First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with titles in red to the spine and upper board, in dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth toned to the board edges and spine. The contents, with some offsetting to the endpapers, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that is toned and marked to the spine and has a few short closed tears to the upper edge of the rear panel. Not price-clipped (3/6 on the front flap).
A collection of essays by T. S. Eliot on literature, religion and society of which there was no American equivalent. 4,000 copies of the first edition were printed. (Gallup A38).
Stock code: 25358
£70