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Eliot, T. S.. The Sacred Wood. Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1920.
Price: US$82.27 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: publisher's presentation copy with stamp on title page; points: 3 mm. Methuen on spine and first issue without publisher's ads at rear; blue publisher's cloth; lettering in gilt on spine; gilt is bright; spine is square; hinges tight; 155 pages; no previous owner's signatures or inscriptions; lettering of title and author stamped in blind on front cover. Gallup A5
Seller: Reeve & Clarke Books (ABAC / ILAB), South River, ON, Canada
T. S. Eliot. The Sacred Wood Essays On Poetry And Criticism. Methuen & Co., London, 1920.
Price: US$96.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Slight weakness to inside front hinge and spine, but book in good condition internally.
Seller: siop lyfrau'r hen bost, Blaenau Ffestiniog, United Kingdom
Eliot, T.S.. THE SACRED WOOD ESSAYS ON POETRY AND CRITICISM. Methuen, London, 1920.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Description: Small octavo. Gilt blue cloth. Some of the usual tanning to the endsheets, small ink name on free endsheet, slight rubbing and dulling to upper board, but a good, bright copy. First edition, third binding, with the 8pp. Methuen catalogue bound at the end. Gallup suggests that copies of the original sheets, in this binding, were distributed not earlier than January 1924. GALLUP A5a.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$439.57 + shipping
Description: XVIII, 155 (1) pp. OLn. Rü. etw. gebleicht, Kanten berieb. EA. Gallup A5 - First edition. - Publisher`s blue cloth boards, title blindstamped on front cover, spine lettered in gilt, with type of publisher at foot of spine measuring approx. 3mm. height. Some wear with rubbing to edges, spine somewhat darkened, lacking the rare dust jacket. A good copy. - Eliots collection of essays on poetry and criticism covers such masters of verse as Dante and Blake as well as his critical views of poetic drama, rhetoric, blank verse and other critics such as Ben Johnson, Swinburne and Phillip Massinger. Gewicht in Gramm: 500
Seller: Antiquariat Burgverlag, Wien, Austria
Eliot, T.S.. The Sacred Wood. Essays on Poetry and Criticism.. Methuen and Co. Ltd, London, 1920.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Impression, with correct points. Very Near Fine in grainy dark blue cloth stamped in gilt at spine, in publisher's rare original dustwrapper (several sizable chips and tears, missing spine panel), bottom edge untrimmed. Crown of spine barely frayed. 155pp. Essays on poetry and poetic drama, and criticism, influential in its day. No bookplates or other problems. Gallup A5. Q10265
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
ELIOT, T.S.. The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. Methuen, London, 1920.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, blue cloth; spine lightly toned & rubbed at the edges. London: Methuen, (1920). First Edition. First state, with no ads. the rare first issue dust jacket is present, (now enclosed in mylar) though separated at the folds and lacking the spine. The rear panel cites "What Is The Kingdom of Heaven?" as being in the Sixth Edition.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
ELIOT, T. S.. The Sacred Wood. Essays on Poetry and Criticism.. London: Methuen, 1920, 1920.
Price: US$962.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of the first of Eliot's important literary studies. This collection of 20 essays contains one of Eliot's most important prose works, "Tradition and the Individual Talent", first published in The Egoist. This copy is in the second issue of the jacket, in use from 1921, with the subtitle on the front panel and "Books by A. Clutton-Brock" in place of "Companionable Volumes by E. V. Lucas" on the back panel, as well as with Clutton-Brock's What is the Kingdom of Heaven listed in the sixth edition. Gallup A5a. Octavo. Original blue cloth, lettering to spine in gilt and front board in blind, bottom edge untrimmed. With dust jacket Slight lean to spine, rubbing to extremities, faint offsetting to endpapers; remarkably bright unclipped jacket, spine toned, nicks to edges, discreetly repaired split inside rear joint up from the foot: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. Cloth. Heavily worn and shaken, with surface chips from spine and scattered incompletely erased doodles and drawings in the text. First edition. A very interesting association copy, formerly the property of American novelist Nathanael West. West's ownership inscription appears at the top edge of the front free endsheet: "N. West 1926 Paris." West visited Paris shortly after his hair's- breadth graduation from Brown University and stayed for only a few months (sources vary). While there he pursued the literary life, adopted his name change from Weinstein to West, and began work on what was to eventually appear as THE DREAM LIFE OF BALSO SNELL. Page 61 has some heavy pencil underscores and marginal highlighting, and page 70 has three lines of barely visible, partially erased text in pencil. Most interesting are the many partially erased remnants of drawings and doodles in several blank margins, the rear free endsheet, and the title and half-title, which may just possibly be the work of West. It should be noted that a recurring element in those drawings are what appear to be both unicorn and Trojan-style horses' heads, along with some renderings of the sacred heart symbol. Of course, the Trojan Horse is an integral structural element in THE DREAM LIFE OF BALSO SNELL, and were it not for the unfortunate results of a former handler's slightly ineffective work with an eraser, this could possibly be confirmed as a substantially more informative and attractive association item. GALLUP A5a.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
ELIOT, T.S.. The sacred wood. Methuen & Co., London, 1920.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Original blue cloth. With dustjacket (spine torn away but present). Interior fine. First edition, first state. Presentation inscription by the author on the title to Gene Andrewski dated 29 iv 58.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.