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Sale 5184
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| Philadelphia
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Estimate$500 – $800
John Dryden: The Poet, The Dramatist, The Critic
New York: Terence & Elsa Holliday, 1932. First and limited edition, #40/110 copies signed by Eliot. 8vo. (ii), 67, (1) pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Dryden. Original quarter cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges trimmed; book-plate on front paste-down. Gallup A22b
A very nice copy.
Together with:
Poemes 1910-1930
Paris: Editions du Seuil, (1947). 12mo. 215, (9) pp. Inscribed by Eliot on title-page: “Inscribed for/Mr. Jean-Louis Cattanes/by T.S. Eliot”; author’s printed name on same crossed out by Eliot. Printed in French and in English. Original limp printed wrappers; all edges untrimmed; ownership signature at top of front free endpaper. Gallup D87
Provenance
From the private collection of Asher D. Atchick, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
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