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Price: US$626.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, ordinary copy (there was also a signed, limited edition of 125 copies), in the first-issue dust jacket (without excerpts from reviews on front flap and back panel). Crown 8vo: [8],11-69,[1]pp. Publisher's grey decorated paper-covered boards, spine and upper cover printed in black, top edge stained blue (some copies were stained green); matching dust jacket with marvelous design by Rex Whistler, priced 3s / 6d. A superlative example, virtually pristine inside and out (jacket's spine panel almost imperceptibly toned), one of only 2,000 copies. Gallup A13a. Second in the short-lived Faber series The Poets on the Poets, preceded by Vita Sackville-West's appreciation of Andrew Marvel and followed by Lascelles Abercrombie's Wordsworth. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
ELIOT, T. S.; wood engravings by HERMES, Gertrude. ANIMULA. London: Faber and Faber., 1929.
Price: US$636.71 + shipping
Description: Signed and numbered limited large-paper edition printed on English hand-made paper (issued nineteen days after the first trade edition). Printed at the Curwen Press. One of 400 copies, this being no. 142. Original yellow paper-covered boards lettered in brown to the front panel. Lower and fore-edges untrimmed. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. The yellow boards are a little soiled, the spine tips a touch rubbed. Limited edition of 400 copies of which this example is hand-bumbered 142 and signed by T. S. Eliot in black ink to the limitation page. 'Animula', no. 23 in the series of Ariel Poems issued by Faber and Faber, is the third of Eliot's six contributions to the series. The title, 'Animula', can be translated as 'little soul', or the 'simple soul' of the poem's first line (a quotation from Dante's Purgatorio XVI). Like many of the Ariel poems, 'Animula' alludes to Christmas, but the poem is woven from a rich web of allusions, from the Emperor Hadrian via Byron and Walter Pater, to the mysteries of the Eucharist. The poem is illustrated with two wood engravings by the English artist, Gertrude Hermes (1901-83), the second in colour. This colour image, of a juggling, naked Hermes (with distinctly rendered genitalia) was apparently responsible for copies of the book being seized by US Customs officers in 1932. (Gallup A14b). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
ELIOT, T. S.. Dante. Faber & Faber, London, 1929.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine copy. Original illustrated boards with matching dust jacket design by Rex Whistler. The jacket is price-clipped and has some light toning along the edges and some loss at the head of the spine. Laid in is signature of Eliot on a fragment of a typed letter. Gallup A13.a. Near Fine / Very Good.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.