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Eliot, T.S.. The Cocktail Party. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1950.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition. 1 vols. 8vo. With a signed card from Valerie Eliot laid in. Gallup A55 Black cloth. Fine copy in dust jacket about fine
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
T S Eliot. The Cocktail Party. Harcourt Brace & Co, New York, 1950.
Price: US$795.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Original black cloth. 1st ed, later issue. fine in near fine dust jacket. Note this a fine copy signed by TS Eliot in fine ink on the title page and furthermore owned by the famed psycho analyst Dr. Saul Rosensweig of Washington University in St. Louis. Rare association copy signed.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
T S Eliot. The Cocktail Party. Harcourt Brace & Co, New York, 1950.
Price: US$895.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine copy of a later issue of the 1st edition of TS Eliot's famous play of manners. Original cloth fine in fine dj under brodart mylar. Note signed boldly in ink on title page and dated by TS Eliot. This is after Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, Eliot's most famous play, after his 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature. Note Betrand Russell met TS Eliot at Harvard in 1909, when TS was 20, and was so impressed with his vast and subtle intelligence, he wrote of him so memorably in his own autobiography.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Eliot, T.S.. The Cocktail Party. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1950.
Price: US$10000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by T.S. Eliot on a laid in signature. A spectacular copy of this First American Edition with the RARE FIRST ISSUE point with page 35-36 printed on uncancelled leaf. According to Gallup, one of "not more than ten copies (at most)." were printed. The rest of the 10,000 copies printed were printed with the corrected cancel leaf. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is vibrant in color with NO chips or tears and has the publisher's $3.00 printed price present. The book is bound in the publisher's black cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. A superb copy of the author's most popular play during his lifetime SIGNED by the author. We buy SIGNED T.S. Eliot First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.