Binding somewhat stained. Well preserved inside. L Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 146
Seller: Altstadt Antiquariat M. Weiers, Freiburg, Germany
Price: US$38.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A neat first edition of T. S. Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes, his first attempt at writing a verse drama. First edition. Eliot's first attempt at writing a verse drama, although the piece was never completed. Hence, Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama. The scenes are typically performed together as a one-act play. Written by Thomas Stearns Eliot, a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic, and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets and a central figure in Modernist poetry. Fragment of Burnt Norton to rear endpaper. In the original blue paper covered board binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and the odd mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the odd spot. Contemporary ink inscription to the front and rear endpapers. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$39.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tight binding, clean interior. Light blue boards have mild wear to corners and spine, small stain on top outer page edges. DJ is preserved in mylar, has not been price clipped, soiling and heavy chipping to spine end. Previous owner bookplate on inner front board, interior otherwise unmarked. Originally published as Fragment of a Prologue and Fragment of an Agon in The Criterion. 31 pages
Seller: Second Edition Books, Butte, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 31 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good dust jacket. Yellow spine with blue text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has spine edges chipped off, large open tearing to edges of both covers, and mild edge and shelf wear. Textblock has writing in pencil on front endpaper. Shelved Room A. 1374147. Special Collections.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Light blue paper covered boards, lettered in red. Rubbed with slight exposure at heel of spine, covers tanning just a bit toward edges. 1st ptg. 31 pp. Yellow dust jacket mildly soiled, with rubbed front joint, 1/4" loss at head of spine and small chip at heel of front joint, small hole at lower front panel corner, 1/2" closed tear along top rear edge, tanned spine panel, now in mylar. 1st collected and 1st in book form, reprinting pieces originally published as "Fragment of a Prologue" and "Fragment of an Agon" in The Criterion. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
ELIOT, T.S.. SWEENEY AGONISTES. , 1932.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: ELIOT, T.S. SWEENEY AGONISTES. London: Faber & Faber, (1932). First edition. Ted Morrison's copy, with his ink ownership. Small 8vo., blue paper-covered boards. Slight soil to boards; crown chipped, lightly nicked, heel nicked and bumped, with just slight splitting to joints at bottom edge; sun to spine. Hinges tender with just slight foxing, soil internally. A serviceable copy.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No signatures. A little pencil marginalia to a couple of pages (could be erased). Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 31, [1 (blank)] pages. Light blue boards with red lettering on spine.Page dimensions: 187 x 121mm. "These fragments, originally published as FRAGMENT OF A PROLOGUE and FRAGMENT OF AN AGON in 'The Criterion' are here for the first time reprinted in book form." - from dust-jacket blurb.
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Price: US$79.87 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pale blue cloth hard cover with red titles on spine and no significant cover wear, just some mild darkening of edges. Inside front cover is a most discrete owner's signature and the date 24/xii/32, and 31 clean pages. Unclipped dust jacket, price 2s. 6d. net, is in protective sleeve with very mild edge wear including small tears at each spine end, and some mild soiling, but still good to very good. Published in 1932 this 1st edition volume is in very good condition.
Seller: McGonigles', Cerne Abbas, United Kingdom
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Description: First Impression. Octavo (19.25cm); pale blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in red on spine; dustjacket; [4],5-31,[1]pp. Gentle sunning to spine, light wear to spine ends, with a vintage booksellers ticket to lower rear pastedown; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 2s.6d. net), spine-sunned, lightly dusty, with moderate wear, some shallow loss to spine ends, creases to flap edges, with a small tape mend on verso; Very Good. Fragmentary scenes from a one-act play, with no corresponding American edition. GALLUP A23.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.77 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1932 (first edition thus). Octavo, 31 pages. Papered boards; slight loss to the paper along the top edges of the covers; a decent copy with the dustwrapper sunned on the spine, with minor loss along the top edge. 'These fragments, originally published as "Fragment of a Prologue" and "Fragment of an Agon" in "The Criterion" are here for the first time reprinted in book form' (dustwrapper blurb). The front flyleaf is inscribed in blue pencil 'To Cecily, not for Xmas but for all-year-round love. K. Dec 15/42'. Cecily is Cecily Crozier (1911-2006); she edited and published the rare avant-garde literary journal 'Comment' in Melbourne between 1940 and 1947. K is the poet Karl Shapiro (1911-2000), an American serviceman based in Australia during the Second World War; he was Cecily Crozier's lover at the time. Offered together with a copy of 'Dramas from the Sky' by Max Harris (1942); although both the book and dustwrapper are damaged, the front flyleaf is inscribed 'To Karl Shapiro, Kindest regards. Max Harris. Nov 1942'. [2 items].
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Price: US$109.50 + shipping
Description: [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.31; [1]. Publisher's light blue paper to boards, red titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 3s 6d to lower. Interior bright and clean with the faintest bit of spotting to margins and edges. Spine and board extremities toned. Tearing to tail. Dust-jacket lightly spotted to lower. Toning, tearing, and archival repairs to jacket spine. Jacket corners gently bumped. Very good. T.S. Eliot's unfinished modernist drama, its two parts 'Fragment of a Prologue' and 'Fragment of an Agon' first appearing in the Criterion Magazine during the 1920s. The play features Eliot's recurring character Sweeney, who emerges in other works such as the poem Sweeney Among the Nightingales.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$133.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full grey hardcover with red lettering on the spine, light wear, endpaper abraided at the bottom. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$134.36 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1932 (first edition thus). Octavo, 31 pages. Papered boards slightly bumped at the foot of the spine; top edge a little foxed; pastedowns lightly discoloured; an excellent copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper a little sunned, marked and rubbed. 'These fragments, originally published as "Fragment of a Prologue" and "Fragment of an Agon" in "The Criterion" are here for the first time reprinted in book form'.
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 31 pages. Original blue boards; yellow dust jacket printed in blue. FIRST EDITION, first binding (blue). Gallup A23. Light toning to spine of boards; jacket lightly soiled and toned at edges, but a nice, fresh copy.
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$161.03 + shipping
Description: First edition. First issue of blue boards lettered in red. There was no U.S. edition. Octavo. 31 pages.Very good indeed in very good, slightly nicked dustwrapper slightly faded at the spine. Not so easy to find in reasonable condition.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$199.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 31 +1 pp.; HB w/DJ. Pages: Clean, ivory, tight; small Grolier bookshop sticker to ffep, owner bookplate to ep. Cover: lt blue, red stamped text to spine; tail has very small wear spots , spine creased in 2 locations, 1/4" surface cigarette mark to front, edges lightly tanned. Cover: unclipped in Brodart, yellow with blue printing to all surfacest; edges and spine tanned, wear to spine edges, 1/16" chip across spine head, a little overall soiling, 1/4" through cigarette burn corresponds to mark on book cover. Appears to be the only edition of this work. From the collection and w/bookplate of philosopher and Berkeley and Harvard Professor David Wight Prall. An excellent find in great condition.
Seller: Independent Books, Long Beach, WA, U.S.A.
T S Eliot. Sweeney Agonistes. Faber & Faber, London, 1932.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: a pretty copy in the original light blue cloth with red lettered spine in the original blue and yellow dust jacket not price clipped, original price was 2 shillings 6 pence. about a dollar. the flaw is a old tidal mark inside the book and an old ownership embossure now faint of Robert Thornton of Grosse Pointe Michigan. a very nice rare dust jacket. full title being Sweeney Agonistes: Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama. Most important, TS Eliot signed this copy when he came to St. Louis in the late 1950's to visit his grandfather's school Mary Institute to give a lecture, Charles Greenleaf Eliot founded the school ca 1865 and it moved to St. Louis county on Warson Road, where the owner of this book, my step father, David Wilson Carter lived, he owned this book and had an extensive library of American poetry. Eliot signed this book for him. I inherited his library when he passed away in 1971.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.