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T. S. Eliot:

Eliot, T S. GORDON CRAIG'S SOCRATIC DIALOGUES - article in one complete issue of DRAMA QUARTERLY THEATRE REVIEW Spring 1955
London. 1955 first edition. British Drama League. First appearance of Eliot's Gordon Craig paper. 60p. in issue. Eliot article pp. 16-20. square octavo wraps. Good, all pages have some curling of tips. no owner marks. Text clean and binding secure. (a100119)
$25.00Desani, G V. ALL ABOUT H. HATTERR
NY 1951 first edition ; first printing (stated). Farrar, Straus. Hardcover octavo. 300p. Near Fine in Good dj (minor wear on dj. price not clipped; dj backstrip a bit faded.) Novel championed by T S Eliot "a remarkable book" ; "riotously funny" - Harold Brighouse; "A literary hellzapoppin'" - Tribune . First editions of this book are becoming hard to find. (a102405)
$37.00Eliot, Lester P. TROUBLES OF AMERICAN CATHOLICISM - article in one complete issue of THE AMERICAN MERCURY, March 1935
Camden, NJ 1935 first edition. vol XXXIV no. 135. large octavo wraps. Eliot article pp. 267-281. other articles in issue as well. Good plus, cover frayed on edges; text clean and binding secure; library name stamp on cover - no other owner marks. (a102994b)
$39.00Schwartz, Delmore. THE LITERARY DICTATORSHIP OF T S ELIOT - Article in one complete issue of PARTISAN REVIEW 1949
NY . Partisan Review #2 issue for February 1949. first edition. octavo wraps. Schwartz article on pp. 119-137. Complete issue paginated 119-223. VG almost no wear. no owner marks. (a103542a)
$35.00Braybrooke, Neville; Martin S. Dworkin. SYNTHESES , Septembre 1965
Paris 1965 first edition. Tall octavo wraps. Entire issue paginated 313-449. Braybrooke article "Les Ecrits de Jeunesse de T s Eliot" pp.321-326. Dworking "Le Cinema et la Politique pp. 333-341, much more. In French. VG slight even toning of text. no owner marks. (a103922)
$35.00Mesterton, Eric. THE WASTE LAND SOME COMMENTARIES
Chicago 1943. 8vo., 22pp., wraps. Translated from the Swedish by Llewellyn Jones. Commentary on Eliot's poem. VG. (a20803)
$25.00Taylor, William R. et al. THE AMERICAN SOUTH
Cambridge 1963. Complete issue of the Harvard Review. Authors include: W. Elliott, Theodore Marmor and Eliot Stanley. Octavo, 80pp., original wraps. Good plus, soiled, lightly worn. (a47432)
$27.00 Eliot, Walter Graeme . NOTED PHYSICIANS OF NEW YORK 1750-1900 WITH A FEW FACTS IN THE LIFE OF EACH (signed)
NY 1890. American Biographical Society Volume 1. Limited to 275 copies. Hardcover. Large octavo, 200pp. with portraits or photographs of the physicians, printed cloth. ** Signed by Walter Graeme Eliot and Van Cortland J. Eliot. VG, slight wear. No ownership marks. Scarce. In removable clear protective glassine jacket. (a47532)
$255.00Channing, William Ellery. A SERMON PREACHED IN BOSTON APRIL 5 1810 THE DAY OF THE PUBLIC FAST
Boston 1810 Eliot. 8vo., 23pp., removed from larger binding, now in later plain wraps. Good, stained throughout but still quite legible, top corner of title page cut off (no loss of text.) (a47639)
$27.00 Schmidt, Gerd . DIE STRUKTUR DES DRAMAS DEI T S ELIOT
Austria 1978 Institut fur Englische Sprache und LIteratur 38. In German. Small octavo., 212pp., original printed wraps. VG. (a61723)
$34.00 Eliot, Ephraim . HISTORICAL NOTES OF THE NEW NORTH RELIGIOUS SOCIETY IN THE TOWN OF BOSTON WITH ANECDOTES OF THE REVEREND ANDREW AND JOHN ELIOT
Boston 1822 Phelps and Farnham. Octavo, 51pp., removed and rebound in later wraps. Signed by Eliot on top of title page (the t from Eliot has been cropped off.) Good. (a66596)
$45.00 (religion) . HISTORICAL NOTICES OF THE NEW NORTH RELIGIOUS SOCIETY ...WITH ANECDOTES OF THE REVEREND ANDREW AND JOHN ELIOT
Boston 1822 Phelps and Farnham. Octavo, 51pp., stringbound wraps . titlepage present , original cover gone. Faint owner signature. Good, edges frayed. (a68595)
$45.00 A Member of the Corporation (Eliot, Samuel A.) . A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF HARVARD COLLEGE
Boston 1849 1st Charles C. Little and James Brown. Letter to Jared Sparks gives Eliot's idea of the meaning and purpose of Harvard. Octavo, 53pp., original printed wraps. VG. (a68972)
$39.00 Mudge, Isadore G. and M. E. Sears . A GEORGE ELIOT DICTIONARY THE CHARACTERS AND SCENES OF THE NOVELS STORIES AND POEMS ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED
Folcroft 1969. Reprint of original 1924 edition. 4to., 260pp., blue buckram hardcover. Good, inner hinges cracking; no DJ. (a69350)
$27.00 Litz, A. Walton (T. S. Eliot) . THE WASTE LAND FIFTY YEARS AFTER
1972. Article at pp. 455-471 in single issue of Journal of Modern Literature. Numerous additional articles in issue as well. Octavo, original wraps with portrait of Eliot on front. VG. (a74488)
$25.00Eliot, T. S.. MILTON
1948. Article at pp. 185-209 in single issue of The Sewanee Review. Included in whole issue with several other articles. Octavo, original printed wraps. VG. (a76924)
$33.00 Hughes, Glenn (editor) . SELECTED CHAPBOOKS
Seattle 1928-1931. Twelve separate chapbook published by University of Washington Chapbooks edited by Glenn Hughes, from 1928 to 1931, bound in one neat hardcover volume. Contents: Remy de Gourmont by Richard aldington; Clio and Mr Croce by Allen Rogers Benham; Utopia Americana by Edward Wagenknect; Superman in America by Benjamin deCasseres, Vernon Louis Parrington by Joseph B Harrison; T. S. Eliot by George Williamson; New Ground of Criticism by V. F. Calverton; Julien Benda by Herbert Read; American Influence in France by Philippe Soupault; New Regionalism in American Literature by Carey McWilliams; America Literature by V. F. Calverton; The LIterary Isms by Josph T. Shipley. Numerous marginal pencil lines. Thick 12mo., dark blue cloth. VG. (a83285)
$200.00 Eliot, T. S. . NOTES TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF CULTURE
New York 1949 first American edition Harcourt Brace. Hardcover. Octavo, 128p., clpth. VG plus in Good DJ, a bit of wear. (a87299)
$45.00 Eliot, Rose Blanchard . ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH PORTRAIT OF ROSE BLANCHARD ELIOT c. 1890
c.1890. 2-1/2 x 1-3/4 inches, framed under glass in sterling silver picture frame with workable standing leg. Faint water stainon lower margin of picture. Name is written on verso. Eliot is about 40 years old in the portrait. Good. (a90970)
$45.00 Eliot, T S . POETRY AND PROPAGANDA (contained in one complete issue of The Bookman, February 1930)
Camden, NJ 1930 first edition. One issue of The Bookman, for February 1930. sm4to wraps. Eliot article on pp. 595-602. Other articles in issue as well by various authors. VG. no ownership marks. (a92046)
$29.00Eliot, T. D. of Massachusetts. NEBRASKA AND KANASA - SPEECH OF HON. T. D. ELIO..IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MAY 10, 1854 (presentation copy signed by Eliot)
1854 first edition. Later paper spine. 7p. Good, lightly cropped on right edge taking away final two letters of signature but briefly inscribed and signed in ink by Eliot: "T. D. Eli (ot)". (a92500)
$35.00 Simpson, Rev. A L (text); Thomas Annan (photographer) . SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF SIR GEORGE HARVEY
Edinburgh. (1870) first edition. Andrew Eliot. Folio 17-1/2 x 15 inches. Hardcover. Leather spine with brown cloth boards. Nineteen mounted photograph plates of works of George Harvey, 1806-1876, painter and president of the Royal Scottish Academy. Eighteen pages of text to accompany plates. All text and plates printed on rectos only. All edges gilt. No hinges cracking in or out. Good , light cover wear on board edges, and about 1-1/2 lower spine end leather gone; one text page creased vertically . Scarce. No ownership marks. (a92504)
$400.00Kooiman-Van Middendorp, Gerarda Maria. THE HERO IN THE FEMININE NOVEL
New York 1966 first edition. Haskell. Hardcover octavo. Red cloth. 174p. Good plus , no owner marks, no dj, light cover soiling, light cover wear. Binding secure and text clean. Chaptres on Aphra Behn, Frances burney, Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, Elizabeth Inchbald, Maria Edgeworht, Jane Austen, Grante, Gaskell, Eliot, Ward. (a95226)
$45.00Dearborn, Henry A S. A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE APOSTLE ELIOT, PREFACTORY TO A SUBSCRIPTION FOR ERECTING A MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY
Roxbury 1850 first edition. Norfolk County Journal Press. Octavo wraps. Engraved frontispiece of the proposed monument as frontispiece (lower edge of engraving folds open.) John Eliot ,1604 - 1690, a Puritan missionary translated the bible into the language of the Massachusetts Indians. This pamphlet includes - printed in red ink - the titlepage and first ten verses of Genesis from Eliot' s Bible. (This Bible, printed in 1663 was the first Bible printed in the New World.) 32p. Later plain wrapper. VG. no owner marks. (a98330)
$95.00(T. S. Eliot); Cole, Thomas (ED), Audrey McGaffin, Walter Kerr, Leonard Roy Kaufman , et al. IMAGI - DEDICATION (WITH HIS PERMISSION) T. S. ELIOT ON THE OCCASION OF HIS NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 1948
Allentown, PA 1949 first edition. octavo wraps. no poems by Eliot in the issue. Poems by McGaffin, Herzing, Kerr, Oelson. Article by Cole on the poetry of Richard Wilbur. 12p. VG. (a98810)
$29.00