Thomas Stearns Eliot was an American poet, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, essayist, and winnder of the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1927 he naturalized as a British subjec and renounced his American citizenship. His most notable works include The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, Four Quartets, and Murder in the Cathedral.
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New York: Terence & Elsa Holliday, 1932. First edition, one of 1000 copies, no English edition. Read More Item Details for John Dryden The Poet The Dramatist The Critic Add to Wish List
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London: Faber and Faber, [1934]. First edition, second. Inscribed by Eliot for "Mr. & Mrs. Elting Morison," on September 14, 1937, when Elting was assistant Dean at Harvard. Elting was a professor at MIT in the Program in Science, Technology and Society, who published books on the social, political, intellectual..... Read More Item Details for After Strange Gods. A Primer of Modern Heresy Add to Wish List
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London: Faber and Faber, [1933]. First edition. Eliot’s Norton Lectures at Harvard, from the Countess of Pembroke to modernism. Read More Item Details for The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism. Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England Add to Wish List
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London: Oxford University Press Humphrey Milford, 1929. First edition. Inscribed on the fly title, “For Wyndham Lewis from T.S. Eliot 12.xi.29” Eliot’s lecture, “Experiment in Criticism”, traces a line from Coleridge and Sainte Beuve to his contemporaries, including I.A. Richard; his essay follows Rebecca West’s “Traditition in Criticism” to close..... Read More Item Details for Tradition and Experiment in Present-Day Literature. Addresses delivered at the City Literary Institute Add to Wish List
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London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1944. Advance proof, first edition. Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) was an English poet, author, and critic known for his writing about World War I. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature six times. Read More Item Details for What is a Classic? [Proof copy] Add to Wish List
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London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1954. First edition. This collection was originally issued by Penguin Books in 1948. This is the first edition published by Faber and Faber, and includes 'The Waste Land'. Inscribed “with best wishes from T.S. Eliot”. Read More Item Details for Selected Poems Add to Wish List
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London: Faber and Faber, 1957. Proof copy, first edition. Read More Item Details for On Poetry and Poets [Proof copy] Add to Wish List
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London: Faber and Faber, 1959. Uncorrected proof, first edition. Read More Item Details for The Elder Statesman [Proof copy] Add to Wish List
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London: 31 October 1953. T.S. Eliot writes his friend John Lehmann concerning a proposed contribution to the inaugural issue of the London Magazine, soon to be relaunched under Lehmann’s editorship. Eliot is attentive to tone and deadline (transcribed): My dear John, The message can be composed, I think, within the..... Read More Item Details for Typed Letter, signed (“Tom”), to his friend John Lehmann, concerning A Message for the inaugual issue of the relaunch of the London Magazine Add to Wish List
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, [April, 1959]. First American edition, Long Galleys. Read More Item Details for The Elder Statesman. A play Add to Wish List
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London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1954]. First edition, first issue with misprint "Ihad" [for "I had"] on p. 7; first issue jacket priced "10s 6d" Read More Item Details for The Confidential Clerk. A Play Add to Wish List
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Paris: Editions du Seuil, [1947]. First edition thus, bi-lingual edition (text in English and French), trade issue. Inscribed by Eliot on title-page: “Inscribed for M. Jean-Louis Cattaneo by T.S. Eliot” with Cattaneo's ownership signature on the ffep. Printed in French and in English. Cattaneo was a professor of French language..... Read More Item Details for Poemes 1910-1930. Texte anglais présenté et traduit par Pierre Leyris Add to Wish List
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1943 but later]. First edition, second impression as usual (no date code), in later dust jackets with mention of 1948 Nobel Prize, variants priced $2.25 and $2.50, with varying lists of books on back panel. Read More Item Details for Four Quartets Add to Wish List
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[London: The Pax House, 1943]. First edition. The Council for the Defense of Church Principles, Pamphlet 7. Read More Item Details for Reunion by Destruction. Reflections on a Scheme for Church Union in South India: Addressed to the Laity Add to Wish List
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London: The Westminster Press, 1952. Stunning original British film poster of T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral—designed for the 1952 cinematic adaptation of Eliot's play. T.S. Eliot was commissioned by the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral to write a play for the stage at the annual Canterbury Festival. Murder in the..... Read More Item Details for Murder in the Cathedral (Film Poster) Add to Wish List
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Canterbury: H. J. Goulden, [1935]. FIRST (ACTING) EDITION. One of 750 copies printed and distributed at performances at Canterbury Cathedral in May 1935. The text is slightly abbreviated and altered from the text of the complete edition published in June. Read More Item Details for Murder in the Cathedral Add to Wish List
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London: R. Cobden-Sanderson, [1926]. First edition, 300 copies printed. Dedication copy, inscribed by the author, the mother of T.S. Eliot, to Eliot's sister: "Marian C. Eliot / With dear love / from / Mother." The book is dedicated: "To My Children." T.S. Eliot wrote the introduction to the book and..... Read More Item Details for Savonarola. A Dramatic Poem Add to Wish List
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New York: Terence & Elsa Holliday, 1932. First edition, one of 1000 copies (no English ed.). Read More Item Details for John Dryden: The Poet The Dramatist The Critic Add to Wish List
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London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1954]. First edition. 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. Read More Item Details for The Confidential Clerk. A Play Add to Wish List
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London: Faber, [1971]. First edition. One of 500 copies. Read More Item Details for The Waste Land, A Facsimile and Transcript of the original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound. Edited by Valerie Eliot Add to Wish List
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New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, [1936]. First American edition. Designed by Robert Josephy. Allen Tate's copy with his signature on the flyleaf. Read More Item Details for Collected Poems 1909-1935 Add to Wish List
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London: Faber and Faber, 1950. First edition. With the error at page 29, line 1 “here” for “her.” A remarkable association copy, with the following pre-publication presentation inscription from Eliot to his American friend and admirer, poet and critic Allen Tate: "To Allen Tate from T.S. Eliot 6 iii 50."..... Read More Item Details for The Cocktail Party. A Comedy Add to Wish List
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Turnbridge Wells, Kent: The Foundling Press, 1992. First Separate Edition, one of 500 copies. An early Eliot sketch which first appeared in The Little Review, May and September 1917. Read More Item Details for Eeldrop & Appleplex Add to Wish List
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, [1956]. First American edition. Read More Item Details for The Cultivation of Christmas Trees Add to Wish List
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London: Faber & Faber, [1934]. First edition. One of 1,000 copies in wrappers from an edition of 2,000 (the remaining copies were issued in boards). Read More Item Details for The Rock: A Pageant Play Written for Performance at Sadler's Wells Theatre 28 May - 9 June 1934 on Behalf of the Forty-Five Churches Fund of the Diocese of London. Book of Words by T.S. Eliot Add to Wish List
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