Four Quartets
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
1943 Harcourt Brace, New York; First American Edition 12mo = 7-9" 39pppp. Very Good +/Very Good + DJ
Stated First American Edition. Black cloth covers are in very fine condition except for two thumbprints on front cover which can only be seen when the book is held to catch the light. Some very minor scuffing/bumping on top/bottom of spine. Dj has all four corners clipped but the $2.00 original price remains intact. Two very small chips in the top edge of the dj front cover, and a small tear with creasing on back cover near spine. 9 titles appear on back of dj beginning with Four Quartets and ending with Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. The Quartets are: Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding. "Although many critics preferred his earlier work, Eliot and many other critics considered Four Quartets his masterpiece and it is the work which led to his receipt of the Nobel Prize. The Four Quartets draws upon his knowledge of mysticism and philosophy. It consists of four long poems, published separately: Burnt Norton (1936), East Coker (1940), The Dry Salvages (1941) and Little Gidding (1942), each in five sections. Although they resist easy characterisation, each begins with a rumination on the geographical location of its title, and each meditates on the nature of time in some important respect theological, historical, physical and its relation to the human condition. Also, each is associated with one of the four classical elements: air, earth, water, and fire. They approach the same ideas in varying but overlapping ways, and are open to a diversity of interpretations." (Wikipedia)
Book# F20779, $3,000.00