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

Price: US$932.82 + 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$964.99 + 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$1929.97 + 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$2251.63 + 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.