ELIOT, T.S.. The Family Reunion. Faber & Faber, London, 1939.

Price: US$1227.73 + shipping

Description: First edition, author's presentation copy, inscribed by Eliot to his niece on the front free endpaper: "to Theodora Eliot Smith from T. S. Eliot". (Gallup A.33.a) Spine torn and split along edges, foxing to endpapers, boards a little browned - a good copy in very good (supplied) dustwrapper.

Seller: Peter Grogan, London, United Kingdom

Eliot, T.S.. The Family Reunion. Faber, 1939.

Price: US$1421.58 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A play. Grey cloth. Nice copy, pages bit spotted. Inscribed "Kenneth Pickthorn from T.S. Eliot. 16.iii.39." The book was published on 21st March. Kenneth Pickthorn was a History Fellow at Corpus Christie College, Cambridge and contributed reviews to The Criterion when Eliot was the editor. A pre-publication inscribed copy of an important work by Eliot, rarely found inscribed.

Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom

Eliot, T.S.. The Family Reunion; a play. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1939.

Price: US$2200.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Octavo, 131pp. Black cloth, title stamped on spine. Stated "first American edition" on copyright page. Light wear to heel of spine, general toning to leaves, a near fine example. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $1.50 on front flap, bright illustrations, a near fine example. (Gallup A33.b) Signed on the title page by T.S. Eliot and dated "5.xi.39." The first printing of The Family Reunion, a play by T.S. Eliot was published in March of 1939 by Faber and Faber of London. The first American edition was published the same month, with a print run of 2,500 copies.

Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.