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Lot 116
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$1,750
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ELIOT, T.S. (1888-1965). The Family Reunion. London: Faber and Faber, 1939.
8vo. Half-title. Original gray cloth, lettered in red on spine (browning to spine and edges); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (two vertical creases). Provenance: Mrs. B. ?Idding Bell (presentation inscription).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ELIOT: "Inscribed for Mrs. B. ?Idding? Bell by T. S. Eliot Holy Saturday 1939." The Family Reunion was first performed on 21 March 1939 at the Westminster Theatre, London, where it ran until 22 April 1939. Gallup A33a.