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T S Eliot. The Confidential Clerk A Play. Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1954.

Price: US$3.90 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 135 pages, good condition in cloth binding, edges of book spotted, end-papers slightly spotted, text in very good, clean condition, no dust-wrapper.

Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom

T S Eliot. The Confidential Clerk A Play. Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1954.

Price: US$3.90 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 135 pages, book in good/very good condition (top and bottom of spine bumped and rubbed, top edge stained) with fair dust-wrapper (not price clipped, edges creased and chipped with some associated paper loss, spine darkened).

Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$5.85 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first printing (has the misprint Ihad on page 7) Octavo hardback, 136 pp very good condition in Very good price-clipped dust jacket Gift inscription on front free end paper.

Seller: Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$6.43 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Hard covers in tidy condition, first edition Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Clarendon Books P.B.F.A., Leicester, United Kingdom

ELIOT, T.S.:. The Confidential Clerk : A Play. London Faber and Faber, 1954.

Price: US$6.50 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION. 1st impression. Hardback. Size 9 x 5.5 inches. Blue cloth with gilt titles. No inscriptions. 136 pages. No dustwrapper. Good tight-bound volume.

Seller: Tom Coleman, Dingwall, ROSS, United Kingdom

T.S. Eliot. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$6.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very good lightly used condition, owners signature inside, light age discolouration marks, light wear & marks. Dust wrapper - very good used condition, light wear & marks

Seller: The Bookstore, Belfast, United Kingdom

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$6.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Faber & Faber, London, 1954. First edition. Book condition: very good and virtually free of shelf wear. Small number of spots of light discolouration to lwer corner of front board. Previous owner's name to ffep. Dust jacket condition: very good and unclipped. Light shelf wear around edges only, spine a little faded. This play was produced with successful results at the Edinburgh festival 1953 and subsequently in London. It is written in the same kind of verse as The Cocktail Party. The text of this first edition was slightly more extended than that used on stage. This is the first impression with 'Ihad' on p7 instead of 'I had'.

Seller: Ariadne Books, PBFA, Eynsham, Witney, OXON, United Kingdom

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1954.

Price: US$6.50 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Second printing without the misprint of 'Ihad' for 'I had' on page 7. There are some patches of yellow discolouration around the edges of the rear panel and along the bottom edge of the front panel and the boards have a little fading to the edges but are otherwise clean and unmarked. Browning and scattered brown spotting to the page edges. Small Foyles label to the front pastedown. Quite heavy brown spotting to the endpapers with light spotting to the adjacent pages and a slight musty odour but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has browning and some surface wear to the spine with a little chipping at the top. The rear panel has some spotting to the surface and a small nick in the top edge. There is a half inch closed tear to the bottom left corner of the front panel a little brown spotting to the front and rear flaps. First printing.

Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1954.

Price: US$6.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A Very Good copy in a Near Very Good, chipped spine dust jacket. First Edition, First Issue.

Seller: Fountain Books (Steve Moody), Eastleigh, United Kingdom

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk. A Play.. Faber & Faber., London., 1954.

Price: US$6.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 135pp. Original blue cloth, clean & unmarked. DW, not price clipped, but with some edge wear, with a little loss on the rear panel. Internally, an owner's blind stamp, endpapers lightly foxed, otherwise unmarked. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: N. G. Lawrie Books, sheffield, United Kingdom

Eliot, T. S.. THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK A Play by T S Eliot. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$6.72 + shipping

Description: Owner's name top corner of front page.; Clean text.250gms weight; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 136 pages Very Good Chips and edgewear to cover

Seller: Dromanabooks, Newstead, VIC, Australia

Eliot, T. S.. Confidential Clerk: A Play. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$6.82 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Good reading copy of 1st issue [with misprint on p. 7] of this play in verse by T. S. Eliot--no d.j. See attached picture!

Seller: Blue Heaven Books, Grand Marais, MB, Canada

ELIOT, T.S.. the confidential clerk. faber and faber london 1954, 1954.

Price: US$6.88 + shipping

Description: first edition 135pp very good (sunned spine,owners stamp inside front board,newspaper review tipped into front end paper) in good d/w (rubbed,chipped corners,chipped spine head and foot with 5 inch tear from spine head up front inside edge,sunned spine,price clipped)

Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand

ELIOT, T.S.. The confidential clerk: a play. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$6.95 + shipping

Description: Foxing to prelims, last few pages and fore-edge; spine a little bumped. First edition, first issue with misprint on p.7. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket)

Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk: A Play. Faber & Faber Ltd., London, 1954.

Price: US$7.41 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Hardcover with jacket in good condition. First edition. Jacket is foxed, scored and tanned. Jacket leading corners, edges and spine ends are worn, creased and nicked. One-and-a-half centimetre tear on chipped jacket spine head. Slight fading and wear on hardcover edges. Hardcover spine ends are bumped. Page block and some pages are tanned and foxed. Previous owner's name penned on front pastedown. Text is clear throughout. Binding is sound. HCW

Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom

ELIOT,T.S.. The Confidential Clerk a play. faber and faber london 1954, 1954.

Price: US$7.65 + shipping

Description: first edition 136pp VG+ (blue cloth,sl.sunned spine w.minor bumps to extrems.,owner's inscr.to front pastedown,paste action to eps) lacks d/w

Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, England, 1954.

Price: US$8.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First (British) edition: 1954. Blue cloth, 136 pp. Lightly rubbed edges/extrems. Small bookshop label on lower portion of front pastedown, lightly foxed text block edge. Dust jacket slightly foxed, showing slightly toned spine panel, lightly rubbed edges, now in archival mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.

ELIOT, T.S.. The confidential clerk. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$8.45 + shipping

Description: Dust jacket worn at edges and loss at top of browned spine. Jacket not price-clipped. Used - Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket

Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

ELIOT, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.. The Confidential Clerk : A Play. By T. S. Eliot. LONDON : 1954. HARDBACK in JACKET.. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$9.10 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1954. Hardback. Original green cloth; gilt lettered spine. In light-grey and red printed dust-jacket; not price-clipped. Neat owner name; no internal markings. Tight, bright and clean. Minor wear only to jacket (and one neat repair to rear of jacket). NEAR FINE in VERY GOOD jacket; now in a clear protective sleeve. 135, (i) pages. Appendix; cast list of first performance at the Edinburgh Festival Aug 25-Sept 3, 1953. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. 8vo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, Cumberland, Everyman, Inklings, Literature, Rarities, Theology and History. ]

Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$9.48 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1954 First Edition. Blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Condition very good, corners and edges rubbed, spine faded, contents nice and clean. Play by T.S. Eliot. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United Kingdom

TS Eliot. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber Ltd. London, 1954.

Price: US$9.75 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The book and contents are in very good+ condition.The jacket is very slightly edge rubbed so vg only,still shows 10s6d net.Has 'I had'on page 7.136pp.Neat name and address.

Seller: VJ Books, Alcester, United Kingdom

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk : A Play. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$9.95 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" in yellow jacket with red swath over blue cloth, 135pp. (light shelfwear and sm. nicks to jacket extremities, browning to endpapers from offset, name to inside cover).

Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk : A Play. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$9.95 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" In blue cloth with gilt spine titling, 8vo 135pp. (light shelfwear to outer extremities, name/date to inside cover).

Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk: A Play. Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1954.

Price: US$10.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First (British) edition: 1954. Blue cloth, spine panel lettered in gold foil. As issued. Pale yellow dust jacket slightly chipped at spine extremities, with 3/4" closed tear along top front edge, minor soiling and with spine panel a bit darkened by age, clipped front flap corner, now in mylar. 136 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.

Eliot, T.S.. THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$10.08 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Price clipped. Foxing to inside & outside of dj. dj chipped at top corners & edges. Owners name at front free end paper.

Seller: BOOK COLLECTORS GALLERY, SUMMER HILL, NSW, Australia

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. A Play. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$10.08 + shipping

Description: Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. DJ is age-toned at edges and spine with some light wear to spine ends. 134 pages. Initially produced at the Edinburgh Festival of 1953. This published text is a slightly more extended version. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia

ELIOT, T.S. The Confidential Clerk A Play. faber and faber london 1954, 1954.

Price: US$10.33 + shipping

Description: first edition 135pp VG+ / VG- (v sl cocked with sl. shelf wear, rear paste-down has a few small marks) d/w (sl.sunned spine with lightly chipped heat and tail, corners and edges have some wear)

Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand

ELIOT, T.S.:. The Confidential Clerk.. London: Faber And Faber Ltd, 1954.

Price: US$10.40 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Hardcover, 134pp. Spots of foxing to endpapers, V.g. in slightly tanned d/w with stains to rear, nicked head of spine.

Seller: Peter Scott, Portslade, United Kingdom

Eliot,T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$10.40 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in a Very Good Dust-Jacket,not price clipped,with just a touch of light foxing to fore-edge of the book and to the endpapers,with one previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown,8vo 134pp First Edition

Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom

Eliot, T S. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1954.

Price: US$10.40 + shipping

Description: 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 135pp. G : in good condition without dust jacket

Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk: A Play. Faber & Faber Limited, London, 1954.

Price: US$10.75 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: TRUE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with misprint "Ihad" for "I had" on page 7 (second last line). From inner dustjacket flap: "This play was produced with successful results at the Edinburgh Festival of 1953 and subsequently in London. It is written in the same kind of verse as The Cocktail Party. The text now published is slightly more extended than that used on the stage". The final printed page contains "The Cast of the First Production at the Edinburgh Festival (August 25 - September 5, 1953)". Printed in Great Britain. Bound in original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, in publisher's unclipped printed dustjacket. Dustjacket with original "10s 6d net" price printed on lower inner flap. A slight trace of shelfwear, otherwise a very nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. 135pp. SB-13.

Seller: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

ELIOT, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber. London, 1954.

Price: US$11.05 + shipping

Description: First Edition. DW. 135pp. Wrapper protected by cleat film. Small mark on upper cover, spine a bit faded and grubby. Boards mottled. Interior very clean. VG+/VG

Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. A Play. London, Faber and Faber Ltd., 1954.

Price: US$11.14 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Gilt cloth with dust jacket.; Verso dust jacket reinforced on corners.

Seller: Klondyke, Almere, Netherlands

Eliot, T. S. [Thomas Stearns],. The Confidential Clerk.. London, Faber and Faber, (1954)., 1954.

Price: US$11.14 + shipping

Description: A Play. Goldgepr. OLwdbd. (etwas berieben bzw. leicht fleckig). 134 SS., 1 Bl. Sprache: English, Erste Ausgabe. - In der Verwechslungskomödie schmuggelt ein Reicher seinen unehelichen Sohn als Privatsekretär in den Haushalt, um die Adoption durch seine Ehefrau zu erreichen. - KNLL V, 139. - Innen sehr schönes Exemplar.

Seller: Antiquariat Frank Albrecht (VDA / ILAB), Schriesheim, Germany

Eliot,T.S. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$11.70 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: This is a Very Good + Copy of this book in a Very Good + Dust-Jacket that has NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.There is a little light spotting to the front cover of the dust-jacket.Not price clipped and this copy has one small owner's name to the front endpaper.The book has a firm binding with No hinge weakness and there is no leaning or rolling to spine.Clean copy internally.The dust-jacket comes nicely protected in a quality acetate cover sleeve.8vo 135pp First Edition 1st Impression [1954]

Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. London Farber & Faber, 1954.

Price: US$12.25 + shipping

Description: A play - first edition, clothbound, spine with gilt, 136 p. With the misprint "Ihad" (instead of I had) on page 7 - Name on end paper, very good condition. Sprache: EN

Seller: HESPERUS Buchhandlung & Antiquariat, Hannover, Germany

ELIOT, T S. THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK. FABER AND FABER, London, 1954.

Price: US$13.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 135 pages, very good condition, dustwrapper unclipped, slight discolouration to top of duswrapper o/w very good.

Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. A Play. Faber and Faber, London, 1954, 1954.

Price: US$13.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 136pp. 218mm. Light foxing, most on free end papers. Hard cover, very slight wear to the cloth. Dust jacket with slight soiling and small area of wear at head of spine and small mark on upper cover. A good clean copy With the misprint 'Ihad' at the commencemt of the penultimate line on page 7. 1st. edition 1st issue

Seller: Peter Moore Bookseller (PBFA, BCSA) Est.1970, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Eliot, T S. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1954.

Price: US$13.12 + shipping

Description: 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 135pp. With rubbed and chipped dust jacket. VG: in very good condition. Loss to DJ spine at head

Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom

ELIOT T.S.. The Confidential Clerk a play. faber and faber london 1954, 1954.

Price: US$13.76 + shipping

Description: first edition 136pp VG+ (blue cloth,sl.soiled,owner's sign.to ffep,prelims.and edges sl.foxed) lacks d/w

Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand

Eliot T. S. The Confidential Clerk: A Play. Faber And Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$13.78 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 126 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear and a light mark on inside back cover present, but still a presentable copy.

Seller: Marlowes Books, Ferny Hills, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$14.33 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A nice copy of the first edition, first printing, second issue (with the correction of "I had" to pg. 7 second line up from bottom). Text is solid, clean, and tight. Lettering to spine is bright and unflaked. No marks or highlights in text. Light sunning to spine. In a Very Good + bright dust jacket w/three tiny closed tears to the top edges, shallow chipping to the spine ends, light wear to corners, mild toning to spine. Small previous owner's name, place, and date (June, 1954) to front pastedown, mostly hidden by front flap. No remainder mark or spray. Not Price Clipped (10s 6d net). Not ex-lib. Not a Book Club Edition. Photos sent upon request. Accurate Descriptions/Quality Books/Unmatched Prices

Seller: Novel Ending Books, Franklin, TN, U.S.A.

Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965). The confidential clerk : a play / by T.S. Eliot. London : Faber and Faber Ltd, 1954.

Price: US$14.42 + shipping

Description: Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 134, [2] pages 23 cm. Subjects: Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888-1965. English drama 20th century. Drama 20th century. Verse drama. Plays 20th century. Genre:Comedy plays. Drama. Summary: Sir Claude Mulhammer thinks that Colby Simpkins is his long-estranged son. He tries to sneak Colby into the house as his "confidential clerk" in hopes that the very eccentric Lady Mulhammer will decide to "adopt" him. As multiple parent-child identities are revealed, Eliot's modern verse play touches on the sources of longing and the need to be loved. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk. A Play.. London, Faber & Faber, 1954, 1. Aufl., 1954.

Price: US$15.26 + shipping

Description: Leinen mit Schutzumschlag, 134 Seiten. Umschlag leicht gerändert. Widmung und Eignerstempel auf dem Vorsatz, sonst wohlerhalten. Insgesamt guter bis sehr guter Zustand. Englische Sprache Gewicht: 510

Seller: Antiquariat Matthias Wagner, Berlin, Germany

ELIOT (Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965, US/British Poet, Critic & Playwright). The Confidential Clerk. A Play. Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$15.59 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 136pp, foxing to endpapers and prelims, slightly worn and foxed unclipped d/w. *The most important English poet of the century??.

Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom

T. S. Eliot. THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$16.25 + shipping

Condition: As New

Description: This copy is in as new condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square, there is a small neat signature to the head of the f.e.p. The unclipped dust wrapper is in fine condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This play was produced with successful results at the Edinburgh Festival of 1953 and subsequently in London. It is written in the same kind of verse as 'The Cocktail Party'. The text now published is slightly more extended than that used on the stage. Ref QQQ 1

Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk: A Play. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$16.25 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st. Octavo. 136pp. Publisher's blue cloth. In the pale yellow dust wrapper, some spotting and edge wear. Overall a 'Very Good' copy.

Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom

Eliot,T.S. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$16.80 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Previous Owners Insc.ffep.Small Booksellers Label inside front cover.

Seller: A Small Bookshop, ELMHURST, VIC, Australia

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk - A Play : First printing : No jacket. Faber and Faber Ltd, London, United Kingdom, 1954.

Price: US$16.83 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: True first British printing. No jacket. Blue boards with gold lettering to spine are very good with very minor pushing/bumping to corners, little browning to spine, the odd small mark, minor bump/rub to edges and a little wear (pushing/rubbing/fraying to the cloth) to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Small bookseller's sticker inside front board. End-papers little tanned with mild foxing. Top of pages slightly dusty. Occasional spot of foxing to pages. Pages slightly tanned. Odd spot of foxing to page edges, tops and bottoms (nothing much). No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom

Eliot, T. S. [1888-1965]. The Confidential Clerk | A Play. Published by Faber and Faber Ltd., 24 Russell Square, London First Edition . 1954., 1954.

Price: US$19.49 + shipping

Description: First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 135 pp. The first edition, first impression with 'Ihad' for 'I had' to second line from the bottom, page 7. Spotting to the end papers and page edges, name dated 1955 to the front free end paper. Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with age darkening down the spine, rubbing to the spine ends and corners, not price clipped, 10s 6d. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. PLAYS (Theatre Performance)

Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom

ELIOT, T. S.. THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK. A Play by T. S. Eliot.. Faber and Faber Ltd 24 Russell Square., London, 1954.

Price: US$19.49 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 134 + [1] pp. + [1] pp., The Cast of the First Production at the Edinburgh Festival, August 23-September 5 1953. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt. Some foxing of flyleaves and edges, but otherwise a very good copy. 1955 signature of J. Romilly Roget on first free endpaper. A drama of mistaken identity, which involves an illegitimate son being taken into a household of a wealthy entrepreneur in the guise of a confidential clerk, while his wife later becomes convinced that the clerk is actually her own son. ART / LITERATURE DRAMA DRAMA 20TH CENTURY FIRST EDITION ART / LITERATURE

Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber nd Faber Ltd, London, 1954.

Price: US$19.49 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: very good copy of this first edition by T. S. Eliot, s in a protected wrapper without price clippings, without annotations or ownership signature etc, 2nd issue of first edn

Seller: Salsus Books (P.B.F.A.), Kidderminster, United Kingdom

Eliot,T.S.. CONFIDENTIAL CLERK. Faber&Faber first edition, London, 1954.

Price: US$19.49 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Octavo blue cloth (tips rubbed/spine sunned) 134pp inscription on FEP & slight pale foxing to prelims. else V.G. WITH THE MISPRINT Ihad on page 7. 1 volume.

Seller: Abbey Antiquarian Books, Blockley, GLOS, United Kingdom

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. London; Faber;, 1954.

Price: US$19.49 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing. Near fine, slightly faded in blue boards in very good dustjacket with slight nicks to the head and tail of the spine.

Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, Eng, 1954.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Some edge wear to boards; dust jacket is fully intact but has large chip at base of spine and smaller chips at top of spine and at corners; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; dust jacket is now protected by a Brodart sleeve.

Seller: Hourglass Books, vancouver, BC, Canada

Eliot, T. S.. The confidential Clerk; a Play. Faber and Faber Ltld, London, 1954.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Description: 134 [2]p., dj slightly chipped on the mid-spine.

Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.

ELIOT, T.S.. THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK. A Play.. Faber and Faber, Ltd., London, 1954. First edition., 1954.

Price: US$20.16 + shipping

Description: 8vo, 134pp. A good hardback copy in price clipped, lightly creased dust jacket with some small chips and closed tears. Light foxing to edges and endpapers.

Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk : First printing. Faber and Faber Ltd, London, United Kingdom, 1954.

Price: US$22.03 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (10s 6d). Jacket has faults - namely edge/shelf wear, patchy loss, few tears, few marks, patchy browning (including to spine), creasing/rubbing to edges, pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine, the odd spot of foxing, pushing/bumping to corners and is in only fair condition. Boards are very good with a little pushing/bumping to corners, little fading to spine, the odd small mark, odd minor bump/rub to edges and a little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Previous owner's name in pencil to front end-paper. Pages bit tanned. Top of pages slightly dusty with the odd small mark/mild foxing. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to page edges and bottoms. Very occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. End-papers bit tanned with the odd small mark/spot of foxing. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom

ELIOT,, T.S.. THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK. A Play.. London, Faber, 1954., 1954.

Price: US$22.17 + shipping

Description: 134pp. 8vo. Very good in original cloth and dustwrapper, with some foxing to dustwrapper and endpapers and a gift inscription. First edition.

Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk: A Play. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$22.27 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: blue cloth, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 135 pp, first edition.

Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$24.05 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A clean, crisp copy.

Seller: Clarendon Books P.B.F.A., Leicester, United Kingdom

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$24.69 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: foot of spine faded, former owner's name to front endpaper, o/w very good, in price unclipped dust cover which is torn and lacking various pieces. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Ely Books, ELY, CAMBS, United Kingdom

T.S. Eliot. The CONFIDENTIAL CLERK. A Play.. Faber & Faber Ltd., January 1954, London, 1954.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: In edgeworn dustjacket. Front flap is clipped. Denim blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering. First UK edition. [136 pages]

Seller: A Cappella Books, Inc., Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk - A Play. Faber & Faber, London, Eng., 1954.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: - signed by Tony Award winner Paul Rogers on the Characters page next to his character " Sir Claude Mulhammer " - he played him in the original production of the play - blue cloth, gilt, a bit spoty but still vg. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Alphabet Bookshop (ABAC/ILAB), Port Colborne, ON, Canada

Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965). The confidential clerk : a play / by T.S. Eliot. London : Faber and Faber Ltd, 1954.

Price: US$25.54 + shipping

Description: Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 134, [2] pages 23 cm. Subjects: Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888-1965. English drama 20th century. Drama 20th century. Verse drama. Plays 20th century. Genre:Comedy plays. Drama. Summary: Sir Claude Mulhammer thinks that Colby Simpkins is his long-estranged son. He tries to sneak Colby into the house as his "confidential clerk" in hopes that the very eccentric Lady Mulhammer will decide to "adopt" him. As multiple parent-child identities are revealed, Eliot's modern verse play touches on the sources of longing and the need to be loved. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$25.93 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: No inscriptions; dust jacket price clipped and protected, small loss at the top of the spine, otherwise minor wear only.

Seller: Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA, HINDHEAD, United Kingdom

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, United Kingdom, 1954.

Price: US$25.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: UK 1st Edition. First Issue. A VERY GOOD+ Dustwrapper. Minor Rubbing With Slightest Loss at Head of Spine. Short Closed Tear at Foot of Spine. Slightest Fading to Spine. NOT Price Clipped. A NEAR FINE Book. Slightest Spotting to Front Endpaper. NO Inscriptions. PBFA Member. We Welcome Direct Contact With Our Customers. If You Require Any Further Information or Images Please Click On 'Ask Bookseller a Question' Link.

Seller: Neil Ewart, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965). The confidential clerk : a play. London: Faber and Faber, 1954.

Price: US$27.84 + shipping

Description: Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 134 pages; 23 cm. Contents: Cast list of the first production included at end of text. Summary: Sir Claude Mulhammer thinks that Colby Simpkins is his long-estranged son. He tries to sneak Colby into the house as his "confidential clerk" in hopes that the very eccentric Lady Mulhammer will decide to "adopt" him. As multiple parent-child identities are revealed, Eliot's modern verse play touches on the sources of longing and the need to be loved. Subjects: Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888-1965. English drama 20th century. English drama.Drama 20th century. English drama 20th century. Verse drama. Plays. Genre: Comedy plays. Drama. Plays - English - 20th century. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$27.84 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: blue cloth gilt lettering , no dust jacket 134 pp, first edition light wear to covers, foxing to endpapers and edges owner's name on front endpaper.

Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France

Eliot T.S. (Thomas Stearns). The confidential clerk. A play.. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$27.84 + shipping

Description: In 8°; tela edit. con tit. oro al dorso (lievi segni d'uso), senza sovracop.; pp. 134-(2); prima edizione con errore tipografico a p. 7 (Ihad). Lievissime fioriture ai risguardi in buon esemplare.

Seller: Pietro Panizzi Libraio, Giulianova, Italy

Eliot, T. S. [Thomas Stearns]. The Confidential Clerk: A Play. Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1954.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First printing of the first British edition, second state, without misprint on page 7, in first state dust jacket with the 10s6d price. Book with some age-spotting to endpapers and light rubbing to edges of boards, else in fine condition; dust jacket with age-toning to spine and folds, faint foxing to covers, and mild wear to ends and corners, else fine.

Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.

ELIOT, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk, a play.. London: Faber and Faber, 1954.

Price: US$30.15 + shipping

Description: 8vo. 134[2]pp. Original blue cloth gilt, very lightly rubbed and soiled d/w. Eps very lightly spotted. * With priced d/w at 10/6d (later copies were 12/6d) and the misprint on page seven. ** Gallup A64a.

Seller: John Turton, Crook, United Kingdom

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk a play. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$31.19 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 8vo. Pp 136. Original cloth, lettered gilt to spine. Lightest of shelf-wear/soiling near the edges. The unclipped d/w shows light rubbing to the edges and occasional foxing. Top and fore-edges foxed, with minor penetration to the pages. Bookplate to front pastedown endpaper. No inscriptions.

Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$31.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First printing, first state ("Ihad" typo page 7 and 10s 6d price on front flap). Very good in a very good dustjacket with light edgewear.

Seller: Bruce Davidson Books, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$31.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First printing, first issue (with "Ihad" typo on p.7). Some staining to the front gutter otherwise very good in a very good , priceclipped dustjacket with light edgewear including a shallow chip to the top of the rear panel. No markings. (box 121)

Seller: Bruce Davidson Books, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$32.48 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition/First Printing Published by Faber & Faber, London 1954. No marks or inscriptions. Spotting to endpages and page edges. Very clean and bright cloth covers. Dustjacket has minor shelf wear and some spotting Not price clipped.

Seller: Idlegeniusbooks, London, United Kingdom

ELIOT , T.S.. THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK. FABER & FABER, London, 1954.

Price: US$32.49 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 1st ed. 1st printing. Blue fleck cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Play first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953 and written in the same kind of verse as "The Cocktail Party". First Edition 1st Printing "Iliad" for "I had" p7. In collectible condition. Near Fine/Near Fine- A couple of foxing spots to front past down under flap fold and one to front free end paper. No previous owner name or inspc or other sign of use.5mm approx closed tear to top rear panel else remarkably clean and fresh. Non price clipped - cover price 10s 6d net. Now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve). Please see our image of the actual book offered for sale

Seller: booksonlinebrighton, Brighton, United Kingdom

ELIOT, T. S. - Alison Tandy's copy.. The Confidential Clerk.. London: Faber & Faber, 1954.

Price: US$32.49 + shipping

Description: First edition.8vo, original blue cloth; some fading to binding, in dust jacket which has some fading and edge chipping. Alison Tandy's copy with her signature, place and date "Salisbury 6th March 1954" on front free endpaper. Old Possum's Book of Cats Eliot dedicated in part to Alison Tandy,

Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom

T. S. Eliot. The Confidential Clerk A Play. Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1954.

Price: US$32.49 + shipping

Description: First edition first impression with print error on page 7, line 27 'Ihad' instead of 'I had'. Hardback with dust jacket, unclipped. Neatly inscribed to ffep. Jacket rubbed and spine slightly toned. Chipping to top edge of spine not affecting text, small closed tear to bottom of spine. Light foxing to endpapers. Pages clean and bright. Overall very good condition. 136 pp.

Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk. London: Faber and Faber, 1954, 1954.

Price: US$32.49 + shipping

Description: 1st edition. First state with 10/6 on dust-jacket and "Ihad" for "I had" on p.7. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper and one sentence of notes on back free endpaper else Very Good in chipped and frayed dust-jacket.

Seller: The Glass Key, Montmorillon, France

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk: A Play. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$34.12 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Blue cloth hard covers, first issue, in first issue unclipped dust jacket. Jacker toned, with closed tear and mild dry tape staining verso top of spine (now in new archival mylar sleeve). Review slip from Canadian distributor laid in; some acid staining to front endpaper, from review slip or a news clipping. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and still handsome copy. 136p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, Canada

ELIOT, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk: A Play.. London: Faber and Faber (1954)., 1954.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Description: 134 pp. Fine in very good plus dust jacket with a closed tear to the front panel near the spine, which is lightly toned. Both the book and jacket are first issue. Gallup A64.

Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk. A play.. London, Faber and Faber., 1954.

Price: US$37.87 + shipping

Description: 134, (2)pp. Orig. cloth with dustwrapper. First edition, first issue. - Spine of wrapper a bit browned, minor chips along top and bottom of spine, unclipped. Endpapers with a few spots otherwise a very good copy.

Seller: Manfred Nosbuesch, Kuchenheim, Germany

ELIOT, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$37.91 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo. Gilt lettered blue cloth in decorative price clipped dust jacket. 1st state of the first printing with error on page 7. Wear to edges and shallow chipping the dj o/w nice copy.

Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk: a play. London Faber & Faber (1954)., 1954.

Price: US$38.00 + shipping

Description: VG in G DJ. Produced at Edinburgh 1953 then London. Blue binding, gilt lettering spine, DJ browned on edges & edge wear, owner inscription ft endpaper. 1st ptg edition.

Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.

Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965). The confidential clerk : a play / by T.S. Eliot. London : Faber and Faber, 1954.

Price: US$38.98 + shipping

Description: Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Minor library marks remain internally, with bookplate to front free endpaper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 134 pages; Physical desc.: 134, [2] p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Drama, plays -- English -- 20th century. T. S. Eliot -- drama -- plays -- comedy. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland

T.S. Eliot. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$38.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A couple of minor chips to dj.

Seller: Wearside Books, Durham, United Kingdom

Eliot,T S. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$38.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st edition,1st state with error on page 7.Slightly worn dc,now fully protected in loose pp.Clipped and light spotting to ends.Owners signature to title page.Dc,cover still bright-origInal blue/gilt cloth.Generally very clean and very good. (QW-Wa)

Seller: CHAPTER TWO, Pinetown, KZN, South Africa

ELIOT, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. A Play.. , 1954.

Price: US$38.99 + shipping

Description: 134pp Faber & Faber, London 1954. 1st edition, 1st issue with 'Ihad' on page 7. Very good copy in very good sl. snagged dust jacket, not price-clipped.

Seller: Anthony C. Hall, Bookseller ABA ILAB, Isleworth, MIDDX, United Kingdom

Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965). The confidential clerk : a play. London: Faber and Faber, 1954.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Description: Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 134 pages; 23 cm. Contents: Cast list of the first production included at end of text. Summary: Sir Claude Mulhammer thinks that Colby Simpkins is his long-estranged son. He tries to sneak Colby into the house as his "confidential clerk" in hopes that the very eccentric Lady Mulhammer will decide to "adopt" him. As multiple parent-child identities are revealed, Eliot's modern verse play touches on the sources of longing and the need to be loved. Subjects: Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888-1965. English drama 20th century. English drama.Drama 20th century. English drama 20th century. Verse drama. Plays. Genre: Comedy plays. Drama. Plays - English - 20th century. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Eliot, T. S.. THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK.. Faber and Faber,, London,, 1954.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition 134, 2 pp., First corrected edition with "I had" Blue cloth with gilst spine title; yelow and red dust jacket, not price clipped (10s 6d net). Fine; dust jacket some wear with small loss and sunning at spine o/w very good.

Seller: Book Stage, Stratford, ON, Canada

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1954.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, later state, with "I had" corrected on p. 7. But for slight offsetting from what appears to have been a newspaper clipping (free fly) with a paper clip(front pastedown) and a previous owner's neat penned name to free fly a fine copy in a price clipped dust wrapper which has the slightest wear to the extremities.

Seller: Michael Grano, Seaside, OR, U.S.A.

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1954.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, later state, with "I had" corrected on p. 7. But for slight offsetting from what appears to have been a newspaper clipping (free fly) with a paper clip(front pastedown) and a previous owner's neat penned name to free fly a fine copy in a price clipped dust wrapper which has the slightest wear to the extremities.

Seller: Michael Grano, Seaside, OR, U.S.A.

T. S. Eliot. The Confidential Clerk. Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1954.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Owner bookplate on front paste down else fine in lovely near fine dust jacket.

Seller: Courtside Books, Medford, NJ, U.S.A.

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$45.42 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: No inscriptions; the original, unclipped dust jacket has minor wear including a small, closed edge tear, protected by a clear, removable cover. A nice copy of Eliot's famous play. Weysprings Books is a Member of: the IOBA and PBFA, and subscribes to their Codes of Ethics.

Seller: Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA, HINDHEAD, United Kingdom

ELIOT, T.S. (1888-1965). The Confidential Clerk. A Play. London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1954, 1954.

Price: US$45.48 + shipping

Description: [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Tall octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.136. First issue of the text. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers titled in gilt, typographic dust-wrapper. Gift note to flyleaf, jacket a little toned to the spine, price clipped. An attractive copy, very good. T.S. Eliot's penultimate verse play, part of the revival of poetic drama which he had championed in the 1930's. Gallup A64a. See also Oxford Companion to English Literature, p.31216.

Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk a Play. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$49.28 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Fine but for prev. owner name on front endpaper dated 1954, in jacket with slightest traces of wear to extremities, and touch of toning to spine. The first issue of the first edition, with no correction on p. 7.

Seller: Renaissance Books, Victoria, BC, Canada

ELIOT, T S. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$49.38 + shipping

Description: 1st printing with misprint 'Ihad' on Page 7, 10/6d on the dust jacket. 8vo in blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 134pp CONDITION: A well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy (merest hint of tanning to end-papers and page-block edges, top edge of page block faintly dusty) in a spine tanned and very slightly edge-nicked but otherwise VERY GOOD+ complete Dust Jacket (looks very presentable in its removable transparent protector) ] ._ __To see more of our Plays and scripts type DbbPLAYS in the Keywords search box._We Ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS

Seller: David Bunnett Books, London, United Kingdom

ELIOT, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$49.50 + shipping

Description: First Impression, one of 20,000 copies. Second state of the text, with error on p.7 corrected. Octavo; blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 135pp, [1]. Quite faint tidemark to endpapers, with attendant waviness to preliminary and terminal leaves; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 10s 6d net), slightly soiled and edgeworn, also Very Good. Eliot's third full-length play, first produced at the Edinburgh Festival of 1953 and subsequently in London. GALLUP A64.a.

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.

ELIOT, T.S.. THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK.. London: Faber and Faber, 1954., 1954.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, first state. 8vo. Cloth.134 pp. [Gallup A64]. Very good in a very good, bright jacket with internal tape repairs.

Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Eliot, T S. The Confidential Clerk. Faber and Faber (1954), London, 1954.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 136p octavo, First state with misprint on Page 7 second line from the bottom. A fine copy in first state jacket dust jacket Closed tear on front panel

Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.

Eliot, T S. The Confidential Clerk. Faber and Faber (1954), London, 1954.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 136p octavo, First state with misprint on Page 7 second line from the bottom. A fine copy in first state jacket dust jacket Closed tear on front panel

Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.

Eliot, T. S.. THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Second issue with "I had" on page 7 vs. "Ihad." Fine in earliest dust jacket (with "10s 6d" on flap), which is about very good with spine a bit darkened, few shallow chips and small tears.

Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk, A Play. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Octavo. First issue, with "Ihad" on page 7, and in first issue dust jacket. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.

ELIOT, T.S.. CONFIDENTIAL CLERK. , 1954.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Description: ELIOT, T.S. THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK. A play. London: Faber and Faber, (1954). First edition, in a first issue dust jacket. (10s 6d price). 8vo., blue cloth, spine in gilt. A near fine copy; clean and bright in a crisp and clean dust jacket that shows just a tiny chip at the crown. (Gallup A64).

Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965). The confidential clerk : a play / by T.S. Eliot. London : Faber and Faber, 1954.

Price: US$52.00 + shipping

Description: Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Minor library marks remain internally, with bookplate to front free endpaper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 134 pages; Physical desc.: 134, [2] p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Drama, plays -- English -- 20th century. T. S. Eliot -- drama -- plays -- comedy. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk (First Edition | Dust Jacket). Faber And Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$54.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: FIRST EDITION, first printing, first state (with"Ihad" for "I had" on p.7) in first state dustwrapper (priced 10s 6d on the front flap). Full grey-blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Light wear. jacket is slightly foxed and has a small quarter inch closed tear. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall a VERY GOOD book in a VERY GOOD 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.. The Confidential Clerk: A Play. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$56.78 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Faber and Faber, London, 1954. First edition ("Ihad" for "I had" on p.7) in first state dustwrapper (priced 10s 6d on the front flap). Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. Ghost of a pencil price to fep. very light foxing to prelims, hardly worthy of a mention. Slight fading to cove at top and bottom of spine. Dust Jacket condition: Fair. Not price clipped. Chips to top and bottom of back strip. Nicks at all leading corners.

Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New Zealand

Eliot, T. S.. THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$59.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: DJ chipped and browned. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper; Eliot play in the same verse style as The Cocktail Party; 8vo; 135 pages

Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk: A Play. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Blue cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on spine; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. [136]. Spine tips and corners gently bumped, otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket lightly wrinkled along the edges; somewhat tanned along spine; price-clipped.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

ELIOT, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk: A Play. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, later issue ("I had" on p.7) in first state dustwrapper (priced 10s 6d on the front flap). Pages foxed, small sticker and pen mark on front endpapers, tear on top edge of half-title, about very good in a good only edgeworn and torn dustwrapper, spine edges chipped. Last page contains a list of the cast of the first production at the Edinburgh Festival, August 25 - September 5, 1953.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Eliot, T. S.. THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK. Faber and Faber (1954), London, 1954.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. First issue with "Ihad" p.7:2(up), in first-issue dust jacket, priced "10s 6d". Endpapers lightly foxed and small faint stain on front free endpaper, bookstore sticker to rear pastedown, mild spotting to rear cover, still very good to near fine in near fine dust jacket with slight tanning to spine.

Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.

Eliot, T. S. [Thomas Stearns]. The Confidential Clerk: A Play. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First printing of the first British edition, first state, first impression dust jacket. Toning/offsetting to endpapers, faint foxing to top edge, and light rubbing to bottom edge of boards, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with toning to spine and cover margins, small chips to crown of spine and upper corner, creasing to flap edges, and a small light stain around author's initials on upper spine, else fine.

Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.

ELIOT, T.S. (1888-1965). The Confidential Clerk. A Play. London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1954, 1954.

Price: US$62.38 + shipping

Description: [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Tall octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.136. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers titled in gilt, typographic dust-wrapper priced at 10/6. Corrected text on p.7, which is apparently more elusive. Some light spotting including board edges, trivial toning to jacket; overall a fresh, bright copy. Near fine. Shows well. T.S. Eliot's penultimate verse play, part of the revival of poetic drama which he had championed in the 1930's. Gallup A64a. See also Oxford Companion to English Literature, p.312.

Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom

Eliot, T. S.. THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK: a play. Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1954.

Price: US$63.83 + shipping

Description: Pp. 136; demy 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, edges of boards a trifle rubbed, the lower board slightly spotted; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly foxed, edges lightly rubbed and split, the backstrip browned; free endpapers faintly offset, a little light foxing; Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1954. First edition. Gallup A64a. *The play was first produced at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953, where the cast included Denholm Elliott and Margaret Leighton. Gallup notes: 'Some copies - probably about half the impression - have a misprint "Ihad" for "I had" in line 2 up, page 7, which was corrected in press. Copies with and without the error were bound up and issued simultaneously'. In this copy the misprint is uncorrected.

Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

ELIOT, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$64.44 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 8vo. First edition, first state of book and dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettered spine. Light fade to edges and spine. Dust jacket with light fade to spine and a short and shallow chip to bottom front panel. A fine dust jacket otherwise.

Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada

ELIOT, T.S. The Confidential Clerk. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$64.98 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A play produced at the 1953 Edinburgh festival: (cast list at the back of the book - included Denholm Elliott). This is an expanded text, first edition of 1954 with the misprint Ihad on Page 7, and the price 10/6d on the dust jacket. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, very good. Dust jacket not price clipped, but onlyfair to good, tears at top corners and bumped top and bottom of spine. Text clean, binding tight, owners name neatly written on frontispiece, 136pp.

Seller: John's Books, Guildford, United Kingdom

ELIOT T. S.. THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK. LONDON FABER, 1954.

Price: US$64.98 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION, THE BOOK IS FINE, THE DUSTWRAPPER IS VERY GOOD/NEAR FINE.

Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber, 1954.

Price: US$64.98 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A play. Blue cloth. Very nice copy in like dustwrapper. 1954 production programme from the Salisbury Theatre loosely inserted.

Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk: A Play. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: [136] p. First issue with misprint on page 7, and first issue DJ with price of 10s 6d. "This play was produced iwth successful results at the Edinburgh Festival of 1953 and subsequently in London. It is written in the same kind of verse as The Cocktail Party. The text now published is slightly more extended than that used on the stage." Ref.: Gallup A64. Previous owners signature on f.f.e.p. Some soiling to edges particularly to top and just a bit of minor foxing. Text is clean and tight.

Seller: ReREAD Books & Bindery, Little Rock, AR, U.S.A.

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition, first impression. " First published in mcmliv by Faber and Faber Limited". First state with "ihad" rather than "I had" on page 7. 135 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and rules to the spine. This copy is FINE in a VG, yellow/red with black yellow lettering unclipped ( 10s 6d net) DJ. Exterior is rich. Gilt is bright. no noticeable blemishes. Inside has neat PO signature on FEP. Otherwise unmarked, crisp, and tightly bound. Minimal/even toning to text. Inside boards have modest toning where the DJ did not cover. DJ is bright and clean. Only a hint of wear and a few scattered foxing spots. Quite lovely.

Seller: Bailey Bonzo Books, Shelbyville, IN, U.S.A.

ELIOT, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk: A Play. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, first issue with "Ihad" uncorrected on page 7 in first state dust jacket (priced 10s 6d on the front flap). Tiny bookseller ticket on rear pastedown, boards slightly bowed, near fine in a very good dust jacket with tiny soil spots on the front panel, and a toned spine with a short tear at the crown. Last page contains a list of the cast of the first production at the Edinburgh Festival, August 25 - September 5, 1953.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

ELIOT, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. London: Faber & Faber, (1954). First Edition. Fine. First issue dust wrapper, with 10s 6d. and first issue text on p. 7. The dust wrapper has a bright front cover, but is tanned on the spine, with a small spot of white paint & a short, closed tear.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk, A Play. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$80.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first issue. Very good, bit of fray at spine head. Jacket is split in two, laid inside, most of jacket spine is missing.

Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.

ELIOT, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$82.50 + shipping

Description: First Impression, edition of 20,000 copies. First state of text, with error, line 2 up,p.7. Octavo; blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 135,[1]pp. Some evidence of use, with a touch of discoloration to boards, upper edges slightly sunned; Very Good. Dustjacket is the first issue, unclipped (priced 10s 6d net), quite bright and clean, Near Fine. Eliot's third full-length play, first produced at the Edinburgh Festival of 1953 and subsequently in London. GALLUP A64.a.

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.

ELIOT, T[homas] S[tearns].. The Confidential Clerk A Play.. London: Faber And Faber Ltd., [1954]., 1954.

Price: US$83.25 + shipping

Description: 8vo. pp. 134, [2]. A fine copy in blue cloth. First Edition.

Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada

T. S. Eliot. The Confidential Clerk A Play. Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1954.

Price: US$84.47 + shipping

Description: The first edition of T. S. Eliot's comic verse play in the original dust wrapper. First edition of The Confidential Clerk A Play by T. S. Eliot in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper.A later impression, with 'I had' corrected to page seven.A comic verse play about an entrepreneur who smuggles his illegitimate son into the household by employing him as a clerk.Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, publisher, playwright, and widely considered a major twentieth century poet. This was one of his many commercial plays intended for general audiences. In the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. There is some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. The spine is slightly faded. There is some light spotting to the fore edge. The dust wrapper is slightly worn to the extremities with a few small tears and light creases, and with a few light spots. There is some slight loss to the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber London 1954, 1954.

Price: US$94.00 + shipping

Description: 1st edition / 1st printing hardback with dust jacket Very nice copy octavo 32pp., The first edition, first impression, first state. With the original misprint on pp.7 with 'Ihad' instead of 'I had. Nice copy in blue boards in a nice price-clipped dust jacket

Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

ELIOT, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. London: Faber and Faber, 1954.

Price: US$97.47 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition, first impression. This is the first issue with 'Ihad' on page 3. Octavo. Bound in blue cloth covered hard boards and in the original dust jacket, unclipped (10s 6d net). Fine condition book in Near Fine jacket which has a little tanning to the spine.

Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom

Eliot, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk: A Play. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First state of book and jacket. Book is quite nice; bright DJ with a couple of short edge tears and nicks.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

ELIOT, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk: A Play. Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1954.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition, first issue, with "Ihad" error on p.7 (*Gallup* A64a). Octavo. 134pp. Light offsetting (from flaps of the dust jacket) on the flyleaves, else a fine copy in fine, bright dust jacket.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: 136 pages. 22 x 14 cm. 10. 6d. price noted on dust wrapper. Last page with The Cast of the First Production at the Edinburgh Festival, 1953. Owner inscription free endpaper dated 1954. Orig. blue cloth spine lettered in gilt. Very good in nicked and spine darkened dust wrapper

Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. A Play.. Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1954.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Impression. First State with "Ihad" on page 7. A Fine copy in a Fine yellow dustwrapper printed in red and black, not price-clipped. One minuscule closed tear to rear edge of crown. 136pp. The original first production cast included Denholm Elliott and Margaret Leighton. Q15546

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

Eliot, T.S.. THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK A Play. Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1954.

Price: US$115.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 134 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Pages are clean and unmarked. Endpapers are lightly darkened. Page edges are lightly darkened. Bound in blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Lightly worn and bumped around the edges. Yellow and red dustjacket in good condition with black titles. Darkened and smudged, lightly stained. Worn around the edges with chips and tears. A notable tear runs up half of the front of the jacket. Spine is scuffed and darkened. NPC. 1ST EDITION. VG/G

Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada

ELIOT, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo. 134, [2] pages. Original blue cloth; printed yellow dust jacket. First edition, first issue with misprint "Ihad" [for "I had"] on p. 7; first issue jacket priced "10s 6d". Spine panel a bit darkened, irregular shadow on rear panel, a few chips at edges

Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.

ELIOT, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk: A Play.. London: Faber and Faber (1954)., 1954.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: 134 pp. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a small pale stain to the lower corner of the front panel. Gallup A64.

Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

ELIOT, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk: A Play. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, first issue ("Ihad" for "I had" on p.7) in first state dustwrapper (priced 10s 6d on the front flap). Slight sunning to spine and top edge, "made & printed in Great Britain" stamped on front fly, else near fine in a very good dustwrapper with subtle toning to the spine and wear to the extremities including minor tears and chipping. Last page contains a list of the cast of the first production at the Edinburgh Festival, August 25 - September 5, 1953.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

ELIOT, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk: A Play. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first issue ("Ihad" for "I had" on p.7) in first state dustwrapper (priced 10s 6d on the front flap). Foxing on page edges, spine a touch sunned, else a very good copy in a very good lightly foxed dustwrapper with internal tape-repair along top edge. Last page contains a list of the cast of the first production at the Edinburgh Festival, August 25 - September 5, 1953.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

T. S. Eliot. The Confidential Clerk. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$162.44 + shipping

Description: The first edition of this play by T. S. Eliot in the original dust wrapper with the first state misprint. The first edition. First impression, first state. With the original misprint on pp.7 with 'Ihad' instead of 'I had'.In the original publisher's cloth with the original clipped dust wrapper.This play was written by American-British poet, playwright and essayist T. S. Eliot. The work is a comic verse play that features Sir Claude Mulhammer, a wealthy entrepreneur, who decides to sneak his illegitimate son Colby into the house by disguising him as a confidential clerk. In the publisher's original cloth with the original clipped dust wrapper. Externally excellent with slight fading to the spine and extremities and slight bumping. Light spotting to the endpapers and a label to the front pastedown. The wrap is generally smart with sunning to the spine and the head of the wrap, scattered spotting and the odd closed tear and chip. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages. Very Good Indeed

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns) (1888-1965). The confidential clerk : a play. London : Faber & Faber, 1954.

Price: US$167.06 + shipping

Description: Provenance: Christopher Fry's copy with his signature. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 135p. ; 21cm. Subjects: Drama -- 20th century. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland

Eliot, T. S.. THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK. London, Faber and Faber, 1954., 1954.

Price: US$170.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Original cloth, dust jacket.

Seller: Rosenbad Antique Books, Stockholm, Sweden

ELIOT, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. A Play by.. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$189.53 + shipping

Description: First edition, first issue, first state of the d/w with the price "10s 6d." With the misprint "Ihad"on p.7. Name o/w fine in d/w. Gallup A64.

Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada

Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns) (1888-1965). The confidential clerk : a play. London : Faber & Faber, 1954.

Price: US$190.00 + shipping

Description: Provenance: Christopher Fry's copy with his signature. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 135p. ; 21cm. Subjects: Drama -- 20th century. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

ELIOT, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. London: Faber & Faber, (1954). First Edition. Fine. First issue dust wrapper, with 10s 6d. and first issue text on p. 7.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. A Play. Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1954.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, "second" issue with "I had" corrected on p. 7; first issue jacket priced "10s 6d" 134, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. In correspondence, Gallup noted that the two issues were in fact intermingled from the beginning, as Eliot's earliest copies were from both issues. Gallup A24 Original blue cloth. Fine in near fine printed yellow dust jacket (spine panel a bit toned) First edition, "second" issue with "I had" corrected on p. 7; first issue jacket priced "10s 6d".

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

ELIOT, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo. 134, [2] pages. Original blue cloth; printed yellow dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with misprint "Ihad" [for "I had"] on p. 7; first issue jacket priced "10s 6d". With printed Author's Compliment's slip on green paper laid-in. Gallup A24. Jacket with one small hole on front flap joint, some light wear at extremities, generally fresh and bright

Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.

ELIOT, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo. 134, [2] pages. Original blue cloth; printed yellow dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with misprint "Ihad" [for "I had"] on p. 7; first issue jacket priced "10s 6d". With a TLS from the bibliographer Donald Gallup laid-in detailing the issue points of the book, including those on pages 7 and 61. "Fabers now say that 'about the first 250' copies had the error and that it was corrected in the press. But this cannot be right because the ratio of copies with the error to those without it in several shipments to the U.S. runs about 3 to 1. One thing is definite: that copies with and without the error were issued simultaneously, and Mr. Eliot's own first copies were of both states." Gallup A24. Jacket with one small hole on spine panel [with associated bump on cloth], head of spine with split at joint and chip, generally fresh and bright

Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.

T S Eliot. The Confidential Clerk. Faber and Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$285.90 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A very smart, first edition copy of T.S Eliot's comic verse play 'The Confidential Clerk'. The first edition, first impression with 'Ihad' for 'I had' to page 7.With the original unclipped dustwrapper.This play was first performed at the 1953 Edinburgh Festival before being published. It concerns a wealth entrepreneur who decides to smuggle his illegitimate son Colby into the household by employing him as a clerk. The play was a great success at Edinburgh before transferring to the West End and embarking on a UK tour. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, very smart with some minor bumping to the head of front board. Minor fading to the extremities which are rubbed. Dustwrapper is very smart. Minor sunning to the spine. Small chips to the head and tail of spine. Minor closed tear to the head of rear joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

T. S. Eliot. THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$317.46 + shipping

Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Few small open tears. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with misprint "Ihad" [for "I had"] on p. 7; first issue jacket priced "10s 6d"

Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.

T. S. Eliot. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$357.38 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Faber and Faber, London, 1954. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition with error ("Ihad" for "I had" on p.7). This copy is in the in first state dust wrapper, with the launch price of 10s 6d on the front flap. There is a slight split to the top spine of the jacket cover. The blue cloth binding is still very bright. The gilt titling on the blue cloth spine is still very bright. A faint red line on the outer cover, usual slight foxing to the endpapers see photo, a great collectable book, firmly bound, crisp pages.

Seller: EMGBooks, Derbyshire, GB, United Kingdom

T. S. ELIOT - FIRST EDITION HARDBACK. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, 1954.

Price: US$376.87 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Faber and Faber, London, 1954. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition with error ("Ihad" for "I had" on p.7). This copy is in the in first state dust wrapper, with the launch price of 10s 6d on the front flap. There is a slight and typical toning to the spine of the jacket, commensurate with being a certain age. The blue cloth binding is not faded much - so I guess the jacket has done its job. On the front of the cover there are some tiny spottings which are common on this issue. The gilt titling on the blue cloth spine is still pretty bright. There are no owner marks, no signs of ill usage, no annotations in the text. There is the usual slight foxing to the endpapers, and again that is common. Faber have often been guilty about using 'cheap' paper, and I notice that especially in recent years. This is, for all the described faults, a great collectable book, firmly bound.

Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom

T. S. ELIOT. The Cultivation of Christmas Trees: [a poem]. Illustrated by David Jones. (Ariel Poems, new series) - inscribed by Muriel Spark to her lover. London: Faber and Faber, 1954.

Price: US$519.82 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Wrappers. Spine slightly worn at foot, upper cover slightly marked. Inscribed by Muriel Spark to Derek Stanford, "For Derek - The joy of Christmas in anticipation. 18.11.54 Muriel"; with Stanford's homemade tab tipped in and his markings in the text (ruling off the first eight lines - for a reading?; underlining the final line of p.[3]). "The child wonders at the Christmas Tree: / Let him continue in the spirit of wonder / At the Feast as an event not accepted as a pretext; / So that the glittering rapture, the amazement / Of the first-remembered Christmas Tree . . . / May not be forgotten in later experience, / In the bored habitation, the fatigue, the tedium, / The awareness of death, the consciousness of failure, / Or in the piety of the convert . . ." Muriel Spark was a new convert, if not always a pious one; she had been received into the Catholic Church seven months earlier, on 1 May - ominously, for Stanford, as her increasing religiosity demanded his own submission to the Church's authority if their physical relationship was to continue. She had also, since the summer of 1953, when she had gone to Edinburgh to review (for The Church of England Newspaper) the first performance of The Confidential Clerk, been preoccupied with its author. Her review had struck him, he told a friend, as "one of the two or three most intelligent reviews I had read. It seemed to me remarkable that anyone who could only have seen the play once, and certainly not have read it, should have grasped so much of its intention." Spark resolved to write a book about Eliot, and even received a commission to do so from Sheed & Ward. Deluded, however, by the Dexedrine she was taking as an appetite suppressant, she began hallucinating about her subject, convinced in January 1954, at the time she started taking religious instruction, that he was sending her threatening messages. She was only reassured after Stanford wrote to Eliot in March to confirm he had not smuggled a code into The Confidential Clerk ("If there is any code concealed," he replied, "I shall be interested to know what it is"). Stanford also set about securing funds from David Astor, Graham Greene and others so that she could move out of London to recover. In October, the month before she sent Stanford this Ariel Poem, she had moved to Kent, to Aylesford Priory, where she didn't write a book on Eliot but started work on her first novel - on the publication of which the paths of Muriel Spark and Derek Stanford, so long a "couple", diverged. When Spark became famous with The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), Stanford wrote Muriel Spark: a biographical and critical study (1963), making matters worse with his "literary memoirs" Inside the Forties (1977), and he transmuted from devoted friend and collaborator into the Hector Bartlett of Spark's A Far Cry from Kensington (1988), "pisseur de copie" and author of "ridiculous old-age memoirs" ("the falsities . . . the vaunted revelations . . . the pathetic inventions . . .") subtitled "Farewell, Leicester Square".

Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom

ELIOT T.S. (SIGNED). The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954, 1954.

Price: US$942.17 + shipping

Description: First edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Near Fine, edges dusty slight bumping, in clean and bright dustwrapper. Showing minor wear, slight discolouration, bumping, rubbing to spine ends, slight discolouration,which is housed in a protective removable sleeve. There are no further ink marks or writing. Excellent clean example. Rare SIGNED. 14286

Seller: Holybourne Rare Books ABA ILAB, Alton, United Kingdom

ELIOT T.S.. THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK. Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$974.66 + shipping

Description: First UK Edition. Light foxing to the page-block edges and the early/late pages of the book and a hint of bowing to the front board otherwise VG indeed in like D/W. Signed by the Author on the title page

Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom

T S Eliot. The Confidential Clerk. Faber & Faber, London, 1954.

Price: US$1949.32 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The Confidential Clerk signed by T. S. Eliot, Faber & Faber , London 1954, This very good/near fine copy of The Confidential Clerk is signed presentation inscription to P. T. R. Gillet from the author on the title page. During Eliot's time as a clerk with Lloyds bank from 1917 to 1925 he formed a long term friendship with Gillett. Eliot joined the Board of Directors of Faber and Gwyer in the Autumn of 1925 and remained a Director of the company for over forty years. Eliot continued to send Gillett copies of his work as, on Gillett's admission, "bank clerks have not too much money to spare" (Letter to T. S. Eliot, 6 Jan 1930). The first issue contains the typographical error on page 7. The play was produced with successful results at the Edinburgh Festival of 1953 and then in London. It is written in the same kind of verse as "The Cocktail Party". The text is slightly extended than that used on the stage. Cast listed at rear of book. Original blue cloth boards in near fine condition with bright gilt lettering on the spine. The contents are very clean. The bright dust jacket is very lightly faded on the spine. Hole on the spine above "C" for Clerk. Minor chipping to extremities. 8vo 135pp

Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom

ELIOT, T. S.. The Confidential Clerk. A Play.. London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1954, 1954.

Price: US$2274.21 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, presentation copy to the French novelist and playwright Georges Duhamel, inscribed by the author a month after publication on the front free endpaper: "à Monsieur Georges Duhamel en hommage à l'ecrivain et l'homme de la part de T. S. Eliot 8.4.54". Duhamel had served as a surgeon during the First World War and his works are known for their depiction of human suffering and for their aversion to industrialisation. Eliot used a quotation by Duhamel to open his article "Reflections on vers libre", published in the New Statesman in 1917. The Confidential Clerk was first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in August 1953, and was published in March 1954. This copy is the first issue with "Ihad" uncorrected on page 7. Gallup A64a. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Spine lightly sunned, slight crease to rear pastedown, else a very good copy in the dust jacket, a few minor soiling marks, spine panel lightly sunned.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

Eliot, T.S.. The Confidential Clerk. A Play. Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1954.

Price: US$2400.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. 136 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ELIOT on the front free endpaper: "To Ronnie Duncan from T.S.E. 23.iii.54" Ronald Duncan (1914-1982) was a poet and playwright who was also published by Faber and Faber. This is an early inscription. Gallup A64 Publisher's cloth. A fine copy in a fine dust-jacket. In red cloth slipcase and chemise

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.