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Eliot, T. S.. The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism. Harvard University Press, 1933.
Price: US$7.76 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Eliot, T.S.. The Use of Poetry and The Use of Criticism. Harvard University, Cambridge, 1933.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures for 1932-1933. Clean,light wear,tiny spot on spine,but bottom, had been wet so 3/4 inch rippled area at bottom of frt. cvr.,wet stain on bottom margins of most pp. o/w clean & tight. Bookplate on IFC + name & date ,location written on FFEP by -poet John Vincent Healy. 149 pp.
Seller: General Eclectic Books, Gray, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: VG+, corner bump, ep bookplate & owner's name, spine dulled
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$27.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. No dustjacket. ; Tight and clean. Solid binding. Slight darkening to spine with dulling to gilt, otherwise a gently read book in Very Good condition with previous owner's name neatly inked to front endpaper. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. ; 8vo
Seller: W. Lamm, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$33.75 + shipping
Description: viii, 149 pages. Vol XII of the Oxford History of English Literature Series edited by F. P. Wilson and Bonamy Dobree. The book is clean and tight with light rubbing at corners; spine a little faded. Previous bookseller's small label & previous owner's name written on front paste-down. A small spot of offsetting on front free endpaper & a tiny stain on rear free endpaper. Page edges are lightly toned. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Bertram Books And Fine Art, West Point, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1933. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Top page ends gold gilt. 149 pages. The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures for 1932-1933 at Harvard University. 6232
Seller: BookScene, Hull, MA, U.S.A.
Eliot. T.S.. THE USE OF POETRY AND THE USE OF CRITICISM. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1933.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First US edition, first prnt. Full cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Lacks dustwrapper. Small Boston bookstore sticker on rear pastedown. Corners (mostly at spine bottom edge) with touch of shelfwear; topedge gilt intact. Tight copy in Very Good condition. The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures for 1932-1933.
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First American edition in red cloth that shows edgewear w/half-inch nick/fraying at upper edge of front panel; moderate soil/age-darkening of cloth. Spine a bit darkened; gilt lettering dulled. Pages 65-66 bear one-inch tear, probably the result of careless cutting apart of pages, but does not affect text. Some pages remain unopened. Hinges sound and uncracked. Top edges gilt. ;
Seller: Nelson & Nelson, Booksellers, Trenton, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.91 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 6 x 9 inches. 156 pp. Bound in original cloth, gilt. Deckled edges. Some wear to extremities and spine slightly sunned; otherwise a very good copy. bookplate of Paul Longland and his 1933 inscription on first free endpaper. Lectures delivered at Harvard University, winter 1932-33 on poetry criticism. They cover the Countess of Pembroke, the age of Dryden, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Shelley and Keats, Matthew Arnold and the Modern Mind. ART / LITERATURE POETRY POETRY ESSAYS 20TH CENTURY FIRST EDITION ART / LITERATURE
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$49.50 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm.); publisher's red cloth, titled in gilt on spine; top edge gilt; viii,[2],149pp. Spine cloth and lettering a trifle dull, else a tight, Near Fine copy, lacking the dustwrapper. Ink ownership signature (American literary scholar Maurice B. Cramer) to front endpaper, dated 1933. GALLUP A24b.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo in red cloth binding. Condition; spine slightly age-darkened & gilt lettering a bit dulled; endpapers slightly toned; many pages unopened; else very good condition. 149 pages.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition. The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures for 1932-1933. Brick cloth, gilt print spine, uncut, t.e.g. 8vo. pp. viii, [2], 149. Near Fine/No jacket. Slightly darkened spine and ep. The chronological series of eight lectures delivered from November 4, 1932 to March 31, 1933 with an August 1933 preface.
Seller: OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994), West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 149 pp. Hardcover, bound in cloth with dust jacket. The jacket soiled with several chips and short tears, now in protective cover; prior owner name on the fly leaf.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$87.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback. First Edition. The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism. Message to previous owner to inside cover.Slight marks to cloth. Browning to spine. Gilt lettering on spine faded. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contents: Introduction. Apology For the Countess of Pembroke. The Age of Dryden. Wordsworth and Coleridge. Shelley and Keats. Matthew Arnold. The Modern Mind. Conclusion. 149 pp. Hand cut pages. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.)
Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Eliot, T. S.. The Use of Poetry. Harvard University Press, MA, 1933.
Price: US$98.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book has slightly bumped corners, light cover soiling, owners signature thus very good. Dj has edgewear, foxing, modest soiling thus near very good.
Seller: Uncommon Books, Glastonbury, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. A Columbia University professor's name penned along with professor and poet Daniel Hoffman's name penciled on the front fly and Hoffman's penciled marginalia on pages, spine a touch sunned, very good in good only age-toned dust jacket with chipping and tears along the extremities.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Description: Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1933. First edition, 1st printing in 1st issue DJ. Only 1,500 copies were printed in the first american print run. The US edition is more scarce than the UK edition by Faber as that print run was 2,500 compared the the American run of 1,500. Uncommon DJ. $2.00 price intact on flap. Gilt page edges along top. Square and tight. Book would grade fine if not for a faint transparent marking to FFEP as a result of the DJ design resting against endpaper for a number of years. This is very faint and it is a transparent design. Previous owner's name also neatly written to FFEP. DJ has open chips on spine and at corners. A desirable copy housed in an uncommon DJ.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. 149pp., bound in burgundy cloth, spine lettering gilt, previous owner's name, slight damp staining to last few leaves on very edge of out margins, a very good copy in unclipped dust jacket showing heavy damp staining with chipping along the top edge of rear panel.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
ELIOT, T.S.. The Use of Poetry. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1933.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy of this series of lectures delivered by Eliot at Harvard.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$2245.71 + shipping
Description: First US edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by Eliot on the front free endpaper to the man who baptised him into the Church of England: "to Stead, T. S. Eliot 1935". The recipient, William Force Stead (1884-1967), was an American poet, critic, Anglican clergyman, and chaplain of Worcester College, Oxford, from 1927 to 1933. He and Eliot first met in 1923, and began a correspondence in 1926, when Stead sent Eliot a copy of his book The Shadow of Mount Carmel, a series of meditations in poetry and prose tracing his pilgrimage from Oxford to Assisi. Eliot replied that he would read the book "with great interest" (Eliot, Letters, p. 306), and wrote again to Stead the following February regarding his conversion to Anglicanism: "My dear Stead. I want your advice, information & your practical assistance in getting Confirmation with the Anglican Church." Eliot rarely confided about his spiritual life in his letters, and he pressed Stead to keep his intentions secret: "I rely upon you not to mention this to anyone. I do not want any publicity or notoriety - for the moment, it concerns me alone, & not the public - not even those nearest to me. I hate spectacular 'conversions'" (Letters, pp. 403-4). Stead baptised Eliot at the Holy Trinity Church, Finstock, on 29 June 1927. He later recalled the day in his essay "Some Personal Reminiscences of T. S. Eliot", published in 1965: "I was living in Finstock, a small village far away in the country, with Wychwood Forest stretching off to the north, and the lonely Cotswold hills all round. Eliot came down from London for a day or two, and I summoned from Oxford Canon B. H. Streeter [of Queen's College] and Vere Somerset [of Worcester College]. These were his Godfathers. It seemed odd to have such a large though infant Christian at the baptismal font, so, to avoid embarrassment, we locked the front door of the little parish church and posted the verger on guard in the vestry. My three guests remained for the night, and after dinner we went for a twilight walk through Wychwood, an ancient haunted forest, 'savage and enchanted'. I can see Eliot pacing under the mighty oaks and pushing his way through hazel thickets attired in a smart suit, a bowler hat, and grey spats." Eliot later praised Stead in a testimonial, dated 9 December 1938, as "a valued friend" and "a poet of established position and individual inspiration". The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism is based on the Charles Eliot Norton lectures which Eliot delivered at Harvard University in the winter of 1932-3. This edition was published simultaneously with the first British edition on 2 December 1933. Gallup A24b. Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden, eds, Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 3: 19261927, 2012; William Force Stead, "Some Personal Reminiscences of T. S. Eliot", Alumni Journal of Trinity College, Washington, vol. 38, no. 2, Winter 1965. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With dust jacket. Extremities lightly rubbed, faint browning and offsetting to endpapers, pp. viii-xi browned from inserted clipping, contents otherwise clean, a very good copy. Jacket marked and rubbed, spine slightly toned, top edge chipped and creased, otherwise very good and unclipped.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom